Quilombism
Political project developed by Abdias Nascimento from the history of Brazil's quilombos. It advocates racial equality, Afro-Brazilian self-determination, participatory democracy, a cooperative economy and land held for collective use.
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Political project developed by Abdias Nascimento from the history of Brazil's quilombos. It advocates racial equality, Afro-Brazilian self-determination, participatory democracy, a cooperative economy and land held for collective use.
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I want a quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives.
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Our Quilombism model centers on quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives. That core does not specify the constitutional allocation of power between territorial units and a center. Administrative centralization, social equality and opposition to the state are different claims from a federal constitution.

Our Quilombism definition includes “it advocates racial equality, Afro-Brazilian self-determination, participatory democracy, a cooperative economy and land held for collective use”. The definition identifies popular authorization or a republican institution; the precise franchise and decision procedure remain separate questions.

Our Quilombism model centers on quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives. That core does not specify the permissible use of public coercion versus protected personal autonomy. The form of government does not alone establish the extent of surveillance, repression or civil liberty.

Our Quilombism definition includes “quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives”. Membership defined by ancestry, exclusion or compulsory cultural integration bears on assimilation and unequal inclusion.

Our Quilombism model centers on quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives. That core does not specify the political role of organized armed force and acceptance of war. Domestic coercion, economic state intervention and national pride do not by themselves establish militarism or pacifism.


Our Quilombism model centers on quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives. That core does not specify coercive foreign projection into other peoples or states. This axis concerns foreign intervention, not nationalism, domestic regulation, cultural confidence or military preparedness alone.

Our Quilombism definition includes “quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives”. The ownership clause concerns who holds productive assets, rather than simply the size of the welfare budget.

Our Quilombism definition includes “quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives”. Self-management or needs-based cooperation supplies a noncentralized coordination model, which is not identical to a capitalist market.

Our Quilombism model centers on quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives. That core does not specify cross-border trade, capital flows and economic integration. Domestic market freedom and international cultural solidarity are different claims from a free-trade policy.

Cultural autonomy and self-determination permit different relations between spiritual practice and collective rules. The retained coordinate models a particular community-public-order mixture; neither indigenous traditions nor Afro-Brazilian identity alone establishes religious government, and religious freedom is compatible with both belief and secular authority.


Our Quilombism definition includes “quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives”. The approach to authority and inherited norms supplies moral context, but its relation to every contemporary social issue is interpretive.

Our Quilombism definition includes “quilombist state with racial equality and popular participation, collective land and production organised through cooperatives”. Development or rational organization supplies indirect technological context; acceptance of transformative technology remains a modeled choice.

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