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British political theorist, Williams co-wrote the accelerationist manifesto and Inventing the Future with Nick Srnicek. He advocates automation, shorter working hours and a basic income as part of a postcapitalist left strategy.
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Alex Williams leans further toward public than 99% of the 447 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Economy is where Alex Williams stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, Alex Williams sits close to the catalog median.
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A post-capitalist techno-socialist synthesis accelerating AI, automation, and cybernetics to reduce compulsory work, socialize abundance, and plan an economy beyond capital; it combines universalism and decommodification with radically progressive social transformation.
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.
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FeudalismFar-Right24%
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Under Allende's Popular Unity, Chile attempted democratic socialism through copper and bank nationalization, agrarian reform, and economic planning until the 1973 military coup.
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