Cutline · Grade 8–9 · one of sixteen

C·L·I·R

The Anarchist

collective · decentralized · internationalist · rupture

Libertarian socialism

Shared ownership, nobody in charge at the top, no borders, and no waiting. All four axes point the same way: people organise themselves, and they do it now. This is the corner that was an ordinary thing to be in 1891 and has since been pushed off the map entirely.

What the four letters mean

C Ownershipcollectivenot private (P)
L Controldecentralizednot centralized (A)
I Horizoninternationalistnot national (N)
R Methodrupturenot gradual (G)

Where this has shown up

HistoricallyPeter Kropotkin; the anarchist region of Ukraine, 1918–21; Catalonia in 1936, where workers ran the factories and the buses during the Spanish Civil War.

All sixteen

Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.

CAIRThe Permanent Revolutionary CANRThe Vanguard PAIRThe Shock Therapist PANRThe Strongman CAIGThe World Planner CANGThe Planner PAIGThe Technocrat PANGThe National Conservative CLIRThe Anarchist CLNRThe Syndicalist PLIRThe Exit Capitalist PLNRThe Secessionist CLIGThe Commoner CLNGThe Municipalist PLIGThe Free Trader PLNGThe Classical Liberal

Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.

This page is not a diagnosis

The Anarchist is a box, and a box throws almost everything away. It keeps which side of each line you landed on and forgets how far. Two people in this box can be at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. Where the lines were drawn across them is a decision a person made.

The point

Cutline tells you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other quiz leaves out. And you are fourteen. You are supposed to change.

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