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The leading figure of German National Bolshevism, Niekisch united radical nationalism and socialist revolution against liberalism and Western influence, seeking to bring Germany closer to the East and Russia.
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Ernst Niekisch leans further toward public than 95% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Economy is where Ernst Niekisch stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Ernst Niekisch sits close to the catalog median.
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21st-century doctrine of the CPC associated with Xi Jinping. It combines centralized Party leadership and socialist modernization, advocating national rejuvenation, predominant public ownership, and a socialist market with private enterprise and technological innovation.
Mao's Chinese adaptation of Marxism, centered on the peasantry as the revolutionary force, protracted people's war, permanent mass mobilization, and cultural revolution against the party bureaucracy.
Syncretic ideology, also called NazBol, that fuses revolutionary socialism and radical nationalism, combining a collectivist economy, state authoritarianism, and rejection of liberalism, the West, and bourgeois individualism.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian27%
A Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro led the 1959 revolution and built a single-party socialist state, anti-imperialist and nationalist, with a state-run economy and strong repression.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Under Nasser, Egypt was a nationalist, developmentalist republic that nationalized strategic sectors, led pan-Arabism, and united Arab socialism, agrarian reform, and strong leadership in the Middle East.
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