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Radical agrarian communism of the Khmer Rouge that emptied cities, abolished money and markets, and pursued an egalitarian peasant society by force, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
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I want an egalitarian peasant society, without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar.
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Leans further toward biology than 98% of the 274 ideologies in the catalog.
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Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Pol Pot imposed radical agrarian communism that emptied the cities and abolished property, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in the name of a peasant utopia.
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A radical regime led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge imposed extreme agrarian communism, emptied the cities, and abolished money and property, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
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A totalitarian single-party state, North Korea maintains a planned economy, international isolation, and a cult of the Kim dynasty, uniting communism, nationalism, and the self-reliance doctrine known as Juche.
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A radical regime led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge imposed extreme agrarian communism, emptied the cities, and abolished money and property, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
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Revolutionary model that idealizes peasant life and collective rural production, rejecting cities, markets, and private property in favor of an equality imposed by state mobilization and communal discipline.
North Korean doctrine formulated by Kim Il-sung that combines state socialism, national self-reliance, single-party rule, supreme leadership, militarization and rejection of external dependence, subordinating economy and society to the sovereignty of the regime.
Current that combines a planned socialist economy with a strong national identity, prioritizing the sovereignty and interests of its own country over internationalism, often under personalist and centralized leadership.
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Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
Plato's political philosophy, entrusting the city's government to a philosophical elite formed by virtue and knowledge, with strong control over education, property and customs in the name of justice and social harmony.
The fascism of Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists: a single leader, Blackshirts and a corporate state, with an autarkic empire, British nationalism, antisemitism and opposition to liberalism and communism.
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