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 topics
Profile across mindedfolk
- Very strong · Unitary
Structure
- Strong · Autocracy
Representation
- Strong · Security
Power
- Balanced
Immigration
- Balanced
Nationalism
- Strong · Public
Economy
- Leaning · Planning
Free market
- Strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Leaning · Progressive
Morality
- Strong · Technology
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Representation
Leans further toward autocracy than 76% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 60This ideology 25
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Nationalism
On Nationalism, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Ideology median 54This ideology 57
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
PoliticallyHoward ScottEngineer97%
SociallyJosip Broz TitoStatesman97%
EconomicallyPablo PicassoPainter100%
Other compatible profiles
PoliticsMiguel Díaz-CanelPresident of Cuba97%
PoliticsHo Chi MinhRevolutionary and statesman95%
Intellectual lifeDomenico LosurdoMarxist historian and philosopher95%
Political theoryHenri de Saint-SimonThinker95%
EconomicsOskar LangeEconomist95%
ActivismLuís Carlos PrestesCommunist leader95%
BusinessRong YirenIndustrialist and state executive95%
Political theoryAntonio GramsciMarxist theorist94%
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
Cuba
One-party egalitarian socialismA single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyShenzhen (China)Tech-export special economic zone92%
SociallyChongqing (China)Industrial dirigiste municipality88%
EconomicallyVermont (United States)Progressive-communal region100%
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
PoliticallyEast Germany1949–199090%
SociallySocialist Yugoslavia1945–199297%
EconomicallyAnarchist Aragon and Catalonia1936–1939100%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Center
- Center
Technocracy
Model of government in which decisions are made by experts and technical, scientific criteria, entrusting engineers, economists, and scientists with the rational and efficient management of the state and the economy.
- Center
Tridemism
Sun Yat-sen's republican doctrine, articulated in the Three Principles of the People: nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood. Its program envisioned transitional political tutelage, popular sovereignty, and social and economic reforms.
- Center
Third Way
1990s renewal of the center-left under Blair, Clinton and Giddens that accepts globalized markets and fiscal discipline, replaces welfare with work activation, is tough on crime and backs liberal interventions.
Closest in other spectrums
- Left
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 dependence.
- Radical Left
Vietnamese Socialism
Model of the Communist Party of Vietnam uniting Ho Chi Minh Thought, anticolonial national liberation and the 1986 Đổi Mới: single-party rule, a socialist-oriented market economy, a dominant state sector and openness to global trade.
- Left
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 to class struggle or revolution.
The most distant ideology
Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian30%