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Aristotle's political philosophy, defending a mixed constitution of monarchical, aristocratic and popular elements to avoid both tyranny and radical democracy, reserving full citizenship for those with virtue, property and the education to deliberate.
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I want a mixed constitution of monarchy, aristocracy and the people, with full citizenship reserved for those with virtue and property.
Political topics
Leans further toward religious than 78% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A Greek philosopher, Aristotle formulated a political vision centered on the polis, civic virtue, and mixed government, defending moderate private property, natural hierarchy, and moral education as the foundations of common life.
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A powerful medieval merchant republic, Venice was governed by a commercial oligarchy that dominated Mediterranean trade, uniting stable institutions, a strong navy, and immense economic power for centuries.
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Divided by civil war since 2014, Yemen has a Saudi-backed recognized government in the south and the Zaydi Houthis in the north; southern separatists were defeated in 2026. There is famine, Red Sea attacks and a barely existing state.
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A federation of Central European territories, the Holy Roman Empire gathered principalities and cities under an elected emperor and strong Church influence, marked by fragmented power and the autonomy of its members.
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Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
Project of a dynastic empire organized as a federation of nationalities, with regional autonomy, local parliaments and recognized languages, while retaining a hereditary crown, unified army and military assertion of imperial greatness.
Doctrine inspired by Malthus that proposes curbing population growth through late marriage, education and family responsibility, replacing poor relief with work incentives and protecting property and national agriculture.
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A current of René Guénon and Julius Evola that sees modernity as the decay of a universal spiritual tradition, defending sacred hierarchy, castes, initiatory order and the primacy of spirit over economics and mass politics.
Branch that unites conservatism and environmental protection, defending the preservation of nature as part of the tradition and heritage to be passed on to future generations, with prudence toward change.
A Spanish current of counter-revolutionary traditionalism, born in the 19th-century Carlist Wars under the motto God, Fatherland, Fueros and King, advocating a legitimist Catholic monarchy, religious unity, regional fueros and an organic society against liberalism.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist31%