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Marx's original doctrine, analyzing history as class struggle and predicting capitalism's overcoming through proletarian revolution, with abolition of private ownership of the means of production and strong criticism of religion.
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I want the proletarian revolution, abolishing private ownership of the means of production and overcoming religion as the opium of the people.
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Leans further toward irreligious than 98% of the 273 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A German philosopher and economist, Marx created historical materialism and the critique of capitalism, analyzing class struggle and the exploitation of labor, and became the greatest reference of socialism and communism.
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A parliamentary federal republic, Germany is Europe's largest economy, with a social market economy, a strong export industry, and a central role in the European Union, uniting democratic stability and geopolitical weight.
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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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Closest within Radical Left
Final stage theorized by Marx and Engels: a classless, stateless society without private ownership of the means of production, with collective production and distribution according to need, superseding capitalism and the transitional socialist phase.
Current of Trotsky, co-founder of the Soviet state and the Red Army, which defends permanent revolution, a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, criticizing Stalinist bureaucracy without renouncing one-party rule.
Project that imposes progressive social transformations from above, using state power to accelerate changes in customs and equality, even at the cost of individual liberties and organized political opposition.
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Socialist current born of national liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, defending economic sovereignty, resource nationalization, non-alignment, and solidarity among peoples of the Global South against imperialism.
Model that combines socialist planning with scientific management of the economy, entrusting expert committees, rather than elections or party competition, with the rational organization of production and the egalitarian distribution of society's resources.
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.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian32%
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