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German playwright and poet, creator of epic theatre (The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage). A Marxist, he fled Nazism and testified before HUAC in 1947; he founded the Berliner Ensemble in East Germany, both backing and criticizing the regime.
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Bertolt Brecht leans further toward progressive than 94% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Bertolt Brecht stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, Bertolt Brecht sits close to the catalog median.
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Broad doctrine that advocates social or collective ownership of the means of production and economic planning to overcome capitalist exploitation, accepting both the revolutionary and the reformist road to get there.
Current that seeks to move beyond capitalism through elections, with social ownership of large firms, cooperatives and workplace democracy, rejecting both the vanguard party and mere social democratic management of the market.
A post-capitalist techno-socialist synthesis accelerating AI, automation, and cybernetics to reduce compulsory work, socialize abundance, and plan an economy beyond capital; it combines universalism and decommodification with radically progressive social transformation.
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FeudalismFar-Right27%
Brazilian architect who designed the buildings of Brasília at Kubitschek's invitation and took curved modernism to the world, always a Communist Party militant and critic of inequality, which cost him exile under the dictatorship.
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A constituent country of the United Kingdom with its own parliament (Senedd), Wales combines official Welsh-English bilingualism, a post-industrial labour and trade-union tradition, universal public healthcare, and a nationalist Plaid Cymru government since 2026.
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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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