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The first head of government of independent India, Nehru built a secular democratic republic, adopted Fabian-inspired socialist planning and state industrialization, led the Non-Aligned Movement and faced the conflicts over Kashmir and with China.
Political axes
Jawaharlal Nehru leans further toward progressive than 81% of the 560 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Jawaharlal Nehru stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, Jawaharlal Nehru sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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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 mobilizes the people against economic elites, defending redistribution, public control, national sovereignty, plebiscitary democracy, and broad social policy in popular anti-establishment language.
System in which collectively or publicly owned enterprises compete in markets, uniting the efficiency of competition with the socialist distribution of profits, without the rigid central planning of state economies.
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FeudalismFar-Right32%
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