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A Marxist socialist and trade unionist, Connolly founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party and linked national independence to social transformation. He led during the 1916 Easter Rising and was executed after its defeat.
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James Connolly leans further toward public than 96% of the 645 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Economy is where James Connolly stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, James Connolly sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current that unites Christian faith with the defense of social justice, rights, and reforms, seeing in the Gospel a call to solidarity, equality, and care for the poor and marginalized of society and the world.
Current that turns the Gospel into reforms within democracy, defending a welfare state, labor rights, unions and redistribution without breaking with the market or with liberal institutions.
A 1970s Western European communist current that sought a national path to socialism through elections, party pluralism and civil liberties, independent of Moscow, with a mixed economy under democratic planning.
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Techno-MonarchismFar-Right32%
Brazilian educator and author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, he created an adult literacy method based on political consciousness-raising. Exiled by the 1964 dictatorship, he was tied to Liberation Theology and later led São Paulo's schools for the Workers' Party.
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An autonomous region in northern Syria, Rojava organizes itself through democratic confederalism, with local self-management, gender equality, ethnic pluralism, and ecology, inspired by the libertarian ideas of Abdullah Öcalan.
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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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