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Early 19th-century current that envisioned an industrial society reorganized by rational planning, led by scientists, engineers and producers, replacing politicians and aristocrats without appealing to class struggle or revolution.
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I want an industrial society run by scientists and producers, rationally planned, superseding politicians and aristocrats without revolution.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 67% of the 273 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A precursor of technocracy, Saint-Simon proposed an industrial society governed by scientists, engineers, and producers instead of politicians and aristocrats, influencing later socialism and positivism.
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A European semi-presidential republic, France combines a strong republican and secular tradition, a robust welfare state, a mixed economy, and a prominent diplomatic, cultural, and military role in the European Union and the world.
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A presidential republic ruled by Frelimo since independence from Portugal in 1975, Mozambique overcame civil war, faces a jihadist insurgency in Cabo Delgado, violently disputed elections in 2024 and an economy of gas, coal and farming.
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Government of the Cardenista peak, marking the institutionalized Mexican Revolution through oil nationalization, ejido land reform, worker-peasant incorporation, popular secularism, and strong presidential leadership.
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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.
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.
Current inspired by John Maynard Keynes that accepts markets and liberal democracy but gives the state the task of managing demand, with countercyclical public spending, full employment as a goal and a mixed economy.
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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.
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.
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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