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An Italian Marxist-Leninist historian and philosopher, Losurdo criticised liberalism, colonialism and anti-communism, reassessed Stalin and defended post-Mao China as a national path of socialist transition.
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Domenico Losurdo leans further toward autocracy than 88% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Domenico Losurdo stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Domenico Losurdo sits close to the catalog median.
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System in which the state controls the means of production and directs the economy through central planning, promoting industrialization and welfare under strong political authority and limited popular democratic participation.
Current inspired by Auguste Comte that trusts science and reason to organize society, defending order, progress, and technical administration guided by knowledge in place of metaphysics and tradition.
Revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, with a single party, a state-run economy, universal health and education, export of armed revolution and the new man ideal against imperialism.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian32%
American engineer, Scott founded Technocracy Incorporated in 1933, proposing to replace the price system and money with energy certificates and to hand the government of a continental “technate” to engineers and scientists instead of politicians and businessmen.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Ruled by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 2008, Cuba became a one-party socialist state, with a nationalized economy, universal health and education, a Soviet alliance, repression of dissidents, mass exile and confrontation with the United States, from the embargo to the missile crisis.
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