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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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Ideology advocating the political unity of Muslims above national borders, around the ummah and the ideal of a caliphate, formulated by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and adopted by Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II against European colonialism.
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.
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Techno-CommunismAnarquismo35.4 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
Philip II ruled the largest empire of his age, defending the Counter-Reformation, financing the Inquisition, confronting England, and centralizing the Spanish monarchy at El Escorial.
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A republic of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, Dagestan is multiethnic and Sunni Muslim-majority, with strong Sufi religiosity, local clans, dependence on subsidies from Moscow, repression of radical Islamism, and little real autonomy.
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A dual monarchy in Central Europe, the Austro-Hungarian Empire gathered multiple nationalities under the Habsburg dynasty, combining aristocracy, imperial bureaucracy, political Catholicism, and growing nationalist tensions.
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