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A British philosopher, Land founded accelerationism and the so-called Dark Enlightenment, advocating the acceleration of capitalism and technology and criticizing egalitarian democracy in favor of new hierarchies.
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Nick Land leans further toward private than 99% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Economy is where Nick Land stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Nick Land sits close to the catalog median.
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Current that defends accelerating the system's contradictions through technology and the weakening of liberal institutions, betting on a break with the existing order to give rise to a new hierarchical social and political order.
Intellectual current of Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin that criticizes democracy, egalitarianism and the academic-media "Cathedral", defends autocratic governments and the right of exit, and includes accelerationist strands. Critics also associate it with so-called race realism.
A neoreactionary current that rejects democracy in favor of microstates run like firms. It favors competition among jurisdictions, free markets, the right of exit, and technological innovation as principles of government.
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Agrarian AnarchismAnarchist39%
A political theorist known as Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin formulated neoreaction, proposing to replace democracy with a state run like a company by a sovereign-executive, on the model of neocameralism.
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A city-state of the Italian Renaissance, Florence united banking and commercial capitalism, factional disputes among guilds and families such as the Medici, and a patronage that revolutionized the arts, letters, and political thought.
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