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Luxemburgist Socialism
Democratic Marxism inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, which unites revolution and freedom, values the spontaneity of the masses and the general strike, and criticizes both reformism and the authoritarian cen…
Dengist Socialism
Pragmatic reform initiated by Deng Xiaoping that introduced markets, private property, and economic opening under the absolute control of the Communist Party, forming the model of socialism with Chine…
Left-Wing Technocracy
Model that combines socialist planning with scientific management of the economy, entrusting expert committees, rather than elections or party competition, with the rational organization of production…
Social Liberalism
Branch that combines individual freedoms with strong state action to guarantee welfare, education, and healthcare, defending equal opportunity and social security within the market economy.
State Liberalism
Liberal current that accepts an active role for the state in the economy and in guaranteeing rights, combining individual freedoms and markets with regulation and public policies aimed at the collecti…
Environmentalism
Movement dedicated to protecting the environment and the sustainable use of resources, advocating policies against pollution and climate change and harmony between human development and ecological bal…
Progressivism
Current that advocates social reforms and the expansion of rights to promote equality and justice, trusting progress, science, and collective action to transform institutions and overcome inequalities…
Indigenism
Current that values indigenous peoples and their rights, defending autonomy, territory, culture, and political participation, along with development models and a plurinational state that respect their…
Syndicalism
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipa…
Market Socialism
System in which collectively or publicly owned enterprises compete in markets, uniting the efficiency of competition with the socialist distribution of profits, without the rigid central planning of s…
Christian Labourism
Branch that combines the defense of workers and social justice with Christian values, promoting labor rights, solidarity, and social protection within democracy, inspired by the social doctrine of the…
Christian Social Democracy
Current that turns the Gospel into reforms within democracy, defending a welfare state, labor rights, unions and redistribution without breaking with the market or with liberal institutions.
Social Democracy
Current that seeks to reconcile capitalism and social justice through democracy, defending regulated markets, a strong welfare state, labor rights, and redistribution to reduce social inequalities.
Socialism
Broad doctrine that advocates social or collective ownership of the means of production and economic planning to overcome capitalist exploitation, accepting both the revolutionary and the reformist ro…
Liberal Socialism
Current that unites socialist goals of equality and social justice with the defense of individual freedoms and democracy, combining strong social protection with pluralism, civil rights, and a mixed e…
Eco-Socialism
Current that fuses socialism and ecology, attributing the environmental crisis to capitalism and defending collective, sustainable, and democratic production that respects the limits of nature and soc…
Deep Ecology
Current that attributes intrinsic value to all life and not only to human beings, defending a profound change of values, the reduction of human impact, and respect for the balance of the planet's ecos…
Labourism
Current that defends workers' interests within democracy, promoting labor rights, social security, strong unions, and income distribution through reforms and the welfare state.
Christian Progressivism
Current that unites Christian faith with the defense of social justice, rights, and reforms, seeing in the Gospel a call to solidarity, equality, and care for the poor and marginalized of society and …
State Developmentalism
Model in which the state directs industrialization and economic growth through planning, public investment, and industrial protection, seeking to overcome the nation's backwardness and external depend…
Progressive Nationalism
Current that unites national sovereignty, economic protection, and popular integration with progressive social reforms, seeking a state capable of defending the nation while expanding rights, equality…
Bolivarian Socialism
Latin American project that combines popular nationalism, anti-imperialism, social redistribution, and strong presidential leadership, using the state and strategic resources to promote sovereignty an…
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…
Left-Wing Populism
Current that mobilizes the people against economic elites, defending redistribution, public control, national sovereignty, plebiscitary democracy, and broad social policy in popular anti-establishment…
Left-Wing Pragmatism
Branch that seeks concrete social results by negotiating with the market and existing institutions, prioritizing responsible fiscal austerity, targeted social policy, and governability over revolution…
Progressive Liberalism
Current that unites market capitalism and globalized trade with a robust welfare state, advocating progressive morality, secularism, and democratic institutions, in the Nordic social model.
Left Accelerationism
Current formulated by Srnicek and Williams that seeks to accelerate automation and reclaim technology for the left, advocating the end of work, universal basic income and shorter working hours toward …
Lassallean Socialism
Socialist current that seeks to emancipate workers through the national state itself, with universal suffrage, producer cooperatives funded by public money and an explicit refusal of the revolutionary…
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 …
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 t…
Democratic Socialism
Current that seeks to move beyond capitalism through elections, with social ownership of large firms, cooperatives and workplace democracy, rejecting both the vanguard party and mere social democratic…
Quilombism
Political project developed by Abdias Nascimento from the history of Brazil's quilombos. It advocates racial equality, Afro-Brazilian self-determination, participatory democracy, a cooperative economy…
Social-Developmentalism
Model associated with Brazil's Workers' Party governments that seeks growth with social inclusion, combining rising minimum wages, popular credit, cash transfers and public banks without breaking with…
Keynesian Liberalism
Current inspired by John Maynard Keynes that accepts markets and liberal democracy but gives the state the task of managing demand, with countercyclical public spending, full employment as a goal and …
Labor Zionism
The socialist strand of Zionism that built the State of Israel through the kibbutzim, the Histadrut labor federation, and Ben-Gurion's Mapai party, uniting Jewish nationalism, collective work on the l…
Buddhist Socialism
A current that grounds socialism in Buddhist ethics, seeing compassion and the end of attachment as the basis of equality, common property and the rejection of caste, from Ambedkar and the Dalai Lama …
Democratic Confederalism
A bottom-up self-government model of Abdullah Öcalan, with local assemblies federated into a confederation, ecology, gender equality and a cooperative economy, without a nation-state, put into practic…
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