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Hungarian economic historian, Polanyi argued in The Great Transformation that land, labour and money are fictitious commodities, and that the self-regulating market generates a protective social countermovement.
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Karl Polanyi leans further toward progressive than 89% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Morality is where Karl Polanyi stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, Karl Polanyi sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
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.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right26%
Economist and Colombia's first left-wing president (2022-2026). He prioritized the ecological transition away from fossil fuels, the Total Peace policy with guerrillas and distributive reforms in healthcare and pensions.
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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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Under Allende's Popular Unity, Chile attempted democratic socialism through copper and bank nationalization, agrarian reform, and economic planning until the 1973 military coup.
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