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Spokesperson and strategist of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas since the 1994 uprising. He fused Marxism and Mayan cosmology into Neozapatismo, advocating communal self-government ('commanding by obeying'), anti-capitalism, and alter-globalization.
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Subcomandante Marcos leans further toward federal than 98% of the 574 personalities in the catalog.
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On Control, Subcomandante Marcos sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
Current that attributes intrinsic value to all life and not only to human beings, defending a profound change of values, the reduction of human impact, and respect for the balance of the planet's ecosystems.
Current that unites anarchism and radical ecology, defending decentralized, sustainable communities without a state or exploitation of nature, in harmony with ecological cycles and non-human life.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right18%
A French activist, José Bové became a symbol of the anti-globalization movement and peasant agriculture, defending food sovereignty, ecology, and resistance to multinationals and genetically modified food.
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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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