Life Of The Party, Part 1: The Three Tenets

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Defining the ideology and beliefs of the New Earth Commonwealth is a more difficult task than might be expected, considering that most non-Party member citizens of the NEC would not be able to explain what they actually believe in beyond the rote recitation of cliches. They can likely identify it as neofascism and quote the Three Tenets, but little else could be expected. The Party holds that the core foundations of its ideology stem from self-evident truths, so it sees no need to explain them in any detail. Historical analysis is only useful in a limited sense, as despite the Party’s insistence that it has maintained the same philosophy since its original foundation as the Siberian Conservative Reform Party over a century ago, in practice its beliefs have swung wildly over time as different subfactions seized and then lost power. The only consistent elements have been national chauvinism and paranoia. The current Three Tenets of the Party were only set down during the managership of Dasim Solvalov at the tail end of the Reunifcation War, and have changed significantly under his successor Aran Wulf as interstellar conquest became the NEC’s primary goal. Given these factors, these reports will focus only on what the average registered Party member would be expected to know and would be approved to say. This first installment will examine the Three Tenets and how they are mobilized within NEC society.

Tenet 1: The neutralization of failed and poisonous ideologies

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The Party views neofascism and the earlier movements it claims to be recreating as humanity’s immune system, a natural product of the collective consciousness necessary to ensure its health. The NEC valorizes what it sees as strong, aggressive cultures possessing the will to power, such as Kir Arya and the Human Concordat’s early “virile” period as contrasted with its later “decadent” period. These cultures are believed to possess superior, “dominant” traits that manifest in their people, while the failed ideologies and systems tend to produce weak, “submissive” people. The fact that these cultures have a tendency to fail is explained by the assumption that weak cultures fear and despise strong ones, and will seek to destroy them either by annihilating them before they have reached the apex of their strength (as with Kir Arya) or by subverting the population by encouraging the adoption of submissive traits (as with the Concordat). While the ideology of neofascism and the culture of the NEC are conflated, the ideologies of other entities are held as being separate from their cultures. Submissive cultures can be controlled and made to work for the benefit of both the superior culture and themselves, but only if their existing ideologies of weakness are eradicated and any signs of forming a new one are stamped out. This entails the criminalization of “morally degenerate” practices like drug abuse and sexual perversion, the suppression of any negative speech about the NEC, the Party, or neofascism, and the extermination of groups considered to be likely to spawn new poisonous ideologies such as intellectuals or pacifists.

Tenet 2: The swift implementation of the People’s collective will

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The NEC defines itself as a state that exists to serve the needs of the People; a term that when capitalized refers specifically to non-military citizens. The People are believed to possess a singular will that exists separate and above the will of any individual or limited group. As such the NEC categorically rejects “unlimited democracy”, which it sees as compromised by interest groups and inevitably doomed to become a vector for ideologies of weakness. Instead the authority to govern falls to the members of the Party, who will act in the interests of the People better than they ever could have their own volition. It is for this reason that any disagreement with or criticism of the Party is categorized as treason. The fact that a culture that purportedly values assertion and despises subservience demands absolute and unquestioning loyalty is justified via the terms “collective dictatorship” and “free obedience”; their meanings are fluid and exist only to rationalize the fundamental incoherence of the Party’s ideology. The military forces of the NEC are held separate and apart from the People. Their willingness to heroically sacrifice their lives for the sake of the NEC is seen as a sign of strong moral character and the will to power, and they are seen as more worthy than deserving than civilians (except for the higher ranks of the Party).

Tenet 3: The preservation and expansion of the superior culture

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As used by the Party, “culture” refers to a specific grouping of people with shared traditions and is related to but separate from “ideology”, which is a system of ideas. All territories under the NEC’s control are expected to adhere to the ideology of neofascism, but only some of them are judged as being part of the superior culture. The exact delineations of what constitutes a culture has never been strictly defined, which has allowed it to expand along with the NEC. The “superior culture” originally referred to Siberians, expanded to encompass all Eurasians during the Reunification War, and under the managership of Aran Wulf now refers to almost all those who live on Earth. (Whether Manchurians are part of the superior culture despite their traditions of free speech and democratic governance is a recurring argument within the Party.) Preservation and expansion as originally defined by Solvalov originally referred to victory in war, but Aran Wulf transformed it into an imperative to reconquer Earth’s lost colonies. Wulf portrayed the colonies as parasites who leeched away the wealth and strength of the Human Concordat, causing its collapse and were therefore directly responsible for the catastrophic violence on Earth in its aftermath. Conquering them was the way for the superior culture to reclaim what had been stolen from it, and ensure its survival into the future.

Note: This report uses the Party-approved Anglic translations of terms from the NEC’s ideological vocabulary, even when they are not direct translations of the original Siberian. For example, “dominant” and “submissive” are the official terms for the concepts of “вершина” and “нижний”, despite those carrying somewhat different connotations. The one place where this may cause confusion is the use of the term “neofascism”. This term is very specifically used only to translate its own direct transliteration, “неофашизм”. It is never applied to the term “новыйфашизм”, which despite having the same literal meaning is taken to represent a deviant and inferior ideology that must be ruthlessly purged.