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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- Libertarian
Libertarian Conservatism
Synthesis that unites free markets and a minimal state with the defense of tradition, family, and order, valuing individual freedom and personal responsibility alongside the preservation of customs and institutions.
- Libertarian
Libertarian Militarism
A doctrine combining a minimal state in taxation, regulation and morals with strong armed forces and an armed citizenry: national defense is the one expanded state function, treated as the condition of civil liberty rather than its exception.
- Libertarian
Libertarian Monarchism
Current that sees monarchy as a guarantee of freedom and stability, defending a king with limited power who protects property and individual rights and maintains a lean, minimally interventionist state.
- Libertarian
Libertarian Populism
Branch that unites anti-politics, radical free markets, and direct popular communication, attacking bureaucracies, taxes, and party elites in the name of individual freedom, entrepreneurship, and the sovereignty of the ordinary citizen.
- Anarchist
Libertarian Socialism
Current that pursues socialism without an authoritarian state, uniting collective ownership and self-management with broad individual freedom, organized from the bottom up by free communities and workers.
- Libertarian
Libertarianism
Family of political theories emphasizing individual freedom and limits on coercive authority. This catalog profile represents a right-libertarian interpretation centered on private property, markets, and a minimal state; other libertarian traditions differ.
- Left
Luxemburgist Socialism
Democratic Marxism inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, which unites revolution and freedom, values the spontaneity of the masses and the general strike, and criticizes both reformism and the authoritarian centralism of vanguard parties.
- Right
Machiavellian Republicanism
A republican current inspired by Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. It defends civic liberty through laws, popular participation, and regulated conflict among social groups, allowing exceptional measures to preserve the republic.
- Right
Malthusian Environmentalism
Environmental current inspired by Garrett Hardin that links population pressure to the depletion of common resources. It favours collectively enforced limits on resource use and policies to curb population growth.
- Radical left
Maoist Communism
Mao's Chinese adaptation of Marxism, centered on the peasantry as the revolutionary force, protracted people's war, permanent mass mobilization, and cultural revolution against the party bureaucracy.
- Left
Market Socialism
System in which collectively or publicly owned enterprises compete in markets, uniting the efficiency of competition with the socialist distribution of profits, without the rigid central planning of state economies.
- Radical left
Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary branch of Marxism that advocates the seizure of power by a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, with a planned economy and collectivization, serving as the foundation of the communist regimes of the 20th century.
- Radical left
Marxist Socialism
Marx's original doctrine, analyzing history as class struggle and predicting capitalism's overcoming through proletarian revolution, with abolition of private ownership of the means of production and strong criticism of religion.
- Right
Mercantilism
Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
- Center
Meritocracy
Principle according to which positions and rewards should be distributed by talent, effort, and performance rather than origin or privilege, defending equal opportunity and selection by ability.
- Right
Militarism
Regime centered on the armed forces as the core of political power, ruled by a military junta or command hierarchy, marked by centralization, discipline, a cult of order, and expansionism, subordinating civilian politics to military command.
- Libertarian
Minarchism
Libertarian branch that defends a minimal state limited to police, courts, and defense, leaving everything else to the market and private initiative, to protect individual rights without oppressing freedom.
- Libertarian
Minarcho-Mutualism
Synthesis that unites mutualism with a minimal state, combining fair exchange, cooperatives, and free credit with a public structure reduced to the essential functions of protecting rights, contracts, and freedoms.
- Right
Moderating Monarchism
Nineteenth-century constitutional monarchy model in which the monarch exercises a fourth Moderating Power above the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, arbitrating conflicts and guaranteeing stability over an agrarian economy.
- Right
Modernizing Authoritarianism
Model inspired by Park Chung-hee's regime, combining state-led industrialization, credit for private firms, and planning with anti-communist political repression.
- Libertarian
Municipalism
A world divided into independent city-states and microstates that compete like a market, with free secession, the right of exit and political experimentation, from the medieval free cities to Yarvin's "patchwork" and seasteading.
- Anarchist
Mutualism
Anarchist current founded by Proudhon that advocates fair exchange, free credit, and use-based property, with producers and cooperatives trading among themselves without exploitation, bosses, or a central state.
- Third position
National Bolshevism (NazBol)
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.
- Right
National Capitalism
System that unites free enterprise with strong protectionism and state direction, prioritizing industry, jobs, and national sovereignty over global free trade and unchecked foreign capital.
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