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A French intellectual and founder of the Nouvelle Droite and GRECE, he advocates cultural autonomy and ethnopluralism, opposes mass immigration, and criticizes liberalism, capitalism and global homogenization. He proposes European paganism as a cultural alternative to Christianity.
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Alain de Benoist leans further toward federal than 93% of the 467 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Alain de Benoist stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, Alain de Benoist sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current that values community bonds, traditions, and the common good above individualism, holding that justice and identity arise from life in community and the responsibilities people share.
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'.
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.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight32%
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 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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