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[[File:Brendan_Corish_1949.png|thumb|left|190px|[[Rowan Breen]], Chairman of the Board of Labor and Syndicalist Party leader from 1960 until 1995.]] | [[File:Brendan_Corish_1949.png|thumb|left|190px|[[Rowan Breen]], Chairman of the Board of Labor and Syndicalist Party leader from 1960 until 1995.]] | ||
The early years of the nascent cooperative republic were marked by initial wariness from the countries of mainland Levantia; the violent overthrow of the monarch and the subsequent executions of practically the entirety of the House of Rose had left a bad taste for many of the established monarchies on the mainland. Socialist states and regimes were very sparse throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries as there was very few socialist states that would be considered significant enough to become a major power in their own right. Because of that, not very many nations were particularly willing to recognize a successful socialist revolution when there existed a non-socialist Ardmori state to the west of the cooperative republic. The first country to have recognized the syndicalist republic in Ardmore was the [[Kiravian Union]] which was essentially one of the only two significant socialist states to have ever existed as well as the only major socialist state, and even that would not happen until 1934, which was three years after the Civil War had ended. Having had taken over the Kiravian government through what can be described as a civilian self-coup, the nascent socialist state was more than happy to find friends in fellow socialist-aligned nations such as Ardmore. Nonetheless, one of the first measures that Ardmore took after the end of the Civil War was to build up its armed forces in preparation for a possible attack from the republican government to its west; there were fears that the Prince-Regent may try to retake the defunct Ardmori throne for himself and invade Ardmore to reestablish the kingdom. | The early years of the nascent cooperative republic were marked by initial wariness from the countries of mainland Levantia; the violent overthrow of the monarch and the subsequent executions of practically the entirety of the House of Rose had left a bad taste for many of the established monarchies on the mainland. Socialist states and regimes were very sparse throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries as there was very few socialist states that would be considered significant enough to become a major power in their own right. Because of that, not very many nations were particularly willing to recognize a successful socialist revolution when there existed a non-socialist Ardmori state to the west of the cooperative republic. The first country to have recognized the syndicalist republic in Ardmore was the [[Kiravian Union]] which was essentially one of the only two or three significant socialist states to have ever existed as well as the only major socialist state, and even that would not happen until 1934, which was three years after the Civil War had ended. Having had taken over the Kiravian government through what can be described as a civilian self-coup, the nascent socialist state was more than happy to find friends in fellow socialist-aligned nations such as Ardmore. Nonetheless, one of the first measures that Ardmore took after the end of the Civil War was to build up its armed forces in preparation for a possible attack from the republican government to its west; there were fears that the Prince-Regent may try to retake the defunct Ardmori throne for himself and invade Ardmore to reestablish the kingdom. | ||
The establishment of a {{wp|socialist economy}} under the principles of syndicalism necessitated the decentralization of the economy through the establishment of workers' unions. However, there still remained a societal expectation amongst the populace for a wide-ranging social institution that would become a prominent aspect in the lives of many citizens. To figure out how to overcome this expectation while ensuring a loyal populace, the leaders of the [[Syndicalist Party of Ardmore|Syndicalist Party]], born from Ros Mac Daibhéid's Ardmori Liberation Army, formed the temporary [[Council of Dunvál]] to figure out how to incorporate the principles of syndicalism into Ardmori culture, preferably through means that would harken back to the days when the main social institution was the clan system. The solution the council came up with was rather simple, although workers' cooperatives would be established to represent the nation's syndicates, there would also be community cooperatives which would represent the local communities throughout the country and serve as a means to promote communitarian kinsmenship and solidarity much like how the workers' cooperatives are designed to promote labor comradery and solidarity. The community cooperatives would become a tremendous success and would set a precedent that Ardmore's government would work to adapt Ardmori culture to the values of syndicalism. | The establishment of a {{wp|socialist economy}} under the principles of syndicalism necessitated the decentralization of the economy through the establishment of workers' unions. However, there still remained a societal expectation amongst the populace for a wide-ranging social institution that would become a prominent aspect in the lives of many citizens. To figure out how to overcome this expectation while ensuring a loyal populace, the leaders of the [[Syndicalist Party of Ardmore|Syndicalist Party]], born from Ros Mac Daibhéid's Ardmori Liberation Army, formed the temporary [[Council of Dunvál]] to figure out how to incorporate the principles of syndicalism into Ardmori culture, preferably through means that would harken back to the days when the main social institution was the clan system. The solution the council came up with was rather simple, although workers' cooperatives would be established to represent the nation's syndicates, there would also be community cooperatives which would represent the local communities throughout the country and serve as a means to promote communitarian kinsmenship and solidarity much like how the workers' cooperatives are designed to promote labor comradery and solidarity. The community cooperatives would become a tremendous success and would set a precedent that Ardmore's government would work to adapt Ardmori culture to the values of syndicalism. | ||