Indigenism on the 12 Axes
Indigenism puts the rights, cultures and lands of indigenous peoples at the center of politics, calling for self-government, collective territories and states that recognize many nations within them.
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What Indigenism Stands For
In Latin America the term first named early twentieth-century state policies linked to Manuel Gamio in Mexico, the Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui and the 1940 Inter-American Indigenist Congress in Pátzcuaro, which sought to integrate native peoples into the nation. Indigenous leaders later criticized that approach as assimilation and built their own movements, from Bolivian Katarism to Ecuador's CONAIE (1986). Their demands advanced in ILO Convention 169 (1989), the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Bolivia's 2009 constitution, adopted under Evo Morales, which created a Plurinational State. Ideas such as buen vivir and the rights of nature link it to environmental politics. Compared with Zapatismo, it also works through elections and the state. Compared with eco-socialism, it centers peoples rather than class.
Answers That Lead to Indigenism
- You score strongly Multiculturalist: you want the state to recognize many peoples, languages and legal traditions rather than one national culture.
- You lean Federal and Democratic: you want indigenous territories governed by their own communities and authorities.
- You lean Bioconservative and Religious: you value ancestral knowledge and the bond with land and nature over rapid industrial and technological change.
Ideologies Close to Indigenism
- Christian Socialism 73%Christian socialism holds that the Gospel's call to serve the poor requires a more equal economy, with strong public services, workers' rights, cooperatives and limits on private wealth.
- Zapatismo 71%Zapatismo is the political movement of the EZLN in Chiapas, Mexico, which builds indigenous self-government and anticapitalist autonomy from below without seeking to take state power.
- Religious Anarchism 70%Religious anarchism holds that faith itself calls believers to reject the state, violence and coercion, and to live in voluntary communities of sharing and mutual care.
- Eco-Socialism 68%Eco-socialism holds that capitalism's drive for endless growth is destroying the planet, and calls for social ownership and democratic planning to bring production within ecological limits.
Countries and Figures Near Indigenism
Countries
Brazil77%
Bolivia73%
South Africa71%
Figures
- MGMahatma Gandhi76%
- JMJosé Mujica69%
- BSBernie Sanders69%
Editorial reference profile: our own scores from public positions and records, not a test they took.