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An idealist philosopher of actualism, Gentile was Mussolini's education minister, reformed Italian schooling, wrote the Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals and fascism's doctrinal core, and was killed by partisans in 1944.
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Giovanni Gentile leans further toward autocracy than 95% of the 637 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Giovanni Gentile stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Giovanni Gentile sits practically at the catalog median.
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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.
Spanish authoritarian nationalism of Catholic and syndicalist inspiration, advocating a corporatist state, national unity, and social hierarchy, becoming the ideological pillar of Franco's regime in Spain.
Ultranationalist doctrine of national rebirth that rejects liberalism and Marxism, exalts the totalitarian state and the leadership of a single chief, sees action and violence as a means of regeneration, and treats the nation as a secular religion, with variants beyond the Italian regime that gave it its name.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian24%
The creator of fascism, Mussolini ruled Italy as a totalitarian dictatorship built on a leader cult and a corporatist state. An atheist and anticlerical in his youth, he made the Church a political ally through the 1929 Lateran Pacts, more from expediency than faith.
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A Eurasian presidential republic, Russia concentrates power in an authoritarian, nationalist regime, with an economy dependent on natural resources, a strong military apparatus, and a foreign policy of confrontation with the West.
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Under the Kuomintang, Taiwan lived under martial law and the one-party rule of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, with land reform, export-led industrialization, state-owned firms and US support, the base of rapid growth.
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