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A revolutionary imprisoned in the Andaman Islands and later Hindu Mahasabha leader, Savarkar formulated Hindutva, the idea that India is the fatherland and holy land of Hindus, defended militarizing the Hindu nation and rational modernization, though personally an atheist.
Political axes
V. D. Savarkar leans further toward militarist than 92% of the 560 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Diplomacy is where V. D. Savarkar stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, V. D. Savarkar sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Prioritizes national sovereignty, identity, and cohesion, associating them with right-wing positions such as social hierarchy, cultural conservatism, or immigration restriction. Currents vary in their views of the state and economy, from free markets to national protectionism.
Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
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GeoanarchismAnarchist32%
A German economist, List championed economic nationalism and the protection of infant industry, arguing that lagging countries need tariffs and a strong state to develop and catch up with rich nations.
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An Asian presidential republic, South Korea combines a vibrant democracy, an export-oriented market economy, and technological leadership, the result of rapid development under strong state impetus.
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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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