Integralist
Brazilian Integralism, founded by Plínio Salgado in 1932, is a prime example of this ideology. Influenced by European fascism, it emphasized Christian (especially Catholic) morality, nationalism, and corporatist economic structures. Integralists supported a strong state overseeing employer-worker relations and opposed multiparty democracy, instead favoring a single-party system to maintain national unity. The economy remained a mix of private enterprise under tight state guidance, making it a centrist to moderately statist blend.
What it believes
Society should be integrally ordered by faith: not a theocrat's whim but a corporate body where church teaching shapes law, family and guild outrank individual and market, and the state enforces a moral order it did not invent.
The appeal
It diagnoses liberal society's loneliness with real precision — atomized individuals, hollowed communities, markets in everything — and prescribes the thickest community on offer: shared faith with institutional teeth.
Where it breaks
The moral order must be someone's, and dissenters — other faiths, the faithless, the insufficiently orthodox — become second-class by design. Where integralism ruled, the church's authority corrupted exactly as fast as any party's.
Among its neighbours
The Autocratic Theocrat above drops the corporate mediation and rules by decree. The State Socialist to its left orders society by plan where this cell uses creed. Below, the State Liberal keeps the strong state but points it at securing rights instead of souls.
Figures — real and imagined — who share the Integralist base ideology. They differ only on the third axis: from radical to restorationist, each is a different face of a Integralist.
The company you keep.
The social axis (progressive ↔ traditional) splits Integralist into nine named shades. Take the quiz to find out which one is yours.
- Radical Integralist
- Progressive Integralist
- Reformist Integralist
- Heterodox Integralist
- Integralist
- Rooted Integralist
- Traditional Integralist
- Reactionary Integralist
- Restorationist Integralist