swap_horiz Francisco Ferrer Alternatives

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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

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Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist revolutionary executed by the British in 1931 after the Lahore Conspiracy Case made...

India 20TH Century Independence Socialist

8.3 Great

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Tupac Amaru II

Tupac Amaru II was a prominent Indigenous leader of Peru during the late 18th century. He spearheaded a widespread rebel...

18TH Century Indigenous Peruvian Martyr

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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Wolfe Tone

Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) was a key Irish republican who played a central role in challenging British authority during the...

18TH Century Republican Irish Independence

8.0 Great

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Ruth First

South African anti-apartheid activist and journalist assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by South African securit...

20TH Century South African Feminist Martyr

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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Imre Nagy

Hungarian communist politician Imre Nagy served as Prime Minister during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, where he attempted...

Hungarian 20TH Century Martyr Communist

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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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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Nestor Makhno

Nestor Makhno was a Ukrainian anarchist commander whose insurgent army defended the Free Territory during the Russian Ci...

20TH Century Ukraine Anarchist Peasant

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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Thomas Münzer

Thomas Müntzer was a German Protestant reformer and radical theologian who became a leader of the German Peasants' War o...

German 16TH Century Protestant Martyr

7.4 Good

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Simón Rodríguez

Venezuelan-born educator and philosopher, the lifelong mentor of Simón Bolívar, who advocated radical educational reform...

Philosopher Educator Independence Venezuelan

7.4 Good

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Alexander Berkman

Russian-born American anarchist who in 1892 attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead...

American Radical Writer Anarchist

6.6 Fair