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A German jurist, Schmitt was an influential and controversial theorist of power, defining politics by the friend-enemy distinction and defending sovereignty and the state of exception.
Political topics
Carl Schmitt leans further toward autocracy than 91% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Carl Schmitt stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Carl Schmitt sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist21%
Leader of Brazilian Integralism, Plínio Salgado created an authoritarian nationalist movement of Christian inspiration, with the motto God, Fatherland and Family and mass aesthetics inspired by the European fascisms of the 1930s.
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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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Heir of the Roman Empire in the East, Byzantium lasted a thousand years fusing Orthodox Christianity, imperial autocracy, and Justinianic law, with the emperor as head of the Church and Constantinople as a Christian capital defending Europe.
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