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Anthropologist and anarchist activist, leading figure of Occupy Wall Street: explored the moral origins of debt and money, attacked corporate bureaucracy and advocated for direct consensus democracy.
Political axes
David Graeber leans further toward progressive than 98% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where David Graeber stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, David Graeber sits practically at 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.
Synthesis of anarchist currents centered on the liberation of body and identity, uniting the critique of patriarchy and of gender and sexuality norms with an openness to technology as a tool of emancipation, all under the rejection of the state, capitalism, and every imposed hierarchy.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right26%
A Dutch astronomer and Marxist, Pannekoek championed workers' councils and the self-organization of the masses, criticizing both reformist parliamentarism and the centralism of vanguard communist parties.
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An 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.
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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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