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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In one sentence
I want a socialist society devoted to the sovereignty and interests of its own nation, under strong leadership, not internationalism.
Political axes
Profile across the 12 axes
- Very strong · Unitary
Structure
- Strong · Autocracy
Representation
- Very strong · Security
Power
- Strong · Assimilation
Immigration
- Strong · Militarist
Diplomacy
- Balanced
Intervention
- Very strong · Public
Economy
- Very strong · Planning
Control
- Strong · Protectionism
Trade
- Strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Strong · Traditionalist
Morality
- Strong · Technology
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Representation
Leans further toward autocracy than 89% of the 243 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 58This ideology 15
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Intervention
On Intervention, it sits close to the catalog median.
Ideology median 53This ideology 48
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Kim Il-sung
Founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung created the Juche doctrine of national self-reliance and established a single-party regime with a cult of the leader that fuses communism, nationalism, and hereditary dynastic power.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyWalter UlbrichtCommunist leader98%
SociallyKim Jong UnDictator97%
EconomicallyMao ZedongRevolutionary100%
Other compatible profiles
PoliticsFidel CastroRevolutionary95%
PoliticsXi JinpingStatesman94%
PoliticsJoseph StalinDictator94%
PoliticsSaddam HusseinDictator93%
PoliticsGamal Abdel NasserPresident of Egypt93%
PoliticsGetúlio VargasStatesman92%
PoliticsBashar al-AssadDictator91%
PoliticsQin Shi HuangFirst Emperor of China91%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
North Korea
Dynastic-autarkic totalitarianismA totalitarian single-party state, North Korea maintains a planned economy, international isolation, and a cult of the Kim dynasty, uniting communism, nationalism, and the self-reliance doctrine known as Juche.
Other close countries
North Korea
Dynastic-autarkic totalitarianismA totalitarian single-party state, North Korea maintains a planned economy, international isolation, and a cult of the Kim dynasty, uniting communism, nationalism, and the self-reliance doctrine known as Juche.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyChinaOne-party industrial socialism93%
SociallyBelarusStatist-personalist autocracy91%
EconomicallyCubaOne-party egalitarian socialism99%
The most distant
Nasser's Egypt
1954–1970Under Nasser, Egypt was a nationalist, developmentalist republic that nationalized strategic sectors, led pan-Arabism, and united Arab socialism, agrarian reform, and strong leadership in the Middle East.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyMaoist China1949–197695%
SociallyEast Germany1949–199096%
EconomicallySoviet Union (USSR)1922–1991100%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Radical Left
- Radical Left
Juche Socialism
North Korean doctrine formulated by Kim Il-sung that combines state socialism, national self-reliance, single-party rule, a cult of the leader, militarization, and rejection of external dependence, subordinating economy and society to the regime's sovereignty.
- 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.
- Radical Left
Blanquist Socialism
Auguste Blanqui's doctrine that a conspiratorial revolutionary minority should seize power and rule through a provisional dictatorship that expropriates the bourgeoisie, with militant atheism and distrust of elections and of spontaneous mass action.
Closest in other spectrums
- 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.
- Third Position
Red Fascism
Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
- Third Position
Ba'athist Socialism
An Arab current of state socialism combining pan-Arab nationalism, a vanguard party, planning, land reform and control of strategic sectors, advocating Arab unity, secularism and independence from imperialism.
The most distant ideology
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