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'''Velvetine Socialism''' ([[Classical Latin|Latin]]: ''Socialismi Holoserica''; [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]]: ''Socialismo Aterciopelado''; [[Brenadine Tainean|Reform Tainean]]: Sausalism des Velaus), also known as '''Rumahokian Socialism''', '''Democratic Revolutionary Socialism''', or '''Reformist Labourism''', is the form of socialist thought developed during the [[Velvet Revolution]] in [[Rumahoki]] to realise a socialist revolution in a country ruled by a [[Estado Social (Rumahoki)|nationalist dictatorship]] for decades through {{wp|reformist}} means. It is the official ideology of the [[People's Democratic Party]]. Ostensibly a form of {{wp|Marxism}}, Velvetine Socialism is in practice a form of {{wp|market socialism}} with elements of {{wp|dirigism}} and {{wp|tripartism}}, though some political analysts have described the ideology as being more akin to {{wp|social democracy}} with a big government than any particular form of socialism. | '''Velvetine Socialism''' ([[Classical Latin|Latin]]: ''Socialismi Holoserica''; [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]]: ''Socialismo Aterciopelado''; [[Brenadine Tainean|Reform Tainean]]: ''Sausalism des Velaus''), also known as '''Rumahokian Socialism''', '''Democratic Revolutionary Socialism''', or '''Reformist Labourism''', is the form of socialist thought developed during the [[Velvet Revolution]] in [[Rumahoki]] to realise a socialist revolution in a country ruled by a [[Estado Social (Rumahoki)|nationalist dictatorship]] for decades through {{wp|reformist}} means. It is the official ideology of the [[People's Democratic Party]]. Ostensibly a form of {{wp|Marxism}}, Velvetine Socialism is in practice a form of {{wp|market socialism}} with elements of {{wp|dirigism}} and {{wp|tripartism}}, though some political analysts have described the ideology as being more akin to {{wp|social democracy}} with a big government than any particular form of socialism. | ||
Under Velvetine Socialism, the state plays an active interventionist role over a {{wp|market economy}} as a means to curb inefficiencies in production and {{wp|market failures}} through the use of {{wp|indicative planning}}, state-directed investment, and utilising market instruments to encourage market entities to fulfill state economic objectives. The idea behind this is that by ensuring state-assisted economic growth while at the same time protecting the workers' rights through the use of tripartism and strong trade unions, socialism shall be achieved. | Under Velvetine Socialism, the state plays an active interventionist role over a {{wp|market economy}} as a means to curb inefficiencies in production and {{wp|market failures}} through the use of {{wp|indicative planning}}, state-directed investment, and utilising market instruments to encourage market entities to fulfill state economic objectives. The idea behind this is that by ensuring state-assisted economic growth while at the same time protecting the workers' rights through the use of tripartism and strong trade unions, socialism shall be achieved. | ||
==Terminology== | ==Terminology== | ||
The name of the ideology was first coined in [[ | The name of the ideology was first coined in [[1996]] in reference to the left-wing overtones of the [[Velvet Revolution]] the year prior and the moderate left-wing factions that won out in the ensuing chaos during the nation's [[Rumahokian transition to democracy|democratic transition]]. These moderate factions dubbed themselves ''aterciopeladistas'', or "velvetines", claiming that they were the truest to the ideals of the Velvet Revolution and not the radical ''cabaceros'' (from "steel heads") or the reactionary ''pascualistas'' ("Pascalists"). The term ''aterciopeladista'' would go on to be used to refer to anyone who advocated for the ideology in general rather than just those who were revolutionary veterans, especially as more and more people grow up having had no recollection of the [[Estado Social (Rumahoki)|nationalist dictatorship]] that preceded the revolution. | ||
==Development== | ==Development== | ||
==Core principles== | ==Core principles== | ||
The goal of Velvetine Socialism is to establish a comfortable {{wp|standard of living}} for the worker within a market economy before transitioning to socialism. [[Francisco Carvalho]] summarised the application of this goal in a 2001 speech entitled "The Legacy of the Velvet Revolution and its Ideological Impact": | |||
{{quote|A socialist revolution can never be successful if a worker's standards of living aren't risen to levels suitable for comfortable living. Going straight to socialism head-first, while admirable, makes accumulating the needed resources to ensure a rising standard of living more difficult. Hence, the best way to raise a worker's standard of living is to do so before making the transition to socialism, by doing so within a market economy, albeit with strong governmental input to make sure that things run smoothly. Some radicals might call me a revisionist or a traitor to the revolution, but I stand here today affirming my commitment to the ideals of socialism, and more specifically Marxism.}} | |||
===Dirigism=== | |||
{{wp|Dirigism}} (''Dirigismo'') is a core principle of Velvetine Socialism. Velvetine Socialism stresses the importance of heavy economic involvement from the state, asserting that only the state can effectively plan out an economy as a means to curb production inefficiencies and {{wp|market failures}} instead of just allowing the market to do as it pleases with these issues, or even just having the state play a merely {{wp|regulation|regulatory}} role. It is the opposite of ''{{wp|laissez-faire}}'', instead making use of top-down {{wp|indicative planning}}, state-directed investments, and even taxes and subsidies to urge and incentivise market entities to fulfill economic objectives as planned out by the state. It is, however, not a pure {{wp|planned economy}} for the market-based allocation of production and investment has yet to be replaced with a binding plan of production expressed in units of physical economies. "{{wp|National champions}}", large industry groups back by the state, is another main aspect of dirigism where the state encourages the mergers and formations of such groups. | |||
The two sectors in which the Rumahokian state seeks greater control over are in {{wp|infrastructure}} and the transportation system. Currently, the Rumahokian state owns the national railway company [[SIRF]], the national electricity utility [[CRE]], the national airline [[Rumair]]; [[Blue Telecom Group|phone]] and [[Red Mail Group|postal]] services are operated as subsidiaries of [[RumaTel]]. Other areas of great importance to the Rumahokian government are the defence and nuclear power industries. However, the construction of most {{wp|motorways}} were delegated to semi-private companies rather than being handled by the government itself. | |||
Ambitious state plans are a common trend as a result of dirigism, with the most successful examples being the extensive use of {{wp|nuclear energy}} (close to 95% of Rumahokian electrical consumption is by nuclear power), the continuation and upgrading of the [[Videocom|Televideo]] service (now Videocom), an online system for the masses that makes use of either phone lines or the Internet, and the [[TAV]], a {{wp|high-speed rail}} network. | |||
===Tripartism=== | |||
==International outreach== | ==International outreach== | ||
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===Crown socialism=== | ===Crown socialism=== | ||
Not to be confused for [[Wittonian Socialism]], although both concepts do share similar goals, crown socialism aims to reconcile the often-contradictory tenets of socialism and monarchism. Developed as a consequence of the ''[[Período de Salvación Democrática]]'', crown socialism sees the monarch as the protector and guardian of the socialist revolution and hence should be the powerful {{wp|chief executive}} for the nation. Rumahoki's form of government is said to be a modified version of [[Urcea]]'s form of government, effectively making Rumahoki a {{wp|semi-presidential republic}} below the monarchical office or rather the only instance of a monarchical [[Julian republic]] (other than the originator of the Julian style of government itself). Prior to late 1996, the role of chief executive was, and still is, accorded to the role of [[Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Armed Forces (Rumahoki)|commander-in-chief]] though beforehand the role was given to a high-ranking member of the [[Delepasian Imperial Armed Forces]] via an election. After the [[Velvet Revolution]] the role was passed between various revolutionary generals during the [[Rumahokian transition to democracy|transition to democracy]]. | |||
The role of commander-in-chief was not given to [[Maximilian I of Rumahoki|Emperor Maximilian I]] until the formation of the sixth and final revolutionary provisional government on 30 September 1996. The reasoning behind this was due to fears that if another general who wished to repeat the actions of [[Raul Quintero]] were given the commandership they'd attempt to subvert the revolution or enter the nation into another state of civil war. As such, to preserve the revolution so that it can consolidate and take hold in the long-term, it was seen as prudent to give the commandership to the Emperor, who has long held socialist sympathies throughout his life, and so that the commandership can remain in the hands of a person who would be committed to a life of serving his people than someone who would sooner dismantle the revolution in the name of what was deemed to be "cheap, fickle, liberal populism". | |||
===People's economy=== | ===People's economy=== | ||
==Analysis== | ==Analysis== | ||
===Criticisms=== | ===Criticisms=== | ||
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[[Category:Political ideologies]] | [[Category:Political ideologies]] | ||
[[Category:Types of socialism]] | [[Category:Types of socialism]] | ||
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