Axiarchism

Axiarchism is a and  characterized by a belief in earned  and the primacy of nation over class, mixing  with strong  and. Often identified with the slogan "service guarantees suffrage," axiarchism holds that the right to vote is a form of power, and as such must be earned rather than granted freely. Axiarchists believe it is healthy for prospective voters to be required to serve their society before acquiring the power to change their society. They assert that individual rights cannot exist without a strong nation, and that the state must cultivate national and cultural consciousness in the citizenry to fortify itself against threats. Though axiarchist parties can lean both and  politically, the philosophy overall is generally placed in the  of the. Left-wing axiarchism, known as left-axiarchism or axiosocialism, is often called the "rightmost edge of the left" due to its vehement and.

The term axiarchy was coined by Zusian philosopher Tobias Kyrtzy from the stems axios, meaning "worthy," and archy, meaning "rule" ('rule of the worthy'). Though the concept is similar to the classical Kyrossic understanding of aristocracy as 'rule of the best,' the modern ideology only emerged after Kyrtzy's work was popularized in the late 19th century. Axiarchist politics proliferated during the sociopolitical upheavals of the early twentieth century as a more moderate alternative to the extremes of revolutionary socialism and fascism.

Axiarchists believe that traditional is too fragile to survive great stress, and often too indecisive to address major crises or preserve the integrity of the nation. They argue that a connection to one's society, state, and nation must be cultivated through some form of, and that earning the right to vote makes the citizen's investment in the social order explicit rather than implicit. Axiarchists also espouse the necessity of a strong state to preserve the, without which and basic freedoms cannot exist. They take a Kyrtzian view of history as cyclical and comprised of various, in which lawlessness and violence cultivate despotism in nations. Thus, maintaining a relatively peaceful liberal order is regarded as a task of paramount importance, to prevent the nation from slipping into a vicious cycle of tyranny. National distinctions are prioritized over those of class: economic systems like are regarded as essentially immovable by human behavior, changing only with technology.

Axiarchist politics are avowedly, often with a particular emphasis on reviving old cultural and religious traditions. Axiarchism usually mixes nationalism with some form of, especially in Amphia. Axiarchists often regard polytheistic pagan faiths as more innately secular, progressive, and nation-oriented, and consider lost traditions to be squandered cultural resources. Moreover, elevating cultural consciousness in citizens is prized as an essential part of fortifying the nation.

Kyrtzian thought
Axiarchist thought is rooted in a Kyrtzian analysis of history. Drawing from many disparate strains of thought, Kyrtzian analysis revolves around systems of violence, arguing that the "arrangements of violence" underlying various nations are the primary historical force. The most productive societies in this view are those that most successfully subordinate violence to the, and the least productive are those trapped in a cycle of inefficient violence. These so-called "contractionary societies" suffer long periods of despotism broken by brief anarchic outbursts; meanwhile, Kyrtzy argues, "expansionary" societies are marked by administrative stability and relative tranquility, which ideally gives rise to consensual government and competing centers of power.

Axiarchism arose as an anti-revolutionary movement grounded in the importance of the preservation of the rule of law. Kyrtzy first proposed earned suffrage as a potential bulwark against radicalism in Axiarchie, arguing that the citizen's connection to the state and nation must not be "merely pragmatic," but also "tactile, moral, and spiritual." Building one's connection to their culture and nation, called "cultural consciousness," became a paramount task of axiarchist politics. The alternative was seen to be the slow degradation of the state, the dissolution of national identity, and the concurrent rise of "inadequate tribalisms," including class-based revolts.

Criticism of Lysenkoism
Kyrtzy's Axiarchie and Kultur in Kürza share a now-famous opening line: "[t]he history of all hitherto existing society is the history of violence," an almost exact copy of the opening of the 's first chapter. Though borrowing much from Lysenko, Kyrtzy centered the conduct of nations in his study of history and criticized the concept of class struggle, which he had increasingly come to regard as irrelevant to the real forces of historical change. He argued that class revolutions have always simply sustained or reproduced preexisting economic hierarchies, since capitalism and its predecessors were not the products of political revolts but of long technological transformations. Kyrtzy collapsed the traditional Lysenkoist stages of slave society and into a single stage of development called agrarianism, based on the premise that there were no fundamental differences between the underlying economic systems of  and medieval Amphia. In his view, the proletarian could have no more hope of overthrowing capitalism than the peasant could of overthrowing agrarianism. Capitalism was simply the systemic outgrowth of the underlying industrial technologies. Kyrtzy likened capitalism to the trees of a forest, and modern technology to the soil, in that the former conformed to the properties of the latter.

Consequently, Kyrtzy believed that revolution was nearly always a negative force, especially in the socialist sense. Any serious escalation in violence risked provoking a vicious circle which could last centuries. Moreover, axiarchism implies that any revolutionary society would only recreate the hierarchies it overthrew, making class uprisings not only "historically meaningless" (in Kyrtzy's terms), but also "morally meaningless."