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A list of well known political thinkers, scientists, commentators, politicians, practitioners and general politcal voices and their apparent alignment. Mostly taken from the reading lists found at the excellent Political Compass site, but added to from searching for related authors:

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Authoritarian
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Libertarian
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Authoritatian

  • Fidel Castro
  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
  • Chairman Mao Tse Tung

  • Ralph Nader
  • Peter Scowen
  • Howard Zinn
  • Thomas Frank
  • George Monbiot
  • Emma Goldman
  • Ivan Illich
  • Pierre Bourdieu
  • Joseph Stiglitz
  • William Blum
  • Michael Moore
  • George Orwell
  • Naomi Klein
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Tariq Ali

  • Richard J. Maybury
  • Henry Hazlitt
  • Murray Rothbard
  • P J O'Rourke
  • Ayn Rand
  • F. A. Hayek
  • Milton Friedman
  • Grahame Thompson

  • William F. Buckley
  • Peter Hitchens
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Alan Clark
  • Roger Scruton


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