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BO should have something interesting to say.

>>34503

>inb4 OP is BO

>>34513

It's not about this being off-topic, but the BO being Portuguese, IIRC

I'm not as familiar with Salazar as I'd like to be, but since he's even less known than Franco I figure he must have done something right.

You would think this is any university professor's wet dream.

Bump, I'd actually like to get some information on this from more-informed anons.

I didnt even knew the guy existed.

Should read up about him, didi he leave any kind of political manifesto or is he just one of these few amazing one man shows on whose legacy a nation can feed of for ages?

>>34813

He was a professor of economics, if that gives you any idea on what his thoughts were like.

Salazar was interesting in that he, unlike most dictators, was not a military man, but an economist that had been more or less dragged from his academic career.

And although he still was a dictator that used authoritarian means to secure his power, I would argue that he first and foremost relied on such measures because he genuinely believed that he was the only one who could make the job right.

I mean, you still got into trouble with the police if you criticized him (or, God forbid, Catholicism) all to much, but Salazar nonetheless is one of the few examples of a genuine benevolent dictator I can think of, even though he had his flaws.

>>34951

Would you say that since he didn't aspire to power (like most dictators), but rather was thrust into his position influenced his overall benevolent approach?

>>34953

Isn't this an example of Technocracy? Or Meritocracy?

>Opposed to democracy, communism, socialism, anarchism and liberalism, the ideology of Portugal was conservative and nationalist in nature under his rule.

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>>34953

I think that would go a bit far. As mentioned before, Salazar was an autocrat who had no qualms to sic his police forces upon his political enemies and did what he thought necessary to keep himself in office.

That being said, I like to believe that he primarily did so because he feared that, should he lose power, it would go to a radical faction, be it on the left (where he had the negative example of the Soviet Union) or the right (with Spain's Franco being his uncomfortable neighbor).

>>34966

Neither would have a single individual with absolute power as the head of state. True Meritocracies would have figures responsible for keeping a eye on the head of state so as to make sure that he actually is the most able person for the job, while a technocracy (= a knowledge-based government system) likely would have a ruling council rather than a single individual.

Salazar may have been a benevolent dictator, but he still was a dictator.

>>34951

>Portugal

>Salazar based his philosophy on Catholic social doctine

>Basically appointed by God through Mary to run Portugal after the 1931 consecration

>Surprised that he doesn't like criticism of Catholicism