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Welsh textile industrialist at New Lanark and founder of New Harmony, who demonstrated that decent working conditions, universal child education, and cooperative labor were fully compatible with industrial output, inspiring the modern cooperative and labor movements.
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Robert Owen leans further toward irreligious than 85% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Robert Owen stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Robert Owen sits practically at the catalog median.
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Political tradition that values popular sovereignty, civic virtue, and the rule of law, defending citizens' self-government, the separation of powers, and protection against tyranny and the corruption of power.
Nationalism based on citizenship and shared values rather than ethnicity, defining the nation by adherence to common laws and institutions, open to all who accept its democratic and civic principles.
Doctrine proposing a democratic and federated global political order where citizens and nations deliberate jointly through multilateral representative institutions and lawful cooperation.
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