heroes

bernie sanders - democratic socialist senator from vermont and presidential candidate for the united states. notable for his honesty and tremendous track record. notable for promoting free health care, a 15 dollar minimum wage, and opposition to the wars in the middle east.

Buenaventura Durruti - Anarcho-Syndicalist and head of the CNT during the spanish civil war

Emile Pouget - French anarcho-communist, who adopted tactics close to those of anarcho-syndicalism. He was vice-secretary of the General Confederation of Labour from 1901 to 1908

Emma Goldman - Famous anarcho-communist and anarcho-feminist who was friends with peter kropotkin and disapproved of the USSR Goldman was imprisoned several times for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. Was sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported to Russia

Helen Keller - an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

Joseph Dejacque - French early anarcho-communist poet and writer. criticizing Pierre-Joseph Proudhon for his sexist views on women, his support of individual ownership of the product of labor, and of a market economy, saying: "it is not the product of his or her labor that the worker has a right to, but to the satisfaction of his or her needs, whatever may be their nature"

Leo Tolstoy - Anarcho-Pacifist who promoted peace and love and to avoid revolution in favor of reform. was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic family and class traitor.

Louis Charles Delescluze -  French revolutionary leader, journalist, and military commander of the Paris Commune

Louise Michel - French anarchist, school teacher, medical worker, and important figure in the Paris Commune

Lucy Parsons - American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarchist communist. She is remembered as a powerful orator.

Mikhael Bakunin - Russian revolutionary anarchist, and founder of collectivist anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of anarchism, and one of the principal founders of the social anarchist tradition

MLK JR - American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. notable socialist (and, found out recently, had ties to the communist party of usa)

Murray Bookchin - Green anarchist from vermont who often gave Sanders headaches in debates. founder of communalism

Nestor Makhno - Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of an independent anarchist army in Ukraine (black army) during the Russian Civil War of 1917–22.

Peter Kropotkin - born into nobility, became a class traitor for the people. popularized anarcho-communism and was critical of the USSR

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -  French politician and the founder of mutualist philosophy. He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist

Rosa Luxemburg - German-Polish-Jewish Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist who became a naturalized German citizen who helped found east germany

rudolf rocker - helped popularize anarcho-syndicalism

subcommandante Marcos - spokesperson of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN)

Thomas Sankara - Communist and former head of Burkina Faso. Notable for vaccinating the entire population and liberation of women

William Godwin - one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and the first modern proponent of anarchism

zeno of citium - founder of stoicism and write of "the republic".  Stoicism laid great emphasis on goodness and peace of mind gained from living a life of Virtue in accordance with Nature. It proved very successful, and flourished as the dominant philosophy from the Hellenistic period through to the Roman era.

Hatta Shuzo - In particular, compared to other Anarcho-Communists, he went into detail of what a Communist economy would actually look like.
"While there was nothing very original about envisaging communist production and distribution as conforming with the norms laid down in the slogan ‘from each according to his/her ability, to each according to his/her self-determined needs’, Hatta did attempt to think through some of the implications of such well worn phrases in a refreshingly independent fashion. For example, he argued that to say that people would freely contribute according to their abilities meant that, in effect, people would engage in whatever production they regarded as essential. In some areas of production, an individuals view of what was essential would very likely coincide with that of all members of the commune, but in other cases this would not be so. Where a single individual regarded a certain product as essential, he or she would take steps to produce it alone. A more likely occurrence would be to have groups of like-minded individuals within a commune cooperating to produce goods or services which they, but not other members of the commune, considered essential. Hatta expected much ‘cultural production’ to fall into this category, resulting from the efforts of spontaneously organised associations of artists, scientists and so on."
It seems like that instead of simply establishing another state and forcing other people to work. He'd simply leave people to their own devices working on essentials and spontaneously taking part in culture or science depending on where their skillset lies.

Kim Jwa-Jin (Baekya) -  Anarcho-Communist and Leader of the Autonomous Shinmin Region of Korea in 1920's and 1930's. Often called "Korea's Makhno"

Eugene V. Debs - an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.[3] Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.. He even ran for president while in a jail cell