Integralism (Teleon)
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Integralism was a set of policies and socio-political philosophies that were heavily influential among the leading powers of the world in Calesia from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and since imputed to be the dominant mainstream of politics in that period. Intellectually, integralism was characterized by or associated with the eponymous treatment of society as an integral, organic whole, which was to be made coherent across modern man's life to counter the upheavals introduced by industrialization and democratization, and especially defended against revolutionary ideologies of secessionism that proposed establishing independent, alternative ways of life in the face of modernity.
The revitalization of religion in public life was especially championed to uphold social organicity. In political terms, integralism was associated with social programs that aimed to promote class collaboration, the support of traditional institutions such as the Gregorian church in the spirit of subsidiarity, and an active role for the government to promote the common good; all of these theoretically worked to harmoniously interweave government with the constituents of society rather than placing them at odds, thus preventing a collapse into sectional and ideological conflict.
In their own time integralists included both self-described progressives and conservatives; only from the 1910s did the term begin to be employed to label, somewhat pejoratively, the perceived political consensus of the turn of the century. Certainly by this period welfare states, progressive regulations, and support for traditional institutions were policies common throughout Calesia with very few outliers or exceptions, but they had also exactly began to run into their limitations and other problems, which reached their height after the Recession of 1924.
The key debate in politics of the subsequent period was over how to politically deal with the unwieldy 'integralist leviathan' created by excessive intervention and collusion, while preserving the integralist social outlook (and to elaborate it against renewed assaults from contrarian movements such as Delarueism, whose total revolutionary outlook had been exactly conditioned by the perceived co-optation of all society by integralism). Combinationalism proposed that the integralist vision ultimately served individual human dignity through the dual mandate principle, while national syndicalism instead advanced its collectivist totalization to animate the general will.