Platonism

Doctrine of rule by the best, which entrusts power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule, which it sees as a risk to competence.

Stance that rejects modernity and seeks to restore the pre-revolutionary order, defending monarchy, religion, tradition, and hierarchy against Enlightenment rationalism, liberalism, and democracy.

Conception that defines the nation by shared origin, language and descent, defending a state for the majority ethnic group and the preservation of its identity, which usually implies membership criteria tied to ancestry.

Doctrine that grounds political order in the ruler's virtue, ritual hierarchy and filial piety, favouring bureaucratic merit and moral education over coercive law or popular participation.

Current that unites a socialist economy with traditional values, defending social protection and a strong state role alongside family, order, and customs, far from the cultural progressivism of liberal lefts.

Spanish authoritarian nationalism of Catholic and syndicalist inspiration, advocating a corporatist state, national unity, and social hierarchy, becoming the ideological pillar of Franco's regime in Spain.