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==Organization== | ==Organization== | ||
==Ideology== | ==Ideology== | ||
The ideology of the Republican Nationalist Party is [[Restarkism]]; a series of four principles - {{wp|nationalism}}, {{wp|republicanism}}, {{wp|statism|judicialism}}, and {{wp|reformism}} - developed by [[Melvyn Kalma]]. Though originally an ideology based on Occidentization and {{wp|modernization}}, Restarkism has changed much throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, and today manifests as a {{wp|civic nationalism|civic nationalist}}, {{wp|statism|statist}} and {{wp|Secularism|secularist}} ideology with a focus on economic growth and popular welfare. | The ideology of the Republican Nationalist Party is [[Restarkism]]; a nationalist ideology based on series of four principles - {{wp|nationalism}}, {{wp|republicanism}}, {{wp|statism|judicialism}}, and {{wp|reformism}} - developed by [[Melvyn Kalma]]. It concurrently serves as the constitutional state ideology. Though originally an ideology based on Occidentization and {{wp|modernization}}, Restarkism has changed much throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, and today manifests as a {{wp|civic nationalism|civic nationalist}}, {{wp|statism|statist}} and {{wp|Secularism|secularist}} ideology with a focus on economic growth and popular welfare. | ||
Restarkism posits a phased plan for the implementation of {{wp|constitutional democracy}}. The "first stage of national construction", a one-party state led by the RNP, took place between 1951 and 1994. The second stage, [[Planoarita politics|''Planoarita'' politics]], where the RNP leads a {{wp|guided democracy}}, is currently in place. While the RNP remains, in theory, committed to the promise of full {{wp|liberal democracy}}, it has been argued that the party has no commitment or ideology and instead takes a nationalist perspective on what is {{wp|pragmatic}} for the country’s interests. | Restarkism posits a phased plan for the implementation of {{wp|constitutional democracy}}. The "first stage of national construction", a one-party state led by the RNP, took place between 1951 and 1994. The second stage, [[Planoarita politics|''Planoarita'' politics]], where the RNP leads a {{wp|guided democracy}}, is currently in place. While the RNP remains, in theory, committed to the promise of full {{wp|liberal democracy}}, it has been argued that the party has no commitment or ideology and instead takes a nationalist perspective on what is {{wp|pragmatic}} for the country’s interests. | ||
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[[Planoarita politics|''Planoarita'' politics]], literally “politics in accordance with the popular will” is the current guiding philosophy on how the RNP should rule. It was envisioned by Melvyn Kalma as a system of {{wp|guided democracy}}, where a united party maintains power over a growing {{wp|multi-party system}} in a period of political tutelage to build a strong democratic culture. | [[Planoarita politics|''Planoarita'' politics]], literally “politics in accordance with the popular will” is the current guiding philosophy on how the RNP should rule. It was envisioned by Melvyn Kalma as a system of {{wp|guided democracy}}, where a united party maintains power over a growing {{wp|multi-party system}} in a period of political tutelage to build a strong democratic culture. | ||
However, since the reforms of [[Isnet O’Niall]], this conception has been reversed. ''Planoarita'' politics today manifests through the centralization of state power within the party, with the party’s structures becoming the arena of democracy and participation instead. The RNP sees this system and itself today as the “gatekeeper of democracy” - allowing within its organization the flourishing of a “democracy of tolerated ideas” while those intolerable are left outside with no influence over the machinery of the state. | However, since the reforms of [[Isnet O’Niall]], this conception has been reversed. ''Planoarita'' politics today manifests through the centralization of state power within the party, with the party’s structures becoming the arena of democracy and participation instead. The RNP sees this system and itself today as the “gatekeeper of democracy” - allowing within its organization the flourishing of a “democracy of tolerated ideas” while those intolerable are left outside with no influence over the machinery of the party-state. The hallmark trait of this “democracy” is the party’s quadrennial open primary elections - where any Capetian voter is invited to vote in a free election for their district’s RNP nominee to the [[National Stanera]]. | ||
Since the adoption of the current form of ''Planoarita'' politics in the party congress of 1993, a variety of RNP factions have decried it as revisionist and a betrayal of Kalma's original framing; criticizing it for making permanent a temporary stage of the phased plan and leaving no open road for the decentralization of power from the party towards the intended multi-party system. Supporters view it as a further development of Kalma's ideas, with it allowing for the development of a vibrant political culture while preventing the instability of the [[Multi-party period of the Federacy of the Cape|first multi-party period]]. | |||
===Capetian dirigisme=== | |||
Reformed out of the idea of [[Capetian autarky]] that dominated the party pre-1992, Capetian dirigisme is an ideology widely embraced by a plurality of the party. First of the inductive ideological reforms adopted in the early 1990s, it posits that a {{wp|free market}} and {{wp|capitalist}} mode of production is unopposed to the RNP's ideology of equitable national development. As stated by Isnet O’Niall: "the difference between the Capetian mode of production [referring to the prevalence of cooperatives and state entities] and the capitalist mode of production is fundamentally not between central planning or market forces. They are both equal tools we can use to direct our national economy." | |||
The adoption of Capetian dirigisme led to the offloading of a variety of state assets and corporations, either sold to private individuals, made into [[joint-stock company (the Cape)|joint stock companies]], or handed to a cooperative of its workers. While the party continues to publish its four-year and ten-year economic plans, observers have noted that they have taken on minimal amounts of prominence and have become vague. The predominant view today is that the state should direct, although no longer own or maintain, the country's economy and major corporations. While direct and indirect state control remains for "critical sectors" such as {{wp|primary sector}} extraction, certain manufacturing, and certain financial services, the rest of the economy is allowed to develop in a broadly free-market capitalist manner. | |||
Government stock ownership and subsidies have become the primary tools of state control in the dirigiste economy. | |||
===Foreign policy=== | |||
Despite years of attempts, a united foreign policy remains uncodified. Two major foreign policy camps have subsequently developed. | |||
===Republican tradition=== | |||
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|text=Observe calmly.<br>Secure our position,<br>but bide your time.<br>Make peace with our neighbours.<br>Act with the people's welfare in mind. | |||
|author=Melvyn Kalma, on his deathbed. | |||
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The "Republican tradition" of foreign policy has been dominant since 1992. While the "Republican tradition" has been the official policy of a relatively short amount of time in Capetian history, its name and positions are derived from the foreign policy outlook of Melvyn Kalma and early Restarkism. It posits pan-Cronan anti-imperialism, while retaining a more reserved outlook based on neutrality, cooperation with anti-imperialist neighbours, and most critically on pragmatic, level-headed actions aimed at the economic development of the Capetian people. | |||
==="Students of the Reclamation"=== | |||
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==Factions== | ==Factions== | ||