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Intellectual current of Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin that criticizes democracy, egalitarianism and the academic-media "Cathedral", defends autocratic governments and the right of exit, and includes accelerationist strands. Critics also associate it with so-called race realism.
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I want to replace democracy and egalitarianism with strong sovereigns, natural hierarchy and free microstates that speed up technology, beyond the Cathedral.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 97% of the 260 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A British philosopher, Land founded accelerationism and the so-called Dark Enlightenment, advocating the acceleration of capitalism and technology and criticizing egalitarian democracy in favor of new hierarchies.
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An Asian city-state, Singapore is a parliamentary republic dominated by a single party, combining open capitalism, efficient technocratic management, strict order, and limited political freedoms in the name of progress.
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A federation of Gulf monarchies, the United Arab Emirates combines power concentrated in the royal families, a liberal economy diversified beyond oil, and strong bets on technology, tourism, and global finance.
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A city-state of the Italian Renaissance, Florence united banking and commercial capitalism, factional disputes among guilds and families such as the Medici, and a patronage that revolutionized the arts, letters, and political thought.
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Current that defends accelerating the system's contradictions through technology and the weakening of liberal institutions, betting on a break with the existing order to give rise to a new hierarchical social and political order.
Current that rejects modern democracy and egalitarianism and proposes replacing them with hierarchical, efficient governments run like companies by a sovereign, combining traditionalism and technology.
Political tradition of the nineteenth-century American South tied to the Confederacy, defending states' rights and secession, an agrarian, patriarchal and Christian society, free trade and a military tradition. Historically, this tradition also defended slavery and racial hierarchy.
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A doctrine of Curtis Yarvin that proposes running the state as a joint-stock company: shareholders, a sovereign CEO, citizens as customers who can leave, guaranteed private property and politics replaced by management.
A unitary variant of neoreaction: an absolute CEO-monarch rules a centralized state through data and security technology (surveillance, AI), under market capitalism, private property and free enterprise, for the sake of stability and efficiency.
A neoreactionary current that rejects democracy in favor of microstates run like firms. It favors competition among jurisdictions, free markets, the right of exit, and technological innovation as principles of government.
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