Three Tenets

In the contexts of socialism and Dezevauni politics, the Three Tenets refers to three ideological principles, first clearly enunciated in the 1960s, which define the mainstay of the Left. They are typically given in Estmerish as socialist economy, solidarity and progressivism, in that order, though they are typically said to be equally important.

Socialist economy refers to equitable socialised or communal control of the mode and means of production. Solidarity means recognition of and support for a moral community comprised of all people, especially across national borders in an internationalist way, but also in matters of race, sex, social class, etc. Progressivism means belief in the possibility and power of change and progress, and a rejection of primitivism or nostalgia for ancient forms of society.

Mhibodu Dazeje first used the term and defined it in essentially identical terms to the modern usage in a 1966 publication. It was used in political and academic circles in Dezevau until it found more widespread currency as Cultural Revolutionaries sought terms to define their movement. While it was never endorsed broadly by the Dezevauni Section of the Workers' International before its dissolution, the programme of the DSWI and the Three Tenets were sufficiently intertwined that political clubs who claim descent from the DSRI and to represent the mainstream left do so on the basis of following the Three Tenets; this includes the major groupings of the Club of Metal, the Localists and the New Left in the Congress of Twenties. Internationally, the terminology has found currency in describing and prescribing the main form of the Left, which is to say that aligned with the Association for International Socialism and the council democratic states including Swetania and Chistovodia.