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Fidel Castro

Leader of Cuba, 1959 to 2008

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Led the Cuban Revolution, built a one-party socialist state with mass literacy and universal healthcare, jailed dissidents and brought the world to the brink in the 1962 missile crisis.

Fidel Castro sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority and strongly secular on religion. The profile is close to the middle on culture.

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Where Fidel Castro 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 authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureCentered on culture
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Fidel Castro

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People furthest from Fidel Castro

Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 19954%Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 19104%Ron Paul US Representative from Texas, 1997 to 20135%Dorothy Day American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 19808%

Political views closest to Fidel Castro

MaoismA Marxist-Leninist current built on peasant-based revolution and mass mobilization under…98%BolivarianismA Latin American left movement mixing socialism, nationalism and Simón Bolívar's dream…91%Pan-ArabismSeeks the unity of Arab peoples across state borders and independence from foreign…91%Anti-colonial nationalismFuses independence struggles with economic self-reliance and national dignity.89%

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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: Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.