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◆ THE IDEOLOGY ATLAS
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Dorothy Day

Historical and international

Photo: Vivian Cherry, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Position estimated from: Catholic Worker Movement: pacifism, Christian anarchism, personalism.

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Political compass placement

Map dimensionScore (0–100)PositionReading
Economic
Collective / planned ↔ Market
29toward collective / planned
Social
Progressive ↔ Traditional
65toward traditional
Authority
Libertarian ↔ Authoritarian
11strongly toward libertarian
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
10strongly toward cosmopolitan
Foreign policy
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
0strongly toward non-intervention
All nine underlying dimensions
DimensionScoreReading
Economic ownership
Collective ownership ↔ Private ownership
15toward collective ownership
Civil liberties
Civil liberty ↔ State restrictions
17toward civil liberty
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
10strongly toward cosmopolitan
Social and cultural values
Progressive ↔ Traditionalist
72toward traditionalist
Political governance
Democratic ↔ Autocratic
5strongly toward democratic
Equality and hierarchy
Egalitarian ↔ Hierarchical
6strongly toward egalitarian
Economic management
Free market ↔ State planning
51near the center
Military intervention
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
0strongly toward non-intervention
Religion and government
Secular state ↔ Religious authority
50near the center

These positions are estimates on the Atlas’s nine-dimension scale, produced by running the available evidence through the same questions and scoring used for test-takers. They are interpretations for comparison, not objective measurements. How scores are made.

Key positions

StatementPositionBasis
Abortion should be illegal in most or all cases.Strongly agreesfrom their record
Opposition parties should be free to compete in elections.Strongly agreesestimated
People should be free to criticize the government without fear of legal punishment.Strongly agreesestimated
Preserving a historic national majority is a legitimate immigration objective.Strongly disagreesestimated
A national religious authority should have the power to veto legislation.Strongly disagreesestimated
The government should guarantee a basic standard of living for everyone.Strongly agreesfrom their record
Military aid to countries resisting invasion is worth the cost.Strongly disagreesfrom their record
Central economic planning is preferable to decentralized market decisions.Strongly disagreesestimated
Major industries should be publicly owned rather than privately controlled.Strongly agreesestimated
Religious institutions should have a formal role in drafting national laws.Strongly disagreesestimated

Closest ideologies

Guild Socialism81% similar positionChristian Socialism80% similar positionAgrarian Socialism79% similar positionChristian Humanism78% similar positionDemocratic Confederalism77% similar position

Similar and contrasting figures

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Sources

Profile last reviewed October 11, 2026.