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Ukrainian anarchist who led the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (1918–1921) against Germans, Whites and Reds. He defended free communes, soviets and peasant self-management in the Free Territory until the Bolsheviks crushed it; he died in exile in Paris.
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Nestor Makhno leans further toward federal than 99% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
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Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
A bottom-up self-government model of Abdullah Öcalan, with local assemblies federated into a confederation, ecology, gender equality and a cooperative economy, without a nation-state, put into practice in Rojava.
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 NeoliberalismFar-Right27%
A Spanish anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary, Durruti was a central figure of the Spanish Revolution, leading workers' militias and collectivization during the civil war, becoming a symbol of militant anarchism.
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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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