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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In one sentence
I want the global unity of working people against capitalism, overcoming national borders through collective ownership and cooperative planning.
Political axes
Profile across the twelve axes
- Leaning · Federal
Structure
- Very strong · Democracy
Representation
- Strong · Liberty
Power
- Very strong · Multiculturalism
Immigration
- Strong · Pacifist
Diplomacy
- Strong · Non-interventionist
Intervention
- Very strong · Public
Economy
- Strong · Planning
Control
- Leaning · Globalism
Trade
- Very strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Strong · Progressive
Morality
- Leaning · Technology
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Morality
Leans further toward progressive than 93% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 43This ideology 87
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Technology
On Technology, it sits close to the catalog median.
Ideology median 58This ideology 69
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Leon Trotsky
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.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyNick SrnicekPolitical theorist97%
SociallyAlex WilliamsPolitical theorist97%
EconomicallyKarl MarxPhilosopher and economist97%
Other compatible profiles
Political theoryCharles FourierSocialist philosopher96%
ActivismRicardo Flores MagónAnarcho-communist revolutionary96%
ActivismAlexander BerkmanAnarcho-communist activist and writer95%
Political theoryAnton PannekoekMarxist theorist95%
Intellectual lifeAlbert EinsteinTheoretical physicist95%
ActivismKarl LiebknechtRevolutionary95%
PhilosophyMichel FoucaultPhilosopher95%
PhilosophyJean-Paul SartrePhilosopher94%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
Soviet Union (USSR)
1922–1991The 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.
Other close countries
California (United States)
Techno-progressive regionThe 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.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyScotland (United Kingdom)Independentist social-democratic nation89%
SociallyMassachusetts (United States)Academic-progressive region88%
EconomicallyGreenland (Denmark)Arctic-social autonomous territory89%
The most distant
Paris Commune
março–maio de 1871The 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.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyAnarchist Aragon and Catalonia1936–193991%
SociallyFree Territory (Makhnovshchina)1918–192185%
EconomicallySocialist Yugoslavia1945–199286%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Radical Left
- Radical Left
Marxist Socialism
Marx's original doctrine, analyzing history as class struggle and predicting capitalism's overcoming through proletarian revolution, with abolition of private ownership of the means of production and strong criticism of religion.
- Radical Left
Communism
Final stage theorized by Marx and Engels: a classless, stateless society without private ownership of the means of production, with collective production and distribution according to need, superseding capitalism and the transitional socialist phase.
- Radical Left
Federalist Socialism
Model of a federation of socialist republics under a vanguard party, as in Lenin's USSR, combining a planned economy and single-party rule with national autonomy, local languages and cultures, and federated republics with a formal right to secede.
Closest in other spectrums
- Anarchist
Council Communism
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.
- Anarchist
Anarcho-Progressivism
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
Left Accelerationism
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.
The most distant ideology
FeudalismFar-Right26%