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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.
Political axes
Alexander Berkman leans further toward progressive than 98% of the 645 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Alexander Berkman stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Alexander Berkman sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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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.
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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ReactionaryismFar-Right26%
A French individualist anarchist, Émile Armand championed the absolute sovereignty of the individual, a life free of moral and state impositions, and free association, influencing egoist anarchism and the counterculture.
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The most populous US state, California is a global hub of technology and culture, with strongly progressive, environmentalist, and technocratic politics and a gigantic, innovative market economy.
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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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