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A French utopian socialist, Fourier linked social progress to the emancipation of women and criticized the patriarchal family, moral repression, and social hierarchies, imagining ideal cooperative communities.
Political axes
Charles Fourier leans further toward progressive than 98% of the 444 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Charles Fourier stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, Charles Fourier sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 253 ideologies
An anti-Leninist Marxist current of Pannekoek, Gorter and Mattick, which holds that workers themselves should run production and power through workers' councils, rejecting the vanguard party, the state and parliamentarism.
Democratic Marxism inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, which unites revolution and freedom, values the spontaneity of the masses and the general strike, and criticizes both reformism and the authoritarian centralism of vanguard parties.
Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
The most distant ideology
Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight27%
A Dutch astronomer and Marxist, Pannekoek championed workers' councils and the self-organization of the masses, criticizing both reformist parliamentarism and the centralism of vanguard communist parties.
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An autonomous region in northern Syria, Rojava organizes itself through democratic confederalism, with local self-management, gender equality, ethnic pluralism, and ecology, inspired by the libertarian ideas of Abdullah Öcalan.
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The revolutionary government that held Paris for 72 days in 1871, the Commune established direct democracy with recallable mandates, workers' self-management of workshops, separation of Church and state, and equal pay, becoming a symbol of communal socialism.
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