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A French utopian socialist, Fourier linked social progress to the emancipation of women and criticized the patriarchal family, moral repression, and social hierarchies, imagining ideal cooperative communities.
Political topics
Charles Fourier leans further toward progressive than 98% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Morality is where Charles Fourier stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Charles Fourier sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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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.
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.
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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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right26%
Anthropologist and anarchist activist, leading figure of Occupy Wall Street: explored the moral origins of debt and money, attacked corporate bureaucracy and advocated for direct consensus democracy.
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An 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.
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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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