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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.
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I want a self-reliant, militarized society, guided by Juche under a single party and a cult of the leader, dependent on no one abroad.
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Leans further toward militarist than 98% of the 243 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Diplomacy is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
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.
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A 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.
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A 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.
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Under Mao, revolutionary China was a single-party communist state, with a collectivized economy and permanent mass mobilization, marked by campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
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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.
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 agrarian communism of the Khmer Rouge that emptied cities, abolished money and markets, and pursued an egalitarian peasant society by force, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
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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.
An ultranationalist doctrine of national rebirth that rejects liberalism and Marxism, exalts the totalitarian state, regenerative violence and the leader cult, and treats the nation as a secular religion, with variants beyond the Italian regime that named it.
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.
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