Milton Friedman vs Karl Marx

They are 17.6 apart on the PoliMap compass, a 38% match with each other on this chart.

AuthoritarianLibertarianLeftRightFriedmanMarx
Milton Friedman

Free-market economist

Economic +8.0 · Social -4.0

Cell: Objectivism

Karl Marx

Communist theorist

Economic -9.5 · Social -6.0

Cell: Marxism

Milton Friedman (Free-market economist) and Karl Marx (Communist theorist) are useful to compare because their public records pull toward different mixes of markets and authority. The gap of 17.6 is the straight-line distance between the two coordinates, not a moral score.

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