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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.
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I want sovereign provinces in a republican confederal pact, with civil and religious liberty, popular land reform, and tariffs protecting local production.
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Leans further toward federal than 88% of the 265 ideologies in the catalog.
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On Power, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Leader of the Oriental Revolution and Protector of the Free Peoples (1815–1820). In the Instructions of the Year XIII and the 1815 Land Regulation, he advocated republican confederalism against Buenos Aires centralism, civil and religious liberty, and popular agrarian reform.
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A South American presidential republic, Uruguay is recognized for solid democracy, strong secularism, broad social rights, and progressive policies, pairing institutional stability with a market economy.
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An autonomous region in northern Syria, Rojava organizes itself through democratic confederalism, with local self-management, gender equality, ethnic pluralism, and ecology, inspired by the libertarian ideas of Abdullah Öcalan.
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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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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.
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.
Current that defends workers' interests within democracy, promoting labor rights, social security, strong unions, and income distribution through reforms and the welfare state.
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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.
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.
A current of René Guénon and Julius Evola that sees modernity as the decay of a universal spiritual tradition, defending sacred hierarchy, castes, initiatory order and the primacy of spirit over economics and mass politics.
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Techno-MonarchismFar-Right38%