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Judith Butler

American philosopher and gender theorist

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Proposed in Gender Trouble that gender is performed rather than innate, becoming a leading voice in feminist and queer theory and a critic of state violence.

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

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Where Judith Butler 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 peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Judith Butler

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People furthest from Judith Butler

Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17152%Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader of Iran, 2026 to present2%Joseph de Maistre Savoyard counter-revolutionary thinker, 1753 to 18213%Vladimir Putin President of Russia, 2000 to present (with a term as prime minister)3%

Political views closest to Judith Butler

Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…99%Social ecologyTies the ecological crisis to social hierarchy and proposes directly democratic,…98%Radical democracyWants more direct participation in decisions, through assemblies, referendums and…98%Anarcho-syndicalismWorkers organize in revolutionary unions that take over industry and run society without…97%

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