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Economist and Colombia's first leftist president, elected in 2022. He champions a green transition away from fossil fuels, Total Peace negotiations with insurgencies and redistributive welfare reforms.
Political axes
Gustavo Petro leans further toward progressive than 99% of the 525 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Gustavo Petro stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, Gustavo Petro sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Current that fuses socialism and ecology, attributing the environmental crisis to capitalism and defending collective, sustainable, and democratic production that respects the limits of nature and social needs.
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.
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipation.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight26%
A British politician, Corbyn led the socialist wing of the Labour Party, defending the nationalization of services, the welfare state, anti-imperialism, and policies of strong income redistribution.
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A small rural New England state, Vermont combines direct-democracy town meetings, the progressive politics of Bernie Sanders, cooperatives, dairy farming and environmentalism, with one of the least religious populations in the country and permissive gun laws.
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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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