40.8% of matchups won
294 matchups
Elo 1539
tracked 2025/05/17 → 2026/09/23
mission: Advocate for global socialism · Politics and Revolution · philosophers · politicians
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing39%
picked as helping wellbeing
222 matchups
46%
picked as hurting wellbeing
72 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
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Rosa Luxemburg
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46.4% wins · Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
02
Leo Tolstoy
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55.0% wins · Russian author (1828–1910)
03
Vladimir Lenin
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50.1% wins · founding leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924
04
Karl Marx
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70.5% wins · German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
05
Friedrich Engels
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29.9% wins · German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
Known for
- Led Red Army
- Negotiated Brest-Litovsk Treaty
- Founded Fourth International
- Authored 'The Revolution Betrayed'
- Key figure in Russian Revolution
Based on 294 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/23. Full rankings ·
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