The atlas / Ideologies
A world of political ideas.
Familiar traditions. Unexpected combinations. Explore the schools of thought behind political labels, and see how each one takes shape across twelve dimensions.
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- Right
Right-Wing Nationalism
Prioritizes national sovereignty, identity, and cohesion, associating them with right-wing positions such as social hierarchy, cultural conservatism, or immigration restriction. Currents vary in their views of the state and economy, from free markets to national protectionism.
- Right
Right-Wing Populism
Current that mobilizes the people against political and cultural elites, combining nationalism, immigration restriction, traditional values, public religion, strong security, and anti-establishment economic pragmatism around personalist leaders.
- Right
Right-Wing Pragmatism
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
- Right
Right-Wing Progressivism
Right-wing progressive branch that unites capitalism and the cult of technological progress with a socially progressive, pragmatic, and secular culture, entrusting society's direction to a technical elite rather than mass democracy.
- Right
Right-Wing Technocracy
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.
- Right
Secular Conservatism
Conservative branch that defends order, tradition, and institutions without grounding them in religion, supporting cultural values and social stability with secular, historical, and pragmatic arguments.
- Center
Securitarian Democracy
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
- Center
Social Centrism
Centrist branch that accepts the market economy but prioritizes social protection, public services, gradual reforms, and institutional consensus to reduce inequality without political rupture or permanent polarization.
- Left
Social Democracy
Current that seeks to reconcile capitalism and social justice through democracy, defending regulated markets, a strong welfare state, labor rights, and redistribution to reduce social inequalities.
- Left
Social Liberalism
Branch that combines individual freedoms with strong state action to guarantee welfare, education, and healthcare, defending equal opportunity and social security within the market economy.
- Anarchist
Social Libertarianism
Left-libertarian branch that unites broad individual freedom with collective or shared ownership of resources, defending autonomy, cooperation, and the rejection of both the authoritarian state and capital.
- Left
Social-Developmentalism
Model associated with Brazil's Workers' Party governments that seeks growth with social inclusion, combining rising minimum wages, popular credit, cash transfers and public banks without breaking with the market.
- Left
Socialism
Family of views seeking social ownership or democratic control of productive resources to reduce domination and inequality. Socialist traditions differ on markets, planning, the role of the state, and how transformation should occur.
- Third position
Socialist Conservatism
Current that unites a socialist economy with traditional values, defending social protection and a strong state role alongside family, order, and customs, far from the cultural progressivism of liberal lefts.
- Center
Socratism
Socrates' dialectical method, examining beliefs through rational questioning and the pursuit of virtue, distrustful of mass politics and the rhetoric of demagogues, yet respectful of the city's rule of law.
- Radical left
Stalinist Socialism
Soviet model consolidated by Stalin, marked by forced industrialization, agrarian collectivization, rigid central planning, a cult of the leader, and mass repression against real or suspected opponents of the regime.
- Left
State Developmentalism
Model in which the state directs industrialization and economic growth through planning, public investment, and industrial protection, seeking to overcome the nation's backwardness and external dependence.
- Left
State Liberalism
Liberal current that accepts an active role for the state in the economy and in guaranteeing rights, combining individual freedoms and markets with regulation and public policies aimed at the collective good and equality.
- Radical left
State Socialism
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.
- Center
Stoicism
Greco-Roman philosophy that teaches living according to reason and nature, accepting with serenity what lies beyond one's control, cultivating duty, self-mastery and virtue above pleasure, and recognizing a natural law common to all rational humanity.
- Third position
Strasserist Socialism
Anti-capitalist wing of National Socialism, linked to Gregor Strasser, which emphasized a mass nationalist socialism, nationalization, and social revolution within the movement, later crushed by Hitler.
- Left
Syndicalism
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipation.
- Anarchist
Techno-Anarchism
Technological anarchism that proposes abolishing the state through automation, abundant energy, decentralized networks, and self-managed voluntary communities with digital tools and free local production.
- Libertarian
Techno-Commercialism
A neoreactionary current that rejects democracy in favor of microstates run like firms. It favors competition among jurisdictions, free markets, the right of exit, and technological innovation as principles of government.
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