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Military engineer, republican and positivist, he covered the Canudos War for a São Paulo newspaper and wrote Rebellion in the Backlands, which condemns the massacre of the rural settlers. He later denounced the exploitation of Amazon rubber tappers.
Political axes
Euclides da Cunha leans further toward irreligious than 92% of the 626 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Euclides da Cunha stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Euclides da Cunha sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Doctrine of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that founded modern Turkey on six arrows: republicanism, nationalism, populism, statism, laicism and reformism, imposing Westernization and state control of religion from above.
Sun Yat-sen's republican doctrine, articulated in the Three Principles of the People: nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood. Its program envisioned transitional political tutelage, popular sovereignty, and social and economic reforms.
A synthesis of fascism and social democracy: nationalism, a strong state and authoritarian leadership alongside public healthcare and pensions, labor rights and redistribution. The Comintern used the term against social democrats.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian36%
Five-time Prime Minister of liberal Italy who governed through pragmatic transformism, expanded universal male suffrage, and introduced social reforms integrating moderate socialists.
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The largest country in Central Asia, Kazakhstan is a presidential republic with concentrated power, heir to the Nazarbayev regime, with a secular state, an oil and minerals economy and a balance between Russia, China and the West.
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Proclaimed in 1792 after the fall of the monarchy, the First French Republic executed Louis XVI, lived through the Jacobin Terror under the Committee of Public Safety, dechristianized the country, fought revolutionary wars and ended with Napoleon's Empire in 1804.
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