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A former guerrilla and Uruguayan statesman, Mujica embodied a democratic left, austere and libertarian in customs, defending moderate redistribution, civil rights, and a critique of consumerism.
Political topics
José Mujica leans further toward progressive than 93% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Morality is where José Mujica stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, José Mujica sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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A bottom-up self-government model of Abdullah Öcalan, with local assemblies federated into a confederation, ecology, gender equality and a cooperative economy, without a nation-state, put into practice in Rojava.
Movement dedicated to protecting the environment and the sustainable use of resources, advocating policies against pollution and climate change and harmony between human development and ecological balance.
Current that advocates social reforms and the expansion of rights to promote equality and justice, trusting progress, science, and collective action to transform institutions and overcome inequalities.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right25%
French-Algerian writer and 1957 Nobel laureate, Camus fought in the Resistance, broke with Sartre by condemning the Soviet camps in The Rebel and defended a plural Algeria against terrorism on both sides.
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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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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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