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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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I want Catholic Spain under the rightful king, with regional fueros, estate-based cortes and guilds, against liberalism and centralism.
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Leans further toward religious than 98% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Heir of the Habsburgs, Charles V united Spain, the Low Countries, the Holy Roman Empire and the American conquests, fought the Lutheran Reformation and the Ottomans as champion of universal Catholicism, crushed the Comuneros and abdicated in 1556.
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Habsburg Spain, especially under Philip II, was a Catholic Counter-Reformation state, marked by the Inquisition, purity-of-blood laws, religious expulsions, and wars defending the faith.
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A parliamentary republic in Eastern Europe, Hungary is governed under so-called illiberal democracy, uniting nationalism, Christian conservatism, sovereignty vis-à-vis the European Union, and strong control of media and institutions.
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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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A medieval order based on personal bonds of vassalage between lord and vassals, with land granted as fiefs, a hereditary warrior nobility, serfs bound to the land, the Church as moral authority, and power fragmented among local lords.
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.
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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Current that joins radical ecology, authoritarianism and organic nationalism, defending population control, environmental preservation imposed by the state and the subordination of individual liberties to the survival of the national community.
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.
Anti-capitalist wing of National Socialism, linked to Gregor Strasser, which emphasized a mass nationalist socialism, nationalization, and social revolution within the movement, later crushed by Hitler.
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