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Italian anarchist communist, Malatesta spent decades underground and in exile organizing insurrections and workers' newspapers, advocating the abolition of the state and private property through direct action while rejecting both parliamentarism and Bolshevik dictatorship.
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Errico Malatesta leans further toward federal than 93% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Errico Malatesta stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Errico Malatesta sits close to the catalog median.
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Philosophy that rejects the state and all coercive authority, defending the free organization of society through voluntary associations, cooperation, and self-management, with freedom and equality as central values.
Synthesis of anarchist currents centered on the liberation of body and identity, uniting the critique of patriarchy and of gender and sexuality norms with an openness to technology as a tool of emancipation, all under the rejection of the state, capitalism, and every imposed hierarchy.
Left-libertarian branch that unites broad individual freedom with collective or shared ownership of resources, defending autonomy, cooperation, and the rejection of both the authoritarian state and capital.
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National SocialismThird Position28%
A Russian revolutionary, Bakunin was the great theorist of collectivist anarchism, opposing the state and authoritarian Marxism and defending spontaneous social revolution and the free federation of communities and workers.
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