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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- Radical left
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.
- Right
National Conservatism
Current that unites traditional values, family, and religion with strong cultural nationalism, defending sovereignty, borders, and the people's identity within democracy, with clear distrust of globalism.
- Right
National Democracy
Current that combines popular sovereignty and democratic institutions with strong cultural nationalism, prioritizing the nation's interests and identity over supranational commitments and multiculturalism.
- Center
National Developmentalism
Current that advocates industrialization, national sovereignty, and strategic state planning, seeking to modernize the economy through public investment, productive protection, and coordination between government, science, and national companies.
- Right
National Liberalism
Right-wing current that combines free markets, free trade, and limited government with strong national identity, cultural assimilation, traditional and religious values, and a robust military.
- Libertarian
National Libertarianism
Branch that combines the defense of individual freedoms and free markets with appreciation for national sovereignty and identity, defending limited government alongside border control and the nation.
- Third position
National Socialism
German variant of fascism based on racism, antisemitism, and expansionism, which united totalitarianism, the cult of Hitler, and the idea of a superior race, culminating in World War II and the Holocaust.
- Third position
National Syndicalism
Nationalist and syndicalist current that rejects liberalism and Marxism, advocating national unity, corporatist organization of labor, authoritarian social justice, and popular mobilization around the state.
- Right
Nationalism
Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
- Right
Neo-Thomism
Revival of Thomas Aquinas's thought from 1879 (Leo XIII), with Maritain and Gilson. It grounds politics in natural law, the common good and subsidiarity, favoring mixed government, property with a social function and just war, under Catholic faith.
- Right
Neocameralism
A doctrine of Curtis Yarvin that proposes running the state as a joint-stock company: shareholders, a sovereign CEO, citizens as customers who can leave, guaranteed private property and politics replaced by management.
- Right
Neoconservatism
Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
- Right
Neoliberalism
Contested term for intellectual traditions and policy programs emphasizing private enterprise, competition, and market exchange. It often supports privatization and deregulation while retaining a state role in establishing market rules and providing some public goods.
- Right
Neoreaction
Current that rejects modern democracy and egalitarianism and proposes replacing them with hierarchical, efficient governments run like companies by a sovereign, combining traditionalism and technology.
- Center
New Deal Liberalism
Democratic Party current born with Franklin Roosevelt that joins financial regulation, social security, public works and strong unions with civic patriotism, preserved capitalism and international leadership.
- Right
Nietzschean Aristocratism
Nietzschean current that rejects egalitarian morality as herd resentment, defending a hierarchy of values, the aristocratic creation of meaning and the tragic affirmation of life after the death of God.
- Left
Nordic Social Democracy
Scandinavian model combining tripartite collective bargaining among unions, employers and the state, a universalist welfare state funded by high taxes, and an open, export-driven market economy, with strong social consensus and low inequality.
- Libertarian
Objectivism
Philosophy created by Ayn Rand that exalts reason, individualism, and rational egoism, defending laissez-faire capitalism and the pursuit of one's own happiness as the supreme moral purpose of each person's life.
- Center
Ordoliberalism
German liberal school that defends the free market within firm rules guaranteed by the state, fighting monopolies and ensuring competition and stability, serving as the basis of the social market economy.
- Right
Paleoconservatism
American traditionalist right, of Buchanan and Kirk, defending Christian heritage, localism and states' rights, immigration restriction, protectionism and non-interventionism, against neoconservatives and the managerial state.
- Libertarian
Paleolibertarianism
Branch that combines radical free markets with traditional, conservative cultural values, defending economic freedom, property, and autonomous local communities against the state and progressivism.
- Right
Pan-Islamism
Ideology advocating the political unity of Muslims above national borders, around the ummah and the ideal of a caliphate, formulated by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and adopted by Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II against European colonialism.
- Right
Paternalistic Conservatism
Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
- Radical left
Patriotic Socialism
Current that joins a state-run socialist economy and a strong party with patriotism, the traditional family, religion as national heritage and rejection of cultural progressivism, seeing identity politics as a liberal distraction from class struggle.
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