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An American writer, Thoreau championed civil disobedience, simple living in contact with nature, and the right to resist unjust laws, influencing pacifists and environmentalists.
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Henry David Thoreau leans further toward federal than 95% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where Henry David Thoreau stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Henry David Thoreau sits close to the catalog median.
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Current of John Zerzan and Ted Kaczynski that sees industrial civilization and agriculture itself as the root of domination, calling for the end of modern technology and a return to small stateless hunter-gatherer communities.
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.
Anarchist current founded by Proudhon that advocates fair exchange, free credit, and use-based property, with producers and cooperatives trading among themselves without exploitation, bosses, or a central state.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right27%
An American philosopher, Zerzan is one of the leading voices of anarcho-primitivism, criticizing civilization, technology, and domestication as sources of oppression and defending a return to ancestral ways of life.
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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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