 The IBÖ opposes Islamism, multiculturalism and the melting pot model, instead advocating for ethnopluralism.Disapproving of everything they consider being rooted in American imperialism, they oppose Austria's NATO partnership as well as the international sanctions against Russia.Economically, they reject capitalism, communism and socialism in favor of essentialist Third Way economics, promoting a syncretic approach to anti-capitalist and anti-globalist politics and favoring an "independent alliance of sovereign nation states" with Russia.