Galarianism
 | This article is incomplete because it is pending further input from participants, or it is a work-in-progress by one author. Please comment on this article's talk page to share your input, comments and questions. Note: To contribute to this article, you may need to seek help from the author(s) of this page. |
Galarianism is an authoritarian nationalist ideology associated with Belhavian dictator Zachary Galarian. It called for the rejuvenation of the Jewish nation, and, in its imagination, the "re-establishment" of a traditional conservative and culturally homogenous Belhavia. Galarian disdained liberalism as the roots of social, cultural, and political degeneration. The tenets of Galarianism held a nuanced system where, by and large, individual interests have to be subordinated to those of the state, highest religious authorities, and elites and it sought to mobilize the Belhavian people as a disciplined, hierarchical national community in service to the creation of a "restored Belhavia."
Galarian declared that his Autocracy (1940–1945) represented the "Modern Jewish Civilization" which was build upon the creation of a purified ethnoreligious Jewish nation. The Galarian regime purported that true Belhavians were ethnically and religiously Jewish, with the intention to deliberately exclude recent immigrant groups of various creeds, religions, and ethnicities from Belhavian citizenship.
Although the Galarian government and its official doctrines are oft-times incorrectly described as fascist or quasi-fascist, a majority consensus of academics and scholars argue that his ideology is considered to have been a conventional authoritarian-conservative dictatorship akin to Union of Arcevian Republics or Field Marshall Konstantinos Kappadokides's Eagleland. The Galarian autocracy gained its authority from the conservative socio-political establishment and its doctrines strongly supported traditional institutions such as Orthodox Judaism and the Belhavian Monarchy. A more relevant label for the Galarianist regime was that it was essentially reactionary. His ideology lacked the radical theoretical contours such as Rodarian National Catholicism and Arthuristan fascism.
The ideology of Galarian was associated with his quasi-political party and ruling electoral alliance, the National Front, and his regime, the Autocracy of Belhavia.
Main ideas
- Ethnic nationalism: Promoted socio-cultural purity of the Jewish nation.
- Monarchism: Considered the institution of monarchy a pillar of national unity.
- Anticommunism
- Anti-Liberalism: Denounced the old political liberal system as a cause of division, disunity, attraction to left-wing ideologies, and economic instability.
- Protectionism: Although he was originally a free trade proponent, Galarian grew attracted to the ideas of a semi-closed economy where Belhavia relied primarily on itself and its far-flung colonial empire with minimal foreign trade.
- Imperialism
- Colonialism
- Expansionism: Ardently believed in the expansion of the Belhavian empire.