Anarcho-Distributism
Synthesis of anarchism and distributism that defends the wide distribution of property and small-scale production, with autonomous communities and cooperatives organized without a state or large monopolies.
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Synthesis of anarchism and distributism that defends the wide distribution of property and small-scale production, with autonomous communities and cooperatives organized without a state or large monopolies.
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I want property widely distributed among cooperatives and autonomous communities, producing on a small scale without state or monopolies.
Political topics
Leans further toward federal than 98% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

A French Christian activist, Maurin co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement, defending social justice, voluntary poverty, and communities of work and mutual aid inspired by the social doctrine of the Church.
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A presidential republic in Central America, Costa Rica stands out for abolishing its armed forces, its consolidated democracy, its environmental commitment, and a tradition of political stability and peace in the region.
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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 Russian Revolution, Makhno's Free Territory was an anarchist experiment in Ukraine, with self-managed peasant communes and popular militias that rejected both the White state and Bolshevik power.
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Closest within Anarchist
Current of John Zerzan and Ted Kaczynski that sees industrial civilization and agriculture itself as the root of domination, calling for the end of modern technology and a return to small stateless hunter-gatherer communities.
Current that unites Christian faith with anarchism, holding that the Gospel preaches love, equality, and nonviolence incompatible with the state, and defending free communities based on conscience and charity.
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'.
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Republican tradition that idealizes the small landowning farmer as the basis of civic virtue and liberty, advocating wide distribution of land, limited and decentralized government, and distrust of banks, public debt, industry and large cities.
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.
Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical Left27%