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Peruvian journalist and Marxist thinker who founded the journal Amauta and the Peruvian Socialist Party. In Seven Interpretive Essays he argued for an Andean socialism rooted in the indigenous community and attacked the latifundio and Lima centralism.
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José Carlos Mariátegui leans further toward progressive than 94% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
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Combines national self-determination and popular sovereignty with social equality and left-wing economic policies. Its historical expressions range from anticolonial and socialist to developmentalist movements, without a single economic or institutional program.
Branch of socialism advocating the global unity of working people against capitalism, rejecting bourgeois nationalism, and defending international working-class solidarity.
An anti-Leninist Marxist current of Pannekoek, Gorter and Mattick, which holds that workers themselves should run production and power through workers' councils, rejecting the vanguard party, the state and parliamentarism.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right28%
A Canadian political theorist, Srnicek advocates left accelerationism, proposing to use technology, automation, and basic income to move beyond work and build a post-capitalist future of shared abundance.
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A small rural New England state, Vermont combines direct-democracy town meetings, the progressive politics of Bernie Sanders, cooperatives, dairy farming and environmentalism, with one of the least religious populations in the country and permissive gun laws.
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The revolutionary government that held Paris for 72 days in 1871, the Commune established direct democracy with recallable mandates, workers' self-management of workshops, separation of Church and state, and equal pay, becoming a symbol of communal socialism.
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