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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Absolute Monarchism
Political position placing supreme governing authority in a monarch, with ordinary political institutions subordinate to the crown. Historical defenses differ in their accounts of legitimacy and duties; absolute sovereignty need not imply that a ruler is considered free of every moral or religious obligation.
- Radical left
African Socialism
Current of Sankara, Samora Machel, Nkrumah and Nyerere joining pan-Africanism, Black consciousness, anticolonial struggle, agrarian collectivization and self-reliance against neocolonialism and racism.
- Anarchist
Agrarian Anarchism
Anarchist branch centered on the countryside, defending autonomous rural communities, collective ownership of land, and peasant cooperation, rejecting the state and land concentration in favor of self-management.
- Radical left
Agrarian Communism
Revolutionary model that idealizes peasant life and collective rural production, rejecting cities, markets, and private property in favor of an equality imposed by state mobilization and communal discipline.
- Radical left
Agrarian Socialism
Current that builds socialism from the countryside, with a single party, collectivization into villages and cooperatives, food self-sufficiency and protection of land and forests, as in Nyerere's Ujamaa.
- Right
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.
- Right
Alt-Lite
More moderate branch of the alternative right, nationalist and anti-globalist, which rejects explicit racial supremacism but defends cultural identity, criticism of immigration, and the fight against political correctness.
- Right
American Conservatism
Platform of the Republican Party, combining border security and deportations, tariffs and industrial protectionism, tax cuts and deregulation, gun rights, Christian values and returning abortion to the states.
- Anarchist
Anarchism
Family of political philosophies questioning the legitimacy of state rule and other imposed hierarchies. Political anarchists commonly favor voluntary association, self-management, and mutual aid, while differing on property, economics, and strategies for change.
- Libertarian
Anarcho-Capitalism
Current that proposes abolishing the state and organizing all of society through contracts and free markets, with security, justice, and services provided by competing private companies under absolute property rights.
- Anarchist
Anarcho-Communism
Current that unites anarchism and communism, proposing a society without state or private property, with collective production and distribution according to need, based on free association and mutual aid.
- Libertarian
Anarcho-Conservatism
Current that rejects the state but preserves tradition, religion, and community values, defending a spontaneous social order based on customs, family, and natural authority instead of central political power.
- Anarchist
Anarcho-Distributism
Synthesis of anarchism and distributism that defends the wide distribution of property and small-scale production, with autonomous communities and cooperatives organized without a state or large monopolies.
- Anarchist
Anarcho-Naturism
Anarchist branch linked to naturism that defends simple living in contact with nature, without a state or oppressive conventions, valuing individual autonomy, health, and harmony with the natural world.
- Anarchist
Anarcho-Pacifism
Anarchist branch that rejects the state and all violence, defending social transformation through nonviolent means, civil disobedience, and voluntary cooperation as the path to a free and just society.
- Anarchist
Anarcho-primitivism
Current of John Zerzan and Ted Kaczynski that sees industrial civilization and agriculture itself as the root of domination, calling for the end of modern technology and a return to small stateless hunter-gatherer communities.
- Anarchist
Anarcho-Progressivism
Synthesis of anarchist currents centered on the liberation of body and identity, uniting the critique of patriarchy and of gender and sexuality norms with an openness to technology as a tool of emancipation, all under the rejection of the state, capitalism, and every imposed hierarchy.
- Anarchist
Anarcho-Syndicalism
Current that sees revolutionary unions as the basis for overthrowing capitalism through direct action and the general strike, organizing production by the workers themselves in a free, stateless society.
- Left
Anti-Colonial Socialism
Socialist current born of national liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, defending economic sovereignty, resource nationalization, non-alignment, and solidarity among peoples of the Global South against imperialism.
- Right
Archeofuturism
A doctrine coined by Guillaume Faye that fuses archaic, hierarchical and traditionalist values — ethnic identity, spirituality and a warrior ethos — with an unreserved embrace of advanced technology, arguing that an approaching civilizational collapse will force humanity to combine tribal social order with hyper-modern science.
- Right
Aristocratic Liberalism
Liberalism before mass democracy: it guarantees civil liberty, property, a free press and a lean state, but restricts the vote to educated property owners, fearing that unlimited popular sovereignty would destroy the very liberties it protects.
- Right
Aristocratism
Doctrine of the rule of the best, entrusting power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule as surrendering the city to incompetence.
- Right
Aristotelianism
Aristotle's political philosophy, defending a mixed constitution of monarchical, aristocratic and popular elements to avoid both tyranny and radical democracy, reserving full citizenship for those with virtue, property and the education to deliberate.
- Center
Armed Pacifism
Armed neutrality that refuses alliances, interventions and foreign projection, yet sustains robust armed forces, compulsory service and prepared territorial defense, treating military strength as the guarantee of not being dragged into other nations wars.
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