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A German economist, List championed economic nationalism and the protection of infant industry, arguing that lagging countries need tariffs and a strong state to develop and catch up with rich nations.
Political topics
Friedrich List leans further toward assimilation than 81% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Immigration is where Friedrich List stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Friedrich List sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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The closest among the 263 ideologies
Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
Doctrine of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that founded modern Turkey on six arrows: republicanism, nationalism, populism, statism, laicism and reformism, imposing Westernization and state control of religion from above.
The most distant ideology
Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian30%
A former socialist and hero of the 1920 war against the Soviets, Piłsudski was head of state of restored Poland. He seized power in a 1926 coup and ruled authoritatively, with a nationalist, anti-communist regime and a regional federation concept.
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A presidential republic ruled by the MPLA since independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola emerged from civil war in 2002, lives on oil and diamonds, concentrates power in President Lourenco and faces inequality and cost-of-living protests.
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Under Perón, Argentina experienced a populist, nationalist regime that united strong working-class support, corporatism, industrialization, and the expansion of social rights, leaving a lasting mark on the country's politics.
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