Ownfacet / Politype / Ideologies / Agrarianism
Republican tradition that idealizes the small landowning farmer as the basis of civic virtue and liberty, advocating wide distribution of land, limited and decentralized government, and distrust of banks, public debt, industry and large cities.
EDITORIAL SUMMARY
I want a republic of small farmers who own their land, decentralized and free of banks and public debt, far from factories and cities.
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This position is 46.2 points from the median of the 257 ideology profiles in this collection.
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Author of the Declaration of Independence and third US president, Jefferson championed an agrarian republic of small landowners, limited and decentralized government, religious freedom, and distrust of banks, armies, and cities.
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Most compatible among the 257 schools
Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
A system in which citizens decide laws directly through referendums, popular initiatives, assemblies and recall of officials, instead of delegating to representatives, as in the Swiss cantons and classical Athens.
Proudhon's original doctrine, denouncing property as theft and advocating free mutual credit, federalism of autonomous communities and possession by use, with strong moral reservations about progress and customs.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical left39.8 / 100
