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A pamphleteer of the American and French revolutions, Paine defended the rights of man, the republic, and radical social reforms in popular language, spreading democratic ideals among the masses of his time.
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Thomas Paine leans further toward irreligious than 94% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Thomas Paine stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Thomas Paine sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current that unites individual freedom, markets, and democracy with the ecological agenda, defending sustainability, rights, and innovation to reconcile economic prosperity with effective environmental protection.
Current that unites socialist goals of equality and social justice with the defense of individual freedoms and democracy, combining strong social protection with pluralism, civil rights, and a mixed economy.
Current that unites market capitalism and globalized trade with a robust welfare state, advocating progressive morality, secularism, and democratic institutions, in the Nordic social model.
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Clerical FascismThird Position26%
An Italian antifascist thinker, Rosselli formulated liberal socialism, seeking to unite liberalism's ideals of freedom with socialism's social justice, and organized the resistance against Mussolini's regime.
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The most populous US state, California is a global hub of technology and culture, with strongly progressive, environmentalist, and technocratic politics and a gigantic, innovative market economy.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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