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German novelist, 1999 Nobel laureate, author of The Tin Drum. A Social Democrat, he backed Willy Brandt and criticized fast reunification; in 2006 he revealed serving in the Waffen-SS at 17, and in 2012 he published a poem critical of Israel.
Political axes
Günter Grass leans further toward progressive than 93% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where Günter Grass stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, Günter Grass sits practically at the catalog median.
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A bottom-up self-government model of Abdullah Öcalan, with local assemblies federated into a confederation, ecology, gender equality and a cooperative economy, without a nation-state, put into practice in Rojava.
Movement dedicated to protecting the environment and the sustainable use of resources, advocating policies against pollution and climate change and harmony between human development and ecological balance.
Current that advocates social reforms and the expansion of rights to promote equality and justice, trusting progress, science, and collective action to transform institutions and overcome inequalities.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right25%
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A small rural New England state, Vermont combines direct-democracy town meetings, the progressive politics of Bernie Sanders, cooperatives, dairy farming and environmentalism, with one of the least religious populations in the country and permissive gun laws.
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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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