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Russian-American writer and militant, companion of Emma Goldman: championed direct revolutionary action and stateless libertarian communism while exposing Bolshevik repression during the Russian Revolution.
Political axes
Alexander Berkman leans further toward federal than 97% of the 525 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Alexander Berkman stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Alexander Berkman sits practically at the catalog median.
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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.
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 that pursues socialism without an authoritarian state, uniting collective ownership and self-management with broad individual freedom, organized from the bottom up by free communities and workers.
The most distant ideology
Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight29%
A French libertarian socialist, Guérin sought to unite Marxism and anarchism, defending workers' self-management and sexual liberation, and was an important historian of revolutions and the labor movement.
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An autonomous region in northern Syria, Rojava organizes itself through democratic confederalism, with local self-management, gender equality, ethnic pluralism, and ecology, inspired by the libertarian ideas of Abdullah Öcalan.
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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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