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The leading figure of German National Bolshevism, Niekisch united radical nationalism and socialist revolution against liberalism and Western influence, seeking to bring Germany closer to the East and Russia.
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Ernst Niekisch leans further toward public than 95% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Economy is where Ernst Niekisch stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Ernst Niekisch sits close to the catalog median.
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Syncretic ideology, also called NazBol, that fuses revolutionary socialism and radical nationalism, combining a collectivist economy, state authoritarianism, and rejection of liberalism, the West, and bourgeois individualism.
Mao's Chinese adaptation of Marxism, centered on the peasantry as the revolutionary force, protracted people's war, permanent mass mobilization, and cultural revolution against the party bureaucracy.
An Arab current of state socialism combining pan-Arab nationalism, a vanguard party, planning, land reform and control of strategic sectors, advocating Arab unity, secularism and independence from imperialism.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
A Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro led the 1959 revolution and built a single-party socialist state, anti-imperialist and nationalist, with a state-run economy and strong repression.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Under Nasser, Egypt was a nationalist, developmentalist republic that nationalized strategic sectors, led pan-Arabism, and united Arab socialism, agrarian reform, and strong leadership in the Middle East.
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