An investor and founder of the Open Society Foundations, Soros defends liberal democracy, human rights, civil society, multiculturalism, drug policy reform, secularism, and open institutions against authoritarianism and closed nationalism.
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This position is 48.8 points from the median of the 449 figure profiles in this collection.
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This position is 2.5 points from this collection’s median.
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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 market capitalism and globalized trade with a robust welfare state, advocating progressive morality, secularism, and democratic institutions, in the Nordic social model.
A plural critique of universalism, linear progress, and grand narratives. In a Foucauldian reading, genealogy and power/knowledge analysis show how institutions, norms, and discourses produce subjects and open possibilities for local resistance.
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Clerical FascismTerceira Posição35 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
A pamphleteer of the American and French revolutions, Paine defended the rights of man, the republic, and radical social reforms in popular language, spreading democratic ideals among the masses of his time.
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The most populous US state, California is a global hub of technology and culture, with strongly progressive, environmentalist, and technocratic politics and a gigantic, innovative market economy.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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