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A synthesis of fascism and social democracy: nationalism, a strong state and authoritarian leadership alongside public healthcare and pensions, labor rights and redistribution. The Comintern used the term against social democrats.
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I want a solidary nation under a strong leader and party, with state-guaranteed healthcare, pensions and unions, and a planned mixed economy.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 70% of the 273 ideologies in the catalog.
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On Intervention, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A cofounder of the Communist Party of Italy, he later moved toward Mussolini. In the Italian Social Republic, he promoted the socialization of enterprises and workers’ participation while retaining his anticapitalist rhetoric.
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The birthplace of fascism, Mussolini's Italy was a totalitarian dictatorship that fused nationalism, a cult of the leader, a corporatist state, and militarism, suppressing opposition and seeking imperial expansion by force.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Ruled by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 2008, Cuba became a one-party socialist state, with a nationalized economy, universal health and education, a Soviet alliance, repression of dissidents, mass exile and confrontation with the United States, from the embargo to the missile crisis.
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Doctrine of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that founded modern Turkey on six arrows: republicanism, nationalism, populism, statism, laicism and reformism, imposing Westernization and state control of religion from above.
Current inspired by Auguste Comte that trusts science and reason to organize society, defending order, progress, and technical administration guided by knowledge in place of metaphysics and tradition.
Current that joins a state-run socialist economy and a strong party with patriotism, the traditional family, religion as national heritage and rejection of cultural progressivism, seeing identity politics as a liberal distraction from class struggle.
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Model of the Communist Party of Vietnam uniting Ho Chi Minh Thought, anticolonial national liberation and the 1986 Đổi Mới: single-party rule, a socialist-oriented market economy, a dominant state sector and openness to global trade.
21st-century doctrine of the CPC associated with Xi Jinping. It combines centralized Party leadership and socialist modernization, advocating national rejuvenation, predominant public ownership, and a socialist market with private enterprise and technological innovation.
Current that advocates industrialization, national sovereignty, and strategic state planning, seeking to modernize the economy through public investment, productive protection, and coordination between government, science, and national companies.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian33%
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