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American inventor and businessman with over a thousand patents, he created the phonograph, the commercial light bulb and the first industrial research lab. He backed direct current against Tesla and was a deist freethinker critical of organized religion.
Political topics
Thomas Edison leans further toward irreligious than 91% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Thomas Edison stands furthest from the rest.
On Nationalism, Thomas Edison sits practically at the catalog median.
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Economic system based on private property, free markets, and the pursuit of profit, in which production and prices are regulated by competition and supply and demand, with individual initiative as its engine.
Conservative branch that defends order, tradition, and institutions without grounding them in religion, supporting cultural values and social stability with secular, historical, and pragmatic arguments.
Model that entrusts the management of the state and the economy to experts and technological efficiency, combining markets, innovation, and technical decisions instead of political deliberation and traditional party competition.
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ReactionaryismFar-Right43%
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Proclaimed after Napoleon III's fall in 1870, the French Third Republic was a durable parliamentary regime, with secularism in 1905, free public schooling, a colonial empire, the Dreyfus Affair, victory in the Great War and collapse before Germany in 1940.
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