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Current that combines a planned socialist economy with a strong national identity, prioritizing the sovereignty and interests of its own country over internationalism, often under personalist and centralized leadership.
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I want a socialist society devoted to the sovereignty and interests of its own nation, under strong leadership, not internationalism.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 89% of the 274 ideologies in the catalog.
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On Intervention, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung created the Juche doctrine of national self-reliance and established a single-party regime with a cult of the leader that fuses communism, nationalism, and hereditary dynastic power.
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A totalitarian single-party state, North Korea maintains a planned economy, international isolation, and a cult of the Kim dynasty, uniting communism, nationalism, and the self-reliance doctrine known as Juche.
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A totalitarian single-party state, North Korea maintains a planned economy, international isolation, and a cult of the Kim dynasty, uniting communism, nationalism, and the self-reliance doctrine known as Juche.
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Under Nasser, Egypt was a nationalist, developmentalist republic that nationalized strategic sectors, led pan-Arabism, and united Arab socialism, agrarian reform, and strong leadership in the Middle East.
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North Korean doctrine formulated by Kim Il-sung that combines state socialism, national self-reliance, single-party rule, supreme leadership, militarization and rejection of external dependence, subordinating economy and society to the sovereignty of the regime.
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.
Soviet model consolidated by Stalin, marked by accelerated industrialization, agricultural collectivization, rigid central planning, personalized leadership and mass political repression.
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The fascism of Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists: a single leader, Blackshirts and a corporate state, with an autarkic empire, British nationalism, antisemitism and opposition to liberalism and communism.
Syncretic ideology, also called NazBol, that fuses revolutionary socialism and radical nationalism, combining a collectivist economy, state authoritarianism, and rejection of liberalism, the West, and bourgeois individualism.
Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
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