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Steve Biko

South African anti-apartheid activist, 1946 to 1977

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Founded the Black Consciousness Movement, urging Black South Africans to reject a sense of inferiority, and died in police custody at 30.

Steve Biko sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly anti-establishment on institutions, leaning state-led on economy and leaning libertarian on liberty and authority. The profile is close to the middle on culture, technology and interventionism.

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Where Steve Biko 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.

💰EconomyLeaning state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureCentered on culture
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly 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 religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Steve Biko

Left-wing populismFrames politics as ordinary people against economic elites, with strong redistribution…96%LocalismPushes power and decisions down to the smallest workable community.95%CooperativismPrefers businesses owned and run by workers, consumers or local communities.95%Left conservatismCombines strong economic protection for workers with attachment to community, family and…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: Cape Argus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.