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She is considered an influential critic of globalization; Although not widely read or followed in the protest-oriented wing of the anti-globalization movement, she is extremely influential in movements for separatism, urban secession and rural secession . Her followers prefer to focus on building a comprehensive "not quite a state" capacity for governance in smaller political units, and tend to ignore protest or treaties as strategies.
"I personally don't care if people have no or a little or a lot of "state" in their small voluntary communities, as long as they don't aggress on or defraud others. But I do promote nonviolence, consensus and direct democracy, all of which would lead to a small state or not quite a state." - Carol Moore.
Moore is considered a feminist and an anarchist by most, but it is not clear if she accepts these labels or not. Her focus on self-sufficiency suggests an adherence to eco-anarchism and the eco-village movement, but those both propose much smaller scales than the unit of governance in a typical separation/secession movement.
Moore's work is most often compared to that of Jane JacobsJane Butzner Jacobs (born 1916) is a writer, activist, and city aficionado. She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. In 1944 she was married to Robert Hyde Jacobs. She has two sons, James Kedzie, born 1948, and Edward Deck and Donella MeadowsDonella "Dana" Meadows ( March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer. She was the lead author of Limits to Growth and proposed the twelve leverage points to intervene, who likewise applied systems theory to ecological and social problems.
See also: secession, separatism