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Élisée Reclus — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1830–1905 · France · Geographer & theorist

Élisée Reclus

The anarchist geographer

Humanity and nature without masters.

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The pioneering geographer whose vision wove anarchist communism together with an early ecological sensibility, seeing humanity and nature as one unmastered whole.

social

Ahead of his time — ecology, vegetarianism, equality.

economic

Communist sharing rooted in cooperation with nature.

governance

Stateless federation of free communities.

Notable for
  • Monumental 'New Universal Geography'
  • Early ecological anarchism
  • Communard and theorist
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