Social Authoritarianism

"Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations—not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness through lack of leadership in government. Finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something to eat."
File:FDRismF.png Franklin D. Roosevelt

Social Authoritarianism is an File:CLeft.png economically center-left, File:Sec.png authoritarian, and File:Cultcenter.png culturally variable ideology that advocates a strictly File:Regulationism.png regulated economy with a File:Sec.png strong welfare state and (sometimes) File:SyndieSam.png trade unions, but, unlike Social Democracy, has little to no democracy.

Variants

Benevolent Dictatorship

While authoritarianism is usually seen as an inherently negative system, there have been cases where benevolent rulers are able to rule with the interests of the population as a whole in mind. A benevolent dictatorship occurs when a dictator possesses a perceived attitude of compassion and desire to improve or progress society. This may include a state that cracks down on criminals heavily, invests in welfare, secures social progress, and removes malign internal and external influence. As well as ensuring that protected minorities are safe and respected by others. Some notable examples include Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, File:JosipBrozTito.png Josip Broz Tito, File:LKY.png Lee Kuan-Yew, File:FranceAlbertRené.png France Albert René, File:Sankara.png Thomas Sankara and some others.

File:LeftSocauth.png Left-Social Authoritarianism

Left-Social Authoritarianism (also known as Socialist Social Authoritarianism) is a variant of social authoritarianism which shares a lot in common with File:LeftSocdem.png left-social democracy. Social authoritarians of this nature favor a the implementation of a socialist economic system, usually as a long-term goal. Left-social authoritarians tend to support nationalizing key industries File:SocialistCorporatism.png, File:SocStateCap.png state guidance of industry, and quite often embraced elements of File:IllibWPD.png workplace democracy and (sometimes) File:SyndieSam.png trade unionism. This can be seen with File:Gaddaficap.png Mummar Gaddafi who pushed for File:Marketsoc.png worker cooperatives which he called "vocational partnersips" (albeit with a lot of state oversight through "revolutionary committees")^[34] and one of the most generous welfare states in Africa. He would combine many of these reforms with elements of the Third Way later on. File:Nasser2.png Nasser not only nationalized key industries, he also mandated that 1/4 of a File:Corp.png company's board of directors be elected by the workers and implemented a welfare state that pacified most resistance to his policies; and he made it clear that socialism was the long-term aim of his policies.

File:RightSocauth.png Right-Social Authoritarianism

Right-Social Authoritarianism (also known as Capitalist Social Authoritarianism) is a variant of social authoritarianism which shares a lot in common with File:RightSocDem.png right-social democracy. RightSocAuths usually favor heavy cuts to public spending (if they are entering office with a generous welfare state already in place), or else favor greater welfare benefits. Due to the unpopularity of the aforementioned welfare cuts, the leader is then forced to rely upon File:PolState.png police forces in order to weaken the opposition. The type of leader that fits this variant is often highly Machiavellian. Such leaders might include:

File:DemSocAuth.png Illiberal Social Democracy

Illiberal Social Democracy is similar in many ways to social democracy but differs in that they support a constitution that gives wide ranging powers to the Chief Executive, allowing them to ignore the legislature if they desire, often to allow social and economic progress to be ushered in much faster being held back by democratic backlash. Two notable examples are Tridemism and File:Kemal.png Kemalism.

File:PolLab.png Police Labourism

Police Labourism is an ideology that advocates for universal healthcare, empowering unions, government regulation to protect small businesses, workers and consumers and, often, anti-communism. The same causes as SocDem with an exception to their view on the police, supporting expanding police power, more police on the streets and viewing crime as one of the key issues for any government to solve.

File:SocFash.png Social Fascism

Social Fascism (also called Actual Social Fascism or Unironic Social Fascism) is an economically center-left ideology and bastard child of Social Democracy and Fascism/ Third Positionism. Originally the label was a slur used by Marxist-Leninists against advocates of social democracy, believing their economic system got in the way of establishing a true File:Erga.png dictatorship of the proletariat by settling for class collaboration. However, the label is also applicable to fascist movements and thinkers who were inspired directly by welfarist movements and ideas. Unironic social fascists of this nature add greater emphasis on left-wing populist causes, and welfare statism than other fascist movements (such as Nazism which was more hostile to the existence of a welfare state). Thus, unironic social fascism can be thought of as a literal synthesis of fascism and social-democratic economics. If treated seriously, there are two types of people who can be considered "social fascists":

Fascists or fascistic movements who (at least publicly) synthesize the ideological aspirations of social democracy or social liberalism with their own (e.g., File:Pron.png Peronism and File:OswaldMosley.png Mosleyism).
Self-proclaimed social liberals or social democrats with fascistic tendencies (i.e., File:RodrigoDuterte.png Duterteism and File:Milosevic.png Milosevicism).

File:ProgSocauth.png Progressive Social Authoritarianism

Progressive Social Authoritarianism is an economically center to left-wing and culturally left-wing ideology which combines social-democratic economics and File:Sec.png authoritarian governance. Advocates see sociocultural progress as necessitating a File:Statist.png powerful central government capable of social engineering (even if violent); they otherwise agree with File:Statecap.png state capitalism, a strong welfare state, and (usually) File:SyndieSam.png labor rights—often culminating in support for some brand of Corporatism. File:Kemal.png Kemalism, Tridemism, and Ba'athism are historic example of this; however, modern progressives with social authoritarian tendencies can fall into this category as well, such as File:JustinTrudeau.png Justin Trudeau.

History

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File:WillyBrandt.png Brandtism - Willy Brandt was a German politician who was the leader of the File:GerSPD.png Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1964 to 1987, the Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974 and the President of the Socialist International from 1976 to his death in 1992. He was known for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe, under the policy of (Neue) Ostpolitik. He is also known for the Kniefall von Warschau, in which he knelt and meditated while visiting a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

During his tenure as Chancellor, his File:Reform.png domestic reform programme had accomplished more than any previous programme for a comparable period, and by the end of his chancellorship, West Germany had one of the most advanced systems of welfare in the world. He was a fierce anti-communist, initiating the Anti-Radical Decree, In which people who were considered to be a member or aligned to an extremist organization, were banned from work as civil servants, as response to terrorism by the Red Army Faction. He was also known for his close ties to the United States and being supportive of American policies such as the Vietnam War and backing right-wing dictatorships in the Third World. The Brandt Report was also produced and became a recognised measure for describing the general North-South divide in world economics and politics between an affluent North and a poor South. He was also criticized by fellow Socialist International members for his File:Sec.png authoritarian approach, in which Bernt Carlsson, the Secretary-General of the Socialist International at the time, rebuked him saying: "this is a Socialist International – not a German International".

Poland File:Pilsudski.pngFile:Sanacja.png

Sanacja (or Sanation) was political camp gathered around Józef Piłsudski. It was created after 1926 May Coup. Most important politicians of newly established regime were Piłsudski's long-time friends and allies. Sanation was opposed to File:Parl.pngparliamentary democracy, preferring authoritarian one instead. Economically, it was File:Statist.png statist and File:Dirigisme.pngdirigiste. Its policies towards minorities changed over time - at first, Piłsudski wanted to create Federation with File:Cball-Ukraine.pngUkrainians, File:Cball-Lithuania.pngLithuanians and Belarusians, similar to File:Cball-PL.png Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. That idea was reason why Piłsudskites wanted to expand Polish eastern borders as far as possible. This attitude changed after escalation of terrorist attacks done by File:OUN-B.pngOUN, especially assassination of minister File:Sanat.png Bronisław Pieracki. In foreign policy, Sanation governments were opposed to File:Cball-USSR.png Soviet Union as well as Nazi Germany. Yet, they signed non-aggression pacts with both of said countries.

File:Sanat.png Colonels' Clique

"Colonels' clique" or "colonels' group" is name given to members of Piłsudski's inner circle. First government formed after May Coup, that of Kazimierz Bartel, is often referred to as "colonel's government' as many of its members were both close allies of Piłsudski (thus members of colonels' group) and colonels of Polish army. After 1930 elections, colonels started to gain more power as Piłsudski started to slowly withdraw from public live.

Most notable members of colonels' clique were: Walery Sławek, Józef Beck, Felicjan Sławoj-Składkowski, Bronisław Pieracki, Aleksander Prystor, Kazimierz Świtalski and Adam Koc.

The BBWR

Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government (BBWR) was created by Piłsudski's supporters one year after the coup. It was led by Piłsudski's close ally, Walery Sławek. The only reason for party to be created was uniting all supporters of new regime. BBWR was generally just pro-Piłsudski big-tent party. Party supported: civic nationalism, File:DemOlig.png guided democracy and the File:Prez.png presidential system. It won majority in 1930 elections.

Just like within sanation as a whole, there existed few factions within BBWR:

File:SocialistPatriot.png Former members of Union for Repairment of the Republic. Group was informally known as "the Repairment" and was considered left-wing of sanation movement.

File:LibSocAuth.png A liberal faction gathered around Kazimierz Bartel.

File:Sanat.png Colonels' clique - See above.

Representatives of Big Capital, for example Janusz Franciszek Radziwiłł.

Moreover, as big tent party BBWR included and was supported by a lot of different parties, but all Piłsudskite. Parties and organisations supportive of BBWR and sanation were left-wing, like Polish Socialist Party - former Revolutionary Faction, National Workers' Party - Left, File:Synd.png Union of Polish Democratic Youth; centrist ones like: File:Farm.png Peasant Party (kadzichłopi) , Christian-Social Union, File:Statist.png National-Statist Union; and right-wing ones: Christian Agrarian Party, File:RelNat.pngUnion of Young Nationalists, League of Imperial Development of Poland.

The Power Struggle

Józef Piłsudski died in 1935. His death caused both File:Sanat.png Colonels' clique and BBWR to break up. This was the beginning of power struggle within sanation movement. The movement splinted into three factions: one, referred to as sanation's left, supported Walery Sławek; so-called "castle group" supported President File:Mosciski.png Ignacy Mościcki; while the sanation's right supported Marshal File:StratoHelm.png Edward Rydz-Śmigły.

File:OZoN.png Camp of National Unity

Camp of National Unity (OZN) was founded 1937 by members of sanation's right. It gained more power after President Mościcki decided to share power with Rydz-Śmigły. Their agreement happened after Sławek had committed suicide in 1938. OZN became ruling party and absorbed many pro-sanation parties and organisations. It had its youth organisation - Union of Young Poland and newspaper - Gazeta Polska.

Ideologically, OZN was File:Mil.png militarist, national-conservative, anti-communist and File:EconNat.pngeconomically nationalist. During World War II, OZN had its own resistance organisation - Camp of Fighting Poland.

Belarus File:Lukash.png

Lukashenkoism is an File:CentreAuthLeft.png center-authoritarian left and culturally File:ModTrad.png center-right ideology that belongs to the belorussian president Alexander Lukashenko. He is noted for hating the West, the File:Euroscept.png EU, and File:Homophobia.png gay people. It is also File:PostSoviet.png Soviet nostalgist, preferring to speak Russian and flying the Soviet flag. Although, it's only a conservative socialist in aesthetics, since the economy is a File:Statecap.png state capitalist economy with a welfare state, or corporatist. Lukashenkoism is anti-nationalistic, with the File:Cball-Belarus-old.png white-red-white flag being banned.

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File:Getulism.png Getulism

Getulism is a File:CentreAuthLeft.png center-authoritarian left, File:Paternalism.png strongly paternalist, populist, and nationalist ideology based on the ideas of File:Vargas.png Getúlio Vargas (1882-1954), who ruled Brazil as a dictator from 1930 to 1945 and as an elected president from 1951 to 1954. It was heavily inspired by Castilhismo, the ideology of the former governor of Rio Grande do Sul File:Castilhos.png Júlio de Castilhos (1860-1903), which held three basic tenets:

Rulers must be chosen based on their moral purity and not their popularity;
Partisan disputes must be eliminated, and instead virtue should be valorized;
The ruler should "regenerate society", and the State should direct its transformation and modernization.

Getulism was also inspired by File:Mussolini.png Benito Mussolini's fascism during Vargas' time as a dictator, but shifted further to the left after WW2, becoming prominent in the Brazilian Labour Party. Getúlio believed in the creation of a strong centralized state led by a paternalistic figure, whose duty was to "morally regenerate society" through political reforms meant to uphold the well-being of the people. His policies featured an exacerbated populism centered around his image.

He saw the role of the State as an institution meant to guide the population toward a virtuous, modern society, using its authority and the collective interests to achieve general welfare. Under modernist principles, national prosperity was also an important objective, which should be achieved through the development of the industry. Getúlio also believed that File:SyndieSam.png labourism was an essential step towards a just society and that the benefit of the people through public services was a social obligation for those in power. His government has led to the first major advancements in labour rights in Brazilian history.

File:SocialismoMoreno.png Socialismo moreno (English: "dark-skinned socialism") is the political doctrine adopted by Getúlio Vargas' followers since the 1950s, after his death. It is the heir of his legacy in Brazil; as such, it takes a lot from his ideas, like nationalism, developmentalism, File:Regulationism.png economic interventionism, and labour rights. Its most famous figures are File:Brizola.png Leonel Brizola (1922-2004), João Goulart (1919-1976), and File:Cultchrist.png Alberto Pasqualini (1901-1960).

File:Geisel.png Geiselism

Geiselism is the ideology of the 29th president of Brazil, Ernesto Geisel. He assumed the presidency in 1974 during the Brazilian military dictatorship. His government caught the country in the middle of the 1973 oil crisis, but it still implemented state funding on social measures. Even though he helped to loosen authoritarianism, he still approved the persecution of the opposition.

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File:Thaksin.png Thaksin Shinawatra is a Thai File:Plutocrat.png billionaire, the founder of mobile phone operator Advanced info service and IT and telecommunications conglomerate Shin Corporation, a former police officer, the founder of Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT), who served as the Prime Minister of File:Thailand.png Thailand from 2001 to 2006. Thaksin ran on a populist platform and during his tenure launched programs to reduce poverty, expand infrastructure, promote small and medium-sized enterprises, and extend universal healthcare coverage.

Thaksin and his government did however show authoritarian tendencies on multiple occasions. He declared a "war on drugs" in which more than 2,500 people were killed and took a strong-arm approach against the File:Sep.png separatist insurgency in the Muslim southern provinces. Thaksin also got his country involved in the Iraq War following the US-led invasion of File:Cball-Iraq.png Iraq. Thailand contributed 423 non-combat troops in August 2003 to nation-building and medical assistance in post-Saddam Iraq. Troops of the Royal Thai Army were attacked in the 2003 Karbala bombings, which killed two soldiers and wounded five others. However, the Thai mission in Iraq was considered an overall success, and Thailand withdrew its forces in August 2004. The mission was considered the main reason the United States decided to designate Thailand as a major non-NATO ally in 2003.

A citizens' movement against Thaksin, called the People's Alliance for Democracy or File:YellowShirts(Thailand).png "Yellow Shirts", launched mass protests, accusing him of corruption, abuse of power, and autocratic tendencies.

Thaksin was overthrown in a military coup on 19 September 2006 and was barred from all political activity. He has continued to influence Thai politics from abroad through the Pheu Thai Party, as well as the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship or the "Red Shirt" movement which challenges the power of the File:StratoDictature-Antifurry.png Military Dictatorship and aims for greater democracy and justice in Thai politics. His younger sister File:Yingluck.png Yingluck Shinawatra was the prime minister of Thailand from 2011 to 2014 until she too was ousted in a military coup.

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File:RodrigoDuterte.png Rodrigo Duterte - File:RodrigoDuterte.png Duterteism is the economically center-left and File:Hyper Auth.png highly authoritarian (File:ModerateTotalitarian.png debatably totalitarian) ideology of Rodrigo Duterte.

Duterte won the presidency in 2016, using social media as a political outlier with a reputation for having secured order (often by sidestepping law) and development in his many years as mayor of the southern city of Davao. There, he was known for having used File:Ochlo.png armed vigilante groups to stamp out crime by killing criminals, especially among the urban poor. Duterte's movement divided the poor into two groups, the File:Lpop.png hard-working honest poor and the criminal drug users, and appealed to middle-class urban voters preoccupied with rising crime and neglected and inadequate public infrastructure.

As president, he fostered a cult of personality, believed an "iron fist" was needed to instill discipline, and cultivated a public image of a father figure, Tatay Digong (Father Digong), who instilled order and discipline within the nation. He promised to revive the lost glory of the Philippines and remove Marcos-era oligarchs, combining left-wing populist rhetoric such as his wish to see a revolutionary government^[35] with promises of a national revival. He launched an extensive anti-drug campaign in which he both utilized ruthless File:PolState.png police measures and encouraged File:Ochlo.png mob violence (as well as vigilante justice) to exterminate drug traffickers and File:Drug-Addict.png non-violent users;^[36]^[37] additionally, he proudly compared himself and his measures to File:Hitler.png Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.^[13] Duterte also pushed for censorship of his political opponents, culminating in him shutting down ABS-CBN.^[38]

He also established freedom of information under the executive branch to eliminate corruption and red tape. Additionally, he granted free irrigation to small farmers and liberalized rice imports with the Rice Tariffication Law.

In terms of economics, he continued the Third Way policies of the File:PDP–Laban.png PDP-Laban—promoting File:Capcom.png private-public partnerships, strengthening the File:Statecap.png for-profit public sector. , privatizing state assets, and enriching File:Plutocrat.png businessmen friendly to his administration^[39]^[40]—while strengthening the welfare state through his ‘Magna Carta of the Poor’ which was rejected on neoliberal grounds by his predecessor . The law provides, for all those who fall below the national poverty threshold or cannot meet basic needs, support for ‘adequate food, decent work, relevant and quality education, housing, and the highest attainable standard of mental and physical health’ Duterte also signed a law guaranteeing universal free access to college and universities. He also signed the automatic enrollment of all Filipinos in the government's health insurance program and ordered the full implementation of the Reproductive Health Law.

Duterte sought improved relations with China and Russia and reduced dependence on the United States. He took a conciliatory stance toward China, setting aside the controversial Philippines v. China ruling on South China Sea claims.[11][12]

Duterte is a polarizing figure, facing criticism and international opposition for his anti-narcotics efforts.[13] Various poll agencies such as SWS, PUBLiCUS Asia, and Pulse Asia consider Duterte's approval ratings to have remained high during and after his presidency, according to their own polling, making Duterte as the most popular post-People Power Revolution president.

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File:BoXilai.png Bo Xilai is a Chinese former politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. Bo Xilai served as a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing from 2007 until his arrest in 2012.

As Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing, Bo Xilai initiated a campaign against organized crime, increased spending on welfare programs, maintained consistent double-digit percentage GDP growth, and campaigned to revive Cultural Revolution-era "red culture". Bo's promotion of egalitarian values and the achievements of his Chongqing model made him the champion of the Chinese New Left, composed of both Maoists and social democrats disillusioned with the country's market-based economic reforms and increasing economic inequality.

From 2009 to 2011 Bo Xilai and Police Chief Wang Lijun oversaw the "Chongqing Gang Trials" (or "Dahei Campaign") in which a total of 4,781 suspects were arrested, including 19 suspected crime bosses, hundreds of triad members, and a number of allegedly corrupt police, government, and Communist party officials. The Chongqing Gang Trials were heavily criticized for their lack of due process and for the arrests of innocents for political gain and suppression of dissent.

As part of Bo Xilai and Wang Lijun's war on crime to maintain social and political stability in Chongqing, a major electronic surveillance operation that involved wiretaps, eavesdropping, and monitoring of internet communications was initiated with the help of Fang Binxing, the father of the Great Firewall. The eavesdropping operations did not only target local criminals, but also the communications of top Chinese leaders, including those of the CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao, as Bo Xilai tried to monitor nearly all central leaders who had visited Chongqing to better understand what they thought of him as he was set on being promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Bo Xilai's political fortunes would come to an abrupt end following the Wang Lijun incident, in which his top lieutenant sought asylum at the American consulate in Chengdu with information about the involvement of Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai in the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood who had financial ties to the couple. In the fallout of the Wang Lijun Incident, Bo was removed as the CPC Committee secretary of Chongqing and was expelled from the Communist Party. In 2013, Bo was found guilty of corruption, and embezzlement, and was stripped of all his assets, and sentenced to life imprisonment at Qincheng Prison.

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File:NewMugabe.png Emmerson Mnangagwa is the current President of Zimbabwe, former Vice President and former Minister of Defence, Justice, State Security, Rural Housing, former president of parliament and former guerrilla, in addition to being co-founder of "The Crocodile Gang", in which he committed several crimes, reason for his arrest in 1965-1975. He also helped Mugabe in the establishment of the Republic of Zimbabwe, being a member of ZANU. He is also accused of leading the Gukurahundi massacres, in which between 3,750-30,000 people died, even though he denies his participation, he said in an interview that the rebels were either insects or cockroaches and that the government should carry an insecticide. He was also accused of an attempted coup against Mugabe in 2007, but some analysts say this would discredit him and he remained in office.

When he came to power, he promised to serve all citizens, restore the economy and reduce corruption, he also promised to put Zimbabwe in a prominent position in the world. Under his rule, he compensated white Zimbabweans who lost their land under Mugabe, created a black indigenous entrepreneurship program, and in 2020, Zimbabwe had an economic freedom growth of 2.7 points in 2020, even a decline in 2022 ( the world at large as well). He has tried to improve relations with the EU, UN, Commonwealth and UK, but Biden's US imposes more sanctions for human rights harm. There was an assassination attempt in 2018 and there was repression against protests in 2019 because of the increase in fuel prices.

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File:Shevardnadze.png Eduard Shevardnadze was a File:Cball-Georgia.png Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for several non-consecutive periods from the 1970s-1980s as the First Secretary of Georgian Communist Party of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and as President of Georgia from 1995 until his resignation in 2003.

As First Secretary, Shevardnadze started several economic reforms, which would spur economic growth in the republic despite the nationwide economic stagnation that plagued File:Cball-USSR.png the Soviet Union. In 1985, File:Gorb.png Mikhail Gorbachev appointed Shevardnadze to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and would play a crucial role in forming the Soviet's new foreign policy under the Gorbachev era. He negotiated nuclear arms treaties with the United States, helped end the war in File:Cball-Afghanistan.png Afghanistan, allowed the reunification of Germany, and withdrew Soviet forces from Eastern Europe and from the Chinese border. His western-friendly foreign policy put him at odds with Soviet hardliners who saw him as a sellout to the west.

In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Shevardnadze returned to the newly independent Georgia and became the country's second 2nd head of the state in 1995. His presidency was marked by rampant corruption and accusations of nepotism as was the case in all File:PostSoviet.png post-communist countries of the former Eastern bloc at the time.

Shevardnadze also faced File:Sep.png separatist conflicts in the regions of File:Cball-SouthOssetia.png South Ossetia and File:Cball-Abkhazia.png Abkhazia and the first Chechen war which damaged Georgia's relations with Russia, which accused Shevardnadze of harboring File:Cball-Chechen.png Chechen guerrillas and in apparent retaliation supported Georgian separatists of the aforementioned separatist regions. Georgia-Russia relations were worsened by Shevardnadze's US-friendly foreign policy and strategic alliance with File:Cball-NATO.png NATO which saw him as a counterbalance to Russian influence in the Transcaucasus.

Eduard Shevardnadze resigned following the 2003 Rose Revolution motivated by the rampant corruption in his administration and electoral fraud in the 2003 presidential election.

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File:Tokayev.png Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is a Kazakh politician and diplomat who is currently serving as the President of Kazakhstan since 12 June 2019 following the resignation of the country's former President and dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Throughout his presidency, he has enacted several reforms including increasing workers' salaries, reducing corruption, abolishing capital punishment, and decentralizing the local government.

Despite some positive reforms Tokayev's government has maintained much of Nazarbayev's authoritarianism. This was seen during the 2022 Kazakh unrest, also known as "Bloody January", when a series of massive protests broke out in Kazakstan after a sudden sharp increase in liquefied gas prices following the lifting of a government-enforced price cap on 1 January 2022. The demonstrations quickly turned into violent riots, fueled by rising dissatisfaction with the government and economic inequality. Tokayev responded with a state of emergency and called for military intervention by the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) – a military alliance consisting of Russia and other former Soviet States. Tokayev ordered troops to use deadly force against protesters, authorizing instructions to "shoot to kill" without warning at anyone demonstrating, calling protesters "bandits and terrorists." Up to 227 people were killed and several thousand were arrested.

After a week of violent unrest and brutal crackdowns, President Tokayev promised reform and acknowledged public discontent over income inequality, and informed that the vehicle gas prices caps of 50 tenge per litre had been restored for 6 months.

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Tajikistan under President Emomali Rahmon is considered a highly authoritarian state, with little dissent tolerated. Rahmonism is an ideology named after President Rahmon, which is the combination of multiple ideologies including Secularism, Authoritarianism, Cultural Nationalism, National Conservatism, and a proclivity towards Police Statism, Russophilia, and general social conservative sentiment.

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Personality and Character

SocAuth believes very much that welfare is something meant to be handled very seriously. He wants to do good with it but takes a very hardline, paternalistic, approach to the common citizens. He believes whatever he does will help the populace from poverty and improve national living standards no matter how good or bad it turns out, often giving him the impression of being File:SocAutocracy.png ¨autocratic¨ and a strict, ¨always on the job¨ character. He likes to criticize other welfarist ideologies, but likes their intentions. He also hates far-left ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, File:Hoxha.png Hoxhaism, and File:LeftCom.png Italian Left Communism for their endless marxist dogma. He is critical of Neoconservatism of sabotaging him in various countries, though.

Stylistic Notes

His cultural and economic views tend to vary a lot, but he usually wants an economic model resembling that of File:Soccap.png Social Capitalism, File:Soccorp.png Social Corporatism or File:Statecap.png State Capitalism. He pretty much doesn´t care much of other economic systems as long as they keep their regulations in check.
He can be seen eating ice cream with File:Patcon.png Patcon.

How to Draw

Ball design for Social Authoritarianism is based on Social Democracy, but with a black V-shaped pattern in the middle (in Polcompball this symbolizes authoritarianism, in reference to the Big Bro).

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Flag of Social Authoritarianism

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Add 2 black diagonal lines, projecting in a "V" shape
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Relationships

Friends

Welfarism - The carrot...
File:Sec.png Authoritarianism - ...and the stick!
File:Paternalism.png Paternalism - The goal of the state is to care for the well-being of others.
File:Long.png Longism - Good chap sharing the wealth.
Bismarckism - My first iteration and a good man all around.
File:Monsoc.png Monarcho-Socialism - Often times just me with a crowned monarch.
Populism - I am a father of the people.
File:Kemal.png Kemalism - A revolutionary in the Middle East who established a one-party welfare state.
Tridemism - Shame that you lost control of the Mainland.
File:Statecap.png State Capitalism - Most of the time I centralize the economy through a state owned enterprise.
File:WelfChauvin.png Welfare Chauvinism - You're erroneously mislabeled as "fascistic" and it doesn't help with your anti-immigrant sentiments. I'm glad to agree on you all patriots should embrace the enlightened values of nation, fraternity, and authority.
Arab Socialism, Ba'athism, File:Saadeh.png Saadehism and Gaddafism - Based social progressivism, anti-communism, and dictatorship as the end goal. What's there not to like about you guys?
File:Tito.png Titoism - One of the few based commies.
File:Castro.png Castroism - I heard Cuba had a efficient welfare economy.
African Socialism - I'm glad many of you ditched communism and adopted Social Democracy later on.
File:Social corpratism.png Social Corporatism - A good force of social partnership between various classes enforced through mutual agreement, state regulation, and collective bargaining.
File:Pron.png Peronism & File:Panc.png Pancasila - I like you a lot.
File:Caesar.png Caesarism, Pericleanism, File:Populare.png Populareism & Nongjia - Friends from ancient times.
File:Tucn-EcoAuth.png Eco-Authoritarianism - The best kind of environmentalism.
File:Patcon.png Paternalistic Conservatism - Me in post-Soviet countries.
File:IllibDem.png Illiberal Democracy - Best type of democracy ever existed.
File:Grayzone.png The Grayzone - Despite being a Marxist-Leninist, your beliefs seem close to my own.
File:Khomenewicon.png Khomeinism - You get it right that the capitalists should pay taxes and help the government to reduce the class gap and create social welfare for the lower classes. ~~But why did you overthrow the Shah?~~
File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png Xi Jinping Thought - The fight against drugs, corruption and other crimes, poverty elimination and your attitude towards social security really satisfy me. Working with Duterte is based. ~~But why are you imprisoning Bo Xilai?~~

Frenemies

Fascism - The New Deal took after your model but I am not anything like you, contrary to what tankies say.
Marxism-Leninism - I don't like anything about your ideology at all but Castro, Tito and Sankara are tolerable to their less dogmatic tendencies. Also, I did hear some good things about the USSR so you might not be all that bad. But I am not a social fascist!
File:Hoxha.png Hoxhaism - Dogmatic ML who loves internationalism and hates any kind of revisionism. Ramiz Alia was a member of your party for 5 years.
Juche - I like that you work with KSDP, but you treat them like a puppet and don't let them take control.
Maoism - Mostly bad but Bo Xilai claimed to be you and Thai royalists accuse Thaksin of waging a Maoist People's war against the monarchy through the red shirt movement. Also, I have to thank you for giving Soong Ching-ling a position in China.
Dengism - Dismantled China's welfare state on a national level but at least some of your followers such as Chen Liangyu and Bo Xilai implemented welfare in the big cities.
File:Marketsoc.png Market Socialism - Little too far left, but we both like File:Tito.png Tito, File:JuanVelasco.png Juan Velasco Alvarado, and File:DiazCanel.png Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Reformist Marxism - Reforms are a good step, although ypu still believe in the withering of the state. The Prachanada Path is on a good path.
File:Khrusch.png Khrushchevism and File:Brezhnev.png Brezhnev Doctrine - The Soviet Union was cringe but the so-called "anti-revisionist" commies accuse you two of being me and you were indeed preferable to Stalin. Considering how Russia how turned out under Yeltsin it's no wonder why many Russians are nostalgic for the time when you were in charge. I also have to thank Khrushchev for recognizing the importance of File:NAM.png neutral countries and supporting Nasser.
File:Nordmodel.png Nordic Model - I don't like how liberal you are but Tage Erlander is based and I'm sure your Danish version will turn into me over time.
Social Democracy - The democracy part is kinda stupid.
Democratic Socialism - You're doing a better job than your brother, but "democracy" part is still dumb. This variant is based, however.
File:Liberalsoc.png Liberal Socialism - Same as above I suppose. ~~If only File:Gorb.png Gorby was more resolute with the File:Yeltsin.png neoliberal reaction...~~
Progressivism - Apparently he told me you are a fan of universal healthcare, depends on the mood though.
Social Liberalism - I like FDR but god, you are very weak. You become de-facto me in post-Soviet states.
File:Libhawk.png Neoconservatism - The Marshall Plan was a brilliant idea to protect Europe from the rise of communism and it helped countries like Kemalist Turkey. But stop trying to undermine the sovereignty of non-aligned nations. What you did to Mosaddegh among others was unforgivable.
Neoliberalism - Most of us hate your presence. You hate the poor, don't care for the common man, and you shove your global trade on nations. That said some us embrace your economics.
Third Way - Like the above but more open to welfare, even if you're still as liberal as he is. But both Blair and Clinton increased police power, also Thaksin and Shevardnadze were perfect.
Authoritarian Capitalism - Why do you hate the poor? You're not socially-oriented enough. But I have a File:RightSocauth.png variant that embraces you.
File:Statesoc.png State Socialism - Kinda the opposite problem, as you wish to move past welfarism entirely. But maybe it’s good that you don’t wish to enact welfare cuts. Also, I have File:SocauthML.png some variants File:LeftSocauth.png that embrace your economics.
Authoritarian Conservatism - We can be great partners except when you team up with neoliberals.
File:Euras.png Fourth Theory - You like some of my followers but despise others.
State Liberalism -Schwab has a based, but you bombed my conservative support.

Enemies

Anti-Authoritarianism - Damn you! I gave you healthcare and security, ain't that enough? What else do you insolent brats want? ~~Why do so many of you idolize Thaksin?~~
File:LeftCom.png Italian Left Communism - As much as I despise Stalin, Mao, Hoxha, etc. I must admit they at least got things done unlike you. Also, you should stop saying that I am Marxism–Leninism!
Nazism - How about we send genocidal social Darwinist scums like you to death camps?
File:Nazbol.png National Bolshevism - The ideology that ended Sanationism.
File:Integralismf.png Brazilian Integralism - Galinha Verde you will get purged.
File:Socliber.png Social Libertarianism - Good luck doing all of that without a state.
File:Libertarian.png Libertarianism - I am "benevolent", I can give you all the safety you need.
Anarchism - You're idiotic.
Marxism - Your theories are outdated and revolution is pure dogma. The working class do not need a revolution, all they want is the state to band them healthcare. And besides, you claim to dislike File:Utsoc.png utopian theories but don't you find your final goal to end the state... utopian?
File:Luxem.png Spartacism - You had it coming. SPD did nothing wrong!
File:Trot.png Trotskyism - World revolution is cringe.
File:MLM.png Marxism–Leninism–Maoism - F**k you for trying to overthrow me in the Philippines, Turkey, and Peru, now get into your cells/gunpoint, terrorist scumbags! ~~Prachanda Path is pretty based though.~~
File:EndecjaPix.png National Democracy - Yes, Dmowski, I staged a coup and prevented you from getting to power. What you gonna do about it?
Agorism, Acid Communism & Soulism - Stop selling drugs before I send in the death squads.
File:Islamic Democracy.png Arab Spring - Libya and Syria are in ruins because of you!

Further Information

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Videos

Eduard Shevardnadze Documentary - წამი წამება წამიერება (2015)

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Notes

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↑ Lee Jae-myung was once a member of the site. Lee has also expressed some admiration for South Korea’s past military dictators, especially Park Chung-hee and Choo Doo-hwan.