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Arundhati Roy

Indian novelist and activist

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The Booker-winning author of The God of Small Things writes essays attacking big dams, nuclear weapons, Hindu nationalism and corporate power.

Arundhati Roy sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly anti-establishment on institutions, strongly state-led on economy and strongly non-interventionist on interventionism.

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Where Arundhati Roy 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 authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Arundhati Roy

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Political views closest to Arundhati Roy

Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…98%Social ecologyTies the ecological crisis to social hierarchy and proposes directly democratic,…97%Eco-socialismArgues that capitalism drives ecological crisis and calls for public, democratic control…96%EcofeminismLinks the domination of women and the domination of nature, and calls for care,…95%

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