Most of Francoist Thought is on par with Jiang Zemin's Three Represents - Plenty of words, lacking in meaning. The rest is an interesting adaptation of Conflict Theory (Marxism) into NationStates - something which I had been trying to do for over a year.
However, the PRP is, as I have observed, a classic totalitarian state - though, less so than its NPO predecessor.
Firstly, there is the central and omnipresent government. Not only does it govern regional affairs, it also promotes a design for life - bringing political theory down into the individual's everyday affairs.
Second: Strict opposition to sufficiently radical perspectives - going from revolutionary state to conservative state.
Third: Bold imagery and excessive descriptives - look at the real-life political art tweaked by the PRP - revolutionary citizens carrying Francoist banners storming machine gun posts and the like.
Fourth, and most fascinating: A national figure for rallying around - Francos Spain... Except, that nation no longer exists, much like Big Brother had died years prior.
Beginning with FS, there is a trend amongst PRP figures, in that they use avatars of noted authoritarians on their forum: Mammothistan and Stalin, New Deuce and Mussolini, Warrior Thorin and Tito, Unlimited and Putin.
It's very easy to describe the PRP as purely fascist (though the NPO used the fasces on their old forums) but the PRP is a synthesis of socialist and fascist symbolism and theory. Is it then appropriate to label the PRP as Stalinist? (the PRP rebuke all non-self-described labels).
Unlike Stalinism, the PRP cannot survive on its own - Francoist Thought recognises this and calls for revolution in other feeders.
Something I noticed whilst writing this: Stalinism has the same first four letters as stall and stale.
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