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Irish writer and leading aesthete, jailed for homosexuality in 1895. In The Soul of Man under Socialism he proposes a libertarian socialism that frees the individual from property and authority.
Political axes
Oscar Wilde leans further toward progressive than 97% of the 594 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Oscar Wilde stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Oscar Wilde sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
Branch of socialism advocating the global unity of working people against capitalism, rejecting bourgeois nationalism, and defending international working-class solidarity.
Synthesis of anarchist currents centered on the liberation of body and identity, uniting the critique of patriarchy and of gender and sexuality norms with an openness to technology as a tool of emancipation, all under the rejection of the state, capitalism, and every imposed hierarchy.
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FeudalismFar-Right29%
A French utopian socialist, Fourier linked social progress to the emancipation of women and criticized the patriarchal family, moral repression, and social hierarchies, imagining ideal cooperative communities.
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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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