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Persian reformer of the Sasanian era who preached sharing of goods, an end to concentrated wealth and nonviolence. Backed by King Kavad I, he opened granaries in a famine but was massacred with his followers around 524.
Political axes
Mazdak leans further toward religious than 95% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Mazdak stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, Mazdak sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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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.
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'.
Current that values indigenous peoples and their rights, defending autonomy, territory, culture, and political participation, along with development models and a plurinational state that respect their traditions.
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Authoritarian LiberalismFar-Right26%
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.
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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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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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