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Perpetualism is a broad ideology and philosophy centred on the establishment of the perpetual society through the consolidation of the State as the sole centre of power and destruction of all of its alternatives, including ultimately the individual, to resolve the freedom-survival paradox. The social order proposed by perpetualism can be described as a monolithic society with total undisputed control over all aspects of the community by a refined and reinforced State that ensures the survival of the group and civilization through its elimination of rifting conflict.
Initially theorized by Newreyan philosophers Cedric Briscole and Peter Crovnic with strong influences from futurism and collectivism, perpetualism has evolved and developed to encompass numerous schools of thought, generally united in their view that historical civilizational collapses and setbacks were the result of destructive rifting conflict between competing centres of power, and is to be averted to ensure survival of collective civilization. Perpetualist analyses and viewpoints fundamental to the movement are summarized and explained in State and People, the foundational text of the idea authored by Briscole.
As a political ideology, perpetualism has become the platform of numerous movements throughout the world since its inception in the 19th century, and has seen various degrees of success in practice and implementation. Today perpetualist parties are present in many liberal democracies, in addition to a number of 'perpetualist states' where it is the state ideology. The idea has also exerted influence on numerous other schools of thought in political, social, economic and philosophical areas.
History
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Concepts
Freedom-survival paradox
The central belief of perpetualism is the belief that competing centres of authority within a single polity cannot co-exist, as one will destroy the other if attempted to in the highly counterproductive rifting conflict. Briscole evaluated the root cause of the generation of new centres and resultant competition as the individual, who has an uncontrollable urge to be free of the influences of others (i.e. religions, governments, etc) and maintain their own interests, and in the face of competition by the main centre of power (the state) forms their own, which depending on social factors manifests in many forms from nobility that opposed monarchial authority in ancient times, to competing parties and interest groups in modern democracies. In Briscolean social analysis, alternatives to the state were one and the same, heavy refracted emanations of the same individuality that clashes with central authority, which only varies depending on the different abilities and environments of the individuals driving them.
To give more freedom and maintain individuality, as resolving such issues would seemingly entail, would decrease the state's possibility of survival as the rifting conflict is absolute, continuing until destruction of all other competitors by a survivor. The eventual end result of this catastrophic, damaging competition is anarchy and the total breakdown of civil society, and order as a whole. Perpetualists believe collective life is necessary, being an essential part of man's survival, and thus mankind depends on and is inseparable from the state and society. The destructive effects of rifting conflicts have historically resulted in setbacks for the civilizations suffering them or often wiping them out entirely, and pose an existential risk to humanity as a result. This is known as the freedom-survival paradox which perpetualists analyze much of history with use of.
The favoring of freedom also avoids the final synthesis, the final stage in the development of a society where it achieves total political, sociological and economic stability and sustainability. Briscole envisions it as the ultimate goal of every society in human civilization, and the goal of perpetuism. Achieving this is described as beneficial to all members of a society and a acceptable gain for the sacrifice of individuality in perpetuist societies.
The only answer to this paradox that preserves human civilization thus is the destruction of the individual.
State
The state is the central authority of polities that perpetualists seek to reinforce through extensive expansion and reformation. Through reinforcing and establishing a perpetualist state, perpetualists aim to annihilate all competing centres of power, while extending control of the surviving, central one to control all of society and carry out societal purification, the necessary social engineering to destroy the individual, promote collectivism, ensure stability, and establish the perpetual society. Perpetualism can be viewed as statist and collectivist in these regards.
Perpetualists favor reorganizing the state into a technocracy with officials and leaders selected on basis of merit and technical expertise, which is viewed as the optimal organization of government. Politics is to be fully abolished and replaced with mechanized administrative bureaucracy, and efficiency is to be optimized wherever possible. The state is seen as the ultimate caretaker of the people, and thus must provide its citizens with basic needs, the development of a capable infrastructure to support which suppresses individuality too. This has been seen to imply the promotion of a welfare state, although is often contradicted with arguments advancing the efficiency of the state via its economy before all else.
Praxis
Praxis is the process in which the collective ideas and effort by a society initiate far-reaching changes. The perpetualist state is distinguished from the traditional centre of power through its institution and use of praxis, whereby the entire society is engaged in the process of social engineering and reformation to achieve perpetualist goals. The concerted Praxis will be exercised and implemented throughout the perpetualist state at all levels by functionaries engineered to be part of the perpetualist initiative beforehand, which not only enhances the perpetualist state's efficacy in achieving its goals but also is necessary to its survival and to avoid degeneration into a centre of power without aspirations and in a stagnant, corrupt state, as was used to describe the state of the Aeian Socialist Union towards the second half of the 20th century.
The idea of praxis itself is not new according to perpetualist theorists. Social changes and reform in history, such as the transition from sacred-based power to rule by force, or from autocracy to republics, were all driven by social praxis; by putting into motion the perpetualist praxis the next and hopefully final step of social evolution will be accomplished. Different perpetualist schools have different approaches to the actual exercise of praxis.
Perpetual society
The perpetual society is the achievement of final synthesis. The sole aim of a perpetual society is to make all who inhabit it "one with the collective". In State and People, Briscole describes being one with the collective as unifying society under a primary goal, that usually being to create an economically and socially efficient, stable organized society society that benefits all of its members, believe it to be a way of allowing humanity to reach a higher state of ascendence and help to completely eliminate social problems. As part of the destruction of any and all factors that cause formation of alternate centres of power, private property will be non-existent, and freedoms in general are tightly restricted, although perpetualists do not even comprehend this proposed society in these terms and rather refer to them as 'structural measures'.
Decisivist perpetualism
Decisivist perpetualism advocates that praxis be violent, brutal, merciless and efficient; through revolution and the construction of a strong-handed perpetualist state guided by the perpetualist vanguard party, decisivists aim to immediately eliminate alternate centres of power and destroy the individual as soon as possible, bringing about the perpetual society in a rapid yet rigorously controlled process. Decisivists agree to no compromise with traditional forms of power and believe only in their full abolition in favor of the necessary social change. Decisivists have been the driving force behind historical perpetualist insurrections and revolutions, as well as historical and current perpetualist states. The political and social changes Decisivists advocate for are also typically the most radical, totalitarian, and collectivist.
In the early days of perpetualism, Decisivism was the dominant current of thought, inspired by the trend of revolutionary socialism in left-wing circles and their successes. However, with the limited yield of Decisivist violent praxis, popularity of this variant's ideas faded.
Gradualist perpetualism
Gradualist perpetualism believes that social change must be long and patience-requiring, and to ensure success of perpetualism they instead advance working within the frameworks of contemporary government types where allowed and use gradual reform to accomplish perpetual society. By using methods that efficiently deliver reforms in their vision while encountering the least resistance, Gradualism slowly but steadily progresses in introducing social change. Among the tactics Gradualists use in pushing praxis to society is the use of expo societies, demonstration projects that display the efficiency of the perpetualist vision.
Although they are typically associated with perpetualism in democracies, various examples of perpetualist collaboration and influence in more authoritarian governments have also been deemed as Gradualism.
Gradualists saw a surge in popularity as well as political success in the 19XX... Today Gradualists predominate perpetualist presence in liberal democracies campaigning as perpetualist parties, associations or groups. They also take the form of factions influencing policy towards perpetualist goals in a number of authoritarian states.
Inversion perpetualism
A more democratic community based version