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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 topics
Alexander Berkman leans further toward progressive than 99% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Morality is where Alexander Berkman stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Alexander Berkman sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
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.
Philosophy that rejects the state and all coercive authority, defending the free organization of society through voluntary associations, cooperation, and self-management, with freedom and equality as central values.
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ReactionaryismFar-Right25%
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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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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