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Angela Davis

American philosopher and activist

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A philosopher and longtime member of the Communist Party who became a prominent activist against racism and mass incarceration.

Angela Davis sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly anti-establishment on institutions and strongly progressive on culture. The profile is close to the middle on technology.

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Where Angela Davis sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Angela Davis

Judith Butler American philosopher and gender theorist99%Yanis Varoufakis Greek economist and former finance minister99%Edward Said Palestinian-American scholar, 1935 to 200399%Pablo Iglesias Spanish politician and co-founder of Podemos98%Charlie Chaplin British-born actor and filmmaker, 1889 to 197798%Jean-Paul Sartre French philosopher and writer, 1905 to 198098%Bernie Sanders US Senator from Vermont, 2007 to present98%Michel Foucault French philosopher, 1926 to 198498%

People furthest from Angela Davis

Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17152%Joseph de Maistre Savoyard counter-revolutionary thinker, 1753 to 18212%Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader of Iran, 2026 to present2%Augusto Pinochet Ruler of Chile, 1973 to 19903%

Political views closest to Angela Davis

Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…99%Anarcho-syndicalismWorkers organize in revolutionary unions that take over industry and run society without…99%Social ecologyTies the ecological crisis to social hierarchy and proposes directly democratic,…99%Anarcho-communismAbolishes the state, private property and money in favor of free, stateless communities…99%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Philippe Halsman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.