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===Original Meagharism===
The exact contents of Original Meagharism are controversial. This is due to the fact that the original writings of Father Meaghar are scattered, and not exactly cohesive. This combined with hundreds of years of secret Meagharite philosophers adding to the canon and giving the credit to Father Meaghar himself, this makes the exact ideological precepts of the ideology somewhat unclear. The main ideas of the philosophy which are all agreed upon is that it expressed opposition to the religious order of the Milofites, partially basing his refutation on a lack of divine intervention, with the
===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
===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]] 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.
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