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British philosopher and logician, an atheist and pacifist, jailed for opposing the First World War. He defended democratic socialism, individual liberties, secularism and nuclear disarmament, while criticizing Soviet communism.
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Bertrand Russell leans further toward irreligious than 97% of the 594 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Bertrand Russell stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Bertrand Russell sits practically at the catalog median.
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Synthesis of Georgism and socialism advocating the socialization of economic rent from land and natural monopolies to fund universal public services and a citizen dividend.
Political doctrine advocating solidarity and cooperation among nations, overcoming nationalism, and strengthening global institutions for shared peace and development.
An anti-Leninist Marxist current of Pannekoek, Gorter and Mattick, which holds that workers themselves should run production and power through workers' councils, rejecting the vanguard party, the state and parliamentarism.
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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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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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The revolutionary government that held Paris for 72 days in 1871, the Commune established direct democracy with recallable mandates, workers' self-management of workshops, separation of Church and state, and equal pay, becoming a symbol of communal socialism.
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