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A journalist who founded Brazil's PCO party in 1995, Pimenta advocates proletarian revolution, nationalizing banks and privatized firms, disbanding riot police and popular gun ownership, pairing economic radicalism with criticism of the left's identity politics.
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Rui Costa Pimenta leans further toward liberty than 95% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Power is where Rui Costa Pimenta stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Rui Costa Pimenta sits close to the catalog median.
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Broad doctrine that advocates social or collective ownership of the means of production and economic planning to overcome capitalist exploitation, accepting both the revolutionary and the reformist road to get there.
Current that seeks to move beyond capitalism through elections, with social ownership of large firms, cooperatives and workplace democracy, rejecting both the vanguard party and mere social democratic management of the market.
A 1970s Western European communist current that sought a national path to socialism through elections, party pluralism and civil liberties, independent of Moscow, with a mixed economy under democratic planning.
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FeudalismFar-Right29%
Constituent congressman and founder of the National Liberation Action (ALN), he broke with the orthodox PCB to wage urban armed struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship.
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