National Collectivism (Aeia)

National Collectivism is an ideology first theorised by Fredrick Roughe and later by members of Collectivist Brotherhood and heavily influenced by the works of Peter Crovnic and Cedric Briscole. Originally a revisionist subset of the Perpetuist Ideology, following major amendments made by members of the brotherhood in the early 20th century, what originally became a revisionist subset eventually turned into a significantly divergent ideology. Much unlike its predecessor, National Collectivism places a greater emphasis on romantic nationalism, patriotism, some progressivist aspects, defence of the land, irredentism, preservation of a collective cultural identity and a greater need for the re-popularisation of classicism and romanticism.

Heavily influenced by the mindsets that dominated the First Great War and the massive world-wide depression that followed it, the advent of total war and the total mass mobilisation of society had broken down the distinction between civilians and combatants. A "military citizenship" arose in which all citizens were involved with the military in some manner during the war. National Collectivist states are designed to be able to not just quickly react to and defend against external threats and large conflicts, but also efficiently handle and adapt to times of economic hardship in order to avoid total destruction or national decadence. The military often play some important role in the policy making of National Collectivist polities, with Military Administrations quickly being formed during conflicts by National Collectivist polities.

Eventually and further influenced by socialistic schools of thought during the Great Depression, the influence of the works of !Marx and !Lenin saw the ideology take a socialist approach to economic organisation, favouring collectivised and private ownership. While not calling for an end to to capitalistic economic practices like its influences and predecessor in favour a centralised economic planning at the hands of state-controlled bureaucracies, most National Collectivists do call for a Corporatist or Tripartite Directive-Capitalist Economic Model and the hybridisation of private businesses. Neo-Merchantilism is often promoted to aid in the nation's growth economically and politically and the spreading of its influence overseas, while calling for the limitation of foreign imports, usually via protectionist policymaking, in a attempt to achieve near-autarky and protect the nation from external threats economically. National Collectivist promote the idea of a one-party state, believing that creation of a Monoparty System being a necessity for national stability and the avoidance of societal fracturing and rifting conflict, and with the Party also serving as a vanguard party to ensure political stability and protection from outside threats.

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Concepts & Tenets

The Individual and National Identity

In Perpetuism, the central belief is the eradication of the self, the individual (and all things tied to it such as private ownership, privacy, etc), in order to avoid the freedom-survival paradox and achieving total societal stability in the form of the Final Synthesis, the penultimate stage of a society's development where its free from internal instability. The Freedom-Survival Paradox stems from the general belief that humans are egoistic by nature and are naturally inclined to disobey any form of hierarchical authority or generally any form of outside influences (governments, religions, etc), however, are unable to live alone and must work together collectively in order to benefit each other and further increase chances of survival for all members of the cooperative. Societies where civil liberties are significantly more present are often subjected to a higher chance of political fracturing, as shown by the various multi-party nations.

National Collectivism has largely abandoned this belief. While Perpetuists justify their totalist and totalitarian acts largely through the believe that it is for the general greater good and benefit of society and the human race as a whole, National Collectivists base their also largely communitarian beliefs in nationalism and the promotion of a collective national identity that transcends race and ethnicity. Individuality isn't seen as something to destroyed but just subservient to the greater good of the nation and its defence and the preservation of the nation's culture. National Collectivists have pointed out that a sense of shared belonging has always been a unifying factor in the survival of nations and polities alike, for a nation to lack any true unifying identity will aid in its eventual collapse. Through the promotion of a shared sense of nationalism amongst the peoples of a nation, will total internal stability be truly achieved.

The preservation of the collective national identity and culture is often seen as the main duty of the state, at any cost. National Collectivist place a massive emphasis on national cooperation and total subservience to it. A Collective Identity is often seen as something that can be adopted, by anyone regardless of race or ethnicity, and thus National Collectivists often favour total forced cultural assimilation over segregation. Main reasoning behind this is primarily from the fact that any for of extreme societal division will eventually destabilise the state and risk its destruction. The incorporation and assimilation of people groups into society allows for more members of society to contribute to the society's group, while segregation will limit a section of the societal population from aiding in growth and the further progression of the society, and this barring the society itself from its true potential. Nevertheless, more race-inclined and supremacist subsets do exist.

National Palingenesis and Modernism

The only way for a National Collectivist Society to be achieved is through a National Palingenesis, or National Rebirth. National Collectivistic nationalism is generally palingenetic in character, the regeneration of the nation and the purging of decadence and degeneracy. While the reconnecting of a nation's traditional roots is a noticeable theme in National Collectivism, the ideology stresses the need to promote progress and modernity, favouring a cosmopolitan mindset and the promotion of progress while respecting the glory of the past. The main purpose of the Palingenesis is to metaphorically, ideological and politically liberate itself from the restrains from the negative traits of the past, a final end to stagnation and the start to the path of societal unification. How to achieve a National Palingenesis varies from subset and revolutionaries.

Just like its predecessor, National Collectivism has heavily been influenced by futurist schools of thought. Modernity has always been associated with ferocity, progress and growth. Sophism, the International Technocrat Movement and the Vestric Revolution of 1914 greatly influenced National Collectivism during the first three decades of the 20th century. The idea of scientific progress being a major duty of the state was further popularised and later one described as a necessity in order to also be free of foreign influences technologically and aid in the technological advancement of the nation. As such, National Collectivist polities value technical prowess and merit, with research institutions not only playing a greater role in national administration, but also directly responsible for proposing ideas to benefit their respective urban areas and the country as a whole, with National Collectivist polities usually being somewhat technocratic in nature.

Action

National Collectivism emphasises direct action, this usually also including supporting the legitimacy of political violence, as a core part of its politics. Violent Action is often seen as a necessity in the face of nation-threatening or law-breaking issues and encouraged by citizens against those who oppose the national greater good, and thus seen as destabilisers of the nation and thus enemies of the state. This emphasis on the use of political violence means that most NatCol parties have also created their own private militias and paramilitary wings.

National Collectivism's support of violence at the hand of its citizens is primarily directed at minorities that oppose assimilation, degenerates of society, unproductive peoples and those who disobey the law and go against the national ideology and the greater good, all of which are all collectively seen as internal destabilisers and threats to national integrity and thus must be purged in order to achieve and/or maintain societal stability. All citizens, regardless of age, sexuality, ethnicity, race, and family, are expected to participate in the hunting down of societal undesirables and destabilisers and help the government to bring them to justice.

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The People's State

The establishment of the People's State is described as the primary goal of National Collectivist polities, detailed in the works of Arthur Craig, a major member of the Collectivist Brotherhood, describing it as the final stage in which the state and people become one, allowing for the needs of the people to be met easily and the application of Praxis in the governmental process, opposed to other forms of governance. People's States utilise praxis in the form of largely consensus-based peoples assemblies composed of politicians and the general populace, being open to all members of society and implemented throughout all levels of society, with the purpose of accumulation the collective ideas of the general populace, and their eventual implementation following some amendments by professionalised social experts, in order to initiate far-reaching change through the participation of all members of society in the process of national social engineering, under the protection and guidance of the state vanguard party, differing from most traditional centres of power. The establishment of people's assemblies also allow for the perpetuation of the National Palingenesis, elevating the public's role beyond one of obedience, but rather, one of superiority over their rulers and allowing them to play a more directive role and ensuring the continuation of the revolutionary political culture and thus fending off degeneracy, corruption and stagnation. The concept of the People's State has also been significantly influenced why what has been referred to by Collectivists are the Supremacy of the Law, where judicial doctrines are usually a core foundation of the state and are applicable to all members of society regardless of status, often also concerning just behaviour, moral righteousness, the enforcement of ethics, rational governance, natural law and equity, in order to protect the rights of the citizens while also emphasising their responsibilities to the state and the maintenance of a rational civil society, with the mandatory enforcement of these doctrines through any means necessary being a responsibility of the state in order to maintain order.

Social Norms

National Collectivism emphasises youth both in a physical sense of age and in a spiritual sense as related to virility and commitment to action. National Collectivism identifies the physical age period of youth as a critical time for the moral development of people who will affect society, and thus must be groomed into total perfection and teach them to pursue what Collectivists call "Moral Hygiene", in order to ensure the stability of the nation and society as it is passed down to the next generation.

Sexuality is often common talked about in relation to "Moral Hygiene". Collectivist Societies promote what it considered normal sexual behaviour in youth while denouncing what it considered deviant sexual behaviour. Pornography, most forms of birth control, homosexuality and prostitution were condemned and seen as as deviant sexual behaviour and a general cancer to society. While Roughe's original writing talked commonly about the enforcement of gender roles; with men being a central part and the main source of income for the family while he saw that women's only true purpose was maternity and childcare. Later on influenced by the progressivist and feminist movements of the later decade and amendments to the National Collectivist Manifesto during the '20s and '30s, eventually saw the declaration of women as equals and deserve equal treatment, reasoning that the baring of women from the workforce meant also baring the nation's potential. Women, however, are still expected to have large families, aided and funded largely by government caretakers, with women who give birth to large amounts of children being rewarded with more financial intensives. Collectivists call for women to be honoured as "reproducers of the nation" and members of the Brotherhood often stating that the society should hold annual ceremonies to honour them and the role they play in the society's growth.

Collectivist States often support the decriminalisation of abortion in cases where fetuses had hereditary defects or were of a race the government disapproved of, while the abortion of healthy fetuses remained strictly forbidden, even if they were the product of rape (however, most collectivist societies have state-owned orphanages, often made for children that were the product of rape or usually for health children that were viewed as unwanted by their biological parents). The forced sterilisation of people with hereditary disorders is also often promoted in collectivist societies, usually as part of national eugenics programs.

Disabled Peoples are often subjected to forced euthanasia, being seen as degenerates and unwanted members of society. This stems from the larger productivist beliefs of most National Collectivists, where contribution to society is seen as a must. Those who physically cannot contribute must be eradicated from society, as they bar society as a whole from progressing. Homosexuality is often also charged with forced euthanasia, this stemming from the fact that homosexuals can't have children and therefore are not contributing the societal growth.

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National Collectivism Today

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National Collectivism by nation

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Criticisms

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Variations and Subsets

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