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An anti-Leninist Marxist current of Pannekoek, Gorter and Mattick, which holds that workers themselves should run production and power through workers' councils, rejecting the vanguard party, the state and parliamentarism.
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I want workers' councils running factories and power through recallable mandates, with no vanguard party, no state and no wage labor.
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Leans further toward multiculturalism than 90% of the 273 ideologies in the catalog.
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A Dutch astronomer and Marxist, Pannekoek championed workers' councils and the self-organization of the masses, criticizing both reformist parliamentarism and the centralism of vanguard communist parties.
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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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A constituent country of the United Kingdom with its own parliament (Senedd), Wales combines official Welsh-English bilingualism, a post-industrial labour and trade-union tradition, universal public healthcare, and a nationalist Plaid Cymru government since 2026.
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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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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.
Synthesis of anarchism and Georgism that rejects the state but treats land and natural resources as commons, defending that their rent be shared by the whole community in a free and egalitarian way.
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.
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Branch of socialism advocating the global unity of working people against capitalism, rejecting bourgeois nationalism, and defending international working-class solidarity.
Democratic Marxism inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, which unites revolution and freedom, values the spontaneity of the masses and the general strike, and criticizes both reformism and the authoritarian centralism of vanguard parties.
Democratic transhumanism combining public oversight of technology with social justice, defending human enhancement, radical life extension, morphological freedom and universal sharing of the gains from automation.
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