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'''Platformism''', aka '''Makhnovism''' is an ideology that seeks unity from its participants, having, as a defining characteristic, the idea that each platformist organization should include only people that are fully in agreement with core group ideas, rejecting people who disagree. It stresses the need for tightly organized anarchist organizations that are able to influence working class and peasant movements.

Platformism is seen as one of the earliest examples of anarchist praxis and was developed further as theory by the Dielo Truda in Paris, them being composed of Nestor Makhno and hisother comradesanarchist whileexiles infrom exileRussia inand ParisUkraine. based on the results of anarchist movements during the Russian Revolution such as The [[w:Makhnovia|Free Territory]] (Also known as Makhnovshchyna) and it's [[w:Revolutionary_Insurrectionary_Army_of_Ukraine|Black Army]].

PlatformismHas wouldits come into the foldroots in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War where Ukraine ended up divided among many different factions, among this chaos [[File:Makhno.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism|'''Nestor Makhno''']] would enter into the picture as a charismatic leader that would rally Ukrainian peasants to the anarchist cause. Anarchism in Ukraine would be largely [[File:Farm.png]] [[Agrarianism|agrarian]] and was largely a movement of the peasants exerting control from [[File:Timocracy.png]] [[Timocracy|oppressive landlords]] and [[File:Arist.png]] [[Aristocracy|russian elites]] [[File:Cball-Russian Empire.png]], this free territory would be a string of villages and communities that would function under a direct democracy and self-governance around the local committee and its confederation with other committes, even having an unionized army command.

Free Territory would fight off [[File:Petliura.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Petliura]] and [[Authoritarian Conservatism|Skoropadskyy]] [[File:Skoropadskyi.png]] forces, the [[File:RussianWhites.png]] [[Authoritarian Conservatism|White Army]] and the [[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism|Red Army]] after [[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] [[Trotskyism|Trotsky]] centered its forces to fight them off after defeating the Whites, leading to the end of the Free Territory. Though it is important to keep in mind that the ideology was developed after their failure in Ukraine, especially focused on fixing what went wrong there.