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What modern countries are considered anarchies? As of early 2022, there are no true anarchist countries. Somalia was the most recent anarchist country, having lacked a true national government from 1991 to 2006, when the Transitional National Government was established. During this time, the territories of Somalia were split and ruled by ...
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- 9 Paris Commune
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- 7 Freetown Christiania
- 6 Twin Oaks Community
- 5 Strandzha Commune
- 4 Shinmin Autonomous Region
- 3 Rojava
- 2 Zomia
- 1 Bir Tawil Triangle
As a result of the Spanish coup in July 1936 when the Fascists were trying to gain control of Spain, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo–Federacion Anarquista Iberica (CNT-FAI), an anarchist party within Catalonia, led a popular uprisingby organizing militias against the Nationalist forces. Overall, these militias were made up of 18,000 workers ...
In 1871, the Paris Commune came about as a reaction to the Franco-Prussian War and is often considered the first example of the working class seizing power. After being defeated by the Germans, the French army tried to take back the cannons they had left in the city of Paris. The National Guard of Paris, which was separate from the army, sided with...
From 1918 to 1921, the Free Territory was an anarchist state set up in Ukraine by Nestor Makhno. The Free Territory has the distinction of being one of the few states based entirely on anarchist ideology and has probably the coolest flag of any nation to ever exist—a picture of a skull with the words, “Death to all who stand in the way of freedom f...
Created in 1971, Freetown Christiania is one the few anarchist communities on this list that is still active. Remarkably, it has managed to remain mostly autonomous for over 40 years. The town was founded by squatters in Copenhagen, Denmark, in an abandoned military area. They promptly claimed the area and declared it a free city. As a result of th...
In 1967, a small group of communitarians decided to build a society based on the values of egalitarianism and sustainability. Based upon 400 acres of land in Virginia, the community engages in activities such as gardening and making hammocks. Then they pool the resources they obtain from agriculture and the money they receive from selling items suc...
The Strandzha Commune in Bulgaria was an anarchist society that was proclaimed on August 18, 1903, and led by Mihail Gerdzhikov, a guerilla commander in the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. Gerdzhikov’s army, which only numbered around 2,000 strong, managed to establish a provisional government in the Strandzha Mountains w...
In 1924, the Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF) began to foster the ongoing creation of anarchist labor unions and promoted anti-imperialist sentiment in China. Five years later, the KACF declared the Shinmin province to be independent from China and immediately sought to establish a decentralized form of control within the area. Like oth...
Although not technically an anarchist society, Rojava (aka the Federation of Northern Syria) is a de facto autonomous zone which has been able to govern itself separately from the official Syrian government since Rojava declared autonomy in November 2013. Although the official political system of Rojava is described as libertarian socialism, the st...
Stretching from the Vietnamese highlands and Tibetan plateau to Afghanistan, Zomia is a geographical region with a population of 100 million people whose name was coined by Willem van Schendel of the University of Amsterdam in 2002. Zomia is seen by some political scientists, such as Yale political scientist James Scott, as a rejection of the moder...
Although not technically a state or society, the Bir Tawil Triangle is one of the few areas of the world that is not claimed by a recognized nation-state and, therefore, is effectively a lawless region with no government. This anomaly occurred when the British signed an agreement with the Egyptians stating that the new British colony of Sudan would...
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anarchism, cluster of doctrines and attitudes centred on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. Anarchist thought developed in the West and spread throughout the world, principally in the early 20th century.
The concluding pages summarize challenges to the discourse of international anarchy posed by the methodology of economics, and economics-based theories of international politics as well as by approaches that favor global hierarchy and global governance.
