Authoritarian Capitalism

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.

[[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia [[File:Stolypin.png]][[File:Yeltsin.png]][[File:Putin.png]][[File:Medvedev.png]][[File:Oligarchy.png]]
"Main Articles: Kleptocracy, and  Oligarchy"


 * [[File:Stolypin.png]] Pyotr Stolypin: Pyotr Stolypin was the third Prime Minister of [[File:Cball-Russian_Empire.png]] 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 [[File:Farm.png]] 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 [[File:Tsar.png]] 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.

[[File:Cball-US.png]] The United States [[File:PatPaleoCon.png]][[File:McCarthy.png]][[File:FBI.png]]
"Main Articles: Neoconservatism and  Paleoconservatism"

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.
 * [[File:McCarthy.png]]  Joseph 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 [[File:Anticommunism.png]] 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 [[File:ML.png]] the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department.

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.


 * [[File:FBI.png]]  George Wackenhut was a former FBI agent and the founder of [[File:Corp.png]] the Wackenhut private security corporation. In 1951, Wackenhut joined the FBI as a special agent in Indianapolis and Atlanta and was tasked with handling counterfeit money and bad-check cases and tracking down Army deserters. He eventually resigned from the FBI to start his own private security company. The huge profits made from the Wackenhut corporation enabled its founder to live a lavish lifestyle in homes scattered throughout the US "Tyecliffe Castle", or "Castle Wackenhut" in Coral Gables, near Miami. George Wackenhut was known as a hard-line right-winger and built up dossiers on Americans suspected of being [[File:ML.png]] Communists or [[File:Soc.png]] left-leaning "subversives and sympathizers" and sold the information to interested parties. By the late, 1960s Wackenhut held files onthan more 4 million names of suspected "dissidents."  In 1975, after the United States Congress investigated companies that had private files, Wackenhut gave its files to the now-defunct anti-Communist Church League of America of Wheaton, Illinois.

Wackenhut sold his company for $570 million in 2002 to Danish corporation Group 4 Falck which then merged to form British company G4S in 2004. G4S provides security to specific government and corporate sectors: energy, utilities, and chemical/petrochemical, financial institutions, hospitals, and healthcare facilities, major corporations and the construction industry, ports and airports, residential communities, retail and commercial real estate, and transit systems. In 2010, G4S Wackenhut changed its name to G4S Secure Solutions (USA) to reflect the new business model.

[[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Mexico [[File:DíazOrdaz.png]][[File:PRI.png]][[File:PorfirioDíaz.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Guatemala.png]] Guatemala [[File:JorgeUbico.png]]
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[[File:Cball-RepublicOfCuba.png]] Cuba [[File:Batista.png]]

 * [[File:Batista.png]] Fulgencio Batista - [[File:Batista.png]] Fulgencio Batista was president of [[File:Cball-RepublicOfCuba.png]]Cuba twice, between 1940-1944 and 1952-1959. His first government was more left-leaning, with support from [[File:Demsocstar.png]] socialist parties, he enacted labor laws, increased [[File:Regulationism.png]] 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: Neoconservatism,  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:
 * [[File:Posada.png]]Luis Posada Carriles - Luis Posada Carriles was an [[File:Anticommunism.png]]anti-communist militant and terrorist, in which he was responsible for overseeing the capture of [[File:Guevara.png]] Che Guevara. In the condor operation, he was responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks in [[File:Castro.png]] Cuba and the assassination of Orlando Letelier, the main opponent of the [[File:Pinochet.png]] Pinochet government.
 * [[File:Videla.png]] Jorge Rafael Videla, [[File:ColoradoParty-Stroessner.png]] Alfredo Stroessner ,[[File:NDA-Banzer.png]] Hugo Banzer - The aforementioned dictators are now very similar, [[File:Videla.png]] Videla being the cruelest. In these dictatorships, [[File:Native.png]] indigenous peoples were persecuted, economic liberalization, support for [[File:Nazi.png]] Nazi refugees and (in [[File:Videla.png]] Videla's case) persecution of [[File:Zio.png]] Jews.
 * [[File:EmílioMédici.png]] 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 [[File:Totalitarian.png]] Totalitarianism, especially for [[File: Legalism.png]] AI5, a law that allows censorship, restricting civil rights and torture. It also banned pornography.
 * [[File:Bordaberry.png]] Juan María Bordaberry - Juan María Bordaberry was a [[File:Cball-Uruguay.png]] Uruguayan dictator who also took over in the condor operation, in the 1973 coup. His system was capitalist and agricultural with inspirations from [[File: Fash.png]] Fascism and [[File: Franco.png]] Francoism.
 * [[File:Pinochet-hat.png]] Augusto Pinochet - See: Pinochetism'''.

[[File:Cball-Persia.png]] Iran [[File:Pahlavi.png]]
"Main Articles: Social Authoritarianism, and  Monarcho-Capitalism" 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. 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.
 * [[File:Pahlavi.png]]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".
 * [[File:Pahlavi.png]] 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 [[File:JosephStalin.png]] Stalin and [[File:FDRismF.png]] Roosevelt.

[[File:Cball-Nepal.png]] Nepal [[File:Moncap.png]]
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[[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] South Korea [[File:ParkChungHee.png]]
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 * [[File:ParkChungHee.png]] Park Chung-hee was a dictator in [[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] South Korea and the 3rd head of state in modern [[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] South Korea. In his government, the economy grew substantially, as it hears numerous economic miracles, the best known being the sharp drop in mortality and extreme poverty. He was also extremely authoritarian, banned freedom of expression and politics, sent homeless people to forced labor camps, and replaced [[File:Bud.png]] Buddhism with [[File:ProtTheo.png]] Protestantism, banned the Chinese language and implanted nationalism.

[[File:Cball-Singapore.png]] Singapore [[File:PAP(Singapore).png]]

 * [[File:Authoritarian Conservatism.png]] Lee Kuan Yew - Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) was the first Prime Minister of [[File:Cball-Singapore.png]] Singapore and is widely considered to be the city state's founding father. Lee was born in Singapore when it was still under  [[File:Cball-UK.png]] British  [[File:Colonial.png]] colonial rule as part of the Straits Settlements. During the  [[File:Showa.png]] 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   Singapore. Lee turned heavily to the city's Chinese-speaking community and trade unions and was willing to cooperate with regional  communist movements as he sought to create a popular front. 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.


 * [[File:Authdem.png]] Lee Hsien Loong [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]]: 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. Press Freedom remains very low with journalists and netizens critical of the ruling party being forced to pay heavy fines for expressing their opinions.

[[File:Cball-Kazakhstan.png]] Kazakhstan [[File:Nazarbayev.png]][[File:Tokayev.png]]

 * [[File:Nazarbayev.png]] Nursultan Nazarbayev  is a Kazakh politician who served as the first President of [[File:Cball-Kazakhstan.png]] Kazakhstan, in office from the country’s independence in 1991 until his formal resignation in 2019, and as the Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2022. Nazarbayev began his political career during [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] the Soviet Era and served as Prime Minister of the Kazakh SSR from 1984 until 1989 when he became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (QKP), 1989. In 1990, Nazarbayev was appointed as Kazakhstan's first president by the Supreme Soviet and supported Russian President [[File:Yeltsin.png]] Boris Yeltsin against the attempted coup in August 1991 by the Soviet hardliners.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Nazarbayev turned Kazakhstan into a  kleptocratic  dictatorship, through the ruling party   Nur Otan and like many other post-communist countries, as human rights abuses were severe, dissent was suppressed, and elections were not free and fair, with Nazarbayev regularly winning over 90% of the vote. Nazarbayev established a cult of persona, with schools, streets, and even the country's capital being named after himself. In contrast to other Post-Soviet leaders such as Alexander Lukashenko of  Belarus or  Sapamurat Niyazov of  Turkmenistan, Nazarbayev went beyond  state capitalism and actively pursued  privatization of industries and encouraged foreign investment by multinational corporations. During his 3-decade-long rule he managed to balance international relations between both Russia,  the US, and  China. Nazarbayev went to great lengths to maintain close economic ties with Russia by introducing Kazakhstan into the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) while also pursuing close cooperation with NATO, and participating in China's Belt and Road Initiative.

Nazarbayev's dictatorial rule would face much resistance on multiple occasions. Most notably by businessman and political activist  Mukhtar Ablyazov who lives in exile in Europe because of his political activities and corruption charges. In December 2011, opponents of Nazarbayev rioted in the Mangystau region, resulting in 15 people being shot dead by security forces, in what was known as the Zhanaozen massacre and subsequent trials and arrests of protestors revealing widespread torture and abuse of detainees. In March 2019, Nazarbayev finally resigned from the presidency amid anti-government rallies and was succeeded by his close ally Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

[[File:Cball-Rwanda.png]] Rwanda [[File:FPR(Rwanda).png]]

 * [[File: FPR(Rwanda).png]]  Paul Kagame - Paul Kagame is the current president of [[File:Cball-Rwanda.png]] Rwanda, assumed on April 22, 2000. He has also been a former vice president, former defense minister, former president of the [[File:Cball-AfricanUnion.png]] 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 [[File:Thar.png]] Patrick Karegeya, assassinated in [[File:Cball-South Africa.png]] South Africa. The main changes are:
 * 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.

[[File:Cball-Philippines.png]] The Philippines [[File:Marcos.png]]
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[[File:Cball-BANG.png]] Bangladesh [[File:Hasina.png]]
"Main Articles: Authoritarian Democracy, and  Neoliberalism" 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.
 * [[File:Hasina.png]] Sheikh Hasina - Sheikh Hasina was Prime Minister of [[File:Cball-BANG.png]] Bangladesh twice, the first time in 1996, leaving in 2001, and the second time in 2009, remaining until today.

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

[[File:Cball-Cambodia.png]] Cambodia [[File:Hun Sen.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Indonesia.png]] Indonesia [[File:Suharto.png]]
 Suharto was an Indonesian   army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of  Indonesia through a repressive military dictatorship from 1967 until his own resignation in 1998.

The future military dictator grew up under the Dutch   Colonial Era and joined the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) in June 1940 at the age of 19. During the Japanese occupation era, Suharto changed allegiance to serve in the Japanese-organized Indonesian security forces, PETA. After the Japanese surrender in the Pacific to the Allied, independence leaders Sukarno and Hatta declared Indonesian independence and were appointed president and vice-president respectively of the new Republic. Under the new government, Suharto joined Indonesian Army to fight the Dutch forces who had returned to take back control over their former colony. Throughout the 1950s, as a colonel, Suharto would crack down hard on uprisings of Dutch collaborators and  Islamic extremists. Throughout the rule of socialist Sukarno, the Communist Party of Indonesia, PKI which was closely affiliated with Sukarno’s regime, increased massively in numbers and popularity upsetting both the Indonesian military and the US who would do anything to prevent a communist take-over in the country.

Due to a combination of Sukarno’s extensive nationalizations, autarky, and foreign sabotage by the CIA, the economy of Indonesia deteriorated rapidly,  resulting in widespread poverty and hunger and foreign debt obligations became unmanageable, and infrastructure crumbled.

On 30 September 1965, six generals were killed by a group calling themselves the 30 September Movement who alleged a right-wing plot to kill the President. General Suharto led the army in suppressing the abortive coup attempt who blamed the PKI for. After the events surrounding the 30 September Movement of 1965, General Suharto took control of the country in a Western-backed military overthrow of the Sukarno-led government in an event that came to be known as the Transition to the New Order. What followed was the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, large-scale killings and civil unrest that occurred in Indonesia over several months, targeting PKI members, communist sympathizers, Gerwani women, feminists, ethnic Javanese Abangan, and ethnic Chinese among other dissidents that were suspected to hold left-wing views. The Indonesian genocide was directly supported by the US, British, and  Australian intelligence services which provided weapons and logistical support for the Indonesian army and “kill lists” of suspected dissidents. According to the most widely published estimates, at least 500,000 to 1.2 million people were killed over the course of 2 years.¨

In 1966 to 1967, to promote assimilation of the influential Chinese Indonesians, the Suharto government passed several laws as part of the so-called "Basic Policy for the Solution of Chinese Problem", which included banning all Chinese cultural and religious expressions from public space, prohibition of Chinese schools, and encouraging ethnic Chinese to take Indonesian-sounding names.

Suharto proceeded with social engineering projects designed to transform Indonesian society into a de-politicized "floating mass" supportive of the national mission of "development", a concept reminiscent to corporatism. The New Order regime created and required all civil servants and employees of the state- and local government-owned enterprises. and those of Bank Indonesia to join KORPRI (the Employees' Corps of the Republic of Indonesia) to ensure their loyalty.

Suharto enlisted a group of mostly US-educated Indonesian economists, dubbed the "Berkeley Mafia", to formulate government economic policy to solve the economic crisis left by the Sukarno-era. By cutting subsidies and government debt, and reforming the exchange rate mechanism, inflation dropped from 660% in 1966 to 19% in 1969. Sukarno's economic autarky policies were reversed by opening selected economic sectors of the country to foreign investment under the new Foreign Investment Law of January 1967 and foreign companies that had previously nationalized were re-privatized and returned to their original owners. The government began a series of large-scale intensive investments in infrastructure under a series of five-year plans. Indonesia experienced massive economic growth during the New Order coincided with rapid expansion in corruption, collusion, and nepotism as Suharto would use his dictatorial rule to enrich himself and his family and cronies.

In 1974, the neighbouring colony of Portuguese Timor descended into civil war after the withdrawal of Portuguese colonial authority following the Carnation Revolution, whereby theleftist-leaning Fretilin emerged triumphant. Western governments persuaded Suharto to intervene in East Timor to prevent socialism from prevailing in the former Portuguese colony. Suharto authorised a full-scale invasion of the colony on 7 December 1975 followed with its official annexation as Indonesia's 27th province of East Timor in July 1976. The United States under  Gerald Ford and   Jimmy Carter furnished over $250,000,000 of military assistance to Indonesia between 1975 and 1979. An estimated minimum of 90,800 and maximum of 213,600 conflict-related deaths occurred in East Timor during the Indonesian occupation that lasted until 1999.

Suharto ruthlessly suppressed elements that he perceived the New Order society. From 1983 to 1985, army death squads murdered up to 10,000 suspected criminals in response to a spike in crime rate. Attacks on police by the resurgent  Gaddafi-aided  Free Aceh Movement in 1989 led to a brutal military operation that killed up to 12,000 people, mostly civilians.

By the 1980s Western concern over Communism waned with the end of the Cold War, leading Suharto's human-rights record to come under greater international scrutiny and the New Order regime lost much of its support from the western governments that helped its rise to power in the first place. By the 1990s, elements of the growing Indonesian middle class, created by Suharto's economic development, were becoming restless with his autocracy and his family's brazen corruption, fueling demands for reform of the 30-year-old New Order system.

By 1996,  Megawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of Sukarno and chairwoman of  PDI, was becoming a rallying point for this growing discontent. In response, Suharto backed a co-opted faction of the PDI led by Suryadi, which removed Megawati from the chair. On 27 July 1996, an attack by soldiers and hired thugs led by Lieutenant-General Sutiyoso on demonstrating Megawati supporters in Jakarta resulted in fatal riots and looting. Suharto's grip on power weakened following severe economic and political crises that stemmed from the 1997 Asian financial crisis. The economy suffered a flight of foreign capital, leading to a drastic drop in the value of the Indonesian rupiah, which severely impacted the economy and people's livelihoods. Persuaded by US President Bill Clinton, Suharto turned to  IMF and accepted their structural adjustment programs to bring Indonesia out of the economic crisis. However, things did not get better and in May 1998 massive riots broke out triggered by corruption, and economic problems, including food shortages and mass unemployment. Many within the Military government actively supported the riots as they had too lost faith in Suharto’s reign.

On 21 May, Suharto, resigned and was replaced by former Vice-President B.J Habibie, and the New Order Military Regime finally came to an end with a period of political reform ("Reformasi") followed that would lead to the transition to democracy.

[[File:Cball-Ecuador.png]] Ecuador [[File:Febres-Cordero.png]]
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.
 * [[File:Febres-Cordero.png]] León Febres Cordero - León Febres Cordero was president of [[File:Cball-Ecuador.png]] 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".

[[File:Cball-Tunisia.png]] Tunisia [[File:BenAli.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Egypt.png]] Egypt [[File:NDP(Egypt).png]][[File:Morsi.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Serbia.png]] Serbia [[File:Milosevic.png]][[File:SNS(Serbia).png]]
"Main Article: Ethnic Nationalism"

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[[File:Ottoman.png]] Turkey [[File:Evren.png]][[File: Erdoğanism.png]]
"Main Articles: Neo-Ottomanism and  Stratocracy"

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[[File:Cball-Azerbaijan.png]] Azerbaijan [[File:YAP(Azerbaijan).png]]
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[[File:Cball-IraqiKurdistan.png]] Iraqi Kurdistan [[File:NechirvanBarzani.png]]
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[[File:Cball-Qatar.png]] Qatar [[File:Thani.png]]
"Main Article: Monarcho-Capitalism"

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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
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 * 1) Draw a ball with eyes.
 * 2) Color the ball black.
 * 3) Draw a yellow inverted triangle in middle of the ball.
 * 4) Draw a green dollar sign in the middle of the triangle.

Friends

 * [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism - I remember when you and Authoritarianism raised me.
 * [[File:Sec.png]] Authoritarianism - Thanks for teaching me all about proper strict governance, dad.
 * [[File:Imp.png]] 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!
 * [[File: Necon.png]] Neoconservatism - We need to spread capitalism too all of the world and gun down any opponent.
 * [[File:Authoritarian Conservatism.png]] Authoritarian Conservatism - Great business partner.
 * [[File:Natcon.png]] National Conservatism - Moderate version of above.
 * [[File:Pinochet-hat.png]] Pinochetism - Love your style of governance, son. Though I don’t understand your love of helicopter rides.
 * [[File:Fujimori.png]] Fujimorism - Excellent work crushing those shining path commies, my Japanese-Peruvian son.
 * [[File:Nazcap-Hat.png]] National Capitalism - Super based brother.
 * [[File:Statlib.png]] State Liberalism - Me with a cover of woke culture.
 * [[File:Corp.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Klep.png]] Kleptocracy - Neat ideas.
 * [[File:Strato.png]] Stratocracy - We work great together.
 * [[File:Right-AnEn.png]] Anti-Environmentalism - Time to drill some oil and sell air!
 * [[File:Franco.png]] Francoism - You became more based with time.
 * [[File:Nrx.png]] Neoreactionarism & [[File:Neocam.png]] Neocameralism - Lee Kuan Yew fans.
 * [[File:Gaullismicon2.png]] Gaullism - We work great together in Africa.
 * [[File:ThreeRepresents.png]] Three Represents [[File:Jiang_Tze-min.png]] - 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.
 * [[File:Korwinism-Pikselart.png]] Korwinism - Best libertarian, specially Korwin himself!

Frenemies

 * [[File:Ancapf.png]] Anarcho-Capitalism - Cool but why the anarchism?
 * [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Corptism.png]] Corporatism - You know a thing or two about management but try to take my property and you die!
 * [[File:Statecap.png]] 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.
 * [[File:ChiangKaiShek.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Showa-kanmuri.png]] Showa Statism - Imperial Japan was more based during the Meiji and Taishō era, but your staunch anti-communism was admirable.
 * [[File:Baath.png]] Ba'athism - Saddam had it coming but Assad is quite ba'ased.
 * [[File:Gaddafi.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Mobutism.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Hochi.png]] Ho Chi Minh Thought [[File:Đổi Mới.png]] (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.
 * [[File:Polpot.png]] Pol Potism - I like to say I hate you but my followers in Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia supported you against your Vietnamese counterpart.
 * [[File:Khom.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Socauth.png]] Social Authoritarianism - My least favourite business partner: Beware with your "social" €r@p. However, Thaksin was very based!
 * [[File:Liberalconservative.png]] 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.
 * [[File:3way.png]] Third Way - Same as above!
 * [[File:Austrobert.png]] Austrolibertarianism & [[File:Chilib.png]] Chicagoan Libertarianism - Both of you have good ideas, but how are you going to implement them in your small state?
 * [[File:Ike.png]] Rockefeller Republicanism - Twenty-one years of treason! However, your coups in Iran and Guatemala were based!
 * [[File:Reactlib.png]] Reactionary Liberalism - Good lib but be more anti-democratic.
 * [[File:Cball-EU.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Gorb.png]] 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.
 * [[File:ElonMusk.png]] Muskism - Improve relations with your father, Errol is based
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Tito.png]] Titoism - Anti-bureaucratic revolution and the Breakup of Yugoslavia go brrrrr Socialist and anti-American, but thanks for supporting Stroessner and inspiring (at times) Milošević
 * [[File:Euras.png]] Fourth Theory - NazBol, but supports some right-wing dictators in Eurasian countries
 * [[File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png]] 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 respect for Bill Gates and Elon Musk and you reserved positions for based officials such as Li Keqiang and Wang Yang. However, cool down with the lockdowns. They're incredibly damaging to the Chinese economy.

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.
 * [[File:Stalin.png]] Stalinism - One of the worst things to ever exist. The fact that so many Russians and Georgians still worship you is beyond me.
 * [[File:Mao.png]] Maoism - Even worse than above. You inspired lunatics like Gonzalo, Kaypakkaya, and Sison who attacked my followers. However, your son is incredibly based.
 * [[File:Trot.png]] Trotskyism - A red neocon! What a nightmare! I may despise Stalin but you deserved the ice pick.
 * [[File:Awaj.png]] Anarchism - Why do so many college kids believe in this bullshit?
 * [[File:Ancom.png]] Anarcho-Communism - The two worst things in the universe combined.
 * [[File:Synd.png]] Syndicalism - Try to go on strike you red son of a bitch.
 * [[File:Sorelia.png]] National Syndicalism - Less class struggle, but still sucks.
 * [[File:Mutalist.png]] Mutualism - Less bad than the last commie anarchist but still quite awful.
 * [[File:Libsoc.png]] Libertarian Socialism - Please die.
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy and [[File:Dsa.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Pron.png]] Peronism - Viva Videla!
 * [[File:Sukarno.png]] Marhaenism - Haha communist genocide go brrrr.
 * [[File:Castro.png]] Castroism - You destroyed Cuba, asshole!
 * [[File:Hutupower.png]] Hutu Power - I will never forgive you for the Rwandan genocide!

Wikipedia

 * Authoritarian Capitalism
 * Private Prisons
 * McCarthyism
 * Operation Condor
 * Liberal Autocracy
 * White Revolution
 * SAVAK
 * 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
 * Black Friday (1978)
 * Spanish miracle
 * New Order
 * Portuguese Mozambique
 * East India Company
 * Kongo Free State
 * National Force
 * Cambodian People's Party
 * United Fruit Company
 * Pinkerton®
 * G4S Secure Solutions
 * 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