Ideologies: Difference between revisions

[[File:Flag of Kurdistan.svg|x14px]] [[Musa Anter]]<br/>

[[Abdullah al-Sallal]]<br/>

[[François Tombalbaye]]<br/>

[[Leopold Takawira]]<br/>

[[Jaramogi Oginga Odinga]]<br/>

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|[[File:Socialist guevarism subtype.png|center|frameless]]<center>Guevarism

|"Of all the colorful personalities that took part in the Cuban Revolution, only one ever reached Fidel Castro's international fame - the Argentine Marxist known as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. His ideas have come to be known as Guevarism. In its current context, Guevarism is an umbrella term for a variety of leftist movements whose chief distinction is their organization around the Revolutionary Coordination Junta and Guevara as a rallying figurehead. Radically breaking from all mainstream communist thought, Guevarism outright rejects the need for any established vanguard party to organize a Marxist revolution. Instead, small fast-moving bands of insurgents act as the vanguard themselves, mimicking Che's own experiences in the Cuban Revolution. Through generating discontent among the peasant class, propagandizing, and guerrilla warfare, the insurgents will put enough pressure on any corrupt and oligarchic political system to stir the populace into armed rebellion. Its fundamentally unifying tenets are an inherent focus on the peasantry and rural areas over the traditional urban workers, armed struggle, internationalism, and a belief in revolutionary willpower - that any group of sufficiently motivated militants will find success. Guevarism has mostly found success in Latin America as the mainstream strand of leftist revolutionary thought, but it lacks a formal doctrine due to its internationalist nature, and in consequence, the many differences in thought within the organizations tied to the Junta.

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|[[File:Socialist nasserism subtype.png|center|frameless]]<center>Nasserism

|[[File:Socialist african socialism subtype.png|center|frameless]]<center>African Socialism

|They talk of the failure of socialism, but where is the success of capitalism in Africa? African Socialism is an ideology formed as a result of the sudden independence achieved by many former French and British colonies in the wake of the Second World War. Instead of following their former colonizers in pursuing a capitalist model, African Socialists sought out an ideology that was more afrocentric. The main distinction between African Socialism and more classical strains of socialism is the focus on the sharing of economic resources in a traditional African way. Some African Socialists believe that Africa's background in tribal community life excludes the validity of the theory of class struggle, and makes socialism the natural way of life for African nations. While pan-Africanist, this form of African Socialism does not conform to the ideology adhered to by Cameroon. This form of African Socialism is much more grassroots and decentralized. Seeking a more moderate path, this strain of African Socialism seeks to respect local African traditions and structures. It is also not focused on expansionism, unlike the Cameroonian brand, although it is not necessarily opposed to violence."

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|[[File:Socialist islamic socialism subtype.png|center|frameless]]<center>Islamic Socialism

|Look at all religions. Look at Moses. Did Moses not rebel before the three symbols? Korah, was the greatest capitalist of his time. Balaam, the greatest priest of the deviated religion of multi-theism. And the Pharaoh, the greatest symbol of political power of his time. Did he not arise against the status quo?" - Ali Shariati\n\nThe rise of Islam represented the greatest political, social, and economic revolution to have ever rocked the Arabian peninsula and the world at large. The self-serving and corrupt polytheism that came before it was uprooted from every crevice of Arabian society, and a new revolutionary order that promised a more egalitarian state of affairs and served to unify the disparate tribes of Arabia into one whole would come to be. And yet to many, among them, Abu Dhur al-Ghiffari, a companion of the prophet, the accumulation of wealth that followed the death of the Islamic Prophet was nothing but a bastardization of Islamic doctrine and ideals.\n\nDrawing upon this analysis, the enshrined principle of Zakat and the revolutionary nature of the First Islamic State, the Islamic socialists - be they Sunnis or Shiites - aim to liberate the Ummah from the chains of capitalism and the reactionary culture of self-indulgence and exploitation that it perpetuates. And from upon the ruins of the capitalist system, the old Ummah will be morphed into a revolutionary, social, and anti-colonial community that redistributes its wealth equitably, ensures that no one person is left hungry, unclothed or without shelter and that no toiler is left uncompensated for their labor.

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|[[File:Socialist reformist socialism subtype.png|center|frameless]]<center>Reformist Socialism

|As much as the idealism of Socialism seeks to proselytize an egalitarian vision of humanity free from the shackles of capitalistic and demagogic imperialism, it is almost irrefutable that the first attempts to form Socialist societies were anything other than the product of violent extremism; between the sheer brutality of the Bolshevik Revolution, the vicious infighting that plagued the first Republic of China and the preeminent nightmare that arose from the Weimar Collapse, it is hard to find examples where global antipathy for social revolution is not tragically deserved. It is from the failures of Lenin and Bukharin that Reformist Socialism began to form; born from moralistic revulsion at the authoritarian tendencies of mainstream Communism, seeking to abolish the paranoiac and autocratic methods associated with the former Soviet Union and their imitators, they firmly believe that a peaceful revolution and transition to an idyllic, egalitarian society and economy can, and should be accomplished through reform over revolution and that through the popular support of the common people, the bloody beginnings of the Socialist Revolution can finally be redeemed.

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|[[File:Socialist buddhist socialism subtype.png|center|frameless]]<center>Buddhist Socialism

|Buddhist Socialism, sometimes also called Dhammic Socialism, refers to a wide range of views within Asia which in some way combine the economic and social equity associated with socialism and the traditional beliefs, precepts, and morals of Buddhist thinking. It is a broad term, not limited to a specific sect, and individuals who identify with the label hold varying convictions on democracy, monarchy, Marxism, and a number of other key issues. Buddhist Socialism was inspired in some images of Norodom Sihanouk, in others visions of Peljidiin Genden, and in others still, snapshots of Buddhadāsa Bhikku. However, this diversity in thought does not render the term useless, as Buddhist Socialism still refers to quite a specific political phenomenon. It represents a drive among a number of leaders and communities to modernize Buddhist thought and combine it with the influences of Western philosophies, yet so too does it represent a partial rejection of Western views on government requiring separation from a singular guiding religion. To a Buddhist socialist, the world Western socialists speak of is incompatible with their secular values, for how would a world of egalitarianism without the trappings of greed be possible but through the teachings of the Buddha?

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