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English philosopher and author of Political Justice, regarded as the father of philosophical anarchism. He defends abolishing government and unequal property, reason as the guide, education and nonviolence, and also criticizes marriage.
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William Godwin leans further toward federal than 99% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
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Technological anarchism that proposes abolishing the state through automation, abundant energy, decentralized networks, and self-managed voluntary communities with digital tools and free local production.
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.
Synthesis of anarchist currents centered on the liberation of body and identity, uniting the critique of patriarchy and of gender and sexuality norms with an openness to technology as a tool of emancipation, all under the rejection of the state, capitalism, and every imposed hierarchy.
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Right-Wing PopulismRight28%
Russian-American writer and militant, companion of Emma Goldman: championed direct revolutionary action and stateless libertarian communism while exposing Bolshevik repression during the Russian Revolution.
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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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