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Radical Reformation preacher who broke with Luther and led peasants and miners in the German Peasants' War of 1525. He preached an apocalyptic theocracy of the elect, with goods in common and the overthrow of godless princes; he was beheaded after Frankenhausen.
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Thomas Müntzer leans further toward biology than 96% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
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Current of Thomas Müntzer, the peasants of 1525 and priests such as Camilo Torres, which seeks the Kingdom of God on Earth through revolution, with common property and power in the hands of the poor.
Anti-capitalist wing of National Socialism, linked to Gregor Strasser, which emphasized a mass nationalist socialism, nationalization, and social revolution within the movement, later crushed by Hitler.
A current of René Guénon and Julius Evola that sees modernity as the decay of a universal spiritual tradition, defending sacred hierarchy, castes, initiatory order and the primacy of spirit over economics and mass politics.
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Brother of Gregor Strasser, he broke with Hitler in 1930 and founded the Black Front, championing an anti-capitalist, federalist and Christian national socialism with land for peasants; exiled, he returned to Germany in 1955.
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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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A federation of Central European territories, the Holy Roman Empire gathered principalities and cities under an elected emperor and strong Church influence, marked by fragmented power and the autonomy of its members.
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