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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 communitiesfounded by anarchists associal 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
The Trumbullplex, an anarchist
explicitly anarchist revolutions, including the Free Territory of Ukraine[2] and the intentional community in the
Shinmin autonomous regionin Manchuria.[3] Woodbridge neighborhood of Detroit,
Michigan[1]

Contents
Mass societies
Indigenous societies
Intentional communities
Community projects
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Mass societies
Active societies:

Kibbutz (1909–present)[4]
Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement(1958–present)[5]
Federation of Neighborhood Councils-El Alto(Fejuve; 1979–present)[6]
Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magón"(CIPO-
RFM; 1980s–present)[7]
Landless Workers' Movement (MST; 1982–present)[6]
Puerto Real (1987–present)[8]
The Free Territory was a region
Spezzano Albanese (1992–present)[9]
where an attempt was made to form
Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities(MANEZ; 1994–present)[10] a stateless, anarchist society and its
Barcelona's Squatters Movement(2000–present)[11] approximated location (in red) was in
Barbacha (2001–present)[12] part of the territory of modern
Abahali baseMjondolo (2005–present)[6] Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of
Zaachila (2006–present)[7] Independence[2]
Cheran (2011–present)[13]
Zone to Defend (2011–present)
Democratic Federation of Northern Syria(Rojava; 2013–present)[14]
Past societies:

Çatalhöyük (7500 BC–5700 BC)[15]


Cucuteni-Trypillia (5200 BC–3200 BC)[16]
Indus Valley Civilisation (3300 BC–1300 BC)[16]
Minoan Crete (3000 BC–1100 BC)[16]
Essenes (150 BC–66)[17]
Frisia (993 - 1350)[6]
Haudenosaunee (1142–1800s)[18]
Taborite communities (1419–1452)[19]
Republic of Cospaia (1440-1826)[20]
Pirates (1500s–1700s)[21]
South Carolina Commune(1868–1874)[22]
Paris Commune (1871)[23]
Strandzha Commune (August–September 1903)[24]
Soviets (1905 - 1922)
Baja Rebellion (1911)
Free Territory (November 1918–1921)[2]
Guangzhou City Commune(1921–1927)[25]
Shinmin Prefecture (1907–1911)[3]
Revolutionary Catalonia(21 July 1936–May 1939)[26]
East Germany (1953)[27]
Hungary (1956)[28]
Shanghai (1967)[29]
Czechslovakia (1968)[28]
First Intifada (1987–1993)[30]
Argentinian Horizontalidad(2001–2004)[31]
Oaxaca City (2006)[7]
Greek Insurrection (2008)[32]
Symphony Way (2008 - 2009)[6]
15M Movement (2010 - 2015)[32]
Gezi Park Commune (2013)[32]

Indigenous societies
Aboriginal Australians[33]
Amazigh[33]
Andamanese[34]
Anuak[33]
Cherokee[35]
Croatan[36]
Hopi[37]
Igbo[38]
Inuit[33]
Konkomba[33]
Lugbara[33]
Mapuche[39]
Mbuti[40]
Niitsitapi[41]
Nubian[42]
Pequot[43]
Piaroa[44]
Plateau Tonga[33]
Quinnipiac[45]
Sami[33]
San[46]
Santals[33]
Semai[47]
Seminoles[48]
Tiv[33]
Zomia[49]

Intentional communities
Active communities:

Stapleton Colony (1921)


Federation of Egalitarian Communities(1967)
Twin Oaks Community, Virginia (1967)
East Wind Community 1973
Acorn Community (1993)[50]
Freetown Christiania (26 September 1971)[51][52]
Longo Mai (1973)[53]
The Farm (1973)
Kommune Niederkaufungen(1986)
Metelkova (1993)
Trumbullplex (1993)[1]
Past communities:

The Diggers (1649-1650)


Utopia (1847)[54]
Modern Times (21 March 1851–1864)
Paris Commune (1871)
Home (1895)[55]
Equality Colony (1897)
Whiteway Colony (1898)
Soviet Republics
Naissaar (1917–1918)
Odessa (1918)
Bavarian (1919)
Bremen (1919)
Life and Labor Commune(1921)
Drop City (1965)

Community projects
Books and infoshop
Brian MacKenzie Infoshop
Camas Bookstore and Infoshop
Documentations, Informations, Références et Archives
Firestorm Cafe & Books
Insoumise bookstore
Internationalist Books
Jura Books
Left Bank Books
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse[56]
Solidarity Books
Spartacus Books
Wooden Shoe Books
A-Space
ABC No Rio
Red Emma's Bookstore ASCII (squat)
Coffeehouse, a cooperative worker- Breakaway Social Center
owner collective business operated Cowley Club
in Baltimore, Maryland[56] 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
The Sp(a)ce
Flydende By
Common Ground Collective
Nomadelfia
Notre-Dame-des-Landes
ZAD de Bure
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh

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 graf
fiti, 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 fromthe 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.

External links
An Anarchist FAQ - Section I - What would ananarchist society look like?, hosted on Infoshop.org.
An Anarchist FAQ - What are some examplesof "Anarchy in Action"?, hosted on Infoshop.org.

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