List of anarchist communities
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The Trumbullplex, an anarchist intentional community in the Woodbridge neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan[1]
This is a list of anarchist communities, representing any society or portion thereof founded by anarchists, that functions according to anarchist philosophy and principles. Anarchists have been involved in a wide variety of community experiments since the 19th century.
There are numerous instances in which a community organizes itself along philosophically anarchist lines, to promote regional anarchist movements, counter-economics, and countercultures. These have included intentional communities founded by anarchists as social experiments, and community oriented projects, such as collective organizations and cooperative businesses. However, there are only a few instances of mass society "anarchies" that have come about from explicitly anarchist revolutions, including the Free Territory of Ukraine,[2] and the Shinmin autonomous region in Manchuria.[3]
Contents
Mass societies[edit]
The Free Territory was a region where an attempt was made to form a stateless, anarchist society. Its approximated location (in red) was in part of the territory of modern Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.[2]
- Strandzha Commune (August 18, 1903 - September 8, 1903)[citation needed]
- Free Territory (November, 1918 – 1921)[2]
- Shinmin autonomous region (1929–1932)[3]
- Revolutionary Catalonia (July 21, 1936 – May 1937)[4]
- Anarchist Aragon (July 1936 – August 1937)[citation needed]
- Rojava (2015–present)[5]
Intentional communities[edit]
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
- Acorn Community (1993)[6]
- Anarchist Nation (2015) [7]
- Emma Goldman Finishing School (1996)[8]
- Freetown Christiania (September 26, 1971)[9][10]
- Longo Mai (1973)[11]
- Home (1895)[12]
- Life and Labor Commune (1921)[citation needed]
- Metelkova (1993)[citation needed]
- Modern Times (March 21, 1851 - 1864)[citation needed]
- Stapleton Colony (1921)[citation needed]
- Trumbullplex (1993)[1]
- Twin Oaks Community, Virginia (1967)[citation needed]
- Utopia (1847)[13]
- Whiteway Colony (1898)[citation needed]
- Yubia (2011)[citation needed]
Community projects[edit]
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, a cooperative worker-owner collective business operated in Baltimore, Maryland, USA[14]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
- A-Space
- ABC No Rio
- ASCII (squat)
- Brian MacKenzie Infoshop
- Camas Bookstore and Infoshop
- Cowley Club
- Civic Media Center
- Cream City Collectives
- Documentations, Informations, Références et Archives
- Firestorm Cafe & Books
- Insoumise bookstore
- Internationalist Books
- Iron Rail Book Collective
- UFFA
- Jura Books
- Left Bank Books
- London Action Resource Centre
- Lucy Parsons Center
- The Old Market Autonomous Zone
- Red and Black Cafe
- Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse[14]
- Salon Mazal
- Solidarity Books
- The Sp(a)ce
- Spartacus Books
- Wooden Shoe Books
- Nomadelfia
See also[edit]
- Anarchy: Lists of ungoverned communities
- Free State Project - a political movement to promote libertarian and anarchist migration to New Hampshire, United States
- Permanent autonomous zone - a community that is autonomous from the generally recognized government or authority structure
- Seasteading - the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, outside the territory claimed by the government of any standing nation
- Zomia - the ungoverned highlands of Southeast Asia, held as an analogous anarchist society by professor James C. Scott
- Exarchia - District in Athens run by the Anarchist movement with no Police presence and the government only intervenes during riots. Marijuana is unregulated. Famed for graffiti, cafes and comic book stores, it has become a popular place for international Anarchists to visit when in Athens.
Further reading[edit]
- Amster, Randall (2001), "Chasing Rainbows: Utopian Pragmatics and the Search for Anarchist Communities", Anarchist Studies, 9 (1): 29–52
- Amster, Randall (2003), "Restoring (Dis)Order: Sanctions, Resolutions, and "Social Control" in Anarchist Communities", Contemporary Justice Review, 6 (1): 9–24, doi:10.1080/1028258032000055612
References[edit]
- ^ a b Osborne, Domenique (2002-11-09). "Radically wholesome". Metro Times. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
- ^ a b c Alexandre Skirda (2004). Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack. AK Press. ISBN 1-902593-68-5.
- ^ a b Adams, Jason (2005-12-26). "Non-Western Anarchisms : Rethinking the Global Context. 2: Asian Anarchism". RAforum.info. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
- ^ Dolgoff, S. (1974), The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution. In The Spanish Revolution, the Luger P08 was used as a weapon of choice by the Spanish., p. 5, ISBN 978-0-914156-03-1
- ^ http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/11/25/rojava_is_a_radical_experiment_in_democracy_in_northern_syria_american_leftists.html
- ^ Searching For Happiness In 'Utopia'
- ^ http://www.anarchistnation.org/
- ^ "About Us". EGFS. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ Bamyeh, Mohammed A. (May 2009). Anarchy as order. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 21. ISBN 0-7425-5673-5.
- ^ Frater, Jamie (November 1, 2010). Listverse.com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses press. pp. 516, 517. ISBN 1-56975-817-4.
- ^ http://www.anarchisme.wikibis.com/cooperatives_longo_mai.php
- ^ Pierce LeWarne, Charles (1975). Utopias on Puget Sound: 1885–1915. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 168–226. ISBN 0295974443.
- ^ Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, the first American anarchist: a sociological study. Small, Maynard & company. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
- ^ a b Sessa, Sam (November 27, 2007). "Church, anarchists come to each other's rescue". Baltimore Sun.
External links[edit]
- An Anarchist FAQ - Section I - What would an anarchist society look like?, hosted on Infoshop.org.
- An Anarchist FAQ - What are some examples of "Anarchy in Action"?, hosted on Infoshop.org.
