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Anthropologist and anarchist activist, leading figure of Occupy Wall Street: explored the moral origins of debt and money, attacked corporate bureaucracy and advocated for direct consensus democracy.
Political axes
David Graeber leans further toward progressive than 100% of the 525 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where David Graeber stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, David Graeber sits close to the catalog median.
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Model created by Murray Bookchin based on autonomous municipalities and federated popular assemblies, with a community economy and direct democracy, seeking to replace the state with a free confederation.
Current that unites anarchism and radical ecology, defending decentralized, sustainable communities without a state or exploitation of nature, in harmony with ecological cycles and non-human life.
Current that unites anarchism and communism, proposing a society without state or private property, with collective production and distribution according to need, based on free association and mutual aid.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight20%
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 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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