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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 created and been involved in a plethora 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 Makhnovshchina in Ukraine,[1] Revolutionary Catalonia in Spain[2] and the Shinmin autonomous region in Manchuria.[3]
Intentional communities[edit]
Active communities:
- Stapleton Colony (1921–present)[5]
- Federation of Egalitarian Communities (1967–present)
- ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes (1967–present)
- Black Bear Ranch (1968–present)
- Longo Mai (1973–present)[6]
- The Farm (1973–present)
- Awra Amba (1980–present)[7]
- Kommune Niederkaufungen (1986–present)
- Acorn Community (1993–present)[8]
- Trumbullplex (1993–present)[4]
- Tenacious Unicorn Ranch (2018–present)
- Friland (2002–present) [9][10]
- Jinwar (2018-present)
Past communities:
- The Diggers (1649-1650)
- Utopia (1847-1875)[11]
- Modern Times (21 March 1851–1864)[12]
- Cecília Colony (1890–1893)[13]
- New Australia (28 September 1893–1905)[14]
- Home (1895)[15]
- Equality Colony (1897–1907)[15]
- Whiteway Colony[16] (1898)[17]
- Life and Labor Commune (1921)[18]
- Drop City (1965)
- Poole's Land (1988-2020)
Community projects[edit]
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Active Projects
- The 1 in 12 Club (1981–present)
- ABC No Rio (1980–present)
- ACU (1976–present)
- Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh (1997–present)
- Blitz House (1982–present)
- Bluestockings (1999–present)
- The Brick House (1999–present)
- Camas Bookstore and Infoshop (2007–present)
- Can Masdeu (2001–present)
- Can Vies (1997–present)
- Cascina Torchiera (1992–present)
- Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme (1957–present)
- Ché Café (1980–present)
- Civic Media Center (1992–present)
- Coffee Strong (2008–present)
- Common Ground Collective (2005–present)
- Cowley Club (2003–present)
- CSOA Forte Prenestino (1 May 1986–present)
- C-Squat (1989–present)
- Dial House (1970–present)[19]
- DIY Space For London (2015–present)
- Eskalera Karakola (1996–present)
- Extrapool (1991–present)
- Firestorm Cafe & Books (May 2008–present)
- Forest Café (2000–present)
- Freedom Press (1886–present)
- Freedom Shop (1 May 1995–present)
- Grote Broek (1984–present)
- Hausmania (2000–present)
- Hirvitalo (2006–present)
- Jura Books (1977–present)
- Kafé 44 (1976–present)
- Kulturzentrum Bremgarten (1990–present)
- Landbouwbelang (6 April 2002–present)
- London Action Resource Centre (1999–present)
- Lucy Parsons Center (1992–present)
- Metelkova (September 1993–present)[20]
- Noisebridge (2007–present)
- OCCII (1982–present)
- OT301 (1999–present)
- Poortgebouw (3 October 1980–present)
- Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (November 2004–present)
- Rote Flora (1989–present)
- Rozbrat (1994–present)
- Slab City, California (c. 1961-present)
- Spartacus Books (1973–present)
- Sumac Centre (1984–present)
- The Old Market Autonomous Zone (1995–present)
- Turun Kirjakahvila (1981–present)
- UFFA (1981–present)
- Warzone Collective (1984–present)
Past Projects
- 121 Centre (1981–1999)
- 491 Gallery (2001–2013)
- ADM (1997–2019)
- ASCII (1999–2006)
- Bank of Ideas (November 2011–January 2012)
- Binz (2006–2013)
- BIT (1968–1979)
- Bloomsbury Social Centre (23 November–22 December 2011)
- Boxcar Books (2001–2017)
- Brian MacKenzie Infoshop (1999–2008)
- Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (2020)
- Catalyst Infoshop (2004–2010)
- Centro 73 (September–December 2010)
- Centro Iberico (April–August 1982)
- Cream City Collectives (October 2006–31 October 2012)
- De Blauwe Aanslag (1980–2003)
- Factory Rog (2006-January 2021)
- Internationalist Books (1981–September 2016)
- Iron Rail Book Collective (2003–2012)
- Klinika (2014–2019)
- Kukutza (1996–2011)
- Kunsthaus Tacheles (1990–2011)
- Patio Maravillas (2007–2015)
- rampART (May 2004–15 October 2009)
- Really Free School (2011)
- Red and Black Cafe (2000–2015)
- RHINO (1988–2007)
- Salon Mazal
- Seomra Spraoi (2004–2015)
- Spike Surplus Scheme (1999–2009)
- Squat Milada (1997–2009)
- St Agnes Place (1 June 1969–30 November 2005
- Ungdomshuset (1982–2007)
- Villa Amalia (1990–2012)
- Vrijplaats Koppenhinksteeg (1968–2010)
- Wapping Autonomy Centre (1981–1982)
See also[edit]
- Lists of ungoverned communities
- List of socialist states
- Communist state
- List of stateless societies
- Temporary 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
References[edit]
- ^ Skirda 2004, p. 3.
- ^ Dolgoff, Sam (1974). The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936–1939.
- ^ "Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism". Anarchy in Action. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ a b Osborne 2002.
- ^ Hardy, Dennis (2000). Utopian England: Community Experiments, 1900-1945. Psychology Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-419-24670-1.
- ^ "Coopératives Longo Maï". Archived from the original on 2 August 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "Awra Amba: the anarcho-feminist utopia that actually works". 3 October 2016. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ "Searching For Happiness In 'Utopia'". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ^ "Official Website of Friland". Archived from the original on 4 January 2019.
- ^ "DR Friland". Archived from the original on 13 September 2012.
- ^ Bailie 1906.
- ^ "An Experiment in Anarchy: Modern Times, the notorious and short-lived utopian village that preceded Brentwood". Archived from the original on 9 August 2014.
- ^ Marshall, Peter H. (1993). Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. London: Fontana Press. pp. 507–508. ISBN 978-0-00-686245-1. OCLC 1042028128.
[I]n 1890 Dr Giovanni Rossi, an Italian agronomist, founded in the famous Cecilia colony in Parana one of the first anarchist communities in Latin America.
- ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1893). Small Communal Experiments and Why They Fail.
- ^ a b LeWarne 1975, pp. 168–226.
- ^ Franks, Benjamin (2006). Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms. AK Press/Dark Star. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-904859-40-6.
- ^ Headley, Gwyn; Meulenkamp, Wim (1999). Follies, grottoes & garden buildings. Aurum. p. 250. ISBN 9781854106254.
- ^ Sanborn, Josh (March 1996), Review of Edgerton, William, ed., Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia, H-Russia, H-Review, archived from the original on June 21, 2018, retrieved October 7, 2018
- ^ See "crass retirement cottage," nest magazine #21, summer 2003, pp 106-121
- ^ Niranjan, Ajit (July 24, 2015). "How an abandoned barracks in Ljubljana became Europe's most successful urban squat". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on October 7, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
Bibliography[edit]
- Bailie, William (1906). Josiah Warren, the first American anarchist: a sociological study. Small, Maynard & company. Archived from the original on 30 May 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- Bamyeh, Mohammed A. (May 2009). Anarchy as order. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-7425-5673-7.
- Frater, Jamie (1 November 2010). Listverse.com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses press. pp. 516, 517. ISBN 978-1-56975-817-5.</ref>
- LeWarne, Charles Pierce (1975). Utopias on Puget Sound: 1885–1915. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 168–226. ISBN 0295974443.
- Skirda, Alexandre (2004). Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack. AK Press. ISBN 1-902593-68-5.
- Osborne, Domenique (9 November 2002). "Radically wholesome". Metro Times. Archived from the original on 30 March 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
Further reading[edit]
- Amster, Randall (2001). "Chasing Rainbows: Utopian Pragmatics and the Search for Anarchist Communities". Anarchist Studies. 9 (1): 29–52. Archived from the original on 11 December 2004.
- 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. S2CID 145108567.
External links[edit]
- An Anarchist FAQ - Section I - What would an anarchist society look like?, hosted on Infoshop.org.
- An Anarchist FAQ - What are some examples of "Anarchy in Action"?, hosted on Infoshop.org.