Technocracy on the 12 Axes

Technocracy holds that public problems have technical answers and that the people best placed to find them are trained specialists. The term spread in the United States in the 1930s through Howard Scott's Technocracy movement, which proposed replacing the price system with an economy managed by engineers using energy accounting. Earlier roots include Saint-Simon and his vision of society led by industrialists and scientists. Today the label also describes governments that lean on central banks, planning agencies and expert ministries. Compared with Transhumanism, technocracy cares less about enhancing the human body and more about who holds power. Compared with State Capitalism, it puts expertise rather than the party or the nation at the center, and it treats religion and tradition as poor guides to policy.

• Trotskyism 69%Trotskyism is the Marxist current founded by Leon Trotsky, centered on permanent world revolution, workers' democracy within a planned economy, and opposition to the Stalinist bureaucracy.
• Leninism 69%Leninism is the theory and practice of Vladimir Lenin: a disciplined vanguard party leads a revolution, takes state power and builds socialism through a dictatorship of the proletariat.
• Eurocommunism 68%Eurocommunism was a current within Western European communist parties in the 1970s that sought socialism through parliamentary democracy and independence from the Soviet Union.
• Marxism 68%Marxism is the body of theory begun by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that explains history through class struggle and expects capitalism to give way to a classless, communist society.