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An Italian Marxist-Leninist historian and philosopher, Losurdo criticised liberalism, colonialism and anti-communism, reassessed Stalin and defended post-Mao China as a national path of socialist transition.
Political axes
Domenico Losurdo leans further toward autocracy than 86% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Domenico Losurdo stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, Domenico Losurdo sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Socialist current born of national liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, defending economic sovereignty, resource nationalization, non-alignment, and solidarity among peoples of the Global South against imperialism.
System in which the state controls the means of production and directs the economy through central planning, promoting industrialization and welfare under strong political authority and limited popular democratic participation.
Current inspired by Auguste Comte that trusts science and reason to organize society, defending order, progress, and technical administration guided by knowledge in place of metaphysics and tradition.
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Confederate ConservatismFar-Right34%
American engineer, Scott founded Technocracy Incorporated in 1933, proposing to replace the price system and money with energy certificates and to hand the government of a continental “technate” to engineers and scientists instead of politicians and businessmen.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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The German Democratic Republic was a socialist state aligned with the Soviet Union, with single-party rule, an extensive political police, a planned economy, rigid social control, state secularization, and military integration into the Eastern Bloc.
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