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French geographer and anarchist, a Communard and author of the Universal Geography and Man and the Earth. He defends anarcho-communism, abolishing the state and property, vegetarianism, equality among peoples and harmony with nature.
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Élisée Reclus leans further toward federal than 100% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Élisée Reclus stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Élisée Reclus sits close to the catalog median.
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Current that sees revolutionary unions as the basis for overthrowing capitalism through direct action and the general strike, organizing production by the workers themselves in a free, stateless society.
Anarchist branch that rejects the state and all violence, defending social transformation through nonviolent means, civil disobedience, and voluntary cooperation as the path to a free and just society.
Left-libertarian branch that unites broad individual freedom with collective or shared ownership of resources, defending autonomy, cooperation, and the rejection of both the authoritarian state and capital.
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Radical RightFar-Right21%
Italian philosopher of operaismo and autonomism, co-author of Empire, who sees the global multitude as the subject of revolution. He defends the commons against capital and the state, and was jailed in the 1970s.
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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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