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An American essayist, Bourne sharply criticized militarism and nationalism, coining the idea that war is the health of the state, and championed a cultural cosmopolitanism open to diversity and freedom.
Political topics
Randolph Bourne leans further toward liberty than 93% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Power is where Randolph Bourne stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Randolph Bourne sits close to the catalog median.
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Current founded by Max Stirner in The Ego and Its Own (1844), which rejects the state, morality, religion and rights as spooks and proposes voluntary unions of egoists who associate only while it serves them.
Current that unites individual freedom, markets, and democracy with the ecological agenda, defending sustainability, rights, and innovation to reconcile economic prosperity with effective environmental protection.
Current that unites free markets and individual freedoms with concern for social justice, holding that economic freedom must also concretely improve the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable.
The most distant ideology
ReactionaryismFar-Right27%
An American cryptographer, Zimmermann created PGP, making strong cryptography accessible to everyone and defending digital privacy as a right, becoming a reference for crypto-anarchism and civil liberties.
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In October 2026 Democrat Jared Polis governs with a Democratic majority. Abortion is protected, cannabis and psychedelics are legal, the TABOR tax cap still applies, and clean-energy targets are in force. Polis leaves office in January 2027.
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During the Russian Revolution, Makhno's Free Territory was an anarchist experiment in Ukraine, with self-managed peasant communes and popular militias that rejected both the White state and Bolshevik power.
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