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Victor Hugo

French novelist and politician, 1802 to 1885

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Author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, he opposed the death penalty, condemned Napoleon III from exile and dreamed of a United States of Europe.

Victor Hugo sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning state-led and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly peace-first on war and peace, strongly libertarian on liberty and authority and strongly globalist on nation.

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Where Victor Hugo 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 authorityStrongly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Victor Hugo

Tim Berners-Lee British inventor of the World Wide Web98%Olympe de Gouges French playwright and feminist, 1748 to 179397%Albert Camus French-Algerian writer, 1913 to 196096%Gabriel García Márquez Colombian novelist, 1927 to 201496%Jon Stewart American comedian and commentator96%Albert Einstein Physicist, 1879 to 195595%Thomas Paine English-born pamphleteer, 1737 to 180995%Mary Wollstonecraft English writer and philosopher, 1759 to 179795%

People furthest from Victor Hugo

Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17156%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 19437%Vladimir Putin President of Russia, 2000 to present (with a term as prime minister)7%Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader of Iran, 2026 to present7%

Political views closest to Victor Hugo

Basic income movementArgues that every citizen should receive a regular, unconditional payment to end poverty…97%MutualismA market-based anarchism in which workers and small producers trade fairly through…95%Radical democracyWants more direct participation in decisions, through assemblies, referendums and…95%CooperativismPrefers businesses owned and run by workers, consumers or local communities.93%

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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: Étienne Carjat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.