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Salvador Allende

President of Chile, 1970 to 1973

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The first Marxist elected president in Latin America nationalized copper and other industries. He died during the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power.

Salvador Allende sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, leaning secular on religion and leaning progressive on culture. The profile is close to the middle on environment and interventionism.

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Where Salvador Allende 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
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentCentered on environment
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Salvador Allende

Ha-Joon Chang South Korean economist99%Aneurin Bevan British Labour politician, 1897 to 196099%Dilma Rousseff President of Brazil, 2011 to 201698%John Kenneth Galbraith Canadian-American economist, 1908 to 200697%Robert Reich American economist and former US Labor Secretary97%Pierre Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada, 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 198497%Thomas Piketty French economist97%Joseph Stiglitz American economist97%

People furthest from Salvador Allende

Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil, 2019 to 202215%Abelardo de la Espriella President of Colombia, 2026 to present16%Joseph de Maistre Savoyard counter-revolutionary thinker, 1753 to 182116%Augusto Pinochet Ruler of Chile, 1973 to 199018%

Political views closest to Salvador Allende

Modern monetary theoryArgues that governments issuing their own currency can spend to reach full employment,…98%Market socialismCombines worker or public ownership of firms with markets and competition.98%EurocommunismA communism that accepts elections and pluralism, breaking with Soviet orthodoxy in the…98%Basic income movementArgues that every citizen should receive a regular, unconditional payment to end poverty…97%

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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: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile, CC BY 3.0 cl, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.