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Naomi Klein

Canadian author and activist

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Wrote No Logo and This Changes Everything, linking corporate power and the climate crisis and arguing for a broad shift away from market fundamentalism.

Naomi Klein sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly nature-first on environment, strongly state-led on economy and strongly progressive on culture.

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Where Naomi Klein 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
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-cautious
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 Naomi Klein

Caroline Lucas British Green Party MP, 2010 to 202499%Greta Thunberg Swedish climate activist99%Yanis Varoufakis Greek economist and former finance minister99%José Mujica President of Uruguay, 2010 to 201599%Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez US Representative from New York, 2019 to present99%Arundhati Roy Indian novelist and activist98%Bernie Sanders US Senator from Vermont, 2007 to present98%Eduardo Galeano Uruguayan writer, 1940 to 201598%

People furthest from Naomi Klein

Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17152%Vladimir Putin President of Russia, 2000 to present (with a term as prime minister)3%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 19433%Augusto Pinochet Ruler of Chile, 1973 to 19903%

Political views closest to Naomi Klein

Eco-socialismArgues that capitalism drives ecological crisis and calls for public, democratic control…99%EcofeminismLinks the domination of women and the domination of nature, and calls for care,…99%Social ecologyTies the ecological crisis to social hierarchy and proposes directly democratic,…99%Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…98%

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