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Pragmatic reform initiated by Deng Xiaoping that introduced markets, private property, and economic opening under the absolute control of the Communist Party, forming the model of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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I want pragmatic socialism, opening markets and private property to enrich the country, under the absolute control of the Communist Party.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 87% of the 274 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
The leader who reoriented China after Mao, Deng promoted market reforms and economic opening under Communist Party control, creating the model of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the country's rapid growth.
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A single-party socialist state, China unites the absolute political control of the Communist Party with a state-directed market economy, becoming a global industrial, technological, and geopolitical power.
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A single-party socialist state, Vietnam maintains the Communist Party's political control alongside market reforms that opened the economy, promoting rapid industrial growth and integration into global trade.
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Under Bashar al-Assad (2000–2024), Syria was a centralized Ba'athist regime sustained by security forces, a clientelist state economy, and alliances with Russia and Iran during the civil war.
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Model of the Communist Party of Vietnam uniting Ho Chi Minh Thought, anticolonial national liberation and the 1986 Đổi Mới: single-party rule, a socialist-oriented market economy, a dominant state sector and openness to global trade.
21st-century doctrine of the CPC associated with Xi Jinping. It combines centralized Party leadership and socialist modernization, advocating national rejuvenation, predominant public ownership, and a socialist market with private enterprise and technological innovation.
Variant of socialism developed in Tito's Yugoslavia, combining single-party rule and a cult of the leader with workers' self-management of enterprises, federal decentralization, market openness, and non-alignment between the Cold War blocs.
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Model that entrusts the management of the state and the economy to experts and technological efficiency, combining markets, innovation, and technical decisions instead of political deliberation and traditional party competition.
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.
Model inspired by Park Chung-hee's regime, combining state-led industrialization, credit for private firms, and planning with anti-communist political repression.
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