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A former mathematics professor who withdrew to a remote cabin in Montana and carried out a nationwide bombing campaign for nearly two decades against scientists and executives, Kaczynski argued in his manifesto 'Industrial Society and Its Future' that industrial technology destroys human freedom and must be reversed through deliberate collapse.
Political axes
Ted Kaczynski leans further toward biology than 99% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Technology is where Ted Kaczynski stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Ted Kaczynski sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 ideologies
Current of John Zerzan and Ted Kaczynski that sees industrial civilization and agriculture itself as the root of domination, calling for the end of modern technology and a return to small stateless hunter-gatherer communities.
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.
Republican tradition that idealizes the small landowning farmer as the basis of civic virtue and liberty, advocating wide distribution of land, limited and decentralized government, and distrust of banks, public debt, industry and large cities.
The most distant ideology
Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight33%
A Mexican revolutionary, Zapata led peasants in the Mexican Revolution under the motto Land and Liberty, defending agrarian reform and the autonomy of rural communities against large landowners and the state.
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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 Russian Revolution, Makhno's Free Territory was an anarchist experiment in Ukraine, with self-managed peasant communes and popular militias that rejected both the White state and Bolshevik power.
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