Kropotkinian Anarchism
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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In one sentence
I want free communes federated by mutual aid, joining field and factory, with everything shared by need and no state at all.
Political axes
Profile across the twelve axes
- Very strong · Federal
Structure
- Very strong · Democracy
Representation
- Very strong · Liberty
Power
- Strong · Multiculturalism
Immigration
- Strong · Pacifist
Diplomacy
- Strong · Non-interventionist
Intervention
- Strong · Public
Economy
- Leaning · Planning
Control
- Leaning · Protectionism
Trade
- Very strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Leaning · Progressive
Morality
- Balanced
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Structure
Leans further toward federal than 89% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 38This ideology 91
Of all the axes, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Control
On Control, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Ideology median 63This ideology 65
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Peter Kropotkin
A Russian anarchist theorist, Kropotkin developed anarcho-communism and the idea of mutual aid as a factor of evolution, defending a stateless society based on cooperation, science, and free association.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyAnton PannekoekMarxist theorist99%
SociallyDavid GraeberAnthropologist and anarchist activist98%
EconomicallyArne NæssPhilosopher99%
Other compatible profiles
Political theoryMikhail BakuninRevolutionary98%
ActivismBuenaventura DurrutiRevolutionary98%
Political theoryMurray BookchinThinker98%
ActivismRicardo Flores MagónAnarcho-communist revolutionary97%
Political theoryGuy DebordMarxist theorist and Situationist97%
Intellectual lifeNoam ChomskyLinguist and thinker97%
Political theoryCharles FourierSocialist philosopher96%
Political theoryRudolf RockerAnarcho-syndicalist theorist96%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
Anarchist Aragon and Catalonia
1936–1939During 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.
Other close countries
Rojava (North and East Syria)
Democratic-egalitarian confederalismAn 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.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyVermont (United States)Progressive-communal region94%
SociallyZapatista Chiapas (Mexico)Indigenous-communal autonomy89%
EconomicallyBelarusStatist-personalist autocracy96%
The most distant
Anarchist Aragon and Catalonia
1936–1939During 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.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyFree Territory (Makhnovshchina)1918–192199%
SociallyParis Communemarço–maio de 187197%
EconomicallyCárdenas's Mexico1934–194096%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Anarchist
- Anarchist
Council Communism
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.
- Anarchist
Libertarian Socialism
Current that pursues socialism without an authoritarian state, uniting collective ownership and self-management with broad individual freedom, organized from the bottom up by free communities and workers.
- Anarchist
Geoanarchism
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.
Closest in other spectrums
- Left
Luxemburgist Socialism
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.
- Left
Syndicalism
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipation.
- Left
Indigenism
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.
The most distant ideology
Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right26%