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A Finnish fisherman and thinker, Linkola advocated an anti-democratic, anti-technological deep ecology, with a strong state, an end to economic growth, and a drastic reduction of population to save the biosphere, becoming a reference of eco-authoritarianism.
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Pentti Linkola leans further toward biology than 100% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Technology is where Pentti Linkola stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Pentti Linkola sits close to the catalog median.
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Doctrine that grounds political order in the ruler's virtue, ritual hierarchy and filial piety, favouring bureaucratic merit and moral education over coercive law or popular participation.
Revolutionary model that idealizes peasant life and collective rural production, rejecting cities, markets, and private property in favor of an equality imposed by state mobilization and communal discipline.
Doctrine of rule by the best, which entrusts power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule, which it sees as a risk to competence.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian32%
A Greek philosopher, Plato criticized Athenian democracy and imagined a city governed by philosophers, with rigid education, moral censorship, and the strong subordination of private interests to the harmony of the political community.
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A one-party communist republic, Laos has been ruled by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party since 1975, with a party-controlled market economy, heavy debt to China, Mekong hydropower dams and a tolerated Theravada Buddhism.
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A radical regime led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge imposed extreme agrarian communism, emptied the cities, and abolished money and property, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
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