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Figure · 1949–1987
Thomas Sankara
President of Burkina Faso
Revolutionary President of Burkina Faso, killed in a coup in 1987.
«Self-sufficiency, women's emancipation and refusal of debt.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, Thomas Sankara sits in the far left camp. The clearest positions are on method: strongly towards “rupture”; economy: strongly towards “equality”; state: strongly towards “authority”; society: strongly towards “progress”. On technology and immigration it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is maoism (86%).
Position on the 13 axes
Thomas SankaraYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
MaoismThe Red Guard86%Marxism-LeninismThe Planner77%Left-wing sovereigntismThe Sovereign Rebel75%Closest parties in Europe
Socialistische PartijNetherlands77%
Movimento 5 StelleItaly75%
Sinn FéinIreland74%
ELASGreece71%Similar figures
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