Kropotkinian Anarchism
Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
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In one sentence
I want free communes federated by mutual aid, joining field and factory, with everything shared by need and no state at all.
Political topics
Profile across mindedfolk
- Very strong · Federal
Structure
- Very strong · Democracy
Representation
- Very strong · Liberty
Power
- Strong · Multiculturalism
Immigration
- Strong · Internationalist
Nationalism
- Strong · Public
Economy
- Leaning · Planning
Free market
- Very strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Leaning · Progressive
Morality
- Balanced
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Structure
Leans further toward federal than 89% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 38This ideology 91
Of all the topics, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Free market
On Free market, it sits close to the catalog median.
Ideology median 61This ideology 66
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Peter Kropotkin
A Russian anarchist theorist, Kropotkin developed anarcho-communism and the idea of mutual aid as a factor of evolution, defending a stateless society based on cooperation, science, and free association.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyRicardo Flores MagónAnarcho-communist revolutionary99%
SociallyAnton PannekoekMarxist theorist99%
EconomicallyCharles FourierSocialist philosopher100%
Other compatible profiles
Political theoryMikhail BakuninRevolutionary99%
Political theoryMurray BookchinThinker98%
ActivismBuenaventura DurrutiRevolutionary98%
Intellectual lifeDavid GraeberAnthropologist and anarchist activist98%
Political theoryRudolf RockerAnarcho-syndicalist theorist98%
ActivismErrico MalatestaAnarchist militant and theorist97%
Political theoryGuy DebordMarxist theorist and Situationist97%
PhilosophyJean-Paul SartrePhilosopher97%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
Anarchist Aragon and Catalonia
1936–1939During 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.
Other close countries
Rojava (North and East Syria)
Democratic-egalitarian confederalismAn autonomous region in northern Syria, Rojava organizes itself through democratic confederalism, with local self-management, gender equality, ethnic pluralism, and ecology, inspired by the libertarian ideas of Abdullah Öcalan.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyVermont (United States)Progressive-communal region94%
SociallyOregon (United States)Pacific Democratic region91%
EconomicallyZapatista Chiapas (Mexico)Indigenous-communal autonomy98%
The most distant
Anarchist Aragon and Catalonia
1936–1939During 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.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyFree Territory (Makhnovshchina)1918–192199%
SociallyParis CommuneMarch–May 187198%
EconomicallySocialist Yugoslavia1945–199298%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Anarchist
- Anarchist
Council Communism
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.
- Anarchist
Geoanarchism
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.
- Anarchist
Social Libertarianism
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.
Closest in other spectrums
- Left
Luxemburgist Socialism
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.
- Left
Syndicalism
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipation.
- Radical Left
Internationalist Socialism
Branch of socialism advocating the global unity of working people against capitalism, rejecting bourgeois nationalism, and defending international working-class solidarity.
The most distant ideology
Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right27%