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Oxford philologist and author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien was a devout Catholic who distrusted the modern state and industrialization, said he leaned toward anarchy or unconstitutional monarchy and idealized the rural life of the Shire.
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J. R. R. Tolkien leans further toward federal than 93% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
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On Immigration, J. R. R. Tolkien sits practically at the catalog median.
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Doctrine of Christian inspiration that advocates the wide distribution of property and small-scale production, opposing both monopoly capitalism and state socialism in favor of autonomous communities.
Synthesis of anarchism and distributism that defends the wide distribution of property and small-scale production, with autonomous communities and cooperatives organized without a state or large monopolies.
American traditionalist right, of Buchanan and Kirk, defending Christian heritage, localism and states' rights, immigration restriction, protectionism and non-interventionism, against neoconservatives and the managerial state.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical Left30%
A French Christian activist, Maurin co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement, defending social justice, voluntary poverty, and communities of work and mutual aid inspired by the social doctrine of the Church.
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A parliamentary republic in the Middle East, Lebanon divides power among religious communities in a confessional system, with pluralism, a strong service sector, and chronic political and economic instability.
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A rare society without a central state, medieval Iceland was organized by local chieftains and an assembly, the Althing, settling disputes through laws and private agreements in a decentralized system close to anarchy.
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