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Radical Reformation preacher who broke with Luther and led peasants and miners in the German Peasants' War of 1525. He preached an apocalyptic theocracy of the elect, with goods in common and the overthrow of godless princes; he was beheaded after Frankenhausen.
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Thomas Müntzer leans further toward religious than 90% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Thomas Müntzer stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Thomas Müntzer sits close to the catalog median.
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Current of Thomas Müntzer, the peasants of 1525 and guerrilla priests such as Camilo Torres, seeking the Kingdom of God on earth through revolution, with common property and the rule of the poor imposed by force.
Russian geopolitical current that sees Eurasia as a distinct civilization and proposes a Moscow-led continental bloc, with regional autonomy and shared strategic command, against Atlanticism and US hegemony.
A Spanish current of counter-revolutionary traditionalism, born in the 19th-century Carlist Wars under the motto God, Fatherland, Fueros and King, advocating a legitimist Catholic monarchy, religious unity, regional fueros and an organic society against liberalism.
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Brother of Gregor Strasser, he broke with Hitler in 1930 and founded the Black Front, championing an anti-capitalist, federalist and Christian national socialism with land for peasants; exiled, he returned to Germany in 1955.
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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 monarchy uniting the Hebrew tribes under Saul, David and Solomon, the Kingdom of Israel concentrated power in a king anointed by a prophet, with Jerusalem and the Temple as its religious center, the law of the Torah, tribal levies and expansion over its neighbors.
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