National Communism
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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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.
EDITORIAL SUMMARY
I want a socialist society devoted to the sovereignty and interests of its own nation, under strong leadership, not internationalism.
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This position is 45.0 points from the median of the 257 ideology profiles in this collection.
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This position is 5.0 points from this collection’s median.
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German communist leader who ruled East Germany under tight Soviet control, building the Berlin Wall in 1961, collectivizing the economy, and repressing dissent under Stasi surveillance and single-party rule.
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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.
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