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Leader of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381. He demanded an end to serfdom, low rents, free trade and the seizure of church property, always loyal to King Richard II; he was killed by an official at Smithfield.
Political axes
Wat Tyler leans further toward free market than 81% of the 617 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Wat Tyler stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, Wat Tyler sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Republican tradition that idealizes the small landowning farmer as the basis of civic virtue and liberty, advocating wide distribution of land, limited and decentralized government, and distrust of banks, public debt, industry and large cities.
Doctrine of Christian inspiration that advocates the wide distribution of property and small-scale production, opposing both monopoly capitalism and state socialism in favor of autonomous communities.
A system in which citizens decide laws directly through referendums, popular initiatives, assemblies and recall of officials, instead of delegating to representatives, as in the Swiss cantons and classical Athens.
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Techno-SocialismRadical Left29%
A French liberal thinker, Tocqueville studied American democracy and championed civil associations, decentralization, and political freedom as antidotes to the tyranny of the majority and the administrative centralization of the modern state.
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A rare society without a central state, medieval Iceland was organized by local chieftains and an assembly, the Althing, settling disputes through laws and private agreements in a decentralized system close to anarchy.
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