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Political project developed by Abdias Nascimento from the history of Brazil's quilombos. It advocates racial equality, Afro-Brazilian self-determination, participatory democracy, a cooperative economy and land held for collective use.
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I want a quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives.
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Leans further toward federal than 84% of the 273 ideologies in the catalog.
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On Representation, it sits practically at the catalog median.
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The last great leader of Palmares, the largest settlement of escaped slaves in the Americas, Zumbi resisted colonial expeditions for decades in defense of freedom for thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants, becoming a foremost symbol of anti-slavery resistance.
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The largest country in Latin America, Brazil is a democratic presidential federal republic with a mixed economy, broad social policies, and strong regional, cultural, and political diversity that shapes its electoral disputes.
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An industrial northeastern state and cradle of the Constitution, Pennsylvania is split between Democratic Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and a conservative interior, with shale gas, a union tradition, hunting culture and a state monopoly on wine and spirits.
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Under Hugo Chávez, from 1999 to 2013, Venezuela lived '21st-century socialism', with a new constitution, oil-funded social programs, nationalizations, currency and price controls, deep polarization, confrontation with the United States and power concentrated in the president.
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Río de la Plata federalist tradition founded by José Gervasio Artigas in the League of the Free Peoples (1813–1820). It advocates republican confederalism of sovereign provinces against Buenos Aires centralism, civil and religious liberty, tariff protection, and popular land reform.
Current that defends workers' interests within democracy, promoting labor rights, social security, strong unions, and income distribution through reforms and the welfare state.
A bottom-up self-government model of Abdullah Öcalan, with local assemblies federated into a confederation, ecology, gender equality and a cooperative economy, without a nation-state, put into practice in Rojava.
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Current that rejects the parliamentary and reformist path, betting on the general strike and the mobilising myth: direct union action and proletarian violence should destroy the state and the decadent bourgeoisie.
Current that values community bonds, traditions, and the common good above individualism, holding that justice and identity arise from life in community and the responsibilities people share.
A republican current inspired by Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. It defends civic liberty through laws, popular participation, and regulated conflict among social groups, allowing exceptional measures to preserve the republic.
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Techno-MonarchismFar-Right38%
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