Fujimorist
Alberto Fujimori's Peru (1990s) is an example of Authoritarian Capitalism. Facing economic crisis, he implemented sweeping neoliberal reforms ('Fujishock'), including mass privatizations, deregulation, and opening markets to foreign investment. However, he also dissolved Congress, ruled by decree, and suppressed political opposition through corruption and intimidation. While the economy flourished under free-market policies, political repression was severe, yet daily life for non-political citizens was not fully controlled.
What it believes
Capitalism works best under a strongman who breaks the obstacles — insurgents, unions, congresses, constitutions — that impede it: emergency rule as a development strategy, with technocrats writing policy and the security services enforcing it.
The appeal
Against hyperinflation and insurgency it delivered stabilization fast, and its self-coup polled well — order and groceries are genuinely popular when both have vanished. It is authoritarian capitalism with a ballot-box veneer.
Where it breaks
The emergency never ends on schedule: the intelligence chief ends up running the state, corruption metastasizes in the dark, and the sterilization campaigns and death squads surface once the newspapers are free again. The veneer was the plan.
Among its neighbours
The Pinochetist above dispenses with the electoral theater this cell maintains. The Oligarchist beside it achieves the same capture without needing a caudillo. Below, the National Capitalist pursues flag-first markets inside surviving institutions.
Figures — real and imagined — who share the Fujimorist base ideology. They differ only on the third axis: from radical to restorationist, each is a different face of a Fujimorist.
The company you keep.
The social axis (progressive ↔ traditional) splits Fujimorist into nine named shades. Take the quiz to find out which one is yours.
- Radical Fujimorist
- Progressive Fujimorist
- Reformist Fujimorist
- Heterodox Fujimorist
- Fujimorist
- Rooted Fujimorist
- Traditional Fujimorist
- Reactionary Fujimorist
- Restorationist Fujimorist