Autonome Thought

Autonome Thought, also known as Autonomeism or Vaillantism (for its modernizer and enacter, Marion Vaillant) is an economically State Partist and culturally Ultranationalist and Militarist ideological school of thought derived from the post Red Winter development of existing Lorist strains of thought in the République Autonome d’Arcadie. It traces its ideological lines of descent from existing anti-Seurian ideological strains in the period before the Red Winter, most pertinently associated with the École Solidaire and the Des Syndicats Fidèles, both groups associated with centralistic and nationalistic opposition to the Republic of Arcadie.

Vaillantism is opposed to Substantive Democracy as practiced in nations like Meridon or Anagonia, instead promoting a system wherein an nationally-connected group of individuals, in the case of Arcadie the military, take charge of the key issues of state - such as foreign policy, military affairs, and the mass mobilization of the population into a Front Guerrier, or "Warrior Front", while the establishment of "Economic Democracy" is achieved through the formation of a council of state associated union structures, with control of economic policy with the exception that it must be fundamentally focused on the development of the military industries.

The fundamental nature of Vaillantism was that there must be a distinct development of an "All-Arcadie" national consensus, doing away with what was perceived as the fundamental failing of the Republic - their lack of correction of the fundamental issue of the state - the allowance of Seurian voices to continue cultural and political independence against the Arcadie national identity. Seurian independence was a development of this failure - with the re-establishing of an "imaginary" cultural basis for the state to function off of being seen as the fundamental result of not suppressing independence to a far greater extent.

Name and Definition

Vaillant would not consciously add himself to the name of the ideology - with his own actions instead promoting the name of "Autonomeism". This lack of desire to be associated with the direct name of the ideology was born from a number of factors, including distaste towards the concept of a cult of personality, his belief that making it a more general ideology would assist in its spread, and his perception that he was enacting the "national will", and was therfore not an influential thinker in the sense of its development. After his death due to prolonged sickness, the ideology would immediately be described as the state of an extension of his ideals, as a part of their general establishment of a cult of militaristic faith in the ideal that Vaillant was a prophet of a new era of Arcadie, which would lead to the renewal of such.

Autonome Thought was not initially organized as an intellectual movement - instead being the forced cohabitation of ideals and concepts caused by Vaillant's forcible fusion of anti-state nationalist groupings as a means to provide support to the new then newly-formed Autonome. Over time it has taken a more intellectual viewpoint - with the codification of key ideological tenants taken from the non-clashing ideals of the movements the state was forged from, alongside the incorporation of certain foreign ideologies in order to provide a more solid economic and political viewpoint. This fundamental incoherence has resulted in the movement being described in a number of differing fashions, although the most commonly used modern descriptor is that it is economically State Partist and socially on the far right, due to both its deep connection to the Arcadie Neterist Church, the promotion of the morality espoused by such, and the severe revanchism and racialism inherent in its interactions with Seuria.

Concepts and Characteristics

New Nationalism

The fundamental conception of nationalism in the context of the post Red Winter political environment was an exclusive one - a counter-reaction to the Republic of Arcadie's attempt at civil nationalism including both Seurians and Arcadie on an equal basis. This was perceived to have been the major failing of the state - and therefore, it became a politically accepted truth that the nature of the Seurian was in opposition to that of the Arcadie, and furthermore that they must therefore be separated from the rest of society and gradually either forced out of such or incorporated into an Arcadie-dominant cultural sphere.

The nationalism of this movement was fundamentally separate from the more immediately-reactionary variety practiced by the Organisation de la Restauration Nationale, which promoted a return to clan-based social and political development. In the perception of the practitioners of Autonome Thought, the nation was a fundamentally self-developing organism, which could not be stopped from changing in the same fashion the wheel of history would not stop turning. Therefore, it was crucial to inoculate the vision of nationalism in the minds of the youth first and foremost, to ensure that the values of such were carried on successfully to the next turning of the wheel.

Moralité du Front

The "Morality of the Front" was the fundamental basis for Autonome Thought's focus on economic class collaboration and the development of a militarized population at all points in social development. Derived from the comradeship of soldiers during the Great War, it was believed that through the mobilization of the population in a similar fashion to soldiers - including their subordination under military leadership, the end of individualism as a focused-upon concept, and a focus upon both the supposed meaninglessness of life and the value of interactions with others occuring during such. This philosophy, the École de Vie, therefore created and promoted the need of ensuring one was remembered by history to resolve their lack of inherit value, and insisted that through this process of death and memorialization of such that society could be fundamentally remolded into a "pure" version of such. This was expanded into also including the death of soldiers - with their deaths being promoted to not be a tragedy, but instead a final act of joy and value which inscribed their existences onto the patchwork of life forever, providing them an "eternal role" in history.

This conception of morality also included a belief that it was in the glorification of action and life that the truth resided - that reason was a failure of an ideal which only brought general suffering and failure when compared to the justice inherent in taking action and showing strength through such.

Influence on Other Nations

it has none lol