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A republican current inspired by Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. It defends civic liberty through laws, popular participation, and regulated conflict among social groups, allowing exceptional measures to preserve the republic.
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I want to protect republican liberty through laws and popular participation, restrain elite domination, and preserve collective independence.
Political axes
Leans further toward nationalist than 87% of the 256 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Intervention is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A Florentine diplomat and thinker, Machiavelli analyzed political power realistically, valuing virtù, one's own military force, reason of state, and republican institutions capable of preserving liberty and civic greatness.
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A city-state of the Italian Renaissance, Florence united banking and commercial capitalism, factional disputes among guilds and families such as the Medici, and a patronage that revolutionized the arts, letters, and political thought.
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An industrial northeastern state and cradle of the Constitution, Pennsylvania is split between Democratic Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and a conservative interior, with shale gas, a union tradition, hunting culture and a state monopoly on wine and spirits.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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Current that combines popular sovereignty and democratic institutions with strong cultural nationalism, prioritizing the nation's interests and identity over supranational commitments and multiculturalism.
Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
Nationalism based on shared language, traditions, and heritage rather than race, which values the people's cultural identity and the integration of those who adopt these values, defending the nation's cohesion.
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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.
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.
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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