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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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I want a society transformed from the top down in customs and equality, using the state even against organized opposition.
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Leans further toward progressive than 99% of the 274 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Founder of modern Turkey, Atatürk imposed radical modernization from above, with secularization, a new alphabet, civil rights for women, and developmentalist nationalism, breaking with the Ottoman and religious heritage.
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A presidential republic between Europe and Asia, Turkey combines electoral democracy with strong concentration of power, nationalism, religious conservatism, and an assertive foreign policy in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
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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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Ideological proximity
Closest within Radical Left
Revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, with a single party, a state-run economy, universal health and education, export of armed revolution and the new man ideal against imperialism.
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.
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Model in which the state directs industrialization and economic growth through planning, public investment, and industrial protection, seeking to overcome the nation's backwardness and external dependence.
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.
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.
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PaleolibertarianismLibertarian29%