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Italian anarchist communist, Malatesta spent decades underground and in exile organizing insurrections and workers' newspapers, advocating the abolition of the state and private property through direct action while rejecting both parliamentarism and Bolshevik dictatorship.
Political topics
Errico Malatesta leans further toward federal than 95% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where Errico Malatesta stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Errico Malatesta sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
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.
Current that sees revolutionary unions as the basis for overthrowing capitalism through direct action and the general strike, organizing production by the workers themselves in a free, stateless society.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right28%
A Russian revolutionary, Bakunin was the great theorist of collectivist anarchism, opposing the state and authoritarian Marxism and defending spontaneous social revolution and the free federation of communities and workers.
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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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