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Revision as of 05:28, 3 July 2022
Authoritarian Capitalism (AuthCap), is an economically 
right wing, 
authoritarian and culturally 
ambivalent (though usually 
right-leaning) ideology advocating for a system in which a capitalist market economy exists alongside an authoritarian government. Authoritarian capitalists argue that by utilizing elements of Capitalism, regimes may more effectively employ modern technologies to suppress dissidence towards government. In addition, it is argued that capitalist free-market policies leads to an increase in authoritarian policies. The core of this argument lies in the view that citizens will support whichever regime provides the most material comforts.
Authoritarian capitalism is often associated with, and mistaken for, 
State Capitalism, an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial economic activity, and where the means of production are organized and managed as state-owned enterprises. The former has a higher degree of economic liberalization than the latter.
History
Russia 
Main Articles:
Kleptocracy, and
- Pyotr Stolypin: Pyotr Stolypin was the third Prime Minister of Russian Empire and Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire from 1906 to his assassination in 1911. As Prime Minister, Stolypin is most known for his
agrarian reforms, known as the Stolypin reform, that granted the right of private land ownership to the peasantry. Thus moving the Russian Empire further away from feudalism and towards capitalism. Stolypin was a 
staunch monarchist who prioritized modernity and efficiency over democracy and hoped to strengthen the throne through his capitalist reforms.
His tenure was also marked by increased revolutionary unrest, to which he responded with a 
new system of martial law that allowed for the arrest, speedy trial, and execution of accused offenders. Between 3000-5500 suspects were convicted and executed by these special courts between 1906 and 1909. Pytor Stolypin was throughout his tenure prone to numerous assassination attempts and was fatally shot in September 1911 by left-wing revolutionary Dmitry Bogrov in Kyiv.
Spain 
Main Article:
W.I.P.
Italy 
Main Article:
Fascism
W.I.P.
The United States 
Main Articles:
Neoconservatism and
- Fred C. Koch: Fred Chase Koch was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm known as Koch Industries, which became one of the largest and most successful private companies in the United States.
In 1925, Fred C. Koch had entered into a partnership with Lewis Winkler, a former employee of Universal Oil Products (UOP). Due to a lack of success at home, Winkler-Koch found work in the Soviet Union. Between 1929 and 1932 Winkler-Koch supported Joseph Stalin's regime to set up fifteen modern oil refineries" in the Soviet Union during its first Five Year Plan. This strange partnership came to a brutal end as Stalin violently purged several of Koch's Soviet colleagues when they proved no longer useful. In 1934, Fred C. Koch partnered with William Rhodes Davis to build the Hamburg Oil Refinery one of the largest refineries that served the Third Reich, a project which was personally approved by Adolf Hitler.
- Joseph McCarthy: Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. The term "McCarthyism" was coined in the 1950s in reference to McCarthy's widespread anti-communist paranoia, fearmongering, and allegations that numerous communists and Soviet spies, and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, and elsewhere. Joseph McCarthy rose to national fame in February 1950, when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department.
From the year 1950 onwards McCarthy frequently exploited Cold War tensions and the fear of communism and even began to investigate homosexuals working in the foreign policy bureaucracy, on the ground that they were prime candidates for blackmail by the Soviets (See: Lavender Scare). Said baseless accusations against homosexual government workers received wide publicity and gained him a powerful national following.
McCarthy's methods also brought on the disapproval and opposition of many. With the highly publicized Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, and following the suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester C. Hunt that same year, McCarthy's support and popularity faded. Ultimately, the smear tactics and threats that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate.
Mexico 
W.I.P.
Guatemala 
W.I.P.
Cuba 
- Fulgencio Batista - Fulgencio Batista was president of Cuba twice, between 1940-1944 and 1952-1959. His first government was more left-leaning, with support from
socialist parties, he enacted labor laws, increased 
regulations and supported unions.
His second government was very different from the first, as there was an increase in inequality, persecution of socialists and a decrease in 
regulations. His government was known for brutality and the 
police state, in which he was accused of murdering 20,000 opponents. One of the most striking actions was the support for organized crime and 
American companies, in which brothels and gambling were so abundant that Cuba was known as "
La Vegas of Latin America" and also 
homosexuality was usually for gay bars and nightclubs. American companies "dominated" Cuba's economy, in which the main companies were mining, railroads, sugar production and telephony. His government fell in 1959, in the Cuban revolution led by 
Che Guevara and 
Fidel Castro.
Operation 
Condor 
Main Articles:
Pinochetism, and
National Capitalism
Operation Condor was an operation between 1968 and 1989 in South America, which took governments from the 
left and placed capitalist dictatorships. The operation is known for its anti-communism and being an example of "American imperialism". The affected countries were: 
Brazil, 
Argentina, 
Uruguay, 
Bolivia, 
Chile and 
Paraguay and their supporters were:
Luis Posada Carriles - Luis Posada Carriles was an 
anti-communist militant and terrorist, in which he was responsible for overseeing the capture of 
Che Guevara. In the condor operation, he was responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks in 
Cuba and the assassination of Orlando Letelier, the main opponent of the Pinochet government.- Jorge Rafael Videla, Alfredo Stroessner , Hugo Banzer - The aforementioned dictators are now very similar, Videla being the cruelest. In these dictatorships,
indigenous peoples were persecuted, economic liberalization, support for 
Nazi refugees and (in Videla's case) persecution of 
Jews. - Emílio Garrastazu Médici - Emílio Garrastazu Médici was a Brazilian dictator who took over after the condor operation. The Medici government is known for economic improvement and
Totalitarianism, especially for 
AI5, a law that allows censorship, restricting civil rights and torture. It also banned pornography. - Juan María Bordaberry - Juan María Bordaberry was a Uruguayan dictator who also took over in the condor operation, in the 1973 coup. His system was capitalist and agricultural with inspirations from Fascism and Francoism.
- Augusto Pinochet - See: Pinochetism.
Iran 
Main Articles:
Social Authoritarianism, and
Monarcho-Capitalism
- Reza Shah - Reza Shah took over in 1925 after convincing the Majlis to depose and exile Ahmad Shah, making him the next Shah. Crowned in 1926, he had started the Pahlavi dynasty. Historian Ervand Abrahamian claimed that the Shah of Reza Shah would be "free from clerical influence, nomadic uprisings and ethnic differences".
In his Shah, he began the process of industrialization and modernization, increasing the amount of industries, roads and railways. He implemented modern education at Tehran University and made the number of industrial plants increase 17 times. There was an increase in both private and state industries.
Other changes were the elimination of chador, a ban on photography of things considered "backward" (camels, clerical and Western clothing), changes from the Persian name to Iranian, support for 
Jews (even if this was questioned), detribalization, support for 
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 
Ethnic Nationalism and comfort for the clergy. He had to abdicate in 1941 because of the 
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
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- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi took over in 1941, having been crown prince of Reza Shah, in which a time later he met with allies in WWII, such as
Stalin and 
Roosevelt.
When he took office, he made economic reforms, called the 
White Revolution, in which he privatized state-owned companies, nationalized some industries such as oil and abolished 
Feudalism. In doing so, he made private Iranian companies increase their profits. Under his rule, Iran had one of the best literacy programs, an increase in nuclear installations and an increase in industries such as automotive and electrical appliances and the 5th largest army in the world. Iran has had a kind of "economic miracle", such as the unprecedented rise in per capita income, decrease in poverty and industrialization.
His authoritarianism, notable examples being the jaleh square massacre, the cinema rex fire and others, causing protests, making him resign in 1979, being succeeded by 
Ruhollah Khomeini. The total number of deaths in the protest ranged from 540 to 2000.
Singapore 
- Lee Kuan Yew: Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) was the first Prime Minister of Singapore and is widely considered to be the city state's founding father. Lee was born in Singapore when it was still under
British 
colonial rule as part of the Straits Settlements. During the 
Japanese Occupation in the midst of WWII, Lee managed to evade death as the Japanese ordered all Singaporeans of Chinese descent to be screened as part of the Sook Ching operation.
The future leader of Singapore got a job with the Japanese 
propaganda department (Hōdōbu) in late 1943, as an English specialist. As Lee came to anticipate that the British Allied Forces would re-invade their former colony he quit his job at the Japanese propaganda department and spent the remainder of the war engaging in private enterprises and black markets. After being forced to kneel in front of a Japanese soldier he came to realize that the Japanese were a far more cruel and vicious occupying force than Singapore's former British colonizers. Lee Kuan Yew now understood that no Empire had the right to rule over them and that the people of Singapore would eventually have to take matters into their own hands and push for independence and self-determination.
After the war and Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces, Lee got a Queen's scholarship and went to study abroad in London where his anti-colonial sentiments kept growing. He returned to Singapore in 1950 together with his wife Kwa, determined to end British colonial rule and create a unified and independent 
Malaya and 
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The People's Action Party (PAP) was founded in 1954 and eventually, Lee sought to purge the Party of his former communist allies in wake of the 1956 Chinese Middle School riots.
The People's Action Party won its first electoral victory in the 1959 election and with Lee Kuan Yew appointed as Singapore's first prime minister. He initially sought to unify Singapore with Malaysia but ethnic conflicts and ideological differences led to Singapore becoming a sovereign city-state in 1965. Lee and the PAP had overwhelming parliamentary control at every election and oversaw Singapore's transformation into a developed high economy country, with a highly effective, 
anti-corrupt government and civil service.
Lee eschewed 
populist policies in favor long term social and economic planning and did everything he could to attract foreign investment for multinational corporations. Singapore consistently ranks at the top of the World Bank's "Ease of Doing Business Report."
However, Lee's rule has been described as authoritarian by critics, with accusations of curtailing press freedoms, imposing narrow limits on public protests, restricting labor movements from strike action through legislation, and co-option, and bringing defamation lawsuits against political opponents. Lee Kuan Yew finally stepped down as Prime Minister in 1990 after over 30 years in power.
- Lee Hsien Loong: Lee Kuan Yew's eldest son Lee Hsien Loong has served as Prime Minister of Singapore and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party (PAP) since 2004. Although Lee Hsien Loong isn't quite as authoritarian as his father, other political parties still don't stand much of a chance against The PAP. Caning is still a widely used form of corporal punishment in Singapore.
Kazakhstan 
W.I.P.
Rwanda 
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- Paul Kagame - Paul Kagame is the current president of Rwanda, assumed on April 22, 2000. He has also been a former vice president, former defense minister, former president of the
African Union, and former military. His government is known for economic and social advances, but also for the assassinations of opponents outside Rwanda, such as 
Patrick Karegeya, assassinated in 
South Africa. The main changes are:[3]
- Having condemned the main actors involved in the genocide in Rwanda and having criticized the UN's lack of action against the genocide.
- Reduction of extreme poverty that in 2000 was 58.9% dropped to 44.9% in 2012.
- Vaccination of 97% of children against ten different diseases.
- Average increase of 7% of GDP per year.
- Vetoing a bill in 2009 that intended to criminalize homosexuality.
- 61.3% of Rwanda's parliament is composed of women.
- Liberalization and debureaucratization of the economy.
- Investment in poverty alleviation and technology.
- Decreased corruption.
The Philippines 
W.I.P.
Bangladesh 
Main Articles:
Authoritarian Democracy, and
Neoliberalism
- Sheikh Hasina - Sheikh Hasina was Prime Minister of Bangladesh twice, the first time in 1996, leaving in 2001, and the second time in 2009, remaining until today.
She is considered to be 
Bangladesh's first female minister, who in the first time in power in 1996, she signed the water sharing treaty with India and started opening up to the private sector such as the telecommunications industry and the introduction of NIP ( New Industrial Policy), allowing foreign companies to open subsidiaries. The Awami League (her party) lost the 2001 elections, causing her to leave, even though she claimed the elections had been a rigging. After the defeat, she was part of the opposition to the later government.
She won the 2008 elections, serving as prime minister for the second time, having 3 consecutive terms. She has been accused of various rights abuses and violence against opponents, in addition to having been accused of corruption and having rigged the 2018 elections, suffering a coup attempt in 2012 by 
Islamic extremists. She called for further development of postal services in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Khaleda Zia - WIP
Cambodia 
W.I.P.
Indonesia 
Main Article:
Stratocracy
W.I.P.
Ecuador 
- León Febres Cordero - León Febres Cordero was president of Ecuador from 1984 to 1988, taking over after the 1984 elections with 51.54% of the votes and the motto of his government was "Bread, roof and employment".
Many praise his government's actions, such as the increase in non-oil exports, which reached 1.8 billion dollars, and increased investment in culture and health. He adopted measures of 
Fiscal Conservatism and 
Neoliberalism and 
Ecuador's GDP had considerable growth and surpluses and fought against the terrorist group Alfaro Vive, ¡Carajo!. There were several scandals of corruption schemes as well as repression and human rights abuses, such as the creation of death squads, summary executions and the case of teacher 
Consuelo Benavides, in which she was subjected to torture, rape and execution. The scandals made him leave in 1988, being succeeded by 
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos.
Tunisia 
W.I.P.
Egypt 
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W.I.P.
Serbia 
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Main Article:
Ethnic Nationalism
W.I.P
Turkey 
Main Articles:
W.I.P.
Iraq 
W.I.P.
Kurdistan 
W.I.P.
Qatar 
Main Article:
W.I.P.
Personality and Behavior
Authcap acts like his father capitalism but more authoritarian and more willing to use the state for personal gain. May or may not like helicopters like his son Pinochetism.
How To Draw
- Draw a ball with eyes.
- Color the ball black.
- Draw a yellow inverted triangle in middle of the ball.
- Draw a green dollar sign in the middle of the triangle.
| Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow | #FFFF00 | 255, 255, 0 | |
| Green | #00FF00 | 0, 255, 0 | |
| Black | #141414 | 20, 20, 20 | |
Relationships
Friends
Capitalism - I remember when you and Authoritarianism raised me.
Authoritarianism - Thanks for teaching me all about proper strict governance, dad.
Imperialism - Based! Sometimes I may pretend to oppose him for domestic support when in fact I help him maintain control of the economy of his former colonies after de-colonization!- Neoconservatism - We need to spread capitalism too all of the world and gun down any opponent.
Authoritarian Conservatism - Great business partner.
National Conservatism - Moderate version of above.- Pinochetism - Love your style of governance, son. Though I don’t understand your love of helicopter rides.
Fujimorism - Excellent work crushing those shining path commies, my Japanese-Peruvian son.- National Capitalism - Super based brother.
State Liberalism - Me with a cover of woke culture.
Corporatocracy - Good business partner and I often allow him to particapate in politics of respective country. You often help me with mass-surveillance and union busting.- Kleptocracy - Neat ideas.
- Stratocracy - We work great together.
Anti-Environmentalism - Time to drill some oil and sell air!- Francoism - You became more based with time.
Neoreactionarism & 
Neocameralism - Lee Kuan Yew fans.
Gaullism - We work great together in Africa.
Three Represents 
- Best CCP politician in history! I had my doubts about you at first but you eventually opened your eyes and embraced the free market during the late 1990s, and created one of the most greedy and brutal oligarchies in the world. Your foreign policy was excellent as well. Too bad, Winnie the Pooh had to oust you and your Shanghai clique from power.
Korwinism - Best libertarian, specially Korwin himself!
Frenemies
Anarcho-Capitalism - Cool but why the anarchism?- Neoliberalism - Good job taking over the world and helping me consolidate power in third-world countries. However, there's no need for you to disguise yourself as a democratic ideology.
Corporatism - You know a thing or two about management but try to take my property and you die!
State Capitalism - Why do people think I'm you? Though still, we could be great business partners if you move more to the economic right.- Totalitarianism - Depends on what kind of totalitarian dictatorship it is but
Park Chung-hee was based. 
Chiang Kai-shek Thought - Fellow anti-communist dictator who got stabbed many times in the back by the US for not following their orders. However, you're not market-liberal enough when it comes to economics. Killing commies is based but killing rich Shanghai capitalists was not.
Showa Statism - Imperial Japan was more based during the Meiji and Taishō era, but your staunch anti-communism was admirable.
Ba'athism - Saddam had it coming but Assad is quite ba'ased.
Gaddafism - We used to be enemies when you funded and trained so-called "anti-imperialist", militant rebel groups across the world. Our relationship did, however, improve over time as you improved foreign relations with the west and encouraged foreign investment. I'm not sure what to think about your downfall.
Mobutism - Based leader overall but the US eventually turned on you and with the help of Kagame and Museveni overthrew your regime following the Rwandan Genocide.
Ho Chi Minh Thought 
(Post 1990s-) - I won't forgive you for the Fall of Saigon and destroying South Vietnam but I've been warming up to you since you initiated the Đổi Mới reforms and embraced free-market capitalism during the 1990s. Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is especially based.
Khomeinism - I won't forgive you for the Islamic Revolution and overthrowing the Pahlavi Dynasty. However, your staunch anti-communism is based and you've gotten better with time.- Social Authoritarianism - My least favourite business partner: Beware with your "social" €r@p. However, Mahathir and Thaksin are based!
Liberal Conservatism - Libtard who occasionally pretends to stand up for "human rights and democracy" but can be a good business partner from time to time.
Third Way - Same as above!
Austrolibertarianism & 
Chicagoan Libertarianism - Both of you have good ideas, but how are you going to implement them in your small state?
Rockefeller Republicanism - Twenty-one years of treason! However, your coups in Iran and Guatemala were based!
Reactionary Liberalism - Good lib but be more anti-democratic.
European Federalism - I love the idea of one Europe united against socialism and the way you deal with illegal immigrants through Frontex is quite based. However, you could improve relations with Russia and China and treat Hungary with more respect.
Gorbachevism - One of the few lefties I can respect. Good job dismantling the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. Yeltsin took what you started to the next level.- National Socialism - Your privatizations and darwinism were megabased, but why the huge social state and large welfare spending spree with the government guarantee jobs for every citizen? Also, stop killing Jewish bankers. At least you are anti-communist, authoritarian, and statist.
Enemies
- File:Soc.png Socialism - Cringe economic system.
- File:Marxlen.png Marxism–Leninism - My arch-enemy. We used to constantly fight for power in many different countries during the Cold War. It seems like I've won for now.
- Stalinism - One of the worst. At least you weren't too eager to spread the revolution, unlike certain other commies.
Maoism - Even worse than above. You inspired lunatics like Gonzalo, Kaypakkaya, and Sison who attacked my followers. However, some your son is incredibly based.
Xi Jinping Thought - F*ck your overthrowing of the Shanghai clique and clamping down on many corporations, especially the Tencent monopoly. Also, your common prosperity policy is a f*cking nightmare. However, you still have respects for Elon Musk and at least your reserved a position for Li Keqiang.
Trotskyism - A red neocon! What a nightmare! I may despise Stalin but you deserved the ice pick.
Pol Potism - I don't think I need to explain this one.
Titoism - Better than most commies but the Anti-bureaucratic revolution and the Breakup of Yugoslavia go brrrrr
Anarchism - Why do so many college kids believe in this bullshit?
Anarcho-Communism - The two worst things in the universe combined.
Syndicalism - Try to go on strike you red son of a bitch.
National Syndicalism - Less class struggle, but still sucks.
Mutualism - Less bad than the last commie anarchist but still quite awful.
Libertarian Socialism - Please die.
Social Democracy and 
Democratic Socialism - You make me laugh! Any time you two morons show up in a third world country, I call my friends at CIA and MI6 and make sure you get couped and get replaced with me.
Peronism - Viva Videla!
Marhaenism - Haha communist genocide go brrrr.- Castroism - You destroyed Cuba, asshole!
Hutu Power - I will never forgive you for the Rwandan genocide!
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Further Information
Wikipedia
- Authoritarian Capitalism
- Private Prisons
- McCarthyism
- Operation Condor
- Singapore
- Qatar
- Liberal Autocracy
- Black Jails
- White Revolution
- SAVAK
- Foxconn suicides
- 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
- Black Friday (1978)
- Economy of Syria
- Spanish miracle
- New Order
- Portuguese Mozambique
- East India Company
- Kongo Free State
- National Force
- Cambodian People's Party
- United Fruit Company
- Pinkerton®
- Blackwater/Academi
- Alliance for Brazil
- Wagner Group
Videos
- Wacky ideologies 17 Authoritarian Capitalism by Knights of alternate history
- How Rwanda is Becoming the Singapore of Africa by Wendover Productions
- Singapurism vs Libertarianism vs Socialism by Viva Chile
