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British fascist movement founded in 1932 by Oswald Mosley, with a blackshirt militia. It defended corporatism, imperial protectionism, nationalism and, from 1934, antisemitism, until it was banned in 1940.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 84% of the 159 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
Ideological proximity
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Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo doctrine joining economic nationalism, a centralized state, state-tied unions, labor law and state firms such as Petrobras, against the regional oligarchies and liberalism.
Nationalist and syndicalist current that rejects liberalism and Marxism, advocating national unity, corporatist organization of labor, authoritarian social justice, and popular mobilization around the state.
Current that joins the totalitarian authoritarianism of fascism to digital surveillance, artificial intelligence and technological control of the population, using technique to secure order and national unity.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian27%
Founder of the British Union of Fascists, he advocated authoritarian government, corporatism and protectionism. He promoted antisemitism and, after the war, pan-European nationalism and racial segregation.
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Syrian branch of the Ba'ath Party, in power from 1963 to 2024, above all under Hafez and Bashar al-Assad. Ruling party of a secular authoritarian state with Arab nationalism, a state economy, alliance with Iran and Russia and repression (Hama, civil war).
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