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Petra Kelly

German Green co-founder, 1947 to 1992

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Co-founded the German Green Party and became one of the most visible voices of the 1980s peace, anti-nuclear and environmental movements.

Petra Kelly sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly nature-first on environment, strongly peace-first on war and peace and strongly tech-cautious on technology.

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Where Petra Kelly 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
🌱EnvironmentStrongly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Petra Kelly

Naomi Klein Canadian author and activist98%Greta Thunberg Swedish climate activist97%Caroline Lucas British Green Party MP, 2010 to 202497%Arundhati Roy Indian novelist and activist97%José Mujica President of Uruguay, 2010 to 201596%Murray Bookchin American social theorist, 1921 to 200695%Jeremy Corbyn British MP and Labour leader, 2015 to 202094%Henry David Thoreau American essayist and naturalist, 1817 to 186293%

People furthest from Petra Kelly

Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17151%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 19431%Vladimir Putin President of Russia, 2000 to present (with a term as prime minister)1%Adolf Hitler Chancellor and Führer of Germany, 1933 to 19451%

Political views closest to Petra Kelly

EcofeminismLinks the domination of women and the domination of nature, and calls for care,…98%Eco-socialismArgues that capitalism drives ecological crisis and calls for public, democratic control…95%Social ecologyTies the ecological crisis to social hierarchy and proposes directly democratic,…95%Green politicsPuts ecological limits, sustainability and grassroots democracy at the center of policy.94%

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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: Engelbert Reineke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.