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17th-century Englishman, leader of the Diggers and author of The Law of Freedom, who defended common land, an end to private land and wage labor, a republic and nonviolence, in a Christian and rationalist key.
Political axes
Gerrard Winstanley leans further toward pacifist than 98% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Diplomacy is where Gerrard Winstanley stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Gerrard Winstanley sits practically at 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.
Current that turns the Gospel into reforms within democracy, defending a welfare state, labor rights, unions and redistribution without breaking with the market or with liberal institutions.
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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Techno-MonarchismFar-Right27%
Reggae and Rastafari icon, Marley carried messages of resistance, social justice and Pan-Africanism to the world, united Jamaica's political rivals in 1978 and made his songs an anthem of liberation for the oppressed and rejection of mental colonialism.
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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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The revolutionary government that held Paris for 72 days in 1871, the Commune established direct democracy with recallable mandates, workers' self-management of workshops, separation of Church and state, and equal pay, becoming a symbol of communal socialism.
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