Futurist Political Party (Akashi)
Futurist Political Party フー党 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻ᚴ𐌾𐍉 | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Abbreviation | FPP |
| Founded | 1920 |
| Dissolved | 1940 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours |
|
The Futurist Political Party (Miranian: フー党 Fūtō; Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻ᚴ𐌾𐍉 Anawairþs Dailkjō) was a far-right political party in Akashi active between 1920 and 1940. It played a crucial role in causing the Akashian Civil War, which it lost, and was banned afterwards. It is the only party explicitly banned from re-formation by the Constitution of Akashi.
History
The Futurist Political Party was founded in 1920, after the Futurist Political Party coup that started Megelan's Warlord Era. It took after Megelan and Æþurheim's Futurists as its main models.
From the beginning, it was a far-right party that opposed democracy and the first Akashian republic. Marginalised for much of its early existence, it latched onto the existing tensions in Akashian society and sought to exploit them.
It grew significantly, and reaped a great benefit from the 1930s economic crisis, winning its greatest number of seats in the 1934 general election. With the government paralysed and worsening conflict between paramilitary organisations of far-right and far-left, the FPP tried to launch a coup d'état on 10 February 1935. The uprising was suppressed, but the party fled to the countryside, beginning the Akashian Civil War.
During the civil war, the FPP led the Great Akashi Army. It obtained support from most right-wing parties due to anti-communism, and sought support from authoritarian regimes such as Æþurheim and Megelan's Futurists, and Quocvangist Quenmin.
Despite starting the conflict, the GAA quickly became bogged down in a stalemate. During the war, the FPP came under the influence of the Æþurian Futurists, whose emphasis on eugenics caused it to splinter due to the same ethnic tensions it had previously exploited in pursuit of power. The Miranian and Goth sections of the party broke away and fought against each other based on palingenetic ultranationalism.
The party was destroyed by the civil war; its official ban in 1940 was largely a formality.
Platform
At its origin, the FPP took after the Political Futurists of Megelan and Æþurheim. It scorned "decadence", glorified violence, and exalted modernity. It was opposed to democracy, liberalism, communism, and sought to unite Akashian society along totalitarian, ultranationalist lines.
It advocated corporatism and a planned economy as a "third way" between capitalism and socialism, to be based on national syndicalism.
While the party initially inherited the incoherent radicalism of Megelan's Futurist Political Party, it had moved towards national conservatism by the 1930s, in an effort to gain acceptance from right-wing parties and unify them against the claimed "communist threat". It also came under the influence of Æþurian eugenics.
The combination of growing obsession with eugenics and palingenetic ultranationalism proved fatal for the FPP. Having exploited ethnic tensions in an attempt to seize power, it was torn internally by them, as Miranian and Goth sections fought each other — Miranians seeking to "purify" the Akashian state of minorities while Goths sought to achieve the rebirth of Gutþiudaháims.
Legacy
For its central role in causing the Akashian Civil War, the party was ostracised and condemned. Its Miranian name, "Fūtō", became a byword for evil. Many of its members were killed by popular convictions and summary executions, or tried and sentenced to death after the war.
The Constitution of Akashi specifically bans the re-formation of the FPP.
The stigma associated with the FPP's name was a problem at first for the Future Party, which chose its name specifically to be different in both languages (未来党 Miraitō; 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻ᚴ𐌾𐍉 Anawairþa Dailkjō) and stated it wanted to reclaim the "future" part of the name from association with totalitarianism and civil war.
The old right's decision to ally with the FPP left a lasting impact on Akashian politics: the right-wing was discredited and isolated during the National Union's long dominance, and a fierce rivalry erupted for dominion over the right between progressive conservatives and the extreme right, whose manifestations included the "kibi-yuru war" and the neoliberal conspiracy.
