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French priest who secretly wrote an atheist and communist Testament, attacking religion, monarchy, nobility and property and defending egalitarian parish communes. It was published only after his death.
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Jean Meslier leans further toward federal than 97% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
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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.
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.
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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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right25%
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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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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