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 76% of the 271 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 61This 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
PoliticallyMiguel Díaz-CanelPresident of Cuba97%
SociallyJosip Broz TitoStatesman97%
EconomicallyPablo PicassoPainter100%
Other compatible profiles
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EconomicsOskar LangeEconomist95%
BusinessRong YirenIndustrialist and state executive95%
Political theoryHenri de Saint-SimonThinker94%
ActivismLuís Carlos PrestesCommunist leader94%
PoliticsKwame NkrumahPresident of Ghana and Pan-Africanist93%
Political theoryAntonio GramsciMarxist theorist93%
PoliticsHo Chi MinhRevolutionary and statesman93%
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
Shenzhen (China)
Tech-export special economic zoneChina's first Special Economic Zone, created by Deng Xiaoping in 1980, Shenzhen went from fishing village to global technology and manufacturing hub (Huawei, Tencent, DJI), with a dynamic market under Communist Party oversight.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyCubaOne-party egalitarian socialism90%
SociallyVenezuelaStatist-socialist authoritarianism89%
EconomicallyVermont (United States)Progressive-communal region98%
The most distant
Cuba under Fidel Castro
1959–2008Ruled by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 2008, Cuba became a one-party socialist state, with a nationalized economy, universal health and education, a Soviet alliance, repression of dissidents, mass exile and confrontation with the United States, from the embargo to the missile crisis.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyCárdenas's Mexico1934–194091%
SociallySocialist Yugoslavia1945–199297%
EconomicallyAnarchist Aragon and Catalonia1936–1939100%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
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