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A French intellectual and founder of the Nouvelle Droite and GRECE, he advocates cultural autonomy and ethnopluralism, opposes mass immigration, and criticizes liberalism, capitalism and global homogenization. He proposes European paganism as a cultural alternative to Christianity.
Political topics
Alain de Benoist leans further toward federal than 94% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where Alain de Benoist stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Alain de Benoist sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current that values community bonds, traditions, and the common good above individualism, holding that justice and identity arise from life in community and the responsibilities people share.
Current of John Zerzan and Ted Kaczynski that sees industrial civilization and agriculture itself as the root of domination, calling for the end of modern technology and a return to small stateless hunter-gatherer communities.
Fusion of distributism and Georgism promoting widespread family ownership of productive property combined with land value taxation to prevent monopolies and state collectivism.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right33%
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Medieval alliance of autonomous cantons formed from the 1291 Pact, the Old Swiss Confederacy operated without a strong central power, combining direct democracy in local assemblies (Landsgemeinde), independent peasant militias, and weak joint military/diplomatic coordination among the cantons.
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