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Ho Chi Minh

President of North Vietnam, 1945 to 1969

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Led Vietnam’s fight for independence against France and then against the United States and its allies in the Vietnam War.

Ho Chi Minh 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.

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Where Ho Chi Minh 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
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Ho Chi Minh

Fidel Castro Leader of Cuba, 1959 to 200899%Mao Zedong Chairman of the Communist Party of China, 1943 to 197699%Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India, 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 198498%Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Founding President of Bangladesh, 1971 to 197596%Josip Broz Tito Leader of Yugoslavia, 1945 to 198095%Gamal Abdel Nasser President of Egypt, 1956 to 197094%Frantz Fanon Martinique-born psychiatrist and revolutionary, 1925 to 196194%Giuseppe Garibaldi Leader of Italian unification, 1860 to 186191%

People furthest from Ho Chi Minh

Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 19103%Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 19954%Ron Paul US Representative from Texas, 1997 to 20135%Dorothy Day American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 19805%

Political views closest to Ho Chi Minh

MaoismA Marxist-Leninist current built on peasant-based revolution and mass mobilization under…99%Marxism-LeninismAims at a classless society through revolution and a single party ruling on behalf of…90%BolivarianismA Latin American left movement mixing socialism, nationalism and Simón Bolívar's dream…88%Anti-colonial nationalismFuses independence struggles with economic self-reliance and national dignity.88%

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