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A Finnish fisherman and thinker, Linkola advocated an anti-democratic, anti-technological deep ecology, with a strong state, an end to economic growth, and a drastic reduction of population to save the biosphere, becoming a reference of eco-authoritarianism.
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Pentti Linkola leans further toward biology than 100% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Technology is where Pentti Linkola stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Pentti Linkola sits practically at the catalog median.
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Doctrine that grounds political order in the ruler's virtue, ritual hierarchy and filial piety, favouring bureaucratic merit and moral education over coercive law or popular participation.
Revolutionary model that idealizes peasant life and collective rural production, rejecting cities, markets, and private property in favor of an equality imposed by state mobilization and communal discipline.
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.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian35%
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.
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