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Figure · 1855–1926
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist and trade unionist
Railway union leader and five-time Socialist candidate for President of the United States; in 1920 he won nearly a million votes from prison, where he had been sent for opposing the First World War.
«While there is a lower class, I am in it.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, Eugene V. Debs sits in the libertarian left camp. The clearest positions are on economy: strongly towards “equality”; foreign policy: strongly towards “pacifism”; method: strongly towards “rupture”; sovereignty: fairly towards “integration”. On environment, technology and devolution it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is democratic socialism (95%).
Position on the 13 axes
Eugene V. DebsYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
Democratic socialismThe Tribune95%Libertarian socialismThe Self-Manager93%Eco-socialismThe Red Sower93%Closest parties in Europe
Kommunistische Partei ÖsterreichsAustria96%
Die LinkeGermany95%
Rifondazione ComunistaItaly95%
People Before Profit–SolidarityIreland94%Similar figures
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