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Brazil's greatest writer and founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, he ironically portrayed the elite of the Second Empire. A civil servant, he was a moderate liberal, a discreet abolitionist and skeptical of religion and scientism.
Political topics
Machado de Assis leans further toward internationalist than 78% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Nationalism is where Machado de Assis stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Machado de Assis sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 263 ideologies
Defense of monarchy as a symbol of unity and continuity, with the king subject to the constitution and parliament, uniting tradition and institutional stability with representative democracy and the rule of law.
Kant's political philosophy, grounding the state's legitimacy in the autonomy of reason and the rule of law, defending a moderate representative republicanism and a federation of free states as the path to perpetual peace.
Centrist branch that prioritizes sustainability, gradual energy transition, environmental regulation, and technological prudence, seeking to reconcile climate protection, markets, and democratic institutions without anti-capitalist rupture.
The most distant ideology
FeudalismFar-Right40%
A British economist, Beveridge designed the United Kingdom's welfare state, proposing universal social security against poverty, disease, and unemployment as a basis for social liberalism.
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A European semi-presidential republic, Portugal combines consolidated democracy, a market economy integrated into the European Union, a moderate welfare state, low institutional conflict, secularized Catholic heritage, and strong Atlantic openness.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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