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German poet, playwright and communist anarchist, a figure of Munich's bohemia. He took part in the Bavarian Soviet Republic (1919) and was jailed for it; a Jew and opponent of Nazism, he was tortured and murdered at Oranienburg in 1934.
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Erich Mühsam leans further toward federal than 95% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
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On Control, Erich Mühsam sits close to the catalog median.
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Current that sees revolutionary unions as the basis for overthrowing capitalism through direct action and the general strike, organizing production by the workers themselves in a free, stateless society.
Left-libertarian branch that unites broad individual freedom with collective or shared ownership of resources, defending autonomy, cooperation, and the rejection of both the authoritarian state and capital.
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.
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A constituent country of the United Kingdom with its own parliament (Senedd), Wales combines official Welsh-English bilingualism, a post-industrial labour and trade-union tradition, universal public healthcare, and a nationalist Plaid Cymru government since 2026.
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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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