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Welsh textile industrialist at New Lanark and founder of New Harmony, who demonstrated that decent working conditions, universal child education, and cooperative labor were fully compatible with industrial output, inspiring the modern cooperative and labor movements.
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Robert Owen leans further toward irreligious than 85% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
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On Technology, Robert Owen sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
Doctrine proposing a democratic and federated global political order where citizens and nations deliberate jointly through multilateral representative institutions and lawful cooperation.
Synthesis of Georgism and socialism advocating the socialization of economic rent from land and natural monopolies to fund universal public services and a citizen dividend.
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FeudalismFar-Right27%
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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A northeastern US state, Massachusetts is a progressive stronghold and a hub of education and science, with prestigious universities, a strong liberal tradition, and politics focused on social rights and innovation.
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The revolutionary government that held Paris for 72 days in 1871, the Commune established direct democracy with recallable mandates, workers' self-management of workshops, separation of Church and state, and equal pay, becoming a symbol of communal socialism.
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