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French author and filmmaker, founder of the Situationist International: formulated the critique of the society of the spectacle, where authentic human life is replaced by commodified media images.
Political topics
Guy Debord leans further toward liberty than 92% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Power is where Guy Debord stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Guy Debord sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
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.
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-Right25%
Mexican journalist and revolutionary who led the magonismo movement and the PLM: fought for the abolition of state power and private property under the slogan Tierra y Libertad against the Díaz dictatorship.
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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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