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A plural critique of universalism, linear progress, and grand narratives. In a Foucauldian reading, genealogy and power/knowledge analysis show how institutions, norms, and discourses produce subjects and open possibilities for local resistance.
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I want to show how power and knowledge produce truths and subjects, challenge norms that discipline life, and make room for local resistance.
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Leans further toward liberty than 91% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Power is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A French philosopher, Foucault analyzed prisons, sexuality, medicine, and modern knowledge as forms of disciplinary power, becoming a reference for critiques of social normalization, institutions of control, and cultural hierarchies.
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A European semi-presidential republic, France combines a strong republican and secular tradition, a robust welfare state, a mixed economy, and a prominent diplomatic, cultural, and military role in the European Union and the world.
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The most populous US state, California is a global hub of technology and culture, with strongly progressive, environmentalist, and technocratic politics and a gigantic, innovative market economy.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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Political doctrine advocating solidarity and cooperation among nations, overcoming nationalism, and strengthening global institutions for shared peace and development.
Synthesis of Georgism and socialism advocating the socialization of economic rent from land and natural monopolies to fund universal public services and a citizen dividend.
Current that unites socialist goals of equality and social justice with the defense of individual freedoms and democracy, combining strong social protection with pluralism, civil rights, and a mixed economy.
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Synthesis of anarchism and Georgism that rejects the state but treats land and natural resources as commons, defending that their rent be shared by the whole community in a free and egalitarian way.
Philosophy that rejects the state and all coercive authority, defending the free organization of society through voluntary associations, cooperation, and self-management, with freedom and equality as central values.
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.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right28%