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An Austrian Jewish philosopher, Buber developed the philosophy of dialogue, summed up in the I–Thou relationship, and championed a communitarian, humanist socialism, influencing religious thought and cultural Zionism.
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Martin Buber leans further toward federal than 93% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
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Applies the Dharma to politics: Ashoka's righteous king, Schumacher's Buddhist economics, Buddhadasa's Dhammic socialism and Bhutan's Gross National Happiness. It prioritizes nonviolence, moderate consumption, community and harmony with nature.
Synthesis of anarchism and distributism that defends the wide distribution of property and small-scale production, with autonomous communities and cooperatives organized without a state or large monopolies.
Current that unites Christian faith with anarchism, holding that the Gospel preaches love, equality, and nonviolence incompatible with the state, and defending free communities based on conscience and charity.
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Brazilian educator and author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, he created an adult literacy method based on political consciousness-raising. Exiled by the 1964 dictatorship, he was tied to Liberation Theology and later led São Paulo's schools for the Workers' Party.
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Zapatista territories in southern Mexico, self-governed since 1994 by mostly Maya communities through caracoles and Good Government Councils, rejecting political parties and the state, with cooperative agrarian economy and strong women's leadership.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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