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A Scottish teacher and revolutionary Marxist, Maclean organized workers and opposed the First World War. He advocated an independent Scottish socialist republic and taught Marxist economics to workers.
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John Maclean leans further toward public than 100% of the 467 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Economy is where John Maclean stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, John Maclean sits practically at the catalog median.
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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.
A 1970s Western European communist current that sought a national path to socialism through elections, party pluralism and civil liberties, independent of Moscow, with a mixed economy under democratic planning.
A bottom-up self-government model of Abdullah Öcalan, with local assemblies federated into a confederation, ecology, gender equality and a cooperative economy, without a nation-state, put into practice in Rojava.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight29%
An Austrian philosopher and economist, Neurath championed a planned economy and the technical administration of production, rejecting the market and also creating the visual language of data known as Isotype.
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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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