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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.
Political axes
Howard Scott leans further toward irreligious than 83% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Howard Scott stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Howard Scott sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
Model that combines socialist planning with scientific management of the economy, entrusting expert committees, rather than elections or party competition, with the rational organization of production and the egalitarian distribution of society's resources.
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.
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Confederate ConservatismFar-Right32%
An Italian Marxist theorist, Gramsci developed the concept of cultural hegemony, showing how ruling classes govern through consent, and championed cultural struggle as the path to social transformation.
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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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Government of the Cardenista peak, marking the institutionalized Mexican Revolution through oil nationalization, ejido land reform, worker-peasant incorporation, popular secularism, and strong presidential leadership.
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