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anarcho-communism
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political philosophy and school of thought
Anarcho-communism is a political philosophy that combines anarchism (opposition to hierarchical authority and the state) with communism (collective ownership of resources and goods shared according to need), envisioning a society organized without government or classes. It matters because it represents one of the most influential theoretical frameworks in anarchist thought and continues to shape debates about how societies could be organized to eliminate both state power and economic inequality.
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- communism
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- Spanish Revolution
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- Peter Kropotkin
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Anarchist communism is a far-left political ideology and anarchist school of thought that advocates a form of communism. It calls for the abolition of hierarchies, as well as private property but retention of personal property and collectively owned items, goods, and services. It supports social ownership of property and the distribution of resources (i.e. from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs).
Anarchist communism was first formulated as such in the Italian section of the International Workingmen's Association. The theoretical work of Peter Kropotkin took importance later as it expanded and developed pro-organizationalist and insurrectionary anti-organizationalist section. Examples of anarchist communist societies are the anarchist territories of the Makhnovshchina during the Russian Revolution, and those of the Spanish Revolution, most notably revolutionary Catalonia.
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