Secessionism (Teleon)

Secessionism is a family of political movements that try to establish alternative ways of life and social organizations that 'secede' from established, mainstream society to accomplish idealistic goals. It emerged in the 19th century as the main revolutionary political response to social transformations in the period. Theorized secessionism in Calesia looked to Razanite reversionism as an ideal and modeled their own projects — primarily utopian communes — on the reversionists, but the latter never identified as secessionists. Toward the end of the 19th century, the secessionist movement's guiding philosophies shifted from religious austerity to radical revolutionism, with secession becoming seen as a tool to accomplish new ideologies and freedom from the old world instead. The response to secessionism was a political consensus bringing more existing powers more strongly together into an organic ideal of society known as integralism, which prompted (alongside violent crackdowns on secessionist movements) a turn toward contrarianism as revolutionaries saw total abolition of these existing powers as necessary to safeguard their projects.