Anarcho-Communism
Anarcho-communism seeks a society with no state, no private ownership of productive property and, in the end, no money or wages. Free communes would hold resources in common and distribute goods according to need, coordinating through voluntary federation.
- The state and capitalism are both forms of domination and should be abolished together.
- Goods should be shared according to need rather than earned through wages.
- Order should rest on mutual aid and free agreement rather than law enforced by force.
The position took shape among Italian and French anarchists in the late 1870s and was set out most fully by Peter Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread (1892) and Mutual Aid (1902). Errico Malatesta and Emma Goldman were prominent advocates. It influenced the Ukrainian Makhnovist movement and the anarchist collectives of the Spanish Revolution.
Critics question how a society without money or enforceable law would allocate scarce goods, coordinate large-scale production or protect itself from organised force. Marxists object to abolishing the state immediately rather than after a transition.
No country or historical regime in our data has Anarcho-Communism as its closest ideology.
Anarcho-Communism is also the second-closest ideology for: Paris Commune, Red Vienna.
Method: each ideology is placed at a typical position on the 12 axes, scored from 0 to 100 toward the first pole. Ranks compare it with the other 45 ideologies; matches are 100 minus the average distance across all axes. The positions are our own calibration, not taken from any third-party source.