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Scottish essayist and historian who criticized classical liberalism as the dismal science and formulated the Great Man theory, championing heroic leadership and hierarchical order over modern egalitarianism.
Political topics
Thomas Carlyle leans further toward autocracy than 84% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Thomas Carlyle stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Thomas Carlyle sits close to the catalog median.
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Model that organizes society into corporations of workers and employers integrated into the state, seeking harmony between classes and directed economic cooperation instead of conflict or free competition.
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.
Current that joins radical ecology, authoritarianism and organic nationalism, defending population control, environmental preservation imposed by the state and the subordination of individual liberties to the survival of the national community.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian20%
An Italian philosopher, Evola was a traditionalist theorist of the radical right, defending hierarchy, spirituality, and the refusal of the modern world, becoming a reference of 20th-century reactionary and esoteric thought.
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A parliamentary republic in Eastern Europe, Hungary is governed under so-called illiberal democracy, uniting nationalism, Christian conservatism, sovereignty vis-à-vis the European Union, and strong control of media and institutions.
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A Nile Valley civilization ruled by pharaonic dynasties through periods of unity and fragmentation. Sacred kingship, temples, and agricultural administration structured society; practices and institutions varied over three millennia.
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