Evolutionary Socialism

is the personal ideology of DuyQuangNguyenPham. He's economically center-left to  left-wing,  civically moderate,  culturally center-left,  patriotic,  internationalist, and  interculturalist. Evolutionary Socialism believes in widespread self-management with workers' cooperatives and firms under collective employee ownership through controlling shares in a market economy. To him, other forms of cooperatives (such as consumer or financial coops) are also good because they serve as an alternative to traditional private enterprises, and they fulfill social objectives. Some important industries will be nationalized, and a very significant portion of capital income will be socialized to provide a UBI.

On social issues, Evolutionary Socialism supports abortion rights,  LGBT rights,  decriminalizing marijuana, a reformed criminal justice system, etc. However, he recognizes that improvement in living standards might have to be prioritized before making society more progressive. People having more income could afford to give their children better educational opportunities. As the general population becomes more educated, they would be more culturally progressive over time.

On civic issues, he can be best described as a centrist. Although the people should enjoy civil liberties, the state should also be strong enough to protect its citizens from harm and ensure robust welfare.

Macroeconomic thought
Evolutionary Socialism is on the fence, unable to pick between  or. So he just incorporates Keynesian elements into a potential  market socialist society instead. That is, strategic tax cuts and increased spending during recessions; tax increases and decreased military spending during booms. He wishes to cut down debt to get a reasonable debt-to-GDP ratio while not compromising people's well-being.

He wants a creation of an independent central bank to tackle inflation.

[[File:PCB-Regulationism.png]] Regulations [[File:DvCoordination.png]]
Evolutionary Socialism has never liked the idea of a laissez-faire market. The concept that the government should just stay out of business matters and let supply and demand dictating everything seems alien to him. For this reason, he supports some regulations within the economy.

One of them is the economic constitution, similar to the one implemented in  West Germany. It's crucial for curtailing any monopoly and domestic cartels during and after the transition to market socialism to prevent spikes in the price for the consumers. Stock buybacks don't really increase productivity for the economy but just maximize profits for shareholders. Evolutionary Socialism plans to limit that behavior, perhaps makes it illegal.

This ideology supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour over five years. After that, the minimum wage will be indexed to the median wages. The slow rise in the wage floor will improve firm efficiency and reduce absenteeism. Even though millions may be out of jobs temporarily, tens of millions more will see a rise in compensation, reducing overall poverty.

Taxations
Evolutionary Socialism generally endorses a high amount of taxation to fund a comprehensive welfare state and generous public services for everyone. Here's the list of taxes that he would support. He strongly supports equality of opportunity and low inequality of outcome. And it is the combination of both broad-based taxation and strong social spending that can achieve that. Keeping inequality low can reduce crime rates, improve happiness or even increase economic growth.
 * Income tax (The top marginal income tax would be 70%.)
 * Capital gains tax (Eliminating step-up in basis is necessary.)
 * Payroll tax
 * Corporate tax (should be low)
 * Wealth tax (only applied to people with a vast amount of wealth, at a billion dollars or above)
 * Value-added tax (very difficult to evade and also raises much revenue)
 * Inheritance tax (should be high)
 * [[File:Georgist.png]] Land value tax
 * Carbon tax
 * The minimum corporate tax (can only be enforced internationally)

[[File:Synd.png]] Organized labor
Evolutionary Socialism pretty much supports the right for the workers to join a trade union. However, trade unions shouldn't strive to raise wages above the levels needed to reduce inflation. They're also required to disclose finances to minimize corruption for their members. And finally, any support for political parties must be approved by the majority of the workers inside any trade union.

Other than that, he recognizes the necessity of high unionization. It has been shown to increase firm productivity; and reduce racial resentment, suicide rates. Not only can unions improve working conditions for existing firms, but they can also form new cooperatives for the interest of workers.

[[File:Welf.png]] Welfare system [[File:Soclib.png]]
Universal healthcare is a moral imperative nowadays. He initially supports a public option competing with private health insurances to drive down costs. And once the people like how the public option is working out, he can then implement Medicare For All at state levels slowly until single-payer healthcare covers the entire nation comparable to the NHS in Britain. This model can substantially reduce the administrative costs for care. However, there will be campaigns advising people not to abuse this system for the common good. Excise taxation on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages is also needed to reduce diseases and promote good health.

The schools are free at the point of service and compulsory for children between the age of six and eighteen. Banning political propaganda is obligatory to ensure an informed populace. For housing, Evolutionary Socialism wants to follow the model in Finland. He will increase the supply of affordable rental housing to provide to the homeless. Solving any personal issues is much easier with a roof over your head. Furthermore, he also defends universal child allowance to prepare citizens for the future.

Evolutionary Socialism recognizes the role of private charities, but figures that it might not be enough for the community. Overall, if this ideology wants to add welfare, it needs to be universalist like in the Nordic countries. Universality ensures that the programs are much harder to remove and far less likely to produce stigma, as every person has benefited from these policies.

[[File:PCB-Dsa.png]] The movement to socialism [[File:Demsocstar.png]]
Evolutionary Socialism prefers an accretionist route to market socialism, especially under  liberal democratic governments. He really liked the concept of "provisional utopia" by Ernst Wigforss (an early social democrat.) The idea is that a flexible utopian goal would be set for incremental policies to strive toward. Under a very authoritarian government that disregards the will of the people, he wants to pursue a non-violent revolution first. But if the power that be still cracked down on the protests and refused to step down, then the violent revolution would be used as a last resort. Because of this, he is not completely reformist, and supports the following revolutions:
 * -|Reform or Revolution?=
 * [[File:Cball-US.png]] American Revolution
 * [[File:Hochi.png]] August Revolution
 * [[File:Castro.png]] Cuban Revolution (against [[File:Nazcapf.png]] Batista's military dictatorship)
 * [[File:Cball-Hungary.png]] Hungarian Uprising (against [[File:Stalin.png]] Stalinist hardliners)
 * [[File:Cball-Portugal.png]] Carnation Revolution
 * [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Velvet Revolution

As a market socialist, Evolutionary Socialism would want the social economy to expand to be dominant. Here are some policies to facilitate the transformation.
 * -|Co-ops=

Creation of new coops

 * Fund additional research into the effects of cooperatives.
 * Formalize new laws for the worker, multi-stakeholder, and consumer cooperatives.
 * Encourage colleges to provide cooperative education and training programs. More awareness of the cooperative model means an increased supply of specialized cooperative labor.
 * Temporarily cut capital gains tax for owners who have sold their enterprise to the workers.
 * The workers are prioritized to buy a company facing dissolution or liquidation (right of first refusal.)
 * The redundant employees can use their accumulated unemployment benefits with other employees to make a worker buy-out (Marcora Law.)
 * The Workers’ Bank is set up by the national government to aid workers with converting private businesses into democratic ones by providing interest-free loans to cover the remaining costs.

Expansion of existing coops

 * Lower the corporate tax rates for cooperatives.
 * Mandate that cooperatives pay 3% of their profits to any cooperative development fund managed by cooperative federations they like (if there is one.)
 * Require that cooperatives join any cooperative federation they like to access additional technical assistance (if there is one.)
 * Set up independently managed banks owned at all levels of government. They would issue grants to cooperatives and are funded by capital asset taxes. The grants would increase the capital assets tax burden on those firms.

Preservation of coops

 * Any profits in the indivisible reserve have even less corporate tax (or ideally, no taxation.) Indivisible reserves act as a disincentive for cooperatives to demutualize.
 * Workers' rights legislation is implemented to prevent abuse against newer workers having yet to become worker-owners.
 * Encourage cooperative firms to bolster cooperative education (about democratic governance) and implementation of internal capital accounts to combat degeneration into capitalist firms.
 * -|Employee funds=

The Meidner Plan
To put this into context, the creation of these mutual funds holding stocks on behalf of the workers can only happen after strong unionization, co-determination, and sectoral bargaining to ensure a solidaristic wage policy. A social wealth fund is a state-owned investment fund that invests in many assets like natural resources, stocks, bonds, real estate, and equity stakes.
 * Limit capital flows out of the country to prevent devastating capital flight.
 * Create several employee funds that will gain 10% of big companies' profits to buy their shares over time. The process will continue until sectoral trade unions gain a controlling share, allowing collective employee ownership.
 * Further expand worker representation in big businesses until the majority of representatives in corporate boards are elected by the workers.
 * -|SWF=

Financing mechanism

 * Some taxes can be earmarked for SWF investment, such as carbon taxes, land value taxes, inheritance taxes, etc.
 * The Treasury could issue bonds at a low rate for the SWF.

The structure of SWF

 * We should have multiple separate mutual funds competing against each other as a way to reduce corruption.
 * It is possible to create a merit pay system to reward fund managers based on their returns.

The purpose of SWF
Worker ownership will be the most widespread mode of production instead of private firms, but there are exceptions. Consumer ownership will be most prevalent for small banks, utilities, housing, grocery stores, and digital platforms. Mixed ownership (multi-stakeholder cooperatives) is good in care work, where caregivers and care receivers both have a say in the delivery of services. As far as cooperative ownership goes, cooperative leagues should be able to help member coops scale upward more easily. The source for capital investment are crowdfunding, the bond market, non-profit community development corporations, churches, credit unions, public banks, and the social wealth fund. The stock market would be much more restrained. Only organized consumers and the SWF could gain voting shares in worker cooperatives, and other outside investors have no say in how the various types of cooperative businesses are run. The point is to radically reduce the influence of unaccountable shareholders and implement true economic democracy to complement our political democracy.
 * Such a fund can invest in places where the private sector can not reach, thus increasing the total saving rates of the country and boosting productivity growth.
 * Secondly, it allows society as a whole to own the wealth that we create, not just a minority of wealthy people. That would manifest as a small social dividend given to everyone when the SWFs accumulate enough assets.
 * -|My vision of a cooperative-based economy=

[[File:Gay.png]] LGBT rights [[File:PCB-Trans.png]]
He doesn't believe that it's right to mistreat a person differently just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. That's why discrimination against lesbian,  gay,  bisexual,  transgender, and  asexual individuals would be made illegal under his system. He would even allow pride parades, but on the condition that they have no nudity. Neopronouns and xenogenders won't be legally recognized, but discrimination against people identifying as those will still be illegal nonetheless.

He would go even further and argue that marriage should be available to every adult couple in society, a concept named marriage equality. It has been shown to help improve the lives of same-sex couples. However, some people might argue marriage was for procreation only. His response would be that homosexual and bisexual couples should be able to have offspring with their DNA thanks to advances in technology, and there are signs that this should eventually be a reality.

For a long time, Evolutionary Socialism has thought of gender dysphoria as the result of the mismatch between gender identity and sex at birth. For this reason, he has always been sympathetic toward transgender people and thus wants to expand access to gender-affirming healthcare, like puberty blockers below age 16, hormone replacement therapy above age 16, and sex reassignment surgery above age 18. Note that these services will be more accessible to transgender people with gender dysphoria than to transgender people without, due to his transmedicalism.

Last but not least, he believes that transgender people should be able to participate in sports, especially mixed-sex sports. States' attempts to ban trans women from participating might be well-meaning (assuming that they do care about the integrity of womens' sports) but he doesn't think that that is the solution. He would require that these aspiring transgender sportspeople transition and then measure their hormone levels to be appropriate before allowing them to compete. This strikes the balance between the inclusivity of legitimate transgender people in sports and meaningful competition.

[[File:Fem.png]] Feminism [[File:Mat.png]]
Evolutionary Socialism is an ardent feminist. That means he advocates expanding women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.

Firstly, he believes that women should be completely equal to men before the law. Violence and discrimination against women would become illegal, and women would enjoy the same political rights as men.

Secondly, he would want women to be freer from the constraints of traditional gender roles. That meant additional opportunities for them to seek employment, which is why he favors free childcare, which has been shown to increase maternal labor force participation rates.

Thirdly, Evolutionary Socialism endorses the expansion of paid family and medical leave to everyone. If affordable childcare gives women more freedom to be at work, then maternity leave allows them to care for their children when they want to. Keep-in-touch programs will be readily available, where leave-takers could still stay in contact with their workplace.

Lastly, he favors reproductive rights for women in general. He would support the legalization of first- and second-term abortions, while third-term abortions would be more regulated, except in cases where women are at risk, rape, incest, and fetal nonviability.

Despite this, being pro-choice isn't the same as pro-abortion, as he wants to reduce abortion incidence as well. Comprehensive sex education and affordable birth control are necessary for this to happen. In other words, he operates by the mantra "safe, legal, and rare" when it comes to abortion.

[[File:Policeism.png]] Criminal justice system [[File:Policeman.png]]
Private and for-profit prisons would want to keep as many prisoners with as little costs as they can to maximize profits. And this leads to [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036846.2020.1736501?journalCode=raec20#:~:text=2008.,compared%20to%20public%20prison%20inmates. higher] recidivism rates. Therefore, many of the detention centers should be publicly or municipally owned. As a constructivist, Evolutionary Socialism believes that socio-economic factors play a pretty significant role in determining the presence of crime. For example, poverty has been shown to correlate with violent crimes. Because of this, he advocates emphasizing rehabilitative policies as opposed to punitive ones. That can manifest as the abolition of the death penalty. There's no reason it would still be around in the Evolutionary Socialist world because the death penalty creates a risk of wrongful executions and doesn't really deliver justice to the families of the victims. Ideally, he wants to phase out the life without parole sentences as well. They are basically very delayed death penalties since the prisoners with those sentences will eventually die behind bars anyway. One way to achieve this is to restore parole eligibility to convicted murderers after they have served a minimum of a decade. This should encourage them to participate in educational and vocational programs to prepare for their eventual reintegration into society. And there's evidence that many of them do this when given a chance. On a side note, he wishes to end mandatory minimums. Firstly, they ignore the unique circumstances that each offender has been in to commit the crime. And secondly, that type of sentencing contributes to mass incarceration found in the United States. Might as well do away with it entirely. To Evolutionary Socialism, the reallocation of the funds from the police to social workers should be small in scope and can't be done universally. Most of the revenue going to social services needs to be from the increase of taxes. Anyways, he understands if someone rejects the "defunding the police" slogan because to be fair, it's pretty bad. More funding for social workers should enable the creation of a co-responder police model, which consists of mental health experts, other social service providers alongside police to 911 calls that require specific expertise. Further reduction of the chance of escalation of violent force is possible with mental health training programs for police officers. These measures would lead to the police crisis intervention team, which he wholeheartedly supports. He thinks the armored vehicles, rocket launchers, or grenades that the current police organizations carry can increase police brutality and hurt community trust. That's why he wants to demilitarize the police. And then there's also the problem with independent arbitration for the unionized police. This process has caused discipline instituted by police departments to decrease 52% of the time, even when the arbitrators agreed with the initial findings. Where's the accountability? There are two ways to reform arbitration. The first is to prevent arbitrators from conducting investigations on their own, so they can only decrease discipline if there's a huge error in the chief's process. The second is to allow arbitrators to be appointed by a democratically elected official so that they are accountable to the public. What's more, he endorses the creation of a national database to prevent fired officers from being rehired in other cities. However, many of the reforms above will be hard to implement due to the strong influence of police unions. Research shows that collective bargaining rights for police can exacerbate police violence and serve as a barrier to officer accountability. So what can we do? Limiting what work rules can be negotiated for police officers would be a start, which he supports as a crucial part of the overhaul of the police. He is against the police abolition movement because he believes law enforcement can be the public servants they're meant to be, especially with the policies outlined above.
 * -|Penitentiary=
 * -|Police forces=

[[File:NarcLib.png]] Drugs & Euthanasia
He thinks that soft drugs need to be decriminalized, while hard drugs should remain illegal. Hard drugs may give temporary highs for the consumers, but their downsides outweigh any upsides (see the opioid crisis.) While there is no such thing as a cannabis crisis, overusing marijuana can increase the risk of traffic accidents.

On Euthanasia, he unquestionably supports the procedure. The government has no right to force a sick person to continue living if he/she doesn't want to.

[[File:Envi.png]] Environmentalism [[File:Glib.png]]
Evolutionary Socialism believes that global warming is man-made, and that's a big problem. There's a reason why carbon emissions have been rapidly [https://www.statista.com/statistics/264699/worldwide-co2-emissions/#:~:text=Carbon%20dioxide%20(CO2)%20emissions%20began,emissions%20to%20plummet%20five%20percent. increasing] ever since the Industrial Revolution. However, he doesn't think that we should make environmental progress by curtailing economic growth like many de-growthers would say, as it would hurt the workers' wages and overall living standards. Instead, newer technologies will be key to defeating the crisis. Some policies that could help enable this are public investments in renewables and nuclear energy, phasing out subsidies to fossil fuel, and a carbon tax. A carbon tax could start at $10/ton of CO2 and gradually increase annually, incentivizing firms to be less carbon-intensive. Additionally, he wants to extend national protection to forests to combat deforestation, seeing they have a crucial role in carbon sequestration. Have you seen a dead bird with plastics inside its body? Or the insane smog in Beijing? It's a tragedy that pollution is allowed to continue unchecked, with adverse effects on us and the bigger ecosystem. Because of this, drastic measures need to be taken to fight it, such as: With these implemented, hopefully, we are able to preserve the world for future generations to see. Really, all of those beautiful species don't deserve to die off due to our actions.
 * -|Against global warming=
 * -|Against pollution=
 * Encourage recycling
 * Promote biodegradable plastic products
 * Make littering punishable with a fine
 * Fine any company that dumps waste into the ocean
 * Build green and blue infrastructure
 * Place sanctions on ecologically destructive countries

[[File:Atheism.png]] Religious matters [[File:Religious.png]]
On one hand, he strictly opposes a theocratic government. Religious laws can stifle progress, such as denying reproductive care for women. The merge of church and the state is likely to result in the centralization of powers when leaders justify their legislation in the name of gods. On the other hand, he also opposes strict state atheism. The concept usually translates to state worship, and the government has a high chance of persecuting minor religious groups to make religion a personal matter.

Evolutionary Socialism ends up supporting secularism as a middle ground between both. He will ensure the separation between the church and the state for modernization, but freedom of religion is upheld.

[[File:PCB-Nationalism.png]] International relations [[File:Globalism.png]]
Evolutionary Socialism is a civic nationalist, meaning that he defines nationhood as something based on common values and citizenship. He doesn't think that we should discriminate against immigrants because of their different ethnicities, races, or even cultures. For this reason, he welcomes immigrants as long as they can understand and uphold the nation's values. There will be a five-year period before immigrants can access welfare, however. An unusual characteristic of his patriotism is his liking both the  United States and  Vietnam at the same time. Representative democracy is a great model to follow, but Evolutionary Socialism also enjoys Vietnam's dedication to socialist ideals.

Unlike regular Multiculturalism, he seeks to fight the tendency of cultures to self-segregate into parallel societies. Even though this ideology supports the existence of multiple cultures, there needs to be cross-cultural communication and cultural fusion, and the state needs to promote common ground between them. So there's still a collective identity among diverse cultures. Evolutionary Socialism supports moderate nationalism that is not exclusionary nor considering itself to be superior to other nations. This can challenge the rise of right-wing populist parties and prevent them from getting into power, like what the  social democrats did in  Sweden.

He is also non-interventionist, believing that national boundaries are not arbitrary constructs because of self-determination. He is aware of Vietnam's history of being colonized by other great powers throughout its existence. And thus, Evolutionary Socialism is sure that foreign wars are very seldom justified. However, he will still retain trade and diplomacy to help out other countries with aids if needed.

As for trade, he's currently leaning more toward free trade than protectionism, as prices for goods can be lower for the workers, and real income is likely to grow. However, Evolutionary Socialism understands that there are always winners and losers in these trade agreements. So for the workers displaced by foreign competition, he supports creating generous retraining programs to help them adjust to new jobs. Additional Earned Income Tax Credits might be needed when the minimum wage is not yet a living wage for the employees. Furthermore, free trade agreements should have minimum labor and environmental standards, making them 'fair trade.' That way, it wouldn't be the race to the bottom but rather a ladder for developing countries to get up.

He supports regional unions and the United Nations in its current form since they helped solve global problems like climate change and pollution. However, any further developments must be unanimous among their members. One reason is that without the agreement of some countries, these organizations will impede their national sovereignty.

[[File:Dem.png]] Form of government [[File:Republicanismpix.png]]
To him, democracy isn't necessarily the best political system but rather the least bad system devised by humans. Even if it got corrupted, it would still be better than a despotic government that consistently enacts terrible policies. Democracies are much less likely to go to war, and they don't kill their citizens as much.

Evolutionary Socialism supports a representative democracy with direct democratic elements. A referendum will pop up before the enactment of a particularly controversial policy, like cybersecurity laws. He prefers the parliamentary system to a  presidential one because the prime minister is much more in sync with the legislative branch than a president. Depending on the population, each state will have a certain number of seats. Every political party will have a chance to gain ground with proportional representation instead of first-past-the-post. He dislikes plurality voting precisely because it tends to punish compromise and reward partisanship. Anyways, all of those seats will form a parliament. Some parties that generally agreed on core issues can form a coalition, getting a high enough majority to govern.

[[File:CNN.png]] News media [[File:Mediastocracy flair.png]]
In his view, Evolutionary Socialism thinks that the mainstream media is usually not trustworthy for the people. He supports the Fairness Doctrine to present opposing views fairly, preventing the political polarization found in the US. Media cooperative is a fascinating model and can operate more independently due to the minimization of the agency dilemma. He wishes to incentivize creating more of them.

Electoral process
Evolutionary Socialism feels that corporations have too much power over the political process. He wants to restrict big money by setting an upper limit on the expenditures given to political campaigns. Additionally, he plans to create an independent electoral commission to draw boundaries and monitor elections properly.

[[File:Liberty.png]] Civil liberties [[File:Civlibert.png]]
Evolutionary Socialism supports free speech, but he's not a free speech absolutist. According to the Paradox of Tolerance, if a society is tolerant without limit, eventually, the intolerant will destroy any semblance of tolerance. He doesn't support speech if it's defamation or incitement. If you try to damage someone's reputation for no good reason or encourage a person to hurt any group of people, you will be fined accordingly. Besides that, dissent is allowed as a way to spot any shortcomings to improve the system, as he is pluralist.

Additionally, he fiercely defends peaceful protests (freedom of assembly.) As John F. Kennedy puts it, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." There should always be an avenue for the public to reform the government to become better. He even supports riots if they're against the public institutions.

[[File:Sec.png]] Restrictions [[File:Authority.png]]
However, he thinks the riots against any other kind of property are mostly unjustified. Destruction of businesses can ruin the lives of many people who worked hard to build them.

He supports gun control because guns aren't often used for defense as most people think. Guns are only allowed for anyone from 18 years old or above, and universal background checks are employed. Less gun prevalence can reduce instances of violent crimes, like school shootings, for example.

With the release of vaccines, Evolutionary Socialism wouldn't necessarily make vaccines mandatory for everyone, but he will make it a requirement to travel and to participate in sports events. Tying vaccines to positive events will incentivize people to take them.

This ideology has a very controversial take on privacy. He allows placing surveillance cameras in public places to combat unlawful activities. A potential thief can be discouraged to steal when he sees the camera watching him in a store. But since this can be a violation of the right to privacy, he will use referendums for every new camera system. Because even if you have nothing to hide, you still have something to fear.

Relationship (This is just to rank ideologies. I don't hate you as a person)

 * -|General=

Friends
TBA

Friendly acquaintances
TBA

Neutral
TBA

Belligerent acquaintances
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Enemies
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 * -|Schools of economic thought=

Friends
New Keynesianism

We should utilize fiscal and monetary policies to stabilize the business cycles. Although, you sometimes leaned toward the latter when you rejected any fiscal stimulus. However, you still achieved extraordinary macroeconomic stability in many developed countries (also known as the Great Moderation) by strategic injection of liquidity to maintain aggregate demand. I like how you came up with micro-foundations to respond to the critiques from New Classicals, like menu costs and efficiency wages. Also, good job focusing on the role of demand during the Keynesian resurgence! Your theory remains a comprehensive tool to study the various types of shock that affect the economy and the best ways to deal with them.

Friendly acquaintances
Neo-Keynesianism

We need to use fiscal and monetary policies to alleviate downturns, although you leaned toward the former. During the Golden Age, besides inflation, you outperformed the Washington Consensus in terms of global growth and unemployment. Capital flow was limited, so financial crises were very infrequent around the world. However, the assumption that the trade-off between unemployment and inflation remains true was your biggest flaw, leading to your demise. However, you're still pretty good for your time.

Ricardian Socialism -

Neutral


I'm sympathetic to your effort to fight against the fear of inflation due to deficit spending. The idea of "political business cycles" - where the fluctuation of economic policies is caused by the shifting power of the political actors (the labor movement or private capital) is also quite interesting. Additionally, your proponent's advocacy during the Keynesian resurgence for an updated version of the Keynes Plan where each nation would be incentivized to achieve full employment and progressively higher wages was very welcome. On the flip side, you can't just dismiss debt as being unimportant. The reason is that debt can only go so high before a country reaches insolvency, so fiscal responsibility is needed. Job guarantee can be used in recessions, but not in economic booms, as that would overheat the economy, which causes inflation to skyrocket. And finally, you are way too reliant on fiscal policies to influence aggregate demand, even though the monetary policies can also do the same job. Take the 1987 stock market crash. Many economists believed that the ensuing recession would be just as bad as the Great Depression, but the actual effects were short-lived because the central banks intervened on time to maintain just enough demand to keep economies going. So, quite mixed.

Monetarism -

Belligerent acquaintances
Marxian economics -

New classical economics -

Enemies
Austrian School of economics -
 * -|Self-inserts=

Friends
Yori Model (100%)

Market socialism with robust welfare programs is an ideal economic system for both of us. I approve of your reformist stance, and your cultural views are very good. Semi-direct democracy is a much-needed compromise between representative and direct democracy! Civic nationalism? The most based nationalism! I'm happy that you embrace economic interventionism to protect the consumers and additional taxation to make society more equitable. I think you just need to be more open about fair trade.

Overall, there's absolutely no significant divergence between our views. Truly the best self-insert in this wiki hands down.

Admiralism (87%)

It's good that you endorse regulations to prevent our socialist market economy from going haywire. Your overall economics is essentially social-democratic policies within the framework of a socialist market economy, which is right on. Your world free of economic exploitation and unjustified military interventions is a really great ideal. You don't go too crazy with gun ownership since you understood the negative aspects of absolute gun rights, so that's pretty cool. You're somewhat too big on traditionalism, but your views on integration, social rights, the national identity, and the criminal justice system are more than enough to make up for that. I don't think you can preserve civil liberties well under a single-party state, so your proposal for a reformist semi-direct democracy would be a lot better. My only major objections would be your endorsement of the death penalty, which can hurt the families of the victims and prevent healing, and your economic self-sufficiency, which is very difficult to achieve.

All things considered, you're a comrade to me.

Friendly acquaintances
Scarletism (???%)

You can be a bit too statist at times, but you're still pro-democracy, so you're good on that front. I disagree with some of your social policies, though. Like, I don't approve of your support of the death penalty along with punitive justice. I also think that you can support a movement for civil rights while also being critical of its other aspects. I have heard about the riots. However, those aren't made by the BLM protesters, but the agent provocateurs. Nonetheless, your concern about people in the BLM movement wanting to abolish the police remains legitimate as even I am opposed to that. What is unchanged about BLM is the call for the end of police brutality, which I think we can both agree on. Besides that, secularism is very cool, and defensive democracy is an interesting concept, so long as you only dissolve political parties as a last resort. Support for science is great, and so is the restriction of hard drugs. Your proposals to reduce carbon footprint are very comprehensive! And what's more, your economic legislation is close to mine! I like your welfare, but I believe it can be more universalist because the employment-impeding policies are present in  Christian democracy only, not in  social democracy. On the other hand, I am in favor of the Keynesian economics that underpins your social democracy. I don't think we should nationlize every big business, although I agree that some strategic industries are too important to be left up to the market. The fact that you incentivize more economic democracy is wonderful, your self-insert is pretty well-thought-out.

(78.6%)

You know, I personally like the fact that you're willing to cooperate with other similar nations for mutual interests, whether it's free trade or diplomacy. However, your disregard of national identity will be pretty bad. Patriotism can motivate the population and is needed for social cohesion. Your desire for civil liberties and a responsible government is very admirable, although I'm not sure if free speech absolutism is the way. With that said, your economic policies are quite awesome. Whether we are a capitalist or socialist, strong unions, robust welfare, sensible state interventions, and greater workplace representation are all necessary for a thriving economy!

I consider you an ally despite your moderation. Clean page and rest in peace, my friend...

(75%)

It's pretty nice that you put water and electricity under the control of society instead of the private individuals. These industries have pretty inelastic demand. Additional public housing and a robust welfare state to provide a baseline of needs are great, and I'm happy that you pursue both of them. Pretty progressive economics so far, but there are two small problems. The first is no economic democracy; you would want workers to have a say in how firms are run. And the second is that you don't want tax rates to be too progressive. Otherwise, you would be relying on the ultra-rich to fund social services, when you want to depend on tax revenues from the whole community. But the two negatives are quickly dwarfed by the anti-trust laws and the reduction of tariffs, so that's something.

Anyway, I turned my attention to your other policies and I quite liked what I saw. The stance against discrimination based on ethnicity, race, gender, and religion is obviously needed, so I'm not going too deep into that. I still have reservations about your support of the death penalty and hate speech laws. However, I think the restrictions on adultery, legalized but regulated abortions, regulated prostitution & porn, and sex education are really chad.

To summarize, we will be on common ground in the vast majority of the key issues in the economy. You may not be a pure socialist, but I can still work with you for a more humanitarian world. Socially, your moderate progressivism is super great (progressive in many areas, but also conservative when it matters.) I disagreed with the presidential system but still liked your reformist tendencies. I just know that we are good friends policy-wise!

Neo-Blartism (61.5%)

What's the deal with your enthusiasm for wildcat strikes, lol? But anyway, direct democracy is good, but not the abolishment of  representative democracy. I don't fancy revolutions, especially the first world where we can play by democratic rules. Additionally, I am both skeptical of your short-term planning (at least it's decentralized) and your long-term  communist society without the state, money, or a  market system. You're also too culturally left and too  civically down. However, there're also other characteristics of yours, like federalism and anti-racism, that are enough to offset your downsides. Despite your flaws, I'm glad to find someone who loves workers' self-management, organized labor, free movement of people, and opposes the death penalty as much as I do! The market is good for higher productivity, though.

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Neo-Immorxism (58.6%)

I have some criticisms of your economy, some more of the government, and especially of your cultural stance. You restrict soft drugs, abortion, and adoption for certain people too much. The punishment for blasphemy and apostasy is way too disproportionate. As for LGBT issues, you're still  conservative, but I like that you are willing to tolerate people in the community. Economically speaking, a centrally planned economy is a bad way to distribute resources, and the lack of circulating money doesn't help much. Otherwise, we have more shared beliefs in the economy than I thought. I love the organized working class, economic democracy (a crucial element in socialism,)  the preservation of the environment, and a strong public sector. I'm not a fan of a one-party state because of a high chance of corruption, but your  direct democracy can resist that tendency somewhat, so that's cool. You're too hostile to international trade, but nationalism and anti-imperialism are based. Generally, you're too socially right-wing and centralized but still have mostly good economic traits.

ThisIsMyUsernameAAAism (57.1%)

You actually have pretty okay cultural stances. I agree with you that prisoners should be rehabilitated since crimes are caused by poverty more often than not. However, the abolition of prisons is not a way to achieve it. You would want to keep serial murderers away from the wider society so that they couldn't do additional harm. And also, the people's militia might serve exactly the same purpose as normal law enforcement would, so there's no need to abolish the police lol. As a social progressive, you are right to support technology as a means to improve human life (and save the environment in the process!) Feminism is also pretty good. It empowers women to be more equal to men. The policy that could help women out would be the legalization of abortion and I'm glad that you support it as a way to reduce maternal death rates. LGBT rights are cool, and I'm in favor of regulated but accessible guns for people too!

Now we move on to your ideal economics and this is when I'll get more critical. To start, your method of achieving full communism is, quite flawed to say the least. The toppling of the existing order requires far more blood to be spilled than working within the current democratic systems to enact lasting changes. Why be unnecessarily violent when you can be much more peaceful in achieving your goals? And then there's also the gift economy. It could exist at a small scale as charities in the current market framework, but it's not applicable at a large scale. That's because individuals aren't as cooperative as you think they are. And finally, statelessness. I can understand liking negative liberty (the freedom to be left alone) but the state can also ensure positive liberty (the freedom to do something.) The government could provide public education, public healthcare to ensure that an individual can flourish. Additionally, the state could help us preserve the environment better!

So to summarize, you are very culturally left-wing, but we can still compromise on quite a lot of issues to build a more tolerant society. But, I disagree heavily with abolishing the state or the market. Still, the aggregation of all of your policies leans ever slightly good (due to the similarity of our cultural stances.)

(52.8%)

In some instances, nationalizations could be very beneficial for some areas (such as the water industries, healthcare, housing, transportation, etc.) and I'm glad that you have put those under public ownership. However, I think that in any other cases, firms should be cooperatively managed and compete with each other in a market instead of publicly owned due to the risks of stagnation. You shouldn't also use the labor notes, as that could make charities and all cash-based welfare services obsolete. National sovereignty is definitely our point of agreement, like how the movement of capital should be restricted, or how foreign interventions to spread democracy are primarily counter-productive.

But your hardline stances on the power of the state and traditional values have held you back. Firstly, liquidating people in the undesirable classes is too violent and should be substituted with integrating them in the new society. Secondly, sex workers might be taboo, but could still be retrained to do other jobs instead of being forced to do hard manual labor. I could argue that the labor camp in and of itself is actually a form of exploitation, but instead of the private employers doing it in factories, you have the state doing it against the criminals and undesirable people. If you care about equality, then you should be in favor of "marriage equality." The idea is that unions for same-sex couples should have equal rights as traditional marriages. At least you leave the matter regarding LGBT up to the religious community to decide, but usually, they are more socially conservative than not. Additionally, I disagree with your strong revolutionary methods to realize socialism. There's no guarantee that the final outcome can justify the killings in the red terror. There are way fewer deaths involved when you try to work within the democratic system.

On economic issues, I could work with you on many areas, like putting the key means of production under state ownership, being less entangled in unjustified foreign interventions, enacting strong supportive policies for working families, and strengthening the cooperative sector (but not central planning and the abolishment of money.) You can also organize strikes to bolster the reforms cementing workers' rights and even democratizing the economy. However, we would be quite heavily opposed to each other when it comes to cultural policies. If I look at your self-insert as a whole, I would say that your policies are still leaning more good than not, but at a very slim margin.

Neo-Daveism (50%)

Your economics is quite nice. For example, I highly enjoy your advocacy for workers' control of their guilds, as self-determination for labor is more productive. As for your social views, it's bad. Reactionarism is way too far back for me. That's because I like the emphasis on reason, empiricism along with secularism, and the constitution. Even though there's nothing inherently wrong with the rule of the most qualified, aristocracy is usually undemocratic, as only the nobility holds any power. A national identity is needed to preserve our sovereignty, so props to you. Your civic views are mixed, in my opinion. Delegation of power from the central authority is necessary for the daily administration. I don't like absolute monarchism, as one dynasty usually declines until it gets inevitably replaced by another one. Constitutional monarchism can work out, but an established legal framework (a product of the Enlightenment) would already constrain the monarch. Also, I'm not sure whether a monarch does better than an elected leader. Overall, this's indeed a wacky ideology.

Neo-Bingoism (42%)

You're too undemocratic for me. On the one hand, absolute monarchism creates a large divide between the rulers and the common people. Furthermore, one-party states will most likely repress any competing political organizations. The rule of the military is exclusionary, and social conservatism is dated. On the other hand, you're not without some redeeming qualities. Parliamentarianism is a much better form of government than a presidential system, and I like radical representation of the workers. Not sure about the state meddling in the workplace, but syndicalist economics are worthwhile. I'll occasionally ally with you to advance socialist policies, but not much else.

(40%)

As a supporter of the existence of a government and a market economy, I would disagree with you on statelessness and the gift economy. The idea that we could give things to strangers without expecting anything in return is great, but not applicable for a larger society. Trading one item for another is much better and more sustainable. Also, significant state action is needed to institute social welfare, take actions against global warming, or even democratize our economy in the medium to long term (which you want.) Speaking about the environment, I think that you would want to fix the current crisis, but being doomed about the inevitability of global collapse isn't going to cut it. And as a reformist, I heavily disagree with you on doing whatever it takes to reach your goals, even crimes. We should care about improving the material conditions of the people in the short run while not losing sight of our utopias (even though my vision would be drastically different from yours.)

Judging your ideals as a whole, I absolutely like economic democracy as a concept and will ally with you to advance it (not illegally of course.) I enjoy your advocacy for the individuals to form associations voluntarily (which is something that we have to a certain extent in current democracies) and for them to be less reliant on market dependency (which can be fixed with reforms by the way.) But sadly, your bad parts just narrowly overshadowed the good ideals that you have.

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Closest Match: Democratic Socialism

DozenValues:

Closest Match: Left-Wing Populism

LiberationValues:

Closest Match: Liberal Socialism

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Closest Match: Democratic Socialism

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Closest Match: To be decided

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