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John Lennon

British musician and peace activist, 1940 to 1980

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The Beatles co-founder turned his fame to protest, recording Give Peace a Chance and Imagine and staging bed-ins against the Vietnam War before he was shot in 1980.

John Lennon sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly peace-first on war and peace, strongly globalist on nation and strongly progressive on culture.

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Where John Lennon 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
🌍NationStrongly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like John Lennon

Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 194099%Rosa Luxemburg Polish-German revolutionary, 1871 to 191997%Charlie Chaplin British-born actor and filmmaker, 1889 to 197797%Angela Davis American philosopher and activist97%Peter Kropotkin Russian anarchist and naturalist, 1842 to 192196%Mark Twain American writer, 1835 to 191096%Jeremy Corbyn British MP and Labour leader, 2015 to 202095%Judith Butler American philosopher and gender theorist95%

People furthest from John Lennon

Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17150%Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader of Iran, 2026 to present0%Vladimir Putin President of Russia, 2000 to present (with a term as prime minister)0%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 19431%

Political views closest to John Lennon

Anarcho-communismAbolishes the state, private property and money in favor of free, stateless communities…98%Anarcho-syndicalismWorkers organize in revolutionary unions that take over industry and run society without…97%Left-libertarianismCombines strong personal freedom with the view that natural resources and wealth should…96%Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…93%

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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: Bob Gruen; Distributed by Capitol Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.