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Welsh textile industrialist at New Lanark and founder of New Harmony, who demonstrated that decent working conditions, universal child education, and cooperative labor were fully compatible with industrial output, inspiring the modern cooperative and labor movements.
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Robert Owen leans further toward irreligious than 99% of the 525 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Robert Owen stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Robert Owen 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.
Left-libertarian branch that unites broad individual freedom with collective or shared ownership of resources, defending autonomy, cooperation, and the rejection of both the authoritarian state and capital.
Current that combines the final stage of communism with technological acceleration, using automation and AI to overcome scarcity, necessary labor, and private property.
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FeudalismFar-Right25%
A Canadian political theorist, Srnicek advocates left accelerationism, proposing to use technology, automation, and basic income to move beyond work and build a post-capitalist future of shared abundance.
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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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