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The leading reactionary theorist, Maistre opposed the French Revolution by defending monarchy and the authority of tradition and religion against Enlightenment rationalism, influencing European conservative thought.
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Joseph de Maistre leans further toward autocracy than 95% of the 444 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Joseph de Maistre stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, Joseph de Maistre sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
Authoritarian nationalist movement that emerged in 1930s Brazil, with a Christian and corporatist base, the motto God, Fatherland and Family, mass aesthetics, and frontal opposition to liberalism and communism.
A Spanish current of counter-revolutionary traditionalism, born in the 19th-century Carlist Wars under the motto God, Fatherland, Fueros and King, advocating a legitimist Catholic monarchy, religious unity, regional fueros and an organic society against liberalism.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist24%
The Duke of Braganza acclaimed king after the Restoration of 1640, John IV ended the Iberian Union and led Portugal in war against Spain to recover its independence. He founded the Braganza dynasty and sought diplomatic alliances to sustain the new kingdom.
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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 dynastic union of Aragon, Catalonia, and other Mediterranean lands whose constituent realms kept their own laws and assemblies. The Crown expanded through trade and conquest; its institutions were gradually abolished after the War of the Spanish Succession.
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