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{{Infobox political party
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|name              = Caritist Social Union
|name              = Caritist Social Union
|native_name        = Caritarisēx Askolānura
|native_name        = Karitarisēx Askolaþūra
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|chairperson        =  
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|secretary_general  = [[Ignatiur Aliptekon]]
|secretary_general  = [[Enyékon Alitékuv]]
|spokesperson      =  
|spokesperson      =  
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|leader1_name      = [[Águstín Pandéla]]  
|leader1_name      = [[Águstín Pandéla]]  
|leader2_title      = Whip
|leader2_title      = Whip
|leader2_name      = [[Devar Èvigador]]
|leader2_name      = [[Devar Evigador]]
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|headquarters      = 611 Merced Avenue, [[Kartika]], [[District of Coïnvra]]
|headquarters      = №21, 61-''ram'', D-District<br>[[Kartika]], [[District of Coīnvra]]
|newspaper          = ''Just Commonwealth''
|newspaper          = ''Just Commonwealth''
|student_wing      = University Caritists
|student_wing      = University Caritists
|youth_wing        =  
|youth_wing        =  
|wing1_title        = Labour wing
|wing1_title        = Labour wing
|wing1              = Federation of Christian Trade Unions
|wing1              = [[Confederation of Christian Trade Unions]]
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|wing2_title        = Agrarian wing
|wing2              =  
|wing2              = Farmer Chad Club
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|membership_year    = [[2024|21204]]
|membership_year    = [[2024|21204]]
|membership        = 4.2 billion
|membership        = 4.2 billion
|ideology          = {{wp|Christian democracy}}<br>{{wp|Distributism}}<br>{{wp|Subsidiarity}}<br>{{wp|Integral humanism}}<br><small>'''factions:'''</small><br>{{wp|Ordoliberalism}}<br>{{wp|Christian left}}<br>{{wp|Neo-corporatism}}<br>{{wp|Agrarianism}}
|ideology          = {{wp|Christian democracy}}<br>{{wp|Distributism}}<br>{{wp|Subsidiarity}}<br>{{wp|Social market economy}}<br>{{wp|Integral humanism}}<br><small>'''factions:'''</small><br>{{wp|Ordoliberalism}}<br>{{wp|Christian left}}<br>[[Model Economy]]<br>{{wp|Neo-corporatism}}<br>{{wp|Agrarianism}}<br>{{wp|Third Way}}
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The '''Caritist Social Union''' is a caucus of political parties and independent politicians in the [[Kiravian Stanora]] united by {{wp|Distributism|distributist}} and {{wp|Christian democracy|Christian-democratic}} ideals. The Caritists are the currently the second-largest caucus in the Stanora, and are the leading party in opposition to the ruling [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance]].
The '''Caritist Social Union''' is a caucus of political parties and independent politicians in the [[Kiravian Stanora]] united by {{wp|Distributism|distributist}} and {{wp|Christian democracy|Christian-democratic}} ideals. The Caritists are the currently the second-largest caucus in the Stanora, and are the leading party in opposition to the ruling [[Federalist Republican Alliance]].


==History==
==History==
Coscivian civilisation has a long history of religiously-inspired political movements seeking social and economic justice, beginning with demands for peasants'rights in Ancient Helska lead by Komarist clerics, continuing to the social movements to improve the welfare of women, orphans, the poor, and the mentally ill that expanded with the rise of Ruricanism in Western Éorsa, and finally coming to full force with the arrival of Christianity in the Northwest Islands. The [[Ĥeldican Coscivians|ethnic Ĥeldican]] communities that gave Christianity its first converts in Coscivia gave the Church a central role in their society not only as a moral and spiritual authority, but also as an institution for education, healthcare, and support for the economically disadvantaged. Although the organic, communitarian nature of the Church weakened as Christianity spread into Western, Southern, and Central Éorsa where state institutions were better established, the state was still conceived of primarily as a mechanism for providing security and upholding law and order, and the majority of social services were undertaken by Christian, Rurican, or other religious orders.
 
[Early-modern political Catholicism and religious humanitarianism]<br>
[''Rerum novarum'', ''Quadragesimo anno'', etc.]<br>
[Christian-democratic politics before the Civil War]<br>
[Christian Democratic Party during the Sunderance as part of the National Reunification Front]<br>
[Revival of Distributism, Christian corporatism, Catholic Workerism, etc. as mass-movements on the Mainland after reunification]<br>
[Recent history]<br>
 
<!--Coscivian civilisation has a long history of religiously-inspired political movements seeking social and economic justice, beginning with demands for peasants'rights in Ancient Eskea lead by Komarist clerics, continuing to the social movements to improve the welfare of women, orphans, the poor, and the mentally ill that expanded with the rise of Ruricanism in Western Éorsa, and finally coming to full force with the arrival of Christianity in the Northwest Islands. The [[Ĥeiran Coscivians|ethnic Ensciryan]] communities that gave Christianity its first converts in Coscivia gave the Church a central role in their society not only as a moral and spiritual authority, but also as an institution for education, healthcare, and support for the economically disadvantaged. Although the organic, communitarian nature of the Church weakened as Christianity spread into Western, Southern, and Central Éorsa where state institutions were better established, the state was still conceived of primarily as a mechanism for providing security and upholding law and order, and the majority of social services were undertaken by Christian, Rurican, or other religious orders.


-Indigenous Coscivian Christian Humanists-
-Indigenous Coscivian Christian Humanists-
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-Rise of Distributism-
-Rise of Distributism-
-Opposition to Kirosocialism-
-Opposition to Kirosocialism-
[Union of Orthodox Parishes, Christian Democratic Party, International Christian Democratic Appeal]
[Christo-socialist lists]
[Coöperation with Muslim lists]
-Post-Kirosocialism-
-Post-Kirosocialism-
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The term "Caritist" is an Occidentalised back-translation of ''Karitarisēn'', from the Latin ''caritas'' ("{{wp|Charity (Christian virtue)|charity}}") + the common Coscivian suffix ''-risēn'' ("doctrine", "-ism"). The term emerged in writings circulated at Catholic institutes of learning in the 1800s AD in reference to the humanitarian praxis of {{wp|Catholic social teaching}}. Although the term in its original and academic sense is not specific to politics and does not describe a political ideology ''senu stricto'', in modern ''karitarisēn'' has taken on a meaning of "religious humanitarianism" or "religious (centre-)left" in Kiravian political culture.


==Platform==
==Platform==
The Caritist Social Union claims a platform based on {{wp|distributist}} and {{wp|Christian democratic}} thought, with influences from {{wp|ordoliberal economics}}, and the {{wp|Christian left}} on certain issues and within certain factions. In its contemporary position, the CSU acts mainly to represent the concerns many Kiravians have about the {{wp|economic liberal}} agenda pursued by the [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance]]. It advocates a more expressly humanistic approach to economic policy, broadly characterised by more widespread ownership of productive property and housing, decentralisation, class collaboration, a preponderance of small and medium enterprises, a communitarian approach to social welfare and public services, and "more humane" labour laws. Some CSU members endorse the {{wp|social market economy}} as the best policy framework for Kiravia, while others call for an economic structure closer to classical distributism. Minority factions within the caucus prefer approaches reminiscent of the {{wp|Third Way}} or social democracy.
===Economics===
The Caritist Social Union claims a platform based on {{wp|distributist}} and {{wp|Christian democratic|Christian-democratic}} thought, with influences from {{wp|ordoliberal economics}}, and the {{wp|Christian left}} on certain issues and within certain factions. In its contemporary position, the CSU acts mainly to represent the concerns many Kiravians have about the {{wp|economic liberal}} agenda pursued by the [[Federalist Republican Alliance]] and the effects of market liberalism on social solidarity and public morals. Broadly speaking, it occupies the economic centre-left space of the Kiravian political field, advocating a more expressly humanistic approach to economic policy, characterised by more widespread ownership of productive property and housing, decentralisation, class collaboration, a preponderance of small and medium enterprises, a communitarian approach to social welfare and public services, and "more humane" labour laws. Most CSU members endorse the {{wp|social market economy}} as the best policy framework for Kiravia, while the largest minority current seeks an economic structure closer to classical distributism, endorsing the Urcean [[Model Economy]] as framework for undertaking this transition. The economic right flank of the caucus has been described as espousing {{wp|social liberalism}}, the {{wp|Third Way}}, or "neoliberalism with a human face"; while the left flank endorses {{wp|social democracy}} verging on {{wp|religious socialism}}.


Inspired by Christian ethics (particularly {{wp|Catholic social teaching}}), the CSU holds strong positions on bioethics and on life issues. While all of the major caucuses in Kiravian politics can be considered socially conservative by modern Western standards, the CSU is more keen on upholding public morality through legislation than either the SRA or KFA. It supports the abolition of capital punishment for "ordinary domestic crimes in cases where life imprisonment would not endanger the public", strict regulations on in vitro fertilisation.
[More specifics]
[e.g. labour policy]
 
Guided by Catholic social teaching, the CSU promotes {{wp|class collaboration}} and some degree of {{wp|neo-corporatism}} in its labour policy, historically charting a middle way between the capital-backed SRA and labour-backed NDA, which has made it a catalyst of compromise on labour issues, such as during the Longhaul Strike of 21191. CSU affiliates have implemented a {{wp|tripartism|tripartite framework for industrial relations}}  at the provincial level in [[Vôtaska]], [[Intravia]], [[Ixikéa-Qihuxia]], and formerly [[Kastera]] and [[Váuadra]], and the caucus has long sought to establish tripartism at the federal level. Institutionally, the CSU has good relations with organised labour, particularly the [[Confederation of Christian Trade Unions]] and [[Pan-Kiravian Congress of Craft Unions]].
 
===Social Policy===
Inspired by Christian ethics (particularly {{wp|Catholic social teaching}}), the CSU holds strong positions on bioethics and on life issues. While all of the major caucuses in Kiravian politics can be considered socially conservative by modern Western standards, the CSU is more keen on upholding public morality through legislation than the SRA, CNC, or KFA. It supports the abolition of capital punishment for "ordinary domestic crimes in cases where life imprisonment would not endanger the public", and a federal prohibition on ''in vitro'' fertilisation.


===Foreign Policy===
===Foreign Policy===
The CSU platform on foreign policy is seen as a moderate one, but differs from those of the other caucuses on a number of points. Though seen as less militaristic than the SRA and CNC, it is supportive of multilateral military undertakings and humanitarian operations within the framework of {{wp|just war theory}}. In geopolitics, the preponderance of devout Urceopolitan Catholics in the caucus' leadership has led the CSU to support stronger ties with [[Levantia]] and have a rather favourable attitude toward Levantian continental integration, while having a colder stance with regards to Imperial Catholic Heku and the prospect of integration with the Protestant and heterodox nations of [[Crona]]. As such, it has consistently voted to prioritise the Federacy's participation in and financial contributions to the [[KATI]] over its involvement with the [[CUDA]] and [[CKOCA]]. While not categorically opposed to free trade agreements, the caucus advocates a cautious approach to them, and has pushed for the Federacy to be more selective about which economies it allows free trade with.  
<!-- The CSU platform on foreign policy is seen as a moderate one, but differs from those of the other caucuses on a number of points. Though seen as less militaristic than the SRA and CNC, it is supportive of multilateral military undertakings and humanitarian operations within the framework of {{wp|just war theory}}. In geopolitics, the preponderance of devout Levantne Catholics in the caucus' leadership has led the CSU to support stronger ties with [[Levantia]] and have a rather favourable attitude toward Levantian continental integration, while having a colder stance with regards to Imperial Catholic Caphiria and the prospect of integration with the Protestant and heterodox nations of [[Crona]]. As such, it has consistently voted to prioritise the Federacy's participation in and financial contributions to the [[KATI]] over its involvement with the [[CUDA]] and [[CKOCA]]. While not categorically opposed to free trade agreements, the caucus advocates a cautious approach to them, and has pushed for the Federacy to be more selective about which economies it allows free trade with.  


The CSU has long been split on  the issue of Kiravian colonisation of inhabited territories. While some elements within the party welcome colonial enterprises on distributistic grounds (as opportunities to increase land and housing ownership) and for their evangelistic potential, others (especially Christian socialists) oppose them as campaigns of expropriation and coërcion that violate the natural rights of the natives.
The CSU has long been split on  the issue of Kiravian colonisation of inhabited territories. While some elements within the party welcome colonial enterprises on distributistic grounds (as opportunities to increase land and housing ownership) and for their evangelistic potential, others (especially Christian socialists) oppose them as campaigns of expropriation and coërcion that violate the natural rights of the natives. -->


===Stated Policy Goals===
===Stated Policy Goals===
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===Internal Tendencies===
===Internal Tendencies===
The CSU embraces a heterogeneous variety of parties and supporters, which have come to constitute distinct ideological tendencies within the caucus. Largest and most influential among these are the '''Institutional Caritists''' and the '''
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Institutional Caritists tend to identify most strongly with the Christian democratic tradition and view distributism as a long-term goal to be achieved by gradual, principled reforms of the liberal capitalist system. Institutional Caritists tend to be of Éorsan Coscivian background, religiously oriented toward Urceopolitan Catholicism, Coscivian Orthodoxy, or Ruricanism, hail from economically-developed states and represent republican- and upper-demcoratic class interests, as well as those of landowning farmers. Institutional Caritist parties are usually affiliated with the Union of Christian & Centrist Democrats.
Institutional Caritists tend to identify most strongly with the Christian democratic tradition and view distributism as a long-term goal to be achieved by gradual, principled reforms of the liberal capitalist system. Institutional Caritists tend to be of Éorsan Coscivian background, religiously oriented toward Urceopolitan Catholicism, Coscivian Orthodoxy, or Ruricanism, hail from economically-developed states and represent republican- and upper-demcoratic class interests, as well as those of landowning farmers. Institutional Caritist parties are usually affiliated with the Union of Christian & Centrist Democrats.
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_______ Caritists tend to identify most strongly with classical distributism and are influenced by Christian socialist and related Coscivian Monotheïst ideas. They view a distributistic society as a near-term goal and aggressively pursue agenda such as land, labour, and banking reforms in order to implement distributism. They are more likely to be of New Coscivian, Coscivian mestiço, or non-Coscivian backgrounds, and are usually oriented toward Marcevangelista Catholicism, Protestantism, or the {{wp|emerging church movement}}. They often hail from less-developed areas of the Federacy, represent the interests of the working poor, landless farmers, and colonial natives. ______ Caritist parties are usually affiliated with the Distributist Labour Alliance.
_______ Caritists tend to identify most strongly with classical distributism and are influenced by Christian socialist and related Coscivian Monotheïst ideas. They view a distributistic society as a near-term goal and aggressively pursue agenda such as land, labour, and banking reforms in order to implement distributism. They are more likely to be of New Coscivian, Coscivian mestiço, or non-Coscivian backgrounds, and are usually oriented toward Marcevangelista Catholicism, Protestantism, or the {{wp|emerging church movement}}. They often hail from less-developed areas of the Federacy, represent the interests of the working poor, landless farmers, and colonial natives. ______ Caritist parties are usually affiliated with the Distributist Labour Alliance.


There is also a more definitively religious socialist wing within the party, organised through the Spiritual Socialist Solidarity Union, as well as a minor further-left movement of Christian communists, Tolstoyans, and radical  pacifists. A few state parties advocating Vistrionist distributism are organised into the General Distributist Conference of Kiravia (Vistionist).  
There is also a more definitively religious socialist wing within the party, organised through the Spiritual Socialist Solidarity Union, as well as a minor further-left movement of Christian communists, Tolstoyans, and radical  pacifists. A few state parties advocating Vistrionist distributism are organised into the General Distributist Conference of Kiravia (Vistionist). -->
===Religion===
===Religion===
The Caritist movement and the CSU itself are strongly associated with Roman Catholicism, and the caucus enjoys strong support from members of the [[Coscivian Catholic Church]], [[Marcevangelista Catholic Church]] and independent Catholic movements. Although Catholics make up only a minority of CSU voters and Delegates, they are overrepresented in leadership positions and state-level party jobs. Especially on the state level, the CSU's firmest strongholds are in areas with large Catholic communities, such as the Farravonian [[Rosary Belt]], Medinesia, [[Andrēdan|Andrēdan's]] County Parr, and Manētuva Island in [[Sydona Isles|Sydona]].
<!-- The Caritist movement and the CSU itself are strongly associated with Roman Catholicism, and the caucus enjoys strong support from members of the [[Coscivian Catholic Church]], [[Marcevangelista Catholic Church]] and independent Catholic movements. Although Catholics make up only a minority of CSU voters and Delegates, they are overrepresented in leadership positions and state-level party jobs. Especially on the state level, the CSU's firmest strongholds are in areas with large Catholic communities, such as the Farravonian [[Rosary Belt]], Medinesia, [[Andrēdan|Andrēdan's]] County Parr, and Manētuva Island in [[Sydona Isles|Sydona]]. -->


==Voter Base==
==Voter Base==
As the second-largest caucus in the Federal Stanora, the CSU draws on a large popular support base, embracing many sectors of Kiravian society. Demographics with particularly strong CSU voting patterns include the urban working class, [[Peninsular Coscivians]], [[Deep South Coscivians]], Ardóniem and Buryóniem Coscivians, Kastrovem Coscivians, Lusem Coscivians, Roman Catholics (excepting Traditionalists, who lean more towards the [[Caucus of Justice|CoR]]), Síkutem and Southern Peninsular Coscivians, Woolzi-Kiravians, Serradem and Aboriginal tribes practising Catholicism, enfranchised colonial natives, Éilpanem of the St. Margaret Islands, monoreligious Ruricans, middle-class families in micropolitan and semi-rural areas, Methodists, high-church Lutherans, and members of small non-Coscivian religious minorities.
As the second-largest caucus in the Federal Stanora, the CSU draws on a large popular support base, embracing many sectors of Kiravian society.  


The CSU performs well among farmers with small to medium landholdings, especially the ''sirētur'' class of investor-farmers in the Mid-Oceanic states. Larger landowners are more likely to favour Caucus of Justice affiliated parties. In some CSU parties are competitive among tenant farmers, landless agricultural labourers, and poorer landowning farmers in the inland states, but these tend to vote for a wider range of parties, including the Social Credit Party, smaller agrarian parties affiliated with the KFA, and Kisosocialist parties.
Tenant farmers


The CSU collects the largest share of the non-Coscivian vote, a fact attributed to its positive stance towards colonial natives and the economic lower classes that non-Coscivians in Kiravia are concentrated in, as well as its stronger universalistic ethos drawing on Christian and humanistic principles. This contrasts with the wholesale Coscivian nationalism of the [[Coscivian National Congress|CNC]], softer civilisational rhetoric of the SRA, and the Caucus of Justice's dedication to ethnosocial, regional, tribal, and Coscivian identities. It also performs best with female voters.
Regional strongholds for the SRA include the deeply Catholic Rosary Belt region of Farravonia, Catholic and developing [[Sarolasta]], and [[New Ardmore]].
 
 
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In religious terms, the core of the CSU base are Coscivian Rite Christians, whether affiliated with the Coscivian Catholic Church or Coscivian Orthodox Church. Among Coscivian Catholics, voter loyalty to the CSU increases with measures of religious observance, while among the Coscivian Orthodox it correlates more strongly with income and location (urban rather than rural). Latin-Rite Catholics overwhelmingly favour the CSU as well, even more so than their Coscivian-Rite brothers in Christ. CSU parties have made inroads with Insular Apostolic Christians (who lean SRA overall), especially in urban areas, and CSU affiliates are important contenders on the provincial level in many majority-Apostolic provinces.
 
''Kēbavem'' (Coscivian Muslims) in the South and Southwest tend to favour the Reservatives-Conformists and in the North and Overseas tend to favour the Shaftonist-Republicans. However, the CSU does attract the second-largest share of the ''Kēvbavem'' vote in both regions. It is more competitive among non-Coscivian Muslims, and is strongly favoured by Rumeli Muslims of both Coscivian and non-Coscivian background.
 
After the collapse of the Green Party, many Bahá'ís shifted to the CSU column.
 
CSU parties do not perform as quite as well with voters who adhere to a Coscivian religion are their sole or primary faith tradition. Outreach efforts toward Ruricans have yielded mixed results and been largely unsuccessful in the Northeast (home to the largest non-syncretic Rurican populations), where voters strongly associate the CSU parties with working class People Nation Coscivians and Levantine immigrants. However, Christian ethno-social communities for whom Ruricanism is a heritage religion cast a greater share of their votes for CSU candidates than other Christian communities of the same denomination and IDLD rating.
 
Ethno-social groups with particularly strong CSU voting patterns include Serradans; Paisonic Coscivians and other R-Coscivians such as Kastrovans, Lusans, Síkutrans; Levantine-Kiravians, and H.
 
OLD: Ethno-social groups with particularly strong CSU voting patterns include the urban working class, [[Paisonic Coscivians]], [[Deep South Coscivians]], Ardóniem and Buryóniem Coscivians, Kastrovan Coscivians, Lusem Coscivians, Roman Catholics (excepting Traditionalists, who lean more towards the [[Authentic Historical Caucus|CoR]]), Síkutem and Southern Paisonic Coscivians, Woolzi-Kiravians, Serradem and Urom tribes practising Catholicism, enfranchised colonial natives, Éilpanem of the St. Margaret Islands, monoreligious Ruricans, middle-class families in micropolitan and semi-rural areas, Methodists, high-church Lutherans, and members of small non-Coscivian religious minorities.
 
The CSU performs well among farmers with small to medium landholdings, especially the ''sirētur'' class of investor-farmers in the Mid-Oceanic states. Larger landowners are more likely to favour Authentic Historical Caucus affiliated parties. In some CSU parties are competitive among tenant farmers, landless agricultural labourers, and poorer landowning farmers in the inland states, but these tend to vote for a wider range of parties, including the Social Credit Party, smaller agrarian parties affiliated with the KFA, and Kisosocialist parties.
 
The CSU collects the largest share of the non-Coscivian vote, a fact attributed to its positive stance towards colonial natives and the economic lower classes that non-Coscivians in Kiravia are concentrated in, as well as its stronger universalistic ethos drawing on Christian and humanistic principles. This contrasts with the wholesale Coscivian nationalism of the [[Coscivian National Congress|CNC]], softer civilisational rhetoric of the SRA, and the Authentic Historical Caucus's dedication to ethnosocial, regional, tribal, and Coscivian identities. It also performs best with female voters. -->


==Electoral Performance==
==Electoral Performance==
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| [[Kiravian federal election, 21197|21197]]
| [[Kiravian federal election, 21197|21197]]
| {{Infobox political party/seats|108|545|hex=#FFD700}}
| {{Infobox political party/seats|108|545|hex=#FFD700}}
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance|Shaftonist-Republican]] victory
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Federalist Republican Alliance|Shaftonist-Republican]] victory
|-
|-
| [[Kiravian federal election, 21200|21200]]
| [[Kiravian federal election, 21200|21200]]
| {{Infobox political party/seats|112|545|hex=#FFD700}}
| {{Infobox political party/seats|112|545|hex=#FFD700}}
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance|Shaftonist-Republican]] victory
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Federalist Republican Alliance|Shaftonist-Republican]] victory
|-
|-
| [[Kiravian federal election, 21203|21203]]
| [[Kiravian federal election, 21203|21203]]
| {{Infobox political party/seats|133|545|hex=#FFD700}}
| {{Infobox political party/seats|133|545|hex=#FFD700}}
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance|SRA]]-led minority government
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Federalist Republican Alliance|FRA]]-led minority government
|-
|-
| [[Kiravian federal election, 21206|21206]]
| [[Kiravian federal election, 21206|21206]]
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==Member Parties==
==Member Parties==
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||''Caritist Democratic Union''
||''Caritist Democratic Union''
||UCCD
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||Coscivian People's Party
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||UCCD
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||Islamic Republic Party <small>(''observer'')</small>
||ILC
||{{Infobox political party/seats|1|6|hex=Orange}}
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||Represents the ''sivētur'' investor-farmer class of the eastern coastal states
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|style="text-align:center" | [[File:CoīnvraFlag.png|25px]]<br>[[District of Coīnvra]]
||Social Capital
||Social Capital
||{{wp|Extra-parliamentary opposition|Extraparliamentary}} association of the {{wp|Christian left}} operating as a pressure group in the capital district, where political parties have been banned since {{H:title|1988 AD|21168}}
||{{wp|Extra-parliamentary opposition|Extraparliamentary}} association of the {{wp|Christian left}} operating as a pressure group in the capital district, where political parties have been banned since {{H:title|1988 AD|21168}}

Latest revision as of 00:38, 22 January 2024

Caritist Social Union

Karitarisēx Askolaþūra
Secretary-GeneralEnyékon Alitékuv
Caucus ChairÁgustín Pandéla
WhipDevar Evigador
Founded21159
Merger ofChristian Democrats
Distributist Labour Union
Humanist caucus
Headquarters№21, 61-ram, D-District
Kartika, District of Coīnvra
NewspaperJust Commonwealth
Student wingUniversity Caritists
Labour wingConfederation of Christian Trade Unions
Agrarian wingFarmer Chad Club
Membership (21204)4.2 billion
IdeologyChristian democracy
Distributism
Subsidiarity
Social market economy
Integral humanism
factions:
Ordoliberalism
Christian left
Model Economy
Neo-corporatism
Agrarianism
Third Way
Federal Stanora
133 / 545

The Caritist Social Union is a caucus of political parties and independent politicians in the Kiravian Stanora united by distributist and Christian-democratic ideals. The Caritists are the currently the second-largest caucus in the Stanora, and are the leading party in opposition to the ruling Federalist Republican Alliance.

History

[Early-modern political Catholicism and religious humanitarianism]
[Rerum novarum, Quadragesimo anno, etc.]
[Christian-democratic politics before the Civil War]
[Christian Democratic Party during the Sunderance as part of the National Reunification Front]
[Revival of Distributism, Christian corporatism, Catholic Workerism, etc. as mass-movements on the Mainland after reunification]
[Recent history]


The term "Caritist" is an Occidentalised back-translation of Karitarisēn, from the Latin caritas ("charity") + the common Coscivian suffix -risēn ("doctrine", "-ism"). The term emerged in writings circulated at Catholic institutes of learning in the 1800s AD in reference to the humanitarian praxis of Catholic social teaching. Although the term in its original and academic sense is not specific to politics and does not describe a political ideology senu stricto, in modern karitarisēn has taken on a meaning of "religious humanitarianism" or "religious (centre-)left" in Kiravian political culture.

Platform

Economics

The Caritist Social Union claims a platform based on distributist and Christian-democratic thought, with influences from ordoliberal economics, and the Christian left on certain issues and within certain factions. In its contemporary position, the CSU acts mainly to represent the concerns many Kiravians have about the economic liberal agenda pursued by the Federalist Republican Alliance and the effects of market liberalism on social solidarity and public morals. Broadly speaking, it occupies the economic centre-left space of the Kiravian political field, advocating a more expressly humanistic approach to economic policy, characterised by more widespread ownership of productive property and housing, decentralisation, class collaboration, a preponderance of small and medium enterprises, a communitarian approach to social welfare and public services, and "more humane" labour laws. Most CSU members endorse the social market economy as the best policy framework for Kiravia, while the largest minority current seeks an economic structure closer to classical distributism, endorsing the Urcean Model Economy as framework for undertaking this transition. The economic right flank of the caucus has been described as espousing social liberalism, the Third Way, or "neoliberalism with a human face"; while the left flank endorses social democracy verging on religious socialism.

[More specifics] [e.g. labour policy]

Guided by Catholic social teaching, the CSU promotes class collaboration and some degree of neo-corporatism in its labour policy, historically charting a middle way between the capital-backed SRA and labour-backed NDA, which has made it a catalyst of compromise on labour issues, such as during the Longhaul Strike of 21191. CSU affiliates have implemented a tripartite framework for industrial relations at the provincial level in Vôtaska, Intravia, Ixikéa-Qihuxia, and formerly Kastera and Váuadra, and the caucus has long sought to establish tripartism at the federal level. Institutionally, the CSU has good relations with organised labour, particularly the Confederation of Christian Trade Unions and Pan-Kiravian Congress of Craft Unions.

Social Policy

Inspired by Christian ethics (particularly Catholic social teaching), the CSU holds strong positions on bioethics and on life issues. While all of the major caucuses in Kiravian politics can be considered socially conservative by modern Western standards, the CSU is more keen on upholding public morality through legislation than the SRA, CNC, or KFA. It supports the abolition of capital punishment for "ordinary domestic crimes in cases where life imprisonment would not endanger the public", and a federal prohibition on in vitro fertilisation.

Foreign Policy

Stated Policy Goals

Although the CSU itself is only a political actor on the federal level, it also serves as a consultative and cooperative forum for member-parties and independent members participating in the governance of the various federal subjects. As such, the common platforms adopted at CSU triennial conferences address policies to be pursued on both the national and state levels.

  • Reintroduce directive principles of public and social policy to the Fundamental Statute (constitution), in order to compel the federal government of uphold social and economic justice and the dignity of the human person.
  • "Forty acres, a cow, and a broadband connection" - Distributism for the digital age.
  • Introduce stronger protections for genetic privacy and stronger safeguards against genetic discrimination, including adding a right to genetic privacy to the Statute of Liberties.
  • Reform tax codes (state and federal) and incorporation laws to incentivise the creation of coöperatives
  • Reform financial regulations to curb speculation, reduce leverage, and promote the proliferation of credit unions
  • Introduce targeted initiatives for gradual land reform in areas where oligopolies on agricultural land are arresting economic and human development.
  • Promote government investment and research in the field of renewable energy

Internal Tendencies

Religion

Voter Base

As the second-largest caucus in the Federal Stanora, the CSU draws on a large popular support base, embracing many sectors of Kiravian society.

Tenant farmers

Regional strongholds for the SRA include the deeply Catholic Rosary Belt region of Farravonia, Catholic and developing Sarolasta, and New Ardmore.


Electoral Performance

Election Seats Outcome of election
21197
108 / 545
 Shaftonist-Republican victory
21200
112 / 545
 Shaftonist-Republican victory
21203
133 / 545
 FRA-led minority government
21206
142 / 554
 CSU-led minority government

Member Parties



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State Party Conference Delegates
Alavora Popular Solidarity Party DLA
1 / 3
File:Aventurine Bay Flag.png Aventurine Bay Collaborative Distributist Party DLA
2 / 3
Castera Caritist Popular Party UCCD
1 / 1
Landder Christian People's Party DLA
3 / 3
Etivéra Popular Front
Commonwealth Party
People's Party
Christian Democratic Party
Christian Labour Party
Caritist Party
2 / 7
Fariva Commonwealth Party UCCD
1 / 3
Hanoram Solidarity Party DLA
1 / 3
Idana Christian Democratic Party UCCD
2 / 3
Irovasdra Commonwealth Party UCCD
1 / 3
Celtic Distributist Party DLA
0 / 3
Ilfenóra Caritist Republican Party UCCD
1 / 3
Christian Social Party UCCD
0 / 3
Catholic Worker Party SSS
0 / 3
Kaviska Caritist Democratic Union UCCD
0 / 3
Metropolitan Distributist Party UCCD
0 / 3
Distributist Labour Party DLA
0 / 3
Christian Social Party SSS
0 / 3
Kaviskan Family Party -
0 / 3
Metrea Caritist Republican Party UCCD
1 / 3
Niyaska Popular Party-Christian Democrats UCCD
1 / 3
Popular Alternative Party UCCD
0 / 3
Sydona Islands Social Compact Party UCCD
1 / 6
Islamic Republic Party (observer) ILC
1 / 6
File:Tryhstian Flag.png Tryhstian Littoral Partido Social-Cristão UCCD
2 / 3
Partido da Solidariedade Integral DLA
0 / 3
File:VarisaviaFlag.png Varisavia Varisavian Popular Party
Katryn's Distributist Party
Christian Labour Party 		UCCD
DLA
DLA
1 / 3

Observer Organisations

State Organisation Notes

Nationwide 		Catholic Rural Life Federation Civil society group involved in rural development and advocating agrarian distributism

Nationwide 		Catholic Worker Political Committee Communitarian and personalist group associated with the Catholic Worker Movement

Nationwide 		Federation of Christian Trade Unions The de facto labour wing of the CSU

Etivéra 		Mid-Oceanic Society of Freeholders Represents the sivētur investor-farmer class of the eastern coastal states

District of Coīnvra 		Social Capital Extraparliamentary association of the Christian left operating as a pressure group in the capital district, where political parties have been banned since Template:H:title
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Ibykia 		New Democratic Party A Christian-democratic party active in the advisory Representative Assembly of Ibykia

Cascada 		Society of Good Neighbours Mormon-inspired pressure group formed to give a political voice to the Latter-Day Saint community in Cascada.
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