Priminocentricism

Priminocentricism is the political ideology that humans specifically and primines in general (such as elves and orcs) are superior to other sentient species on Urth. The term describes a form of specism. The term arose from the seminal works of Nikobar Luden to describe the politics of the Demirite dynasty in Packilvania. It became part of the political lexicon of the Packilvanian Communist Party starting with the writings and speeches of Gideon Muktan. Academics from other parts of the world have used the term to describe contemporary policies and events outside of its original context. Other names for this term include primine centricism and primine supremacism.

Nomenclature

The term Priminocentricism is a portmanteau of primine and centricism. It describes attitudes, constructs and ideals that centre primines in the ecological, political, economic, cultural and evolutionary hierarchy of the Urth. It was a translation from the Packilvanian word Priminebasfiyashalvishme. Adherents and practitioners might not describe themselves in these terms but the term and its cognates are used in academia and political discourse to characterise policies and social attitudes that centre the primine experience.

Origins

The origin of the term Priminocentricism is attributed to Nikobar Luden, a feline academic and political thinker who is seen as the father of Packilvanian Communism and is a leading figure in the Communist movement of the late 19th and early 20th century. In the works of Luden and his contemporaries, Priminocentricism is seen as a highly negative trait in politics and society. He points to the specistic policies of the Demirite dynasty based on Saidunism (a human centred offshoot of Melkezedekism, an unofficial sect of Paxism) as causing and perpetuating the deprivation and oppression of the Feline population in Packilvania. This term entered the vocabulary of the Communist movement in that country and featured prominently in the writings and works of Gideon Muktan, a feline member of the Parliament of Packilvania, who founded the Packilvanian Communist Party in the early 20th century.

With Packilvania being enjoined in a personal union with Great Morstaybishlia through the marriage of the Sultana Regnant of Packilvania, Zerah Demir IV and the King of Great Morstaybishlia, Thadeus I (the head of the Morstaybishlian of the Asendavian House of Harstad), the domination of humans over society became more flagrant as Felines bore the brunt of the conscription for military service and mandatory labour and of rationing demanded for the Great War. Aimed in part at engendering human unity in the face of the Southeast Yasterian War against the kemonomimi and elf majority countries of Peregrinia, Caven, Astlyon and others that would eventually form the Free Pax States, the propaganda for the war further alienated the Feline majority of Packilvania including the members of the Imperial Armed Forces, the Magisterium of Paxism, the intelligentsia and nobility of Packilvania.

Similar ideologies

Humanism is another ideology that is comparable albeit not equivalent to Priminocentricism. Epistemologically and taxonomically, humanism can be described as a subset of Priminocentricism. Humanism describes centering the experience of hominines above other species.

Feline supremacism is a similar ideology but in relation to Felines instead of Primines. The Packilvanian Communist Party instituted policies that stripped hominines and other primines of their status as equal to Felines, including expropriating their property without compensation, performing non-consensual experiments, subjecting them to torture and denigrating treatment, and systemically exterminating them and their history. Although this ideology was formally abolished by the Packilvanian government under the Bedonite dynasty, its impact remains in the country and lingers in political discourse and social relations despite conciliatory steps such as the construction of the Imperial War and Genocide Museum.