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German theorist of anarcho-syndicalism, Rocker championed revolutionary unions and free federations of communes in place of the state, and in Nationalism and Culture attacked nationalism and centralized power as enemies of cultural creation.
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Rudolf Rocker leans further toward federal than 95% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
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On Control, Rudolf Rocker sits practically at 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.
Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
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