UserWiki:DerVampir666

Governance
I desire a decentralized republican system (bordering on a bottom-up confederation of democratic  city-states). Anything that can be done on the local level should be delgated to local governments. However, I do support a constitution to ensure no government can suppress liberty (which I define below).

Economics
Liberty is synonymous with independence. Freedom is the full control over your life's circumstances in the pursuit of your true potential. Dependence negates liberty, for counting on others for survival breeds subservience. And dependents must necessarily act in the interests of those they rely on, breeding corruption. To quote Thomas Jefferson:

"Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. This, the natural progress and consequence of the arts, has sometimes perhaps been retarded by accidental circumstances: but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unfound to its healthy parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption." (From Notes on the State of Virginia Query XIX. As I an advocate of liberty, I want to maximize autonomy; to empower the individual. Not just socially and politically, but economically too. To that end I support the following:

Agrarianism.

I believe rural life better respects individuality than city life. City life deprives people of privacy and therefore demands conformity. Technology is also heavily abused by authoritarians, as seen in present-day China. All products of industrial growth under capitalism. Urbanization is also a national security threat, since it turns everyone into members of a leisured aristocracy; and leisured aristocracies simply cannot survive. I disagree with the neo-Luddites that abolishing all organization-dependent technology is necessary, and I also accept that cities aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Hell, we may still need industry for national self-defense. But I see the promotion of rural life—including organic agriculture and small-town life—as essential to sustaining liberty and happiness. Thus I support the following measures:
 * [[File:Georgist.png]]The implementation of a tax on the unimproved value of land. Such a tax would make the government a collector of rent, ensuring equal right in use (equivalent to common ownership) while favoring the most productive use of land. This tax is supported by farmers across the globe because:
 * It would drive down land prices, which would increase the number of entry-level farmers
 * It would stop, if not reverse, rural depopulation.
 * It would discourage urban sprawl, basically putting decadent city life on a leash.
 * It would incentivize moving to the countryside while raising the demand for agricultural labor; since farmers would pay none of the tax while city-dwellers would pay the bulk.
 * It would raise productivity in rural areas since such a tax would eliminate most, if not all, other taxes (since they discourage productivity)
 * It would decentralize agriculture—which is absolutely needed since inorganic, "industrial" farming is nasty—because it'd favor the most productive units, discourage land speculation, and also financially punish ecological destruction.
 * And [[File:Clib.png]] Thomas Paine, [[File:Jeffersondem2.png]] Thomas Jefferson, [[File:Clib.png]] Benjamin Franklin, and [[File:Georgist.png]] Henry George all supported this tax since it would empower farmers.
 * [[File:Distributist.png]] Implementing distributist economic measures. Since I want firms to be relatively small and for things to be handled as locally as possible, city life would decline, at least to the point it would be negligible. In addition, it would undermine the very corporations constantly infringing on the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of rural folks.

Distributism

As I said before, liberty requires individual autonomy in economic terms. Thus, I want wealth-generating property to be as widely distributed as possible. In a sense I want genuine free markets, where everyone has the means to earn their own living in life and freely exchange the products of their labor. To achieve this aspiration, I advocate for the following:
 * Strong anti-trust laws. I still agree with libertarians that once firms become too big, they will eventually fall apart due to diseconomies of scale. However, the mere existence of big firms is a threat to democracy. Once a single employer of wage labor acquires significant wealth, the opportunities for corruption out of avarice proves impossible to resist. Yes, Standard Oil did decline from 90% to 40% between 1890 and 1911. But that's still 21 years of unhealthy market domination. And also enough time for firms with near monopoly power to buy out honest business folk. Strong anti-trust laws, with some mechanism of properly enforcing them, is a superior way to ensure eternal competition between small firms.
 * Subsidies for small and worker-led start-ups. Some states already do this. A drastic expansion of this would be ideal. Whether it be starting an arcade, a comic book shop, a family-owned bakery, or a pottery worker co-op, programs to increase the number of small-scale entrepreneurs and worker-owned firms would be based.
 * The land tax. Discouraging land speculation would drastically reduce monopoly power for many firms. [[File:Georgist.png]] Henry George demonstrated this in Progress and Poverty. [[File:Trumpism.png]] Donald Trump himself is a testament to the cancer of landlordism. And as I said before, removing the need for all productivity-decreasing taxes would empower entrepreneurs.
 * Deregulation. Outside of anti-trust laws and the government collecting all land rents, I actually agree deregulation would result in a better distribution of wealth-generating property. Over-bloated bureaucracy deters otherwise brilliant individuals from pursuing their dreams.
 * Free trade. Free trade clearly benefits small businesses who generate most jobs. And even in my ideal society other nations will have comparative advantages, so the free flow of goods benefits everyone.
 * Abolish limited liability. Limited liability allows for shareholders to pursue infinite growth at the expense of a finite planet with almost no recourse. In other words, I want to literally abolish corporations.
 * Kill the bank. I favor a decentralized banking system that prohibits all interest and support abolishing fractional reserve banking in general. Oh, and abolish the Federal Reserve. Essentially I want a combination of the [[File:Muslim_2.png]] Islamic finance and the [[File:Mutalist.png]] mutualist credit union systems.

This is not a complete list of my beliefs and policy measures. I'll update it as time goes on.

Friends

 * [[File:Clib.png]] Classical Liberalism - This is the best label for my political beliefs at present.


 * [[File:Distlib.png]] Distributist Libertarianism - True liberty entails the Individual being economically independent. Widespread ownership of wealth-generating property achieves this.


 * [[File:Georgist.png]] Geoism - Probably the best way to adequately distribute land. (Good for preserving rural life as well, which is why farmers globally support it.)


 * [[File:Jeffersondem2.png]] Jeffersonian Democracy - Thomas Jefferson was objectively the best Founding Father.


 * [[File:TLeveller.png]] Diggerism - Wholesome. Not a fan of the religious aspect, but given the historical context I can look past it.


 * [[File:Socliber.png]] Social Libertarianism - Pretty based.


 * [[File:Minmut.png]] Minarcho-Mutualism - We have somewhat similar visions for society.


 * [[File:Farm.png]] Agrarianism - Rural life respects individuality more than urban life; and the yeoman farmer is the freest of all.


 * [[File:Anin.png]] Anarcho-Individualism - I'm highly sympathetic to you. Tucker and Spooner were based.


 * [[File:Ricardosoc.png]] Ricardian Socialism - If we are to have urban industry, it should be directed by associations of worker-owners.


 * [[File:Laicism.png]] Anti-Clericalism - Religious authority and theocracy are cringe. Religion suppresses individuality.


 * [[File:Agorismf.png]] Agorism - Resisting state-backed monopolies and oligopolies (what corporations are) which strangle honest business men via black markets is based.


 * [[File:FDF-Pirate.png]] Piratism - The best way to resist unjust patent and copyright abuse.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Neolud.png]] Kaczynskism - Kaczynski and Jefferson both helped rural-pill me. But abandoning all organization-dependent technology is going a bit far.


 * [[File:Distributist.png]] Distributism - Look, you have based economics. But the Catholic Church is insanely corrupt; so, uh, please remove the TradCath and theocratic elements?


 * [[File:Islamic_Socialism.png]] Islamic Socialism - Same as above, but you're even more theocratic and authoritarian. Although prohibiting riba (interest) is based and so is treating land as common property.


 * [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism - Free markets only work when usury is forbidden, land is treated as an equal right, and intellectual property (abuse) disappears; and with stern anti-trust laws.


 * [[File:Indust.png]] Industrialism - You might be a necessary evil in some cases. But you need to be kept on a tight leash.


 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - I don't oppose safety nets on principle, but it needs to be decentralized to prevent abuse and waste. You also like industrialism too much.


 * [[File:Lpop.png]] Left-Wing Populism - Similar to me and has a great aesthetic, but in some cases you go too far and in other cases not far enough.

Enemies

 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism-Leninism - Scum.


 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism - Scum.


 * [[File:Trumpism.png]] Trumpism - Imagine pretending to be a populist and then empowering the plutocratic elites.


 * [[File:Juche.png]] Juche - You make me wish we listened to General MacArthur.


 * [[File:Hamiltonianism.png]] Hamiltonianism - Central banking? Patents? Tariffs? Monarchism? Bootlicking industrialists? You're vile and your ideas are ruining this country.


 * [[File:Corp.png]] Corporatocracy - The existence of limited liability and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.


 * [[File:Bankocracy.png]] Bankocracy - Fractional reserve banking is cringe. Interest is cringe. Enough.


 * [[File:Conserv.png]] American Conservatism - Too many of you (like D'Souza) simp for Hamilton, bootlick industrialists, and praise economic growth; and then complain about traditional values declining.


 * [[File:Tradcon.png]] Toryism - British conservatives are almost as awful as American ones, and you also directly inspired Hamilton.

Best Friends

 * [[File:Saturnalian.png]] Melkor - One of the greatest individuals I ever had the pleasure of meeting. He's always there for me and I'll forever be grateful for his friendship.


 * [[File:Xenoassemblage.png]] Xenosystems - Another wonderful person to talk to!

Cool People

 * - Not too far from what I am; we seemingly agree on a lot.


 * - Not bad. Not bad at all.


 * [[File:Glencoe.png]] Glencoe - Your views are tolerable, but central banking is cringe.


 * - I'm still sympathetic to anarchism and you seem like a fun person to chat with.


 * [[File:Syndmut.png]] Liam 09 - Considering how many distributists favor guilds and decentralism, we may not be too different ideologically.


 * [[File:Panth.png]] - Pagan theocracy is the only form of theocracy I could tolerate. We also agree on a lot more now.

Mixed

 * [[File:Aldath.png]] Aldaðism - Your ideology is too authoritarian for my liking (you like North Korea!); but I enjoy discussing these topics with you regardless.


 * [[File:Mikolayism_Pixel2.png]] MedicsChaotics - Based agrarianism, even if I find your ideology too authoritarian personally.

Comments

 * - Add me?
 * [[File:Vamp.png]] DerVampir666 Sure thing!
 * - I was asking you to add me in your ideological relations, but fair enough.
 * [[File:Vamp.png]] DerVampir666 - Ah! My apologies. I will do that as well.
 * - You can you add me please
 * [[File:Glencoe.png]] Glencoe - I personally think that your ideal Agrarian society can only be achieved by terraforming other planets because i don’t think earth with its current population can sustain an Agrarian society. Also link to my ideology so you can add me: https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Glencoeism
 * - Add me?
 * [[File:Vamp.png]] DerVampir666 Sure, and could you do the same for me?
 * - I added you
 * - Add me? (I'll add you)
 * [[File:Vamp.png]] DerVampir666 Done. Look forward to seeing your thoughts.
 * - Already added you. Mind adding me back?
 * [[File:Silasf.png]] Silas: Add me?