Is Neoreaction / Network State left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Neoreaction / Network State scores +09 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +08. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Neoreaction / Network State authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Neoreaction / Network State scores +07. Sovereign corporate governance, shareholder rather than citizen accountability, competing micro-states.

Atlas / Organisations / Neoreaction / Network State

Neoreaction / Network State

NRx, accelerationism · 2007– · Online, Silicon Valley · Techno-Authoritarian · Doctrine / school · coding confidence low

+09ECmarket

+08CUtraditional

+07AUmonist

−06SClocal

+04IDascriptive

+04CHcoercive

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Democracy treated as an inefficient technology; government reconceived as a corporation with a competent executive and exit rather than voice.

Economic model

Radical market liberalism, cryptocurrency, charter cities and special jurisdictions outside national regulation.

Organisation of powers

Sovereign corporate governance, shareholder rather than citizen accountability, competing micro-states.

Reading note

Simultaneously anti-centralist and anti-democratic — a combination that has no twentieth-century analogue and that the standard compass cannot render.

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The evidence for every score

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EC · Economic organisation · scored +09

Coded +9: radical market liberalism, cryptocurrency and charter cities.

Programme textBalaji Srinivasan's The Network State proposes crowdfunded sovereign territory outside national regulation.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +08

Coded +8: explicit rejection of egalitarianism as a political premise.

Programme textMoldbug's writing treats democratic equality as an ideological inheritance to be discarded.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +07

Coded +7: government reconceived as a corporation with a competent executive.

Programme textThe formulation is that a state should be run by a CEO answerable to shareholders rather than voters.

SC · Scale of decision · scored −06

Coded −6: anti-centralist and anti-democratic simultaneously.

ScholarshipCompeting micro-states and exit rather than voice is the organising proposal — a combination with no twentieth-century analogue.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +04

Coded +4 after the v2.2 review: membership as shareholding, with hereditarian strands.

ScholarshipExit-based membership is contractual in form; parts of the tradition argue from claimed hereditary difference.

CH · Method and tempo · scored +04

Coded +4: a stated preference for discontinuity without electoral method.

Programme textThe doctrine explicitly rejects winning elections as the route to change.

Where it came from, and what came after

was succeeded byMAGA / Trumpism
No organisational link; a current of technologist opinion that has become adjacent to it.

Scores that have been revised

ID +06 → +04The doctrine's own logic is contractual and exit-based, with membership as shareholding. It contains hereditarian strands, which is why this is not lower, but its formal membership rule is the opposite of ascriptive.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Neoreaction / Network State. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/neoreaction/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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