Positivism
Current inspired by Auguste Comte that trusts science and reason to organize society, defending order, progress, and technical administration guided by knowledge in place of metaphysics and tradition.
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In one sentence
I want a society ruled by order and progress, run by technicians who replace tradition and metaphysics with science.
Political axes
Profile across the 12 axes
- Very strong · Unitary
Structure
- Strong · Autocracy
Representation
- Strong · Security
Power
- Balanced
Immigration
- Leaning · Pacifist
Diplomacy
- Balanced
Intervention
- Strong · Public
Economy
- Leaning · Planning
Control
- Leaning · Protectionism
Trade
- Strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Leaning · Progressive
Morality
- Strong · Technology
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Representation
Leans further toward autocracy than 75% of the 243 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 58This ideology 25
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Intervention
On Intervention, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Ideology median 53This ideology 53
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Auguste Comte
A French philosopher, Comte founded positivism and sociology, holding that science should organize society toward order and progress, with strong influence on republican and technocratic thought.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyHoward ScottEngineer95%
SociallyJosip Broz TitoStatesman97%
EconomicallyPablo PicassoPainter100%
Other compatible profiles
EconomicsOskar LangeEconomist95%
BusinessRong YirenIndustrialist and state executive95%
Political theoryHenri de Saint-SimonThinker94%
ActivismLuís Carlos PrestesCommunist leader94%
Political theoryAntonio GramsciMarxist theorist93%
PoliticsHo Chi MinhRevolutionary and statesman93%
PoliticsJános KádárDictator92%
PoliticsHu JintaoGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party92%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
Brazil (Vargas Era)
1930–1945Under Vargas, Brazil experienced a nationalist, developmentalist regime that promoted state-directed industrialization, labor legislation, and the centralization of power, laying the foundations of Brazilian labourism.
Other close countries
Cuba
One-party egalitarian socialismA single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyVietnamOne-party reformist socialism90%
SociallyVenezuelaStatist-socialist authoritarianism89%
EconomicallySenegalSovereigntist presidential republic98%
The most distant
Cárdenas's Mexico
1934–1940Government of the Cardenista peak, marking the institutionalized Mexican Revolution through oil nationalization, ejido land reform, worker-peasant incorporation, popular secularism, and strong presidential leadership.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyKádár's Hungary1956–198990%
SociallySocialist Yugoslavia1945–199297%
EconomicallyAnarchist Aragon and Catalonia1936–1939100%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
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- Center
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- Center
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Model of government in which decisions are made by experts and technical, scientific criteria, entrusting engineers, economists, and scientists with the rational and efficient management of the state and the economy.
- Center
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Closest in other spectrums
- Left
State Developmentalism
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- Radical Left
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- Left
Utopian Socialism
Early 19th-century current that envisioned an industrial society reorganized by rational planning, led by scientists, engineers and producers, replacing politicians and aristocrats without appealing to class struggle or revolution.
The most distant ideology
PaleolibertarianismLibertarian33%