swap_horiz Alexander Berkman Alternatives

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was a pivotal American civil rights activist. Her courageous refusal to yield her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala...

American Activist 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.2 Excellent

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José Rizal

Jose Rizal was a Filipino writer and reformist whose 1896 execution by Spanish authorities helped inspire the Philippine...

19TH Century Philippines Writer Independence

8.5 Great

3

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams was a prominent figure of the 18th century American Revolution. He served as an influential agitator and or...

18TH Century American Founder Independence

8.3 Great

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Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian anarchist theorist who split with Marx in the First International and helped shape collect...

Russia 19TH Century Anarchist Theorist

8.2 Great

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist writer and activist in the United States, deported in 1919 for anti-war and ra...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Writer

8.2 Great

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Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian geographer and anarchist theorist whose 1902 book Mutual Aid argued cooperation was centra...

Russia 19TH Century Mutual Aid Anarchist

8.1 Great

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Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright who wrote the 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen...

18TH Century French France Feminist

8.0 Great

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Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael was a Trinidadian-American civil rights activist who led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe...

American 20TH Century Black Power Pan African

7.9 Good

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French thinker who called property theft in 1840 and became the first major theorist to cal...

France 19TH Century Anarchist Theorist

7.8 Good

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Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen was a Russian émigré writer who published The Bell in London from 1857, influencing populist and social...

Russia Russian 19TH Century Writer

7.8 Good

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Aurobindo Ghosh

Indian nationalist Aurobindo Ghosh was a prominent leader in the early Indian independence movement before retiring to b...

Indian Independence Nationalist Mystic

7.8 Good

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Ricardo Flores Magón

Ricardo Flores Magón was a Mexican anarchist writer and revolutionary whose writings inspired the working-class movement...

Mexican Writer Anarchist Martyr

7.7 Good

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Lala Lajpat Rai

Indian independence activist Lala Lajpat Rai was a prominent leader in the Indian National Congress, famously succumbing...

Indian Independence Nationalist Martyr

7.7 Good

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Georgi Plekhanov

Russian philosopher Georgi Plekhanov is recognized as the father of Russian Marxism, co-founding the Emancipation of Lab...

Russian Marxist Theorist 19TH 20TH Century

7.7 Good

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Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Russian radical philosopher and writer Nikolai Chernyshevsky profoundly influenced the nation's socialist movement throu...

Russian 19TH Century Writer Socialist

7.6 Good

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Bobby Seale

Bobby Seale is an American political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton in Oakland, Cal...

American 20TH Century Black Panther Socialist

7.5 Good

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Francisco Ferrer

Spanish anarchist educator who founded the secular Escuela Moderna in Barcelona in 1901 and was executed by the Spanish...

Spanish Educator Anarchist Martyr

7.5 Good

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Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarchist organizer active across Europe and the Americas, publishing Umanità Nova in It...

Organizer Italy 20TH Century Anarchist

7.4 Good

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Buenaventura Durruti

Buenaventura Durruti was a Spanish anarchist and CNT militia leader who fought Franco's forces and died during the defen...

Spain 20TH Century Anarchist Commander

7.4 Good

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Sergei Nechayev

Russian nihilist revolutionary who authored the Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869), advocating ruthless, amoral tactics...

Russian 19TH Century Radical Nihilist

5.8 Mediocre