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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 axes
Plato leans further toward autocracy than 91% of the 444 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Plato stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, 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 the rule of the best, entrusting power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule as surrendering the city to incompetence.
Current that unites a socialist economy with traditional values, defending social protection and a strong state role alongside family, order, and customs, far from the cultural progressivism of liberal lefts.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
An Austrian chancellor, Dollfuss established Austrofascism, an authoritarian corporatist state with a Catholic base that dissolved parliament and repressed socialists and Nazis until his assassination by Nazi agents.
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Born from the war of independence against France, Algeria is an army-dominated republic with Islam as the state religion, a state-run economy dependent on oil and gas, a non-aligned foreign policy and repression of the Hirak movement.
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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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