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English reformer who proposed that land belong to parishes, with rents paid into local funds financing services and an income for all. Jailed repeatedly for his radical pamphlets, he defended democracy.
Political axes
Thomas Spence leans further toward federal than 99% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Thomas Spence stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Thomas Spence sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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The closest among the 266 ideologies
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.
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 pursues socialism without an authoritarian state, uniting collective ownership and self-management with broad individual freedom, organized from the bottom up by free communities and workers.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right24%
An American linguist and thinker, Chomsky revolutionized linguistics and became an influential voice of libertarian socialism, criticizing corporate power, the media, and US imperialism in the world.
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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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