Internationalist Socialism
Branch of socialism advocating the global unity of working people against capitalism, rejecting bourgeois nationalism, and defending international working-class solidarity.
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Branch of socialism advocating the global unity of working people against capitalism, rejecting bourgeois nationalism, and defending international working-class solidarity.
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I want the global unity of working people against capitalism, overcoming national borders through collective ownership and cooperative planning.
Political axes
Leans further toward progressive than 93% of the 271 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

Organizer of the Red Army, Trotsky championed permanent revolution and internationalism, becoming the main left-wing opponent of Stalinist bureaucratization until he was exiled and assassinated in Mexico.
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The world's first socialist state, the USSR was a single-party federation with a planned economy and centralized power, becoming a global superpower and the pole of communism during the Cold War.
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A constituent country of the United Kingdom with its own parliament (Senedd), Wales combines official Welsh-English bilingualism, a post-industrial labour and trade-union tradition, universal public healthcare, and a nationalist Plaid Cymru government since 2026.
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The revolutionary government that held Paris for 72 days in 1871, the Commune established direct democracy with recallable mandates, workers' self-management of workshops, separation of Church and state, and equal pay, becoming a symbol of communal socialism.
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Democratic transhumanism combining public oversight of technology with social justice, defending human enhancement, radical life extension, morphological freedom and universal sharing of the gains from automation.
A post-capitalist techno-socialist synthesis accelerating AI, automation, and cybernetics to reduce compulsory work, socialize abundance, and plan an economy beyond capital; it combines universalism and decommodification with radically progressive social transformation.
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 centralism of vanguard parties.
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An anti-Leninist Marxist current of Pannekoek, Gorter and Mattick, which holds that workers themselves should run production and power through workers' councils, rejecting the vanguard party, the state and parliamentarism.
Synthesis of anarchist currents centered on the liberation of body and identity, uniting the critique of patriarchy and of gender and sexuality norms with an openness to technology as a tool of emancipation, all under the rejection of the state, capitalism, and every imposed hierarchy.
Left-libertarian branch that unites broad individual freedom with collective or shared ownership of resources, defending autonomy, cooperation, and the rejection of both the authoritarian state and capital.
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FeudalismFar-Right26%