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Category:Anarchism by country; List of anarchist communities This page was last edited on 6 September 2024, at 22:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Pages in category "Anarchism by country" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Anarchism in Albania;
Anarchist organizations in Ukraine (1 C, 12 P) Anarchist organisations in the United Kingdom (27 P, 1 F) Anarchist organizations in the United States (3 C, 36 P)
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations.
The following countries are the countries of origin or identification by location of each anarchist. Since anarchists tend to reject the concept of government and nationality, it is the location of identification, not their national identity.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first person known to self-identify as an anarchist, adopting the label in order to provoke those that took anarchy to mean disorder. [53] Proudhon was one of the first people to use the word "anarchy" ( French : anarchie ) in a positive sense, to mean a free society without government. [ 54 ]
This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist, and other left-wing internationals. An "International" — such as, the " First International ", the " Second International ", or the " Socialist International " — may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical liberal , socialist, or organized labour organizations, typically ...
Anarchism played a historically prominent role during the Spanish Civil War, when an anarchist territory was established in Catalonia. Revolutionary Catalonia was organised along anarcho-syndicalist lines, with powerful labor unions in the cities and collectivised agriculture in the country, but ended in the defeat of the anarchists.