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First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba, succeeding Raúl Castro in 2018: maintains one-party socialist state planning while allowing measured private micro-enterprise reforms.
Political axes
Miguel Díaz-Canel leans further toward progressive than 83% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Miguel Díaz-Canel stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, Miguel Díaz-Canel sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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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 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.
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Confederate ConservatismFar-Right32%
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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Ruled by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 2008, Cuba became a one-party socialist state, with a nationalized economy, universal health and education, a Soviet alliance, repression of dissidents, mass exile and confrontation with the United States, from the embargo to the missile crisis.
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