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First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba, succeeding Raúl Castro in 2018: maintains one-party socialist state planning while allowing measured private micro-enterprise reforms.
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Miguel Díaz-Canel leans further toward progressive than 83% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Morality is where Miguel Díaz-Canel stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Miguel Díaz-Canel sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
Socialist current born of national liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, defending economic sovereignty, resource nationalization, non-alignment, and solidarity among peoples of the Global South against imperialism.
Early 19th-century current that envisioned an industrial society reorganized by rational planning, led by scientists, engineers and producers, replacing politicians and aristocrats without appealing to class struggle or revolution.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian32%
A Polish economist, Lange championed market socialism, arguing that planning could simulate prices and allocate resources efficiently, in the famous socialist calculation debate.
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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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