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A physician and journalist of the French Revolution, Marat edited L’Ami du peuple and advocated popular sovereignty, exceptional measures against counterrevolution, and vigilance over rulers. In The Chains of Slavery (1774), he denounced monarchical despotism.
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Jean-Paul Marat leans further toward public than 75% of the 444 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Economy is where Jean-Paul Marat stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, Jean-Paul Marat sits practically at the catalog median.
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Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
Current that defends workers' interests within democracy, promoting labor rights, social security, strong unions, and income distribution through reforms and the welfare state.
Model associated with Brazil's Workers' Party governments that seeks growth with social inclusion, combining rising minimum wages, popular credit, cash transfers and public banks without breaking with the market.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian44%
President of Brazil (1956–1961), Kubitschek launched the Target Plan and the construction of Brasília under the slogan "fifty years in five," promoting rapid industrialization, foreign borrowing, and developmentalist optimism.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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