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Current grounding socialism in Islamic principles such as zakat, the ban on usury and Quranic social justice, combining anti-imperialism with a state-run economy, from Gaddafi's Third Universal Theory to Ali Shariati's thought.
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I want Quranic justice: the land belongs to God, zakat shares the wealth and the state runs the economy against usury and imperialism.
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Leans further toward religious than 96% of the 273 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Leader of Libya for over four decades after the 1969 coup, Gaddafi established a "Jamahiriya" of theoretical direct democracy under de facto authoritarian control, nationalized oil, funded pan-Africanist and third-worldist movements, and was deposed and killed during the 2011 civil war.
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Under Muammar Gaddafi (1969–2011), Libya nationalized oil and proclaimed the Jamahiriya's direct democracy. Power remained concentrated in Gaddafi, backed by revolutionary committees and repression of the opposition.
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A North African republic, Tunisia was the cradle of the Arab Spring and the region's only democracy until 2021, when President Saied suspended parliament and concentrated power, amid economic crisis and a strong UGTT labor union.
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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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Current that unites a socialist economy with traditional values, defending social protection and a strong state role alongside family, order, and customs, far from the cultural progressivism of liberal lefts.
Justicialist doctrine of Juan and Eva Perón uniting political sovereignty, economic independence and social justice, with CGT unions, nationalizations, protected industrialization, social Catholicism and a charismatic leader above parties.
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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Political movement advocating a state governed by sharia and Islamic identity, born with Hassan al-Banna's and Sayyid Qutb's Muslim Brotherhood, combining mass activism, religious social welfare and rejection of Western secularism.
Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
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.
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