Confucianism

Doctrine of rule by the best, which entrusts power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule, which it sees as a risk to competence.

Plato's political philosophy, entrusting the city's government to a philosophical elite formed by virtue and knowledge, with strong control over education, property and customs in the name of justice and social harmony.

Model inspired by Park Chung-hee's regime, combining state-led industrialization, credit for private firms, and planning with anti-communist political repression.

Socrates' dialectical method, examining beliefs through rational questioning and the pursuit of virtue, distrustful of mass politics and the rhetoric of demagogues, yet respectful of the city's rule of law.

Current that builds socialism from the countryside, with a single party, collectivization into villages and cooperatives, food self-sufficiency and protection of land and forests, as in Nyerere's Ujamaa.

Current that joins radical ecology, authoritarianism and organic nationalism, defending population control, environmental preservation imposed by the state and the subordination of individual liberties to the survival of the national community.