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Current that advocates industrialization, national sovereignty, and strategic state planning, seeking to modernize the economy through public investment, productive protection, and coordination between government, science, and national companies.
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I want a nation industrialized by strong state planning, protecting national companies and coordinating government, science and industry.
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Leans further toward technology than 85% of the 274 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Technology is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits practically at the catalog median.
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A Brazilian physician and politician, Enéas championed economic nationalism, technological sovereignty, nuclear energy, strong armed forces, and state planning, becoming a popular symbol of national developmentalism.
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Under Vargas, Brazil experienced a nationalist, developmentalist regime that promoted state-directed industrialization, labor legislation, and the centralization of power, laying the foundations of Brazilian labourism.
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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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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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Current that mobilizes the people against economic elites, defending redistribution, public control, national sovereignty, plebiscitary democracy, and broad social policy in popular anti-establishment language.
Model associated with Brazil's Workers' Party governments that seeks growth with social inclusion, combining rising minimum wages, popular credit, cash transfers and public banks without breaking with the market.
Current that unites national sovereignty, economic protection, and popular integration with progressive social reforms, seeking a state capable of defending the nation while expanding rights, equality, and inclusion.
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Current that seeks to overcome underdevelopment through accelerated industrialization, state planning, public infrastructure, protection of infant industry and a partnership between the state, national capital and foreign capital, as in Kubitschek's Targets Plan.
A synthesis of fascism and social democracy: nationalism, a strong state and authoritarian leadership alongside public healthcare and pensions, labor rights and redistribution. The Comintern used the term against social democrats.
Sun Yat-sen's republican doctrine, articulated in the Three Principles of the People: nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood. Its program envisioned transitional political tutelage, popular sovereignty, and social and economic reforms.
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