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Figure · 1913–2005
Álvaro Cunhal
Leader of the Portuguese Communist Party
Long-time leader of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), jailed for years under Salazar; after 1974 he led the revolutionary wing and stayed loyal to the USSR.
«The workers' revolution.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, Álvaro Cunhal sits in the far left camp. The clearest positions are on economy: strongly towards “equality”; method: strongly towards “rupture”; religion: strongly towards “secularism”; state: strongly towards “authority”. On society, environment and technology it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is maoism (87%).
Position on the 13 axes
Álvaro CunhalYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
MaoismThe Red Guard87%Marxism-LeninismThe Planner86%Left-wing sovereigntismThe Sovereign Rebel85%Closest parties in Europe
Democrazia Sovrana PopolareItaly90%
Communist Party of GreeceGreece89%
Socialistische PartijNetherlands87%
Sinn FéinIreland83%Similar figures
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