Meagharism: Difference between revisions

===Burnsidism===

Named after the first Grand Marshal of [[Meagharia]],Burnsidism is a term used to describe the modern form of Meagharite Philosophy that is the driving ideology of Meagharia, mostly used outside of Meagharia itself. So-Called Burnsidism is based upon the book "The Path to Unity: or How to Heal a Broken Nation". This book is compiled from many texts, Credited to Father Meaghar. This book details both the way that [[Wikipedia: Theism|Theism]] functions to control the population, keeping the Civilian population, the work force, and the Soldiers, the enforcers of society, as separate groups, making the nation inherently divided on those lines, allowing for the Priest caste to use faith based control to keep both groups in line. The solution posited in the book is to merge these two classes, by giving the entire civilian the discipline to run themselves, through Martial Service, so that they will be able to follow the commands of the law without as much martial control, allowing both classes to unite into the so-called Citizen-Soldiers, giving them the power to overthrow the Priestly caste. This ideology also explicitly against social restrictions that the text describes as "Theist Redirection", to distract from the evil of theism itself by attacking segments of the population. Because of this Women's and LGBT rights became explicitly in the former, and implicitly in the latter, were enshrined into the ideology, with the official position being that "No matter your individual qualities, if you can acquire the discipline to rule yourself, you are useful.".

 

===Marxism-Meagharism===

Marxism-Meagharism is an offshoot of Burnsidism that takes elements of [[Wikipedia: Marxism|Marxism]], and especially [[Durakia|Durakan]] [[Wikipedia: Syndicalism|Syndicalism]]. While Burnsidism only extends the discipline based right to rule to governmental power, Marxism-Meagharism extends this to power to the Means of Production. The roots of this ideology do not begin after the introduction of Marxism to Meagharia, but with the works of many Meagharite priests throughout the Milofite period, who took the position that rather than having their work be used by the Priestly caste, that through both their work as Laborers and their Discipline as Soldiers they gain their right to rule themselves and society. While these ideas would be somewhat influential they would not truly become common until Durakan Soldiers during the Meagharian Civil War helped to make these ideas more popular through the introduction of Marxist theory to the Meagharian Philosophical Sphere. With the base of the previous theories, new Meagharian Philosophers such as [[Spadlin O'Perre]], to begin to incorporate Meagharite and Marxist thought. A seminal work in this was the book Church and Capital, written by Spadlin O'Perre, which claims that [[Wikipedia: Theism|Theism]] and [[Wikipedia: Capitalism|Capitalism]] rely on one another, or at least encourage the same mental tendencies, leading to the individual becoming oppressed. The ideology thus sees the elimination of Capitalism being the final step in the elimination of theism, and that by gaining Discipline as a Soldier, one will gain the discipline to allow for the Worker to run their workplace in a collective structured fashion, eliminating both the Priest Class and the Capital Class, and the intermeshing system of control that they create.