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A journalist who founded Brazil's PCO party in 1995, Pimenta advocates proletarian revolution, nationalizing banks and privatized firms, disbanding riot police and popular gun ownership, pairing economic radicalism with criticism of the left's identity politics.
Political axes
Rui Costa Pimenta leans further toward liberty than 94% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Power is where Rui Costa Pimenta stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, Rui Costa Pimenta sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 ideologies
Broad doctrine that advocates social or collective ownership of the means of production and economic planning to overcome capitalist exploitation, accepting both the revolutionary and the reformist road to get there.
Current that seeks to move beyond capitalism through elections, with social ownership of large firms, cooperatives and workplace democracy, rejecting both the vanguard party and mere social democratic management of the market.
Current formulated by Srnicek and Williams that seeks to accelerate automation and reclaim technology for the left, advocating the end of work, universal basic income and shorter working hours toward a post-capitalism of abundance.
The most distant ideology
FeudalismFar-Right31%
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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Under Allende's Popular Unity, Chile attempted democratic socialism through copper and bank nationalization, agrarian reform, and economic planning until the 1973 military coup.
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