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Shoshana Zuboff

American scholar and author

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A Harvard professor who coined “surveillance capitalism” and argues that tech firms’ mass data collection threatens autonomy and democracy.

Shoshana Zuboff sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly tech-cautious on technology, strongly state-led on economy and leaning libertarian on liberty and authority.

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Where Shoshana Zuboff 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
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Shoshana Zuboff

Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17157%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 19439%Emperor Meiji Emperor of Japan, 1867 to 19129%Donald Trump US President, 2017 to 2021 and 2025 to present9%

Political views closest to Shoshana Zuboff

Utopian socialismImagines planned model communities built on cooperation, an approach that predates…96%Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…94%Neo-LuddismResists industrial and digital technology that is seen to erode community, work and…94%EcofeminismLinks the domination of women and the domination of nature, and calls for care,…94%

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