Aldona Szczepański
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| Born | Aldona Szczepański 7 December 1878 Sárvíz, Baranya, Noble Republic of Vistulzka |
| Died | 14 September 1937 (aged 58) Sajószentpéter, Kisigmánd, Republic of Vistulzka |
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Aldona Szczepański was a Veszprémic philosopher, political theorist, and Blue revolutionary and was part of the Four Blue Vanguards, the leaders of the Blue Guardsmen. Born in the small village of Sárvíz in Veszprém, Szczepański studied law and lived in Nagymező. During her time in Nagymező, she met István Szálast, who collaborated with her in developing the political ideology of Blue Nationalism. It was at this point in 1901 that the Third Kingdom of Hétumoger was undergoing the Néma Forradalom. She collaborated with Szálast to release what would become the base of her political philosophy, Véres Talárok. Véres Talárok would become a four-volume title which covered the ideology of the Four Blue Vanguards, giving the rise of the term "Blue Nationalism".
Magdalona main critique of society within Hétumoger was its overcentralization of the Nemesség in the political system as opposed to the Polsarag, and that the manifestation of a Polsarag government would require the overthrow of the Nemesség and the centralization of the nation. Alongside this, she believed that the overthrow of the Nemesség required a government that could not centralize power, and thus diverted power into what was termed Blue Localities. She also believed that the interactions between blue localities and the central state required a definition to the central state's power over the blue localities. The wealth produced by land that was ruled by blue localities was dictated to not have gone to a central state, but rather reported to the central state and then used to improve the society of blue localities. Szczepański believed that while the Nemesség represented a privileged wealth-based class, she believed that the Polsarag would be divided within the blue localities by their occupation as opposed to their wealth. She also believed that the blue localities, while not directing their wealth to the central state, believed that these blue localities must owe their loyalities to a confederation.
Szczepański, alongside the other Four Blue Vanguards are understood to have been monumental to the history of Hétumoger, and was considered as the main cause for the eventual Hétumoger Civil War and the creation of both the Third Noble Republic of Hétumoger and the People's Republic of Hétumoger.
Early Life
Aldona Szczepański was born in 12 August 1879 to Losonczy Hegedüs and Elene Szczepański. She was born out of wedlock between the two, and into a small farming village called Sárvíz in the district of Veszprém. Both Losonczy and Elene were both ethnically Veszprémic people. Losonczy worked as a farmer and the Hegedüs were known in Sárvíz as a family of farmers. Elene herself was an agronomist that worked under the Second Noble Republic of Hétumoger. At the time of her meeting Hegedüs, she had become unemployed due to the Rendszer-Helyreállítás, in which her position as an agronomist that reported to the Noble Minister of Agriculture was not reconfirmed by the administration of the then King of Hétumoger, Zsigmond Nagy.
Losonczy did not believe Szczepański to be fit for a farm life and saw her to be more interested in the urban life. She often remarked about her admiration and obsession with urban women and their fashion, believing that she was destined to live in the city. Her early education is not discussed in any written records, but it was believed that her nationalist sentiment began to grow during her early years. Elene eventually came to privately educate Szczepański in agronomy, and brought her close to her anti-monarchial beliefs. During this time, she became less involved in the farm and more involved in political philosophy that she eavesdropped on in the local cafe in Sárvíz that occured with both Nemesség and Polsarag clientle. At times she was stated to have sat at the table with other discussing clientle. As a cafe outside of an urban area, political theorists could meet and discuss the internal developments of the country and their thoughts on the monarchy.
In April 1896 at the age of 16, Szczepański moved away from her family's farm into the city of Nagymező, where she was initially wanted to study agronomy. She enrolled in the Central University of Nagymező However, a semester later she changed her major into law. When she turned 18, she submitted her draft card for conscription to the Noble Rendőrség, but was never called since she was enrolled in university. When she attented university, she was considered a target for the Noble Division of Information, who spied on her briefly due to her affiliation with several radicals she had met in her law classes.
Journalism and Early Politics
In 1898, Szczepański became eligable to enroll in the Student Government within her university. She had become introduced to the local newspaper that was run independently of the university and later became an intern journalist within the newspaper. She eventually began to write her first book and finished a novel during her time in the newspaper. Termed the Tragedy of the Rose, she never published the book. Her personal writings refernence the book several times, but a surviving copy of the novel has never surfaced.
In August of the same year, she and several other students from her law classes created the
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Root Thought
Within Blue Nationalism, Root Thought is considered to be the basis of Blue Nationalism that was formulated in 1899 between the Four Blue Vanguards: Aldona Szczepański, István Szálast, Béla Edvárd, and Izidóra Teodóra. Each member was considered to have codified the basis of Blue Nationalism within the Véres Talárok. However, Root Thought only covers ideas that is covered in Véres Talárok, the Manifesto of the Blue Movement and the Manifesto of the Citizens Republic.
Within her contributions to Root Thought, Szczepański argued as a radical voice that advocated for the violent destruction of a higher class if such a higher class that existed. All authors agreed however, with the tolerated decentralization of the economic power of the central state that required the supplementation of the state. The case that was worded by Szczepański was that a central state that tolerated the existence of a higher class needed to be supplementated with a new state, and that failing to restructure and create a new state would return what was termed a Nemesség Status-Quo. A state that supplemanted the central state required the implementation of a Citizens democracy, a form of government that was further codified in the Manifesto of the Blue Movement. A state that failed to supplemant the central state was termed to be a Zsigmond Állam, named after the then regent Zsigmond I.
Alongside the control of the economy returned to the people, the establishment of a Citizens economy that was controlled by a semi-confederal government structure would allow the prevention of a return to a Zsigmond Állam. Alongside this, Root Thought also considered the existence of the Sociological state, which is dependent on the loyalty of the Polsarag under a central state. It is believed that the Sociological state is precieved within a state with a high class directs towards a Reverant sociological state, and that a state without a high class is a Independent sociological state.
Magdolnism
Szczepański's own version of Blue Nationialism was Magdolnism, which was the predominant variant of Blue Nationalism in conjunction with root thought. The majority of her polemic with the other authors of Blue Nationalism originated for the conflict between her and other authors concerning her radical beliefs. The majority of her polemic occured through a separation of ideology and the publishment of her own thoughts, which she termed Orthodox Magdolnism.
Szczepański had come into the most conflict with her views of radicalism Béla Edvárd, who retained a less radical and more democratic idea of Blue Nationalism.
Cultural Iconography
Szczepański herself was independent from other thinkers of root thought in her ideas of cultural iconography and how the central state should be portrayed and the Blue Nationalism would be portrayed. In the early years of Blue Nationalism, she considered the way that the Blue Guardsmen and the Four Blue Vanguards dressed as, and thought of it as a way to symbolize how they portrayed themselves in a society under Blue Nationalists.
Central State
One of the main underlying themes in Szczepański's works is the idea of the central state and where it lies within a society goverened under the ideas of Root Thought. She termed the government that she formulated a Polsarag government, which translates to a Citizens government. Unlike a Citizens democracy, Szczepański believed that the Citizenry should not be concerned with the innerworkings of the Polarag government as such a government would be weak, and not able to operate without the voluntary economic participation Polsarag and the blue localities.
The central state was to be mainly concerned with the prevention of a First-Era Redivergence which would reverse Root Thought and return the Polsarag government into a Zsigmond Állam where the Polsarag would return to a Reverant sociological state. In order to prevent such a redivergence, she believed in a policy of Anti-Restorationism, which involved a societal change that refused in an idea of a Nemesség.
