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Leader of Labor Zionism and the Mapai party, Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel's independence in 1948 and was its first prime minister, building a secular, centralized state with a strong public sector, kibbutzim, and the army as the school of the nation.
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David Ben-Gurion leans further toward nationalist than 91% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Nationalism is where David Ben-Gurion stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, David Ben-Gurion sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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The socialist strand of Zionism that built the State of Israel through the kibbutzim, the Histadrut labor federation, and Ben-Gurion's Mapai party, uniting Jewish nationalism, collective work on the land, and a secular welfare state.
Current that joins a state-run socialist economy and a strong party with patriotism, the traditional family, religion as national heritage and rejection of cultural progressivism, seeing identity politics as a liberal distraction from class struggle.
Democratic Party current born with Franklin Roosevelt that joins financial regulation, social security, public works and strong unions with civic patriotism, preserved capitalism and international leadership.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian35%
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Proclaimed in 1792 after the fall of the monarchy, the First French Republic executed Louis XVI, lived through the Jacobin Terror under the Committee of Public Safety, dechristianized the country, fought revolutionary wars and ended with Napoleon's Empire in 1804.
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