Futurist Party of the Northern States
Futurist Party of the Northern States | |
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| Founded | December 3, 1910 |
| Dissolved | May 2, 1988 |
The Futurist Party of the Northern States (Northian: bébuŋhuš Futuriši̯ō anāšvō; abbr. BFA) was a political party in the Northern States. It was active from 1910 until its formal proscription in 1988. The party was described by its founders as a political realization of the artistic and literary movement of the same name.
The BFA was founded by a committee of faculty and students in the University of Cleiden in the wake of the Manifesto of Futurism published in Megelan and particularly casted itself as an antidote to what it believed was an pathological obsession with the past of the Northian nation, which "absorbed up and nullified energy of the mind". The Party called for "men of letters" to hold reins of government, professing that imagination, not study, enables progress, and the contemporary government was falling into the grasp of "technocrats and capitalists". The party advocated that human imagination needed to be tested for their merits without restrictions or regard for consequence—particularly moral, ethical, and social ones. In this "perpetual battle-field for the azimuth, even the engineer and athlete shall be trumphant over bishops and archbishops; the mighty shall be made small, and the small, mighty".
In 1913, the Party printed its first public manifesto, denouncing capitalists, bishops, and professors of natural history as "three feudal estates of the mind to be disestablished first". It initially called for an "absolute equality of all persons insofar as material entitlements are considered, as they are matters of little relevance and by us held for naught before the might of even the most pathetic imagination". But the early 1920s, the party reversed earlier declarations on intellectual elitism and economic egaltarianism, to embrace
Futurist candidates were elected in the constituency of the University of Cleiden to the House of Representatives in 1917, one holding a seat for the party for 47 years (1921 – 1968).