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Leader of the Prestes Column and for decades head of the Brazilian Communist Party, Prestes led the 1935 communist uprising, was jailed under the Estado Novo, elected senator in 1945 and followed the Soviet line until breaking with the party in 1980.
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Luís Carlos Prestes leans further toward public than 91% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Economy is where Luís Carlos Prestes stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Luís Carlos Prestes sits practically at the catalog median.
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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.
Current of Sankara, Samora Machel, Nkrumah and Nyerere joining pan-Africanism, Black consciousness, anticolonial struggle, agrarian collectivization and self-reliance against neocolonialism and racism.
Marx's original doctrine, analyzing history as class struggle and predicting capitalism's overcoming through proletarian revolution, with abolition of private ownership of the means of production and strong criticism of religion.
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PaleolibertarianismLibertarian34%
A Polish economist, Lange championed market socialism, arguing that planning could simulate prices and allocate resources efficiently, in the famous socialist calculation debate.
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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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