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
1. 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.

2. 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. 3. As I'm 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 an agrarian,  distributist, and  geoist economic system. Despite my support for a  constitutional  republic, I won't blame others for seeing my economics as a blend of  mutualism (free market anti-capitalism) and  Diggerism (an agrarian form of  anarcho-communism). As my ideal economic system, based in agriculture and small town life, would combine elements of  laissez-faire and a  gift economy.

4. I believe rural life preserves individuality better than urban experience. And not only that, but a prerequisite to sustaining liberty long-term. Techno-industrial capitalism, largely driven by state power—I'm looking at you, Hamilton—has made the masses dependent on business elites for survival. In most cases, you must be obedient to your master for a wage. As Jefferson rightly predicted, this results in corruption. For employers of wage labor will influence their dependent workers and customers. Ensuring employee loyalty and keeping customers involved in surrogate activites are in his best interest. They influence how employees and consumers vote while rallying behind corrupt politicans. What we get is the plutocracy we have today. All this robs the masses of pursuing their true potential.

5. Techno-industrial capitalism also fuels authoritarianism. There is a profit motive in mass surveillance. The more you know a person, the better you can sell products to them. So corporations selling personal information to advertisers is to be expected. Companies use this technology to crush dissent. Or anybody they deem a threat to the status quo. See the history of social media censorship that even the ACLU condemned. (Despite us depending on the Big Tech oligopoly for discourse.) Better yet, see how bankers responded to the trucker's convoy in Canada last year. Plutocrats have effectively privatized censorship. have more recently employed this technology to enslave their population. Whether private like Egger's "The Circle" or public like  Orwell's "1984", surveillance technology is a blessing for totalitarianism. For techno-industrial capitalism itself is inherently totalitarian.

6. While I feel neo-Luddites are profoundly insightful on modern society, I disagree with abandoning all organization-dependent technology. I'm grateful for many advances in art, medicine, and science. What I do wish, however, is:
 * A return to small town life. Contrary to popular sentiment, small towns can include apartments, inns, shops, and public transportation. (I'm a train and bike enjoyer; I hate cars.)
 * An environment—created through taxes and subsidies—which incentivizes organic farming and agricultural cooperatives. A system where farmers flourish and generate most of the country's wealth.
 * Mutual aid, where small towns and farmers communally and democratically take care of their poor, disabled, and elderly.

7. And ultimately I want every citizen to own, individually or collectively, wealth-generating property. Each person should have the means to earn a living for themselves and their families. They will freely exchange the fruits of their labor with one another.

8. What measures can be taken to achieve this vision? A major step would be the single tax. To be more specific, a tax on the unimproved value of land. The government would become the sole collector of rent. The landlord class would be abolished. 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.

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.


 * - Not a fan of your clericalism and conservatism—just as you aren't a fan of my more culturally left tendencies in fairness—but in other ways our visions are nearly identical.


 * [[File:Silasf.png]] Silas - Based market socialism!


 * - Calling everything a spook is fun and all, but you should take a stronger stance on industry. City life suppresses the ego.

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
Glencoe- do you have a discord/reddit? Glencoe - also thoughts on space exploration?
 * - I can agree on everything, but agrarianism. It will lead to starvation cycles, cause without industrial level tech, instruments, food production will not handle always growing population.
 * [[File:Vamp.png]] DerVampir666 - If you are referring to starvation periods in the Middle Ages, I would blame it mostly on landlords who would hoard produce at the expense of the peasants. Adam Smith criticized Chinese landlords for causing/worsening famines by taking too much of their peasant's produce to luxuriate. This is why I'm opposed to feudalism and want all land to be owned in common via LVT. But you're also criticizing a straw-man. As I said before, I don't want to remove all organization-dependent technology. Tractors, washing machines, landline phones, and other such tools have made the lives of farmers and other rural people easier. Even the Amish today use some technology like landlines. I just believe that liberty cannot be sustained in a country that's a massive city, and believe rural life breeds virtue. I would rather have five small towns than one city with a disgusting suburb. I'm not an anarcho-primitivist, despite my sympathies. I want to limit urban sprawl and have whatever industry is necessary to national health to be directed by worker-owner associations. (Note: Cities will also still exist. Under LVT cities would have less car-dependent infrastructure, more walkable/bikeable pathways, etc.)
 * [[File:Vamp.png]] DerVampir666 - If you give me your Discord I can add you.
 * [[File:Vamp.png]] DerVampir666 - There is apparently a growing academic consensus that space travel was a waste of time and money. Although I can't confirm that. With that said I'm pretty much indifferent.