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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.
Political topics
Plato leans further toward autocracy than 93% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Plato stands furthest from the rest.
On Nationalism, Plato sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Plato's political philosophy, entrusting the city's government to a philosophical elite formed by virtue and knowledge, with strong control over education, property and customs in the name of justice and social harmony.
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.
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.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian23%
Verdun military hero and head of the collaborationist Vichy regime, instituting the authoritarian corporatist 'National Revolution' under the motto 'Work, Family, Fatherland', abolishing republican institutions.
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Ruled by Zanu-PF since 1980, Zimbabwe passed from Mugabe's dictatorship to President Mnangagwa, with radical land reform, historic hyperinflation, Western sanctions, an informal dollarized economy, disputed elections and repression of the opposition.
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The Tokugawa shogunate pacified Japan after the Sengoku era with a feudal system of domains (bakuhan), a rigid four-class social hierarchy, official Neo-Confucianism, a ban on Christianity and external isolation (sakoku).
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