This is a list of anarchist

Anarchism

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...

 communities

Community

The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...

, representing any society or portion thereof founded by anarchists, that functions according to anarchist philosophy and principles. Since the 19th century, anarchists have been involved in a wide variety of communities experiments.

There are numerous instances in which a community organizes itself along philosophically anarchist lines, to promote anarchist counterculture

Counterculture

Counterculture is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. Counterculture can also be described as a group whose behavior...

s and regional anarchist movements. These have included intentional communities

Intentional community

An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to have a much higher degree of teamwork than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle. They...

 founded by anarchists as social experiments, and community oriented projects, such as collective

Collective

A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project to achieve a common objective...

 organizations and cooperative

Cooperative

A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

 businesses. However, there are only a few instances of mass society

Mass society

Mass society is a description associated with society in the modern, industrial era. "Guided by the structural-functional approach and drawing on the ideas of Tönnies, Durkheim, and Weber, understands modernity as the emergence of a mass society...

 "anarchies

Anarchy

Anarchy , has more than one colloquial definition. In the United States, the term "anarchy" typically is meant to refer to a society which lacks publicly recognized government or violently enforced political authority...

" that have come about from explicitly anarchist revolution

Revolution

A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.Aristotle described two types of political revolution:...

s, including the Free Territory of Ukraine, and the Shinmin autonomous region in Manchuria.

Mass societies

• Free Territory (November, 19181921)
• Shinmin autonomous region (1929-1932)
• Anarchist Catalonia
  Anarchist Catalonia
  Anarchist Catalonia was the part of Catalonia controlled by the anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo during the Spanish Civil War.-Anarchists enter government:...
  
   (July 21, 1936May 1937)
• Anarchist Aragon (1936)

Intentional communities

• Utopia, Ohio
  Utopia, Ohio
  Utopia is an unincorporated town in far southern Franklin Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States, along the banks of the Ohio River. Utopia has been referred to as a "ghost town" although there are still people who live there.- Geography :...
  
   (1847)
• Modern Times (later renamed Brentwood, New York
  Brentwood, New York
  Brentwood is a hamlet of the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Brentwood is 53,917.The colony was established on March 21, 1851, on 750 acres of land on Long Island, New York, by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews...
  
  ; March 21, 1851)
• Whiteway Colony
  Whiteway Colony
  Whiteway Colony is a residential community in the Cotswolds in the parish of Miserden near Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. The community was founded in 1898 by Tolstoyans and today has no spare land available with over sixty homes and one hundred and fifty colonists...
  
   (1898)
• Stapleton Colony
  Stapleton Colony
  The Stapleton Colony, based in Stapleton, North Yorkshire is a Christian pacifist and anarchist community, and the only remaining colony of the Brotherhood Church.In 1897 several members of the Brotherhood Church, some from a Quaker background, moved to Leeds...
  
   (1921)
• Life and Labor Commune
  Life and Labor Commune
  The Life and Labor Commune was a Tolstoyan agricultural commune founded in 1921 and disbanded as a state run collective farm in 1937. The commune was founded near Moscow but was later resettled in central Siberia, not far from Novokuznetsk...
  
   (1921)
• Freetown Christiania
  Freetown Christiania
  Not to be confused with Christiania, Norway, another name for Oslo.Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering 34 hectares in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital Copenhagen...
  
   (September 26, 1971)
• Blitz (movement)
  Blitz (movement)
  Blitz is an anarchist, communist and socialist youth community in Oslo, Norway, founded in 1982. The group has often been criticized for their use of violent methods of political protest.- The house :...
  
   (1982)
• Trumbullplex
  Trumbullplex
  The Trumbullplex is a housing collective and showspace in the Woodbridge neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, USA. It was created in 1993 when members of the collective established a nonprofit corporation and purchased the property, two Victorian houses on either side of a single-story art space.The...
  
   (1993)

Community projects

Related topics

• Anarchy: Lists of ungoverned communities

External links

• An Anarchist FAQ - Section I - What would an anarchist society look like?, hosted on Infoshop.org
  Infoshop.org
  - History :Infoshop was founded in January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop by Chuck Munson. Having previously co-founded an online archive of anarchist texts, the Spunk Library, in 1992, Munson established Infoshop as a general resource on anarchism, moving to the domain name Infoshop.org in 1998...
  
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• An Anarchist FAQ - What are some examples of "Anarchy in Action"?, hosted on Infoshop.org
  Infoshop.org
  - History :Infoshop was founded in January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop by Chuck Munson. Having previously co-founded an online archive of anarchist texts, the Spunk Library, in 1992, Munson established Infoshop as a general resource on anarchism, moving to the domain name Infoshop.org in 1998...
  
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