List of anarchist communities
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. There are also several 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]
Mass societies
Active societies:
- Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement (1958–present)[4]
- Federation of Neighborhood Councils-El Alto (Fejuve; 1979–present)[5]
- Marinaleda (1979-present)[6]
- Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magón" (CIPO-RFM; 1980s–present)[7]
- Landless Workers' Movement (MST; 1982–present)[5]
- Puerto Real (1987–present)[8]
- Spezzano Albanese (1992–present)[9]
- Barcelona's Squatters Movement (2000–present)[10]
- Barbacha (2001–present)[11]
- Abahali baseMjondolo (2005–present)[5]
- Zaachila (2006–present)[7]
- Cheran (2011–present)[12]
- Zone to Defend (2011–present)
Past societies:
- Çatalhöyük (7500 BC–5700 BC)[13]
- Cucuteni-Trypillia (5200 BC–3200 BC)[14]
- Indus Valley Civilisation (3300 BC–1300 BC)[14]
- Essenes (150 BC–66)[15]
- Frisia (993 - 1350)[5]
- Haudenosaunee (1142–1800s)[16]
- Taborite communities (1419–1452)[17]
- Republic of Cospaia (1440-1826)[18]
- South Carolina Commune (1868–1874)[19]
- Strandzha Commune (August–September 1903)[20]
- Soviets (1905 - 1922)
- Baja Rebellion (1911)
- Free Territory (November 1918 – 1921)[2]
- Kronstadt Rebellion (1921)[21]
- Guangzhou City Commune (1921–1927)[22]
- Shinmin Prefecture (1929–1931)[3]
- Revolutionary Catalonia (21 July 1936–May 1939)[23]
- Regional Defence Council of Aragon (6 October 1936-11 August 1937)[23]
- Saigon Commune (1945)[24]
- Shanghai (1967)[25]
- Czechoslovakia (1968)[26]
- Argentinian Horizontalidad (2001–2004)[27]
- Oaxaca City (2006)[7]
- Greek Insurrection (2008)[28]
- Symphony Way (2008 - 2009)[5]
- 15M Movement (2010 - 2015)[28]
- Gezi Park Commune (2013)[28]
Indigenous societies
- Aboriginal Australians[29]
- Amazigh[29]
- Andamanese[30]
- Anuak[29]
- Cherokee[31]
- Croatan[32]
- Hopi[33]
- Igbo[34]
- Inuit[29]
- Konkomba[29]
- Lugbara[29]
- Mapuche[35]
- Mbuti[36]
- Niitsitapi[37]
- Nubian[38]
- Pequot[39]
- Piaroa[40]
- Plateau Tonga[29]
- Quinnipiac[41]
- Sami[29]
- San[42]
- Santals[29]
- Semai[43]
- Seminoles[44]
- Tiv[29]
- Zomia[45]
Intentional communities
Active communities:
- Stapleton Colony (1921)[46]
- Federation of Egalitarian Communities (1967)
- Twin Oaks Community, Virginia (1967)[47]
- East Wind Community (1973)
- Acorn Community (1993)[48]
- Freetown Christiania (26 September 1971)[49][50]
- Longo Mai (1973)[51]
- The Farm (1973)
- Awra Amba (1980)[52]
- Kommune Niederkaufungen (1986)
- Metelkova (1993)[53]
- Trumbullplex (1993)[1]
Past communities:
- The Diggers (1649-1650)
- Utopia (1847)[54]
- Modern Times (21 March 1851–1864)[55]
- Paris Commune (1871)[56]
- Home (1895)[57]
- Equality Colony (1897-1907)[57]
- Whiteway Colony[58] (1898)[59]
- Soviet Republics
- Life and Labor Commune (1921)[60]
- Drop City (1965)
Community projects
- ABC No Rio
- ASCII (squat)
- Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh
- Cowley Club
- Civic Media Center
- Cream City Collectives
- Iron Rail Book Collective
- Noisebridge
- UFFA
- London Action Resource Centre
- Lucy Parsons Center
- The Old Market Autonomous Zone
- Red and Black Cafe
- Salon Mazal
- Common Ground Collective
- Nomadelfia
- Notre-Dame-des-Landes
See also
- Anarchy: Lists of ungoverned communities
- 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
- Permanent autonomous zone – a community that is autonomous from the generally recognized government or authority structure
- Zomia – the ungoverned highlands of Southeast Asia, held as an analogous anarchist society by professor James C. Scott
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Further reading
- Amster, Randall (2001). "Chasing Rainbows: Utopian Pragmatics and the Search for Anarchist Communities". Anarchist Studies. 9 (1): 29–52. Archived from the original on 2004-12-11.
- 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.