12Axes
Radical Left

African Socialism

Current of Sankara, Samora Machel, Nkrumah and Nyerere joining pan-Africanism, Black consciousness, anticolonial struggle, agrarian collectivization and self-reliance against neocolonialism and racism.

Country: Sankara's Burkina Faso Key figure: Thomas Sankara

Profile across the 12 axes

How African Socialism positions on each of the 12 political dimensions measured by 12 Axes.

Structure

Strong - Unitary
Federal 23%
Unitary 78%

Representation

Balanced
Democracy 48%
Autocracy 53%

Power

Strong - Security
Security 73%
Liberty 28%

Immigration

Strong - Multiculturalism
Assimilation 28%
Multiculturalism 73%

Diplomacy

Leaning - Pacifist
Militarist 41%
Pacifist 59%

Intervention

Leaning - Non-interventionist
Non-interventionist 59%
Nationalist 41%

Economy

Very strong - Public
Public 90%
Private 10%

Control

Very strong - Planning
Planning 90%
Free market 10%

Trade

Very strong - Protectionism
Protectionism 88%
Globalism 13%

Religion

Strong - Irreligious
Irreligious 73%
Religious 28%

Morality

Balanced
Progressive 46%
Traditionalist 54%

Technology

Leaning - Biology
Technology 40%
Biology 60%
Closest country Sankara's Burkina Faso Under Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso combined food self-sufficiency, mass vaccination and literacy campaigns, women's… Associated personality Thomas Sankara A revolutionary from Burkina Faso, Sankara led a Marxist, pan-Africanist government that promoted self-sufficiency,… Radical Left Marxism–Leninism Revolutionary branch of Marxism that advocates the seizure of power by a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the… Radical Left Stalinist Socialism Soviet model consolidated by Stalin, marked by forced industrialization, agrarian collectivization, rigid central… Radical Left Maoist Communism Mao's Chinese adaptation of Marxism, centered on the peasantry as the revolutionary force, protracted people's war,… Radical Left Trotskyist Communism Current of Trotsky, co-founder of the Soviet state and the Red Army, which defends permanent revolution, a vanguard… Radical Left National Communism Current that combines a planned socialist economy with a strong national identity, prioritizing the sovereignty and… Radical Left Juche Socialism North Korean doctrine formulated by Kim Il-sung that combines state socialism, national self-reliance, single-party…

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