Min democracy
The term Min democracy (କେଜ଼ାବିଲି'ଅଂ ନ ମୀନ Kazabili'an no Min) refers to the current political system in Min defined primarily with decentralized government and the shared power between the Lion Queen and the Assembly of State
The notion of Min democracy is a claimed revival of the ancient Min values of social harmony and equality: it talks of a spiritual destiny that was laid out over a thousand years ago in Sibari's old mantra, seeking to restore it by cultivating a society that she would have intended. In Sibari's vision, the people under the Min banner are equal to each other and in harmony with the land, under the guidance of the gods. In this case, divinity is represented by the Lion Throne. The peculiarly reactionary rationale for a socially progressive society has been a source of peculiar interest amongst outside observers. However, it may be due to its basis in Eastern Borean—specifically Monic—political ideas.
Min democracy, since the 1940s, is deeply embedded in the country's politics and society. Both of the two contexts are considered to be bound to one another, one laying the framework for the revitalized Min state, while the other gives it reason to exist, upholding it, and vice versa.
The term is also used to refer to Min's local and nationalistic variant of Concordianism.
History
Min democracy developed in the aftermath of the Min-Xiaodongese War, in the later period of the solar government era in Min. It was a latecomer in the ferment of other revolutionary populist movements that sprang up across the Borean and Lahudican regions, among the most popular being Agrarianism, National Principlism, Lahudic Republicanism and the nationalistic Sakarists, who were a notable faction during the war. The Sakarists are among the multiple factions of nationalistic republicanism that advocates for the reform and revitalization of the country as a constitutional state, the abolition and redistribution of noble estates and the removal of foreign (particularly Xiaodongese) advisors from the royal court. They were in line with the Agrarians, who align with their goals and principles. While the Sakarists initially believed that the monarchy's will must be tempered by the will of the people, influence (and eventual merging) with the Agrarians would later prove to be a major political topic in the onset of the Volatile Century.
At the same time, the nostalgist movement amongst the nobility and educates upper class emerged. A romanticist cultural phenomenon as it is a historicist one, nostalgism emerged in the aftermath of the country's defeat in the Min-Xiaodongese war. Fuelled by lingering doubts on the capacity (and validity) of the Solar Government, and the rise in interest towards millenarianism and ancient religious literature, nostalgism sought to reconsider the development of the Monic-inspired Solar Government and viewing the time of the Min Empire as a golden age of virtue and prosperity. It viewed the politics and mores of the Empire and the classical period as superior to its modern counterparts, which were viewed as too Monic and impious.
The philosophy served as a counterpoint to the National Principlist ideology of Xiaodong during the reconstruction period, in which the country became more permissive and loose--both politically and socially--while the other became more repressive. It became a major topic in the monarchy and the government's rhetoric, [sometimes even comparing it to the murderous Republican movements that plagued Tuthina during the uprising.]
Principles and concepts
Min democracy is founded along the notion of a people of shared harmony (କ୍ଷମାସମାହନ kasamasamahan, Literary Tuthinan 𦱹咊𠘽 gyonghwamin), first attributed to the Agriculturalist scholar [宙燦爛] in his essay The Beauty of All Under Heaven. In the context of Min democracy, the idea is defined by "four harmonies" (reflecting the tetrarchy of Khaturvism): harmony with nature, with peoples, with the divine and with the land. A magnificent and firm society rests on these three harmonies.
[Community as the root of all administration, equality amongst able individuals. consensual harmony between the monarchy and the people and the expansion of political rights. if man is free and spiritually balanced, he shall choose harmony over discord.]
[Sibari's mantra]
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Min democracy has helped the dissolution of centralized noble rule and the beginning of municipalist representative democracy in Min.
Assessment
Criticism
Kezayanism outside Min
Khaturvic democracy baybee
See also
- Parties
- Other Borean political movements