List of anarchist communities

The Trumbullplex, an anarchist intentional community in the Woodbridge neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan

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. However, there are only a few instances of mass society "anarchies" that have come about from explicitly anarchist revolutions, including the Free Territory of Ukraine, and the Shinmin autonomous region in Manchuria.

Mass societies

The Free Territory was a region where an attempt was made to form a stateless, anarchist society. Its approximated location (in red) was in part of the territory of modern Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.

• Paris Commune (March 18, 1871 – May 28, 1871)
• Free Territory (November, 1918 – 1921)
• Shinmin autonomous region (1929–1932)
• Revolutionary Catalonia (July 21, 1936 – May 1937)
• Anarchist Aragon (July 1936 – August 1937)
• Shanghai People's Commune (January 1967 – February 1967)

Intentional communities

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Community projects

Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, a cooperative worker-owner collective business operated in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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See also

Rojava is the autonomous western region of Kurdistan made up of three non-contiguous cantons in northern Syria. It is a democratic confederalist society partially organized on principles of libertarian municipalism inspired by former anarchist philosopher Murray Bookchin.

• Anarchy: Lists of ungoverned communities
• Free State Project - a political movement to promote libertarian and anarchist migration to New Hampshire, United States.
• Permanent autonomous zone - a community that is autonomous from the generally recognized government or authority structure.
• Seasteading - the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, outside the territory claimed by the government of any standing nation.
• Rojava (Western Kurdistan) - a region of northern Syria which gained autonomy during the Syrian civil war and is partially inspired by Murray Bookchin's former anarchist writings.
• Zomia (geography) - the ungoverned highlands of Southeast Asia, held as an analogous anarchist society by professor James C. Scott.

External links

• 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.