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Auguste Blanqui's doctrine that a conspiratorial revolutionary minority should seize power and rule through a provisional dictatorship that expropriates the bourgeoisie, with militant atheism and distrust of elections and of spontaneous mass action.
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I want an insurrectionary minority that storms Paris, imposes a provisional dictatorship against the bourgeoisie and the Church, and hands the wealth to the people.
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Leans further toward irreligious than 99% of the 248 ideologies in the catalog.
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On Immigration, it sits practically at the catalog median.
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French revolutionary and conspirator, Blanqui argued that an organized minority should seize power by insurrection and impose a provisional dictatorship, spent over thirty years in prison, was elected to the Paris Commune from his cell and took the motto "Neither God nor master".
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The revolutionary government that held Paris for 72 days in 1871, the Commune established direct democracy with recallable mandates, workers' self-management of workshops, separation of Church and state, and equal pay, becoming a symbol of communal socialism.
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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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Under Mao, revolutionary China was a single-party communist state, with a collectivized economy and permanent mass mobilization, marked by campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
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System in which the state controls the means of production and directs the economy through central planning, promoting industrialization and welfare under strong political authority and limited popular democratic participation.
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.
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An Arab current of state socialism combining pan-Arab nationalism, a vanguard party, planning, land reform and control of strategic sectors, advocating Arab unity, secularism and independence from imperialism.
Syncretic ideology, also called NazBol, that fuses revolutionary socialism and radical nationalism, combining a collectivist economy, state authoritarianism, and rejection of liberalism, the West, and bourgeois individualism.
Movement of Filippo Marinetti that exalted speed, machines, industry and war as the world's hygiene, preaching nationalism, anticlericalism and a break with the past, and that helped found Italian fascism.
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