National Solidarism

National Solidarism In political and social sciences is the social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a solidarist state, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the unity of social classes gathered around a nation state which is led by a nationwide movement. National Solidarists promote a mix of private and public ownership over the means of production. National Solidarism presents itself as a third position, alternative to both international socialism and free market capitalism. While National Solidarism is opposed mainstream socialism, it sometimes regards itself as a type of nationalist "socialism" to highlight their commitment to national solidarity and unity. National Solidarists oppose international free market capitalism. Economic self-sufficiency, known as autarky, is a major goal of National Solidarist movements.

The Great War was seen by National Solidarists as a revolution which changed the nature of the state and the society. The advent of total war and the total mass mobilization 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. It is also characteristic for National Solidarists that they describe the state as an entity in constant struggle.

History

Orest Svyschuk

The early beginnings of National Solidarism were in fact in the Social Democratic Labour Party of Chokashia, a predecessor to the later far left movements and parties of Chokashia. The SDLAPC was a party which gathered a vast number of people with different stances of economic and social policies as well as the national. A few years before the Great War, the party experienced major divisions inside it. The two main groups withing the party were the moderate Old Guard, and the radical Syndicalists and Communists, but a third smaller one was slowly getting more attention by other members of the party. That group later became known as interventionists due to their pro-war stance during the Great War.

Orest Svyschuk, one of the interventionist leaders, made a speech on the X congress of the SDLAPC on May 2nd 1895, four months before the start of the Great War. He claimed that an invasion of Liiduria was needed and that it was in the interest of the Chokashian working class. While the speech was recieved with ovations from the interventionists, the moderates condemned the speech as well as the radical left elements. The speech provoked a clash between pro-interventionists and radicals, known as the Vorsha incident. This was one of the most documented events in the history of Chokashia up-until then. Svyschuk was expelled from the party, along with a few other members of the interventionist clique.

Svyschuk founded the Union of Patriotic Labourers and was joined by many interventionists who left the SDLAPC. During the months before the war, the UPL gained a lot of attention in government circles which viewed it as a party which could be used to dismantle the anti-war worker unions. Alongside the Hetman, other people turned their eye on the new small party as it gained a following in just a few months.