Contrarianism (Teleon)

Contrarianism is a family of political movements and philosophies that believe in the abolition and complete replacement of various institutions or aspects of existing society, rather than their negotiated reform. Contrarianism is generally regarded to have emerged in the late 19th century from secessionism, and became heavily fused philosophically with existentialism, which promoted among theorists the doctrine that the total destruction of institutions that bound the individual was an exercise of existential freedom and authenticity. The abolition and supercession of capitalism gave rise to the particularly virulent and potent tendency of Delarueism, now regarded as the most influential contrarian ideology.

The term 'contrarianism' was appropriated from the Razanite term used by Razan's government to persecute reversionists after the Southwestern War. This reflected secessionist ideology's close affinities for reversionist utopian communes in Razan, which were seen as the model secessionist project; the rise of contrarian philosophy was itself a turn in social revolutionism as it recognized the limitations of secessionism faced with established power, as in reversionism's suppression in Razan, and turned to overthrowing established society (especially the ideal of it as an organic, total whole as touted by integralism) to ensure its goals could be accomplished.