Libertarian Socialism on the 12 Axes

The term covers a wide current that runs from William Morris and the guild socialists to council communists such as Anton Pannekoek, the Socialisme ou Barbarie group, and later thinkers like Noam Chomsky and Murray Bookchin. Its common thread is that workers and communities should manage their own affairs directly, through councils, cooperatives and assemblies, rather than through bosses or party bureaucracies. It accepts more pluralism than strict anarchism: some versions tolerate a limited, democratic public authority, local markets or elected councils. Compared with anarcho-communism it is less absolute about abolishing every institution at once. Compared with democratic socialism it puts less trust in parliaments and the national state, and prefers self-management from below.

• Democratic Socialism 86%Democratic socialism aims to replace capitalism with social ownership of the economy, reached and governed through elections, civil liberties and multiparty democracy instead of revolution or one-party rule.
• Anarcho-Communism 83%Anarcho-communism seeks a stateless, classless society where land, workplaces and goods are held in common and shared by the rule 'from each according to ability, to each according to need'.
• Social Libertarianism 82%Social libertarianism puts personal and civil freedom first, opposing state control of private life, while accepting some public services and economic fairness measures.
• Anarcho-Syndicalism 82%Anarcho-syndicalism seeks to abolish capitalism and the state through revolutionary labor unions, using the general strike and direct action, so that federated unions run the economy afterward.