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| '''Platform''' || [[Organic socialism]]<br>{{wp|Paternalistic conservatism}}<br>{{wp|Labourism}}<br>Insularism<br> | | '''Platform''' || [[Organic socialism]]<br>{{wp|Paternalistic conservatism}}<br>{{wp|Labourism}}<br>{{wp|Corporatism}}<br>[[Insularism and Ultramarinism|Insularism]]<br>anti-[[Atrassic Union]]<br> | ||
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| '''Voter Base''' || Inland Kiravian working class | | '''Voter Base''' || Inland Kiravian working class | ||
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===History=== | ===History=== | ||
====Origins==== | ====Origins==== | ||
The origins of the Labour Front of Kirav begin with the Aspen Party, one of many small parties to spring up in the immediate wake of [[Kiravian reunification]]. The party was founded in [[Elegia]] by Lawn Guyland, a leader of the formerly [[Pan-Kiravian Congress of Trade Unions|state-sanctioned union]] local of forestry workers. The party positioned itself as opposed to Kirosocialism, not only for its policy failures but also for its efforts to engineer away traditional Coscvian culture and its often exploitative treatment of rural people. Importantly, however, it also positioned itself against economic, political, and cultural {{wp|liberalism}}, which Guyland viewed as yet another dead-end Occidental ideology to be imposed on Kiravia by elites, this time the [[National Reunification Front]]. The party won seats in the first post-reunification election, but its growth was stunted by lack of financial backing and consequent lack of media exposure. Its electoral base was confined largely to Elegia and the surrounding states and provinces. Scholarly analyses suggest that these initial limitations likely impeded the Aspen Party from reaching the rather large share of the Kiravian electorate who, in the words of one author, "had grown up in the Kiravian Union and fully internalised state propaganda about the brutality and banality of {{wp|capitalism}}, but were equally aware of the brutality and venality of the socialist system as practised by [[Kirosocialist Party|Kirsok]]." | |||
According to the same author, another limiting factor to growth under Guyland's leadership was its failure to articulate a clear alternative economic model to liberal capitalism. Guyland was not an educated man, and while he understood the political process well from his background in the unions and was an "adept leader of men", his platform often failed to connect with a jaded, cynical electorate who wanted more concrete answers about their economic future than Guyland was equipped to give. Furthermore, Guyland tended to actively distrust the very types of people who could have assisted him in this area, preferring that his be a working man's party in fact as well as agenda. Nonetheless, the Aspen Party's message resonated with the concerns of enough Kiravians despite such challenges to make a small but non-trivial electoral impact. | |||
====Wittonianism and First Expansion==== | ====Wittonianism and First Expansion==== | ||
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The LFK is socially and culturally conservative, by both international and Kiravian measures. | The LFK is socially and culturally conservative, by both international and Kiravian measures. | ||
====Crona policy==== | ====Crona policy==== | ||
The centrepiece of the contemporary LFK platform is opposition to economic and political integration between the Kiravian Federacy and Kiravian-governed territories on mainland [[Crona]]. It rejects the various proposals put forth for an "Atrassic Union" and for the incorporation of Cronan territories into the Kiravian Federacy proper. It has pledged to maintain customs and migration controls between the Federacy and Kiravian Crona, and to enact heavy restrictions on the entry of native Cronans to the Federacy. The LFK holds that barriers to the inflow of people and goods from Crona are necessary to protect Kiravian workers and domestic industries from cheap Cronan labour. | The centrepiece of the contemporary LFK platform is opposition to economic and political integration between the Kiravian Federacy and Kiravian-governed territories on mainland [[Crona]]. It rejects the various proposals put forth for an "[[Atrassic Union]]" and for the incorporation of Cronan territories into the Kiravian Federacy proper. It has pledged to maintain customs and migration controls between the Federacy and Kiravian Crona, and to enact heavy restrictions on the entry of native Cronans to the Federacy. The LFK holds that barriers to the inflow of people and goods from Crona are necessary to protect Kiravian workers and domestic industries from cheap Cronan labour. | ||
The LFK is not opposed to Kiravian neo-colonialism in Crona in principle, and has stated that an LFK administration would honour the Federacy's military, administrative, and humanitarian commitments on the continent while working toward a more "sustainable and people-centric overseas development model that is fair to ordinary people on both sides of the ocean." (''sóstenaptix us plānoimdix dhevelotorsilver rív é leftix sasnarustondya ibipeśorê iosková.'') Despite this being the official party line, many people with more explicit anti-colonial sentiments have rallied to the party, and there is a pronounced minority wing in favour of scaling back the Kiravian presence in Crona. | The LFK is not opposed to Kiravian neo-colonialism in Crona in principle, and has stated that an LFK administration would honour the Federacy's military, administrative, and humanitarian commitments on the continent while working toward a more "sustainable and people-centric overseas development model that is fair to ordinary people on both sides of the ocean." (''sóstenaptix us plānoimdix dhevelotorsilver rív é leftix sasnarustondya ibipeśorê iosková.'') Despite this being the official party line, many people with more explicit anti-colonial sentiments have rallied to the party, and there is a pronounced minority wing in favour of scaling back the Kiravian presence in Crona. | ||