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A French philosopher, Sartre was the great name of existentialism, defending the radical freedom and responsibility of the individual, and drew close to Marxism, engaging in the great political causes of his time.
Political topics
Jean-Paul Sartre leans further toward progressive than 97% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Morality is where Jean-Paul Sartre stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Jean-Paul Sartre sits practically at the catalog median.
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Democratic Marxism inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, which unites revolution and freedom, values the spontaneity of the masses and the general strike, and criticizes both reformism and the authoritarian centralism of vanguard parties.
Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipation.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right28%
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An autonomous region in northern Syria, Rojava organizes itself through democratic confederalism, with local self-management, gender equality, ethnic pluralism, and ecology, inspired by the libertarian ideas of Abdullah Öcalan.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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