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Applies the Dharma to politics: Ashoka's righteous king, Schumacher's Buddhist economics, Buddhadasa's Dhammic socialism and Bhutan's Gross National Happiness. It prioritizes nonviolence, moderate consumption, community and harmony with nature.
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I want a society guided by the Dharma and nonviolence, with righteous rulers, moderate consumption and a community economy in harmony with nature.
Political topics
Leans further toward federal than 73% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the 14th Dalai Lama champions nonviolence, Tibetan autonomy through the middle way, democratization of the exiled community, and dialogue between science and religion.
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A small Himalayan kingdom, Bhutan combines a Buddhist constitutional monarchy, strong protection of traditional culture and nature, and Gross National Happiness as its compass of government, with cautious openness to the outside world.
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An autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland has its own government and parliament, an Inuit majority, a fishing economy sustained by Danish subsidies, public health and education, a debate over independence and an Arctic contest over minerals and military bases.
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Under Allende's Popular Unity, Chile attempted democratic socialism through copper and bank nationalization, agrarian reform, and economic planning until the 1973 military coup.
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Current that values community bonds, traditions, and the common good above individualism, holding that justice and identity arise from life in community and the responsibilities people share.
Position that opposes genetic manipulation and the technological enhancement of the human body, defending ethical limits on science in the name of dignity, human nature, and prudence toward the future.
Branch that unites conservatism and environmental protection, defending the preservation of nature as part of the tradition and heritage to be passed on to future generations, with prudence toward change.
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Neo-Zapatista movement that emerged in 1994 in southern Mexico, combining indigenous autonomy, direct democracy through assemblies and caracoles, cooperative subsistence economy, and refusal to seize state power, summed up as 'lead by obeying'.
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 to Ne Win's Burmese socialism.
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 balance.
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Techno-MonarchismFar-Right29%