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German-language Jewish writer from Prague, he portrayed in The Trial and The Castle the individual crushed by opaque bureaucracies and arbitrary authority. A workers' insurance official, he sympathized with Czech anarchists and cultural Zionism.
Political topics
Franz Kafka leans further toward federal than 89% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where Franz Kafka stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Franz Kafka sits practically at the catalog median.
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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'.
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.
A bottom-up self-government model of Abdullah Öcalan, with local assemblies federated into a confederation, ecology, gender equality and a cooperative economy, without a nation-state, put into practice in Rojava.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right24%
German anarchist philosopher of the Bavarian Soviet Republic: argued that the state is a social relationship overcome by building voluntary cooperative communities, rejecting orthodox Marxist dogma.
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A small rural New England state, Vermont combines direct-democracy town meetings, the progressive politics of Bernie Sanders, cooperatives, dairy farming and environmentalism, with one of the least religious populations in the country and permissive gun laws.
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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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