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An Austro-French philosopher, Gorz was a pioneer of political ecology and post-Marxism, criticizing productivism and wage labor and defending shorter working hours and basic income in a freer society.
Political axes
André Gorz leans further toward progressive than 96% of the 444 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where André Gorz stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, André Gorz sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 253 ideologies
Current that values indigenous peoples and their rights, defending autonomy, territory, culture, and political participation, along with development models and a plurinational state that respect their traditions.
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipation.
Current that fuses socialism and ecology, attributing the environmental crisis to capitalism and defending collective, sustainable, and democratic production that respects the limits of nature and social needs.
The most distant ideology
Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight24%
A Norwegian philosopher, Næss founded deep ecology, defending the intrinsic value of all life and a radical change of values to reduce human impact and restore harmony between people and nature.
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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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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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