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A Russian writer, Tolstoy united his literary work with pacifist Christian anarchism, preaching nonviolence, simplicity, and refusal of the state in ways that influenced Gandhi and later movements.
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Leo Tolstoy leans further toward federal than 93% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
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On Morality, Leo Tolstoy sits close to the catalog median.
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Anarchist branch centered on the countryside, defending autonomous rural communities, collective ownership of land, and peasant cooperation, rejecting the state and land concentration in favor of self-management.
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.
Neo-Zapatista movement that emerged in 1994 in southern Mexico, combining indigenous autonomy, direct democracy through assemblies and caracoles, cooperative subsistence economy, and refusal to seize state power, summed up as 'lead by obeying'.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical Left33%
Leader of India's independence, Gandhi developed nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against British rule, becoming a world symbol of the peaceful struggle for freedom and social justice.
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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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