List of anarchist communities
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This is a list of anarchist communities, representing any society or portion thereof founded by anarchists, that functions according to anarchist philosophy and principles. Since the 19th century, anarchists have been involved in a wide variety of community experiments.
There are numerous instances in which a community organizes itself along philosophically anarchist lines, to promote anarchist countercultures and regional anarchist movements. 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]
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[edit] Mass societies
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- Free Territory (November, 1918 – 1921)[2]
- Shinmin autonomous region (1929–1932)[3]
- Anarchist Catalonia (July 21, 1936 – May 1937)
- Anarchist Aragon (1936)
[edit] Intentional communities
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- Utopia, Ohio (1847)[4]
- Modern Times (later renamed Brentwood, New York; March 21, 1851)
- Whiteway Colony (1898)
- Stapleton Colony (1921)
- Life and Labor Commune (1921)
- Freetown Christiania (September 26, 1971)[5][6]
- Blitz (movement) (1982)
- Trumbullplex (1993)[1]
- Twin Oaks Community (1967)
[edit] Community projects
- A-Space (community center)
- ABC No Rio
- ASCII (squat)
- Brian MacKenzie Infoshop
- Camas Bookstore and Infoshop
- Cowley Club
- Civic Media Center
- Cream City Collectives
- Cwtch Community Group
- Documentations, Informations, Références et Archives
- Firestorm Cafe & Books
- Insoumise bookstore
- Internationalist Books
- Iron Rail Book Collective
- Ivar matlaus
- Jura Books
- London Action Resource Centre
- Lucy Parsons Center
- The Old Market Autonomous Zone
- Red and Black Cafe
- Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse[7]
- Salon Mazal
- Spartacus Books
- Wooden Shoe Books
[edit] See also
[edit] Further reading
- Amster, Randall (2001), "Chasing Rainbows: Utopian Pragmatics and the Search for Anarchist Communities", Anarchist Studies 9 (1): 29–52, http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/anarchiststudies/archive/vol9no1.html
- 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
[edit] References
- ^ a b Osborne, Domenique (2002-11-09). "Radically wholesome". Metro Times. http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=3681. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
- ^ a b c Alexandre Skirda (2004). Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack. AK Press. ISBN 1902593685.
- ^ a b Adams, Jason (2005-12-26). "Non-Western Anarchisms : Rethinking the Global Context. 2: Asian Anarchism". RAforum.info. http://raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=3225&lang=fr. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
- ^ Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, the first American anarchist: a sociological study. Small, Maynard & company. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/warren/bailie.html. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
- ^ Bamyeh, Mohammed A. (May 2009). Anarchy as order. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 21. ISBN 0742556735.
- ^ Frater, Jamie (November 1, 2010). Listverse.com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses press. pp. 516, 517. ISBN 1569758174.
- ^ a b Sam Sessa (November 27, 2007). "Church, anarchists come to each other's rescue". Baltimore Sun.
[edit] External links
- 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.
