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Scottish essayist and historian who criticized classical liberalism as the dismal science and formulated the Great Man theory, championing heroic leadership and hierarchical order over modern egalitarianism.
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Thomas Carlyle leans further toward autocracy than 96% of the 525 personalities in the catalog.
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On Economy, Thomas Carlyle sits practically at the catalog median.
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Stance that rejects modernity and seeks to restore the pre-revolutionary order, defending monarchy, religion, tradition, and hierarchy against Enlightenment rationalism, liberalism, and democracy.
Authoritarian nationalist movement that arose in 1930s Brazil, Christian and corporatist, with the motto God, Fatherland and Family, a mass aesthetic and opposition to liberalism and communism.
Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
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German philosopher, Heidegger reopened the question of being and criticised modern technology as the uprooting of humanity; he joined the Nazi party in 1933 and became rector of Freiburg, support he never publicly recanted.
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A post-Soviet presidential republic, Belarus is ruled by an authoritarian, personalist regime, with strong state control of the economy, repression of the opposition, and a close political alliance with Russia.
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A militarist city-state of Ancient Greece, Sparta organized its whole society around war, with a mixed regime of kings and council, rigid discipline, austerity, and dominance over a vast subjugated population.
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