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The creator of fascism, Mussolini ruled Italy as a totalitarian dictatorship built on a leader cult and a corporatist state. An atheist and anticlerical in his youth, he made the Church a political ally through the 1929 Lateran Pacts, more from expediency than faith.
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Ultranationalist, authoritarian political tradition that places the nation above individual rights, rejects liberal democracy and political pluralism, and glorifies leadership, mobilization, and political violence. Fascist movements varied across countries and periods.
German variant of fascism based on racism, antisemitism, and expansionism, which united totalitarianism, the cult of Hitler, and the idea of a superior race, culminating in World War II and the Holocaust.
Nationalist and syndicalist current that rejects liberalism and Marxism, advocating national unity, corporatist organization of labor, authoritarian social justice, and popular mobilization around the state.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian27.7 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
King of Qin who unified China in 221 BC and proclaimed himself first emperor, he ruled through Legalism with harsh laws, replaced feudalism with centralized commanderies, standardized script and coinage, burned books and began the Great Wall.
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A Eurasian presidential republic, Russia concentrates power in an authoritarian, nationalist regime, with an economy dependent on natural resources, a strong military apparatus, and a foreign policy of confrontation with the West.
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Ruled by the Ba'ath Party from 1968 to 2003, Iraq combined Arab nationalism, state oil and one-party rule. Under Saddam Hussein, the regime intensified repression, fought wars against Iran and Kuwait, and faced international sanctions.
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