Owfism

=Figures=
 * [[File:Athdem.png]] Solon (638 BCE-558 BCE)
 * [[File:Hellenistheoicon.png]] Thales of Miletus (623 BCE-545 BCE)
 * [[File:MathTheo.png]] Pythagoras (570 BCE-495 BCE)
 * [[File:Res_Publica.png]] Lucius Junius Brutus (545 BCE-509 BCE)
 * [[File:Tao.png]] Sun Tzu (544 BCE-496 BCE)
 * [[File:Hellenistheoicon.png]] Democritus (460 BCE-370 BCE)
 * [[File:Aristotle.png]] Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)
 * [[File:Rousseau.png]] Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
 * [[File:HegelianPhilosophy.png]] G.W.F Hegel (1770-1831)
 * [[File:Karl_Marx.png]] Karl Marx (1818-1883)
 * [[File:NatProg.png]] Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858-1919)
 * [[File:Anat.png]] Eugène Lanti (1879-1947)
 * [[File:Einstein.png]] Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
 * [[File:Ataturk.png]] Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)
 * [[File:FDRismF.png]] Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
 * [[File:Chess.png]] Richard Réti (1889-1929)
 * [[File:Sartre.png]] Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
 * [[File:Allende.png]] Salvador Allende (1908-1973)
 * [[File:Camus.png]] Albert Camus (1913-1960)
 * [[File:Dubcekball.png]] Alexander Dubček (1921-1992)
 * [[File:Prout.png]] Prahbat Ranjan Sarkar (1921-1990)
 * [[File:Trekism.png]] Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991)
 * [[File:Kardashev.png]] Nikolai Kardashev (1932-2019)
 * [[File:Hawking.png]] Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
 * [[File:Chess.png]] Robert James Fischer (1943-2008)
 * [[File:Partip.png]] Michael Albert (1947-)
 * [[File:Soc21.png]] Evo Morales (1959-)
 * [[File:Boric.png]] Gabriel Boric (1986-)
 * [[File:Volt.png]] Damian Boeselager (1988-)

=Organizations = (WIP)
 * [[File:JapCom.png]] Japanese Communist Party (1922-)
 * [[File:NDP_icon.png]] New Democratic Party (1961-)
 * [[File:Pan-Amerindianism.png]] American Indian Movement (1968-)
 * [[File:EvoMorales.png]] Movement for Socialism (1987-)
 * [[File:Gsocdem.png]] GroenLinks (1989-)
 * [[File:AusGreensIcon.png]] Australian Greens (1992-)
 * [[File:Sanders.png]] Vermont Progressive Party (1993-)
 * [[File:Green_Party_(US).png]] Green Party (United States) (2001-)
 * [[File:FDF-Pirate.png]] Pirate Party of Sweden (2006-)
 * [[File:USA_PirateParty.png]] US Pirate Party (2006-)
 * [[File:LIVREism.png]] LIVRE (2014-)
 * [[File:Volt.png]] Volt Europa (2017-)
 * [[File:Boric.png]] Social Convergence (2018-)
 * [[File:EconProg.png]] The Party for Democracy and Solidarity (Romania) (2018-)
 * [[File:World_Federalism2.png]] Young World Federalists (2019-)
 * [[File:PactoHistorico.png]] Historic Pact for Colombia (2021-)

=Youtubers= (WIP)
 * [[File:BrtiMonkey.png]] BritMonkey (?)
 * [[File:Adam_Something.png]] Adam Something (?)
 * [[File:MathTheo.png]] BriTheMathGuy (?)
 * [[File:Envi.png]] vlogbrothers (?)'''
 * [[File:SecondThought.png]] Second Thought (?) 
 * [[File:Neotechnocracy.png]] Vsauce (1986-)
 * [[File:Andrew.png]] Saint Andrewism (?)
 * [[File:Mercury.png]] Moon (?)

=Beliefs=

Overview
Owfism is a democratic ideology. Democracy has overall been the best system compared to all the others we tried and democracies are less likely to fail as a country compared to those which don't have democratic institutions.

Alongside this, I favor reforms to our current system so that democracy is stronger, more inclusive is tougher on corruption and is more open and accountable to the people. With this, I support a constitutional  parliamentary  federal  republic as my form of government. Also, he supports laicism,  polyculturalism,  online voting and the  removal of mass surveillance.
 * -| Governance =

[[File:Liqdem.png]] Liquid Democracy [[File:Liqdem.png]]
Owfism prefers a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people. As such, I support a republic. Specifically, a  liquid democracy. I see it as the compromise between  representative democracy and  direct democracy. So, the people have a right to choose to act as an individual or as a delegate. This is what separates liquid democracy from other forms of democracy. This allows people to be selective about their political participation in different areas. I also recognize the need for evidence-based policies, seeing the rise in anti-intellectualism as being a societal disaster, especially with the colossal problems we're facing. I believe that science should have a bigger influence over public policy, as science shows to be a guiding force for innovation and progress.

I am a firm supporter of republicanism, and I want places that are  monarchies (ceremonial or absolute) to become republics. I used to support keeping ceremonial monarchies but after the death of Elizabeth II this is no longer the case. Even then, I still wouldn't implement them in countries that are already republics.

In the case of countries that are poor economically I believe that a technocratic government be temporarily established to guide the populace towards prosperity and innovation, as I said, science has always led to innovation and progress for a country and the world. Keep in mind though, this may not typically happen.

[[File:Parl.png]] Parliamentarianism [[File:Parl.png]]
Owfism does not support presidential systems or even  semi-presidential systems as in my opinion the president just seems like a democratic monarch or whatever, as he has all the power. Personally, I would support a parliamentary system, with the prime minister being, as head of government the one with more power while the president merely being ceremonial. This will allow for the people and their opinions to be more represented.

[[File:Civlibert.png]] Civil Libertarianism [[File:Civlibert.png]]
Owfism is very pro-privacy, with his government operating under the governmental ideas of  classical liberalism. He's against the surveillance state that is very much present and engrained within our modern society, as I believe that the  expansion of the surveillance state in the world has definitely not been for the interest of the people. As such, reforms need to be enacted to weaken the surveillance state so that it doesn't invade our day-to-day lives. This would include engraining privacy as a true human right and make sure that companies engrain privacy as a core value. I also support getting rid of unnecessary spying programs that do not serve the people and only just track their data and information. The government should respect the privacy of the people in their daily lives. Things like CCTV cameras in public places are not really that bad, they can actually be useful in catching  criminals and all, but that's what they should be used for like, yo, we don't need wire tapping, this is too much. It infringes on our liberties and expands authoritarianism. With this, I am very much civically libertarian and obviously not authoritarian. So this makes me a libertarian. Although, I am still sort of critical of anarchist societies though, as while their intentions are good their track record ain't good to say the least. So yea, I still believe there should be a state.

[[File:Laicism.png]] Laicism [[File:Laicism.png]]
Owfism is vehemently against any religious organization playing a role in the government, or the government exempting these organizations from taxation, which is why I support a high church tax to be levied on them. As such, I support complete separation of church and state, and there will be a heavy wall between those two but I also support the more laicist notion of  separation between church and life which implies the abolishment of churches itself, however, there really won't be any  authoritarian methods to do so, as a church tax could do its job on that. Look, I believe that anyone has a right to express their religious beliefs but  I don't see the point in having churches or whatever for that, you can believe it in private and you do not need a specific place to do so.

I oppose forced secularism or  religious governance as they can be pretty authoritarian and harsh but I also think people who are willingly denying  basic science on the notion of their own religious beliefs are genuinely cringe and are holding societies back. With this, I hold distrust of Islam as most Islamic countries are filled with  reactionaries who use religion as a sentiment and doctrine for their rule and in some places, even  moderate Islam has sort of been used in the same vain as well, for example, in Turkey. However, this clearly does not apply to just Islam, as we see with other religions, especially evangelicals in the USA, who follow  Trumpism. Although, I am not against people practicing Islam and Evangelical Christianity in general and I do not want to convolute them with reactionaries in their ranks.

I side with the secular left, as my beliefs are clearly aligned with this group out of all other groups of secularists, and as such I heavily support them against the  religious right. The waning of their influence is a good thing, as they have been a great barrier to  progress.
 * -| Power=

[[File:ConstLib.png]] Constitutionalism [[File:ConstLib.png]]
Owfism supports the creation of a constitution that establishes separation of powers within government and protects our civil liberties. The constitution, unlike the American one, will be interpreted more like a  living document and as such can be changed to fit the times and current period in time we are in, so that it isn't an outdated relic that does not address the issues of today. A constitution like this allows there to be words and ideas that fit more of the topics of our period and not from a time that has long since passed, as previously said. This will fit more in the modern politics of a country.

[[File:Fed.png]] Federalism [[File:Fed.png]]
In terms of the administration of bureaucracy, I prefer more local governance instead of a  unitary government, especially in bigger countries. While yes, I would sort of prefer a unitary government in small countries, since my ideology seeks to have a world federation, I am thus more willing to implement federalism than unitarism. However, state governments will have to abide by national laws and the constitution.

[[File:E-Democracy.png]] E-Democracy [[File:E-Democracy.png]]
I believe that we need a push towards technology that allow us to vote on our own phone, computer, tablet etc. and as such I support electronic voting and the decentralization of Information & Technology. However, in our current world, these methods can be more vulnerable to outside influence and as such it is reasonable in my opinion to not implement these at a larger scale nationally but at most keep it in experiments or just in local elections. Voting done with other methods will not be untapped, national elections will still be voted on in-person or by mail.
 * -| Civil =

[[File:Merit.png]] Civil Service Reform [[File:Merit.png]]
In the United States I would support the abolishment of the electoral college, as it is an old relic that is not functioning in the modern day and is putting third parties behind the 2 big parties, making it very hard for them to compete and when they do good they're accused of being a spoiler. This expands elitism within the two parties and as such I would replace them with a popular vote. Although, I am not American, so let's ignore that. But, a thing that doesn't just affect America are things like corporate lobbying which are allowing for heavy amounts of  cronyism in our own government. As such, I would support a heavy ban on them and allow the people to have a larger say in their own government, thus allowing it to serve the people's interests. The government shouldn't be puppetereed by mega-corporations it should be of the people, by the people and for the people  and as such I want the system to be more  meritocratic.

[[File:Anti-Corrupt.png]] Corruption [[File:Anti-Corrupt.png]]
Before I begin with the real stuff, I believe that people who expose government corruption should not be persecuted, sent to prison or even extradited (like in the case of Assange). So yea, I believe that governments should have a right to be inclusive and transparent with the population that it governs. Now let's get to the real stuff. Any functioning democracy should strive to get rid of corruption and corrupt officials. With this, there will be an anti-corruption agency that will be greatly funded in order to perform its duties. If I take office, every official will be investigated for corruption by the agency, thus initiating an anti-corruption campaign. However, this won't be some machiavellian ploy. It will be done through a tripartite investigation from whistle blowers, the police and regular people, in order to make sure the investigations are impartial and aren't just a political purge of political dissidents or whatever.
 * -| Immigration ==

[[File:Polycult.png]] Polyculturalism [[File:Polycult.png]]
When it comes to immigration, I support polyculturalism as an alternative to  multiculturalism but also to  monoculturalism. Multiculturalism will make it harder for social cohesion to truly happen as there will be sort of isolated cultures within one country and that does not really have positive results as seen throughout history while monoculturalism is too exclusionary to foreigners and it causes people to hold a nationalistic pride about their nation's people over people, because those others are different. This allows diversity overall, but it also ensures a shared sense of national identity. Different cultures in society should stress the similarities between each group and ensure societal stability and not war. This allows each culture to share a set of common values that overall helps society prosper and thrive while still maintaining diversity.

[[File:Civnat.png]] Immigration [[File:Civnat.png]]
Owfism has a mostly pro-immigration stance when it comes to the topic of immigration, as such I favor liberalization of immigration, I acknowledge the role immigrants can have in replacing a retiring labor force because people continue to age at increasing rates while birth rates decline. The wave of mass immigration should be used to benefit the world and make sure fertility rates go back up in the developed world to at least temporarily alleviate the problem. Illegal immigrants should also have a fair pathway to citizenship. There will be a waitlist to make sure the immigrants are basically assimilated and thus the polycultural model can work, allowing cultures to have shared common values. This can also allow the welfare state to not be so clogged up when immigrants come in, giving it breathing room and allowing the maintaining of it without resorting to major  austerity. This is also less destructive to the progressive movement and does not cause such a massive rise in right-wing populism, something that is a major problem in this day and age, because of the fact that cultures that aren't willing to tolerate common values won't be allowed to co-exist within a progressive culture, as even if we do allow them they won't be able to.

In terms of refugees, I do support raising the cap of how many can come or even abolish it all together, as while they do it under the guise of allowing more talented people in the country instead of just regular poor immigrants, how can we know that this won't still result in 80% say being poor immigrants and 20% actually being talented, while the flow of them still follow a said cap? Although, there may be more of a cap in places that are more reactionary or in brink of civil war/climate catastrophe as that will result (especially with the latter) of a massive amount of them coming in all at once, we would still need to have cap to you not know, not cause the rise in right-wing populists, as has happened since 2014. Although, people who aren't willing to cause trouble will be allowed in.

Overview
Owf's economic model combines the models of participism,  cooperativism,  council socialism and finally  cybersocialism. He primarily believes in worker ownership of the means of production, thus rendering him as socialist. On top of this, he also wishes for workplace democracy based on a participatory economic framework. As such, there will be workplace democracy along with worker ownership of the MOP that will be done using a mixture of co-operative federations,  worker councils and also  computer planning when a decisive answer hasn't been put to a said problem, production or distribution and other problems. This in my view will help enshrine worker rights. This makes my economy be a sort of mixed-market economy while still socialist. I also support a universal welfare state to redistribute wealth but it will apply to people who work (until  automation kicks in, when the people who used to work and are still eligible to the conditions of it will still receive it.) For the people who did not work and are now dealing with automation (and are poor) will benefit from a  negative income tax. I also support a  high land value tax to heavily reduce land prices and to also stop wealthy people from just hoarding up all the land and selling it at a higher price. Land prices are also a major contributor to higher housing prices, so it will lower those too. Oh and those landlords who have lost a job? They can become uh, land value tax collectors, a more useful job, at least. When it comes to trade, Owfism is not necessarily against internationalism, but when it comes to trade deals, they must enshrine environmental rights and worker rights, increase subsidies to local manufacturing and also wants a  15% global corporation tax in order to make trade more fair for regular people and to let people truly reap the benefits of it. This will also take aim at the problem of outsourcing jobs and can lead to reshoring, as seen with Biden's policies. Although, I still come to reject  protectionism and the notion of tariffs, because of the fact that they can potentially harm an economy and can cause it to lose out on the benefits of trade. I also have some inspirations from classical progressive period of the United States, especially when it comes to monopolies.

With this, he is very much skeptical of our current capitalist system, which has devolved into probably its worst form, that being  corporatocracy. As such, I believe that  socialism combined with  participism can truly work for the people.
 * -| Taxation & Spending=

[[File:Univhealth.png]] Healthcare [[File:Univhealth.png]]
Owfism heavily supports a universal healthcare system and Medicare for all, come on guys, healthcare is a human right. This cannot be doubted. Oh and dear Americans, European countries have an easy time with that, it is not too costly. Oh and isn't that 800 billion $ military too much? Like come on, just on the military for that money? Everyone regardless of societal status or wealth will be entitled to my Medicare for All program.

When it comes to diseases, I want a completely international response. As such, I believe the World Health Organization should create a Healthcare Moonshot, that being a global co-operation and great task meant in eradicating diseases that hurt us. As such, it shall be dedicated 0.25% of global GDP and the money for it will be given ONLY by national governments, not private companies. This would mean subsidies of up to 240 billion $. With this, we can create cures for cancer, alzheimer's, malaria, HIV and many others. We can also eradicate diseases like polio, guinea worm, measles, COVID-19 etc. and to also know more about things like autism. While we may not succeed, we are to at least understand them better than we do and reduce the amount of deaths and cases from them, if not, we are at least more ready for other pandemics/epidemics.

[[File:Cooperative_Socialism.png]] Mode of Production [[File:Cooperative_Socialism.png]]
When it comes to the means (or mode) of production, I combine the elements of Lange-Lerner Model,  Socialist computer planning and  worker councils. The market would be mostly dominated by these 3 models, with there being worker co-operatives and worker councils and also just computers doing economic distribution and production in most cases. However, the government will have its share in markets that are just better to be monopolies through  state-owned enterprises, like railways, electric grids, water etc. There will be no typical capitalist business we see today, instead the economy will be dominated by  Small-Medium Businesses that are mostly owned by worker co-ops.

[[File:Third_Way_Liberalism.png]] Welfare State [[File:Third_Way_Liberalism.png]]
I am pretty supportive of the idea of a welfare state, but I believe it should apply to only working people (with the exception of welfare that applies to people still going through education). As such, I support the idea of workfare as to not unnecessarily clog up the welfare state and cause welfare leeches to develop. I also support the creation of a federal jobs guarantee in order to give people jobs so that they can become eligible for workfare. When it comes to people in college there will be a decent amount of spending dedicated to pell grants that will be given to poorer college students so that they can maintain themselves in a college. Tuition fees will be replaced with a graduate tax. However, stuff like  private charities will not be phased out, they can continue to exist, however, they must be proven legitimate and not a fraud. Charities can sometimes be more helpful than the government so they can stay, however, when they're illegitimate they are obviously not helpful.

When automation inevitably comes, those that had a job will still be eligible to workfare. Keep in mind, workfare always would apply to poor people who work so that they can still continue working and be able to build up their own wealth, which is better than income (and not as taxed). Income tax is society's killer, like seriously, tax a person's own income they earned through "blood, sweat and tears"?

[[File:Regulationism.png]] Taxation [[File:Regulationism.png]]
I favor high amounts of taxation in order to fund my policies that may require a lot of spending. These taxes will also equalize opportunity and reduce inequality in our world. The taxes I would want to implement are as follows:
 * [[File:Georgist.png]] Land Value Tax - I believe a [[File:Georgist.png]] land value tax must be implemented in order to decommidify land and to massively reduce land prices (which inevitably results in lower house prices) and to also prevent land hoarding by wealthy people. The more land you own, the more you're taxed so for it (so watch out Bill Gates and others). Being a landlord can no longer be considered a job, just be a land value tax collector or be part of a [[File:Syngeo.png]] tenant union, as all land will be publicly-owned. The rates at which this will be levied ranges from 50% to 100%, as this will do its intended purpose better and won't harm the economy that much.
 * [[File:EconProg.png]] Wealth Tax - I support the implementation of awealth tax on wealth over 10 million $, it will be levied at rates ranging from 2-8% (obviously, from less to more wealth). So, people like Bezos, Musk etc. will have to pay 8% in wealth tax. So, if Gates is worth 120 billion $ now, he would most likely be worth 70 billion $ now if only a [[File:EconProg.png]] Wealth Tax was implemented out of these, his wealth would be that amount, approximately. It clearly lowers inequality.
 * [[File:Long.png]] Corporate Tax - I support a [[File:EconProg.png]] progressive corporate tax rate on national corporations, ranging from 5% - 45%. Companies which are in the 45% bracket and also have operations abroad (or internationally) and engage in job outsourcing will also have to deal with a [[File:Long.png]] 15% global corporation tax. This will allow for there to be more job reshoring, make globalization fairer and allow for corporations to invest more in infrastructure and improving the country and not on their own shares of stock.
 * [[File:Envi.png]] Carbon Tax - I believe a [[File:Envi.png]] carbon tax is necessary to be implemented, more specifically, to be levied at a rate of 60$/ton of CO2. So, for example, China emitted 14 billion tons of CO2. As such, the revenues from this would be 840 billion $, in the first year obviously, as this tax will naturally see carbon emissions go down so that people and companies respectively pay less in tax overall. The revenues from this tax will go towards investments in renewable energy and green energy and if there is room left helping poorer nations fight the climate crisis through climate subsidies and maybe even a little bit of welfare (or workfare) I guess. Oh, there would also be an uniform global carbon price of 60$ ton/CO2. This is to further encourage a reduction in CO2 emissions, at a quicker rate. Both of these should be implemented internationally.
 * [[File:Health_and_Safetyf.png]] Consumption Tax - A Consumption Tax seeks to combine the concepts of a Value-Added Tax and a Sales Tax, and is also another solution in my opinion to solve our current problems. It will basically be based on 2 metrics: [[File:Ectrans.png]] Eco-friendliness and [[File:Univhealth.png]] Health. There will be indexes to measure how products follow these rules. There will be a grading system as follows: F (0-25) D (25-50) C (50-75 B (75-90) A (>90). If the grade is higher, there will be less consumption tax paid for when you buy that product. If the grade is lower, there will be more consumption tax paid when buying a product. The goal of this is to encourage people to buy more eco-friendly and healthy products.
 * [[File:Merit.png]] Inheritance Tax - Personally, I support a [[File:Merit.png]] inheritance tax, it will only be levied on inheritances that come from estates that are worth more than 10 million and will all be levied at a rate of 50%. Now, why do I support implementing this? It will prevent us from descending into an aristocracy and can prevent the accumulation of massive family fortunes, as it happened across history. I also support the abolition of [[File:MeritCap.png]] Passive Wealth Accumulation, that includes abolishing interest, inheritance (mostly inheritance between rich families) and also includes lowering down debt, as debt cannot really be practically abolished.

[[File:Corp.png]] Corporate Welfare [[File:Corp.png]]
Corporate Welfare in my opinion is essentially socialism for the rich, while the rest of us, the poor, experience capitalism. The rich essentially are handed a blank cheque for a bailout when they begin to fail, so that the statement "too big too fail" fits. Wake up, if you're too big to fail, you may as well not be big in the first place. Corporate welfare must end. It is driving up inequality and is costing the people. Small businesses will still be subsidized, those are fine, but big business does not deserve this. We need to end corporate welfare for them.
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[[File:Syngeo.png]] Tenant Unions [[File:Syngeo.png]]
Owfism supports the idea of tenant unions and public land ownership, seeing it as a more pro-worker, pro-people alternative to the flawed and terrible thing we have known as  landlords who are sucking out the economic gains of the workers, like a parasite. Right now, we are headed towards a rent economy, that is our future. An unacceptable one to be exact. They will be strongly unionized and protected in order to protect the interests of the people and not bleed out their economic gains they worked so hard for.

Obviously, I am completely against union busting, it is unconstitutional and is mostly illegitimate, however, if a union is being corrupt then I guess it is fine to bust them however it should not come as a sacrifice of weakening worker power and only just bleeding out corruption.

[[File:Statesoc.png]] Nationalization [[File:Statesoc.png]]
For most things, I wouldn't really be in favor of nationalization, instead putting them up to the workers or computers. However, there are some cases where there must be a monopoly otherwise things would be worse off overall. As such, I would nationalize the following things: rail, energy/electricity, healthcare, public transportation and also education. (I don't like private schools) Monopolies in these sectors have proven to be better overall than them being left up to competition, however, a state-owned monopoly ain't as bad as a corporate-owned monopoly.

[[File:Councom.png]] Worker Councils [[File:Councom.png]]
I believe that there should be a network of worker councils that will be key in deciding  participatory decisions that are to come as a result of the extension of democracy into the work place. This will allow workers to engage in decisions based on council democracy, being one component of decision-making in the work place and things relating to work, such as higher wages and many things. With this, I believe workers should democratically control the workplace.

[[File:Nordsoc.png]] Co-Operative Federations [[File:Nordsoc.png]]
Another main asset that I would use to do worker democracy are co-operative federations. What are these? Well, they are an alliance of worker co-operatives and are designed to make co-operatives more effective on the federal level. These are essential in creating workplace democracy and ensuring the means of production actually belong to the workers themselves, not a few private owners. It just does not make sense in our modern society to not have the means of production belonging to a group of wealthy people, like how it does today.

[[File:Cybercom.png]] Socialist Computer Planning [[File:Cybercom.png]]
I completely understand the reason as to why humans may not be completely enough to run an economy, especially one like this, as such I support the employment of computer planning. This is sort of similar to  Allende's Cybersyn program. Voting on a plan will be done  democratically, in an e-democratic manner. Computers are way better than humans, and as such may do economic production and distribution better than we do and can solve fundamental problems like poverty and hunger. I believe this must be a program that we must implement in order to improve ourselves and fix the colossal problems we deal with. Colossal problems require colossal solutions.
 * -| Regulations=

[[File:Plutocrat.png]] Wealth [[File:Plutocrat.png]]
Look, I do accept the fact that some people may be richer than others when it comes to wealth, they worked harder than others and all but the thing that is not acceptable is that we have people who did not even work as hard compared to their level of wealth. As such, I seek to counteract the effects of wealth inequality with the creation of high wealth and inheritance taxes for wealthy families along with a maximum wage for CEOs, this shall weaken the influence of  elitist billionaires while redistributing wealth to the poor. I may not oppose people being billionaires, but we must realize that they hold too much influence over our governments and our economy and that they may not be the most compassionate of people. However, they should be more contributing to the economy and people by helping in private charities (although charity fraud will be heavily punished), by actually paying their taxes, respecting environmental regulations, not offshore their wealth to other countries (capital flight) and not outsource our jobs. If they don't respect this, they may as well have their assets nationalized by the government, if that is what it takes.

[[File:Trustbust.png]] Anti-Trust Laws [[File:Trustbust.png]]
I am heavily in favor of breaking up the mega-corporations (or monopolies/trusts) that are currently dominating our economic and political system. Through them billionaires hold massive influence over world politics but also our own global economy. The policies that I propose to trust bust them would be similar to the classical progressive period of the United States but also  German policy. I would support the creation of an economic constitution that would prevent the creation of any monopolies and the immediate busting of any existing ones. We must do everything to get our economy back into being a competitive one and not a monopolized one. A company will be trust-busted if it exceeds a 25% market share in its said economic sector, this is to truly ensure economic competition is respected in our economic system. If there is economic competition, there will be more innovations that will come about, more specifically, x15 more innovation then in our monopolized economy.

[[File:Socdem.png]] Maximum Wage [[File:Socdem.png]]
Now, I previously mentioned a little bit about the idea of a Maximum Wage. Well, this is just what you think it is. I support a maximum wage where the CEO (chief executive officer) of a company shall only earn x10 more than the average worker. This in my opinion is the only acceptable amount as in my opinion the CEO deserves more than an average worker, as he has a higher position, obviously, however the current amount of CEO pay in the US, which is more than x300 an average worker is an unacceptable amount which must be brought down and is a massive factor to rising income and wealth inequality.

[[File:Urbanism.png]] Housing [[File:Urbanism.png]]
When it comes to housing, I tend to view it as a human right, something which isn't, as a view, not the one we have today. Instead, housing is more like an investment and it used to be a commodity. The market proves to fail the most when it comes to housing, as people are dealing with high rents but also high housing prices to buy that house. This can contribute to rising homelessness as people wouldn't have enough to afford a house or to afford to pay rent, which right now takes more and more of people's economic pie even if wages grow slow and right now are decreasing because of inflation.

With this, I wish to establish a land value tax to replace  property taxes. I also support the idea of  municipal ownership. As I said in taxation, land value tax isn't the only form of taxation, because it cannot fund the welf- I mean  workfare but its revenues will contribute to it, so technically, I am a  social georgist.

When it comes to zoning laws, I wish to abolish single-family zoning, like come on, it pollutes more and is also less safe for an individual as a whole and replace them with  income housing, which is a more mixed version of housing for home buyers with different types of income. The housing crisis causes more social instability and also more political polarization, and also, why regulate land use? It just doesn't make sense. The liberalization of zoning laws is necessary, as it will fight against land speculation and help strengthening tenant unions.

[[File:Social-ism.png]] Employment [[File:Social-ism.png]]
Owfism believes that unemployment can be combatted with active labor market policies, as such, I would support things (or policies) like  welfare to work and I also support the notion of a  jobs guarantee and I also support  as I said many times before. These policies will allow more people to be employed and have a stronger job force, achieving the notion of full employment, especially among poorer members of society, who are less likely to work because of their conditions. The unemployment rate through this would hover at around 1-2% (I guess).
 * -| Currency =

[[File:Soccap.png]] Currency [[File:Soccap.png]]
The currency in an Owfist society, which would be a world federation. As such, I would prefer a  new global currency, what would be it's name? Personally, I would call it the Aeternus (Eternal). On inflation, the level of 2% (or the Central Bank target in most countries) is the optimal level of inflation.

[[File:EconProg.png]] Wages [[File:EconProg.png]]
Personally, I support the labour theory of value, believing that employees should be paid based on their labour, and that labour is the source of all value. Although, this does not mean that there won't be a wage. It won't be a minimum one though, it would be a maximum one, as said previously and would only apply to CEOs, with them earning x10 more than a worker. So if they earned 80$ a hour, they would earn 800$ a hour. In our current model, the worker would earn 10$ a hour and they would earn 3500$ a hour. So yea, it equalizes things and makes things fairer. This shall also fix the problem of racial and gender pay gaps that is plaguing the world by allowing everyone to reap the sows of their labour.
 * -| Trade=

[[File:FairTradeProtectionism.png]] Trade [[File:FairTradeProtectionism.png]]
Personally, I support globalization, it has had positive effects however it has also had quite profoundly negative effects, which must be amended in order to make trade have a more positive record than it does now. Some of these negatives are rising inequality but also job outsourcing. economic globalization as said previously has not had completely positive effects. To solve this, I seek to incorporate environmental rights and  worker rights into trade agreements and also fight against currency manipulation but also heavily subsidize local manufacturing in order to prevent outsourcing and also implement a  15% global corporation tax in order to fight further against outsourcing of jobs. This shall reduce inequality and also prevent job outsourcing, finally creating space for reshoring and restoring old manufacturing jobs.

[[File:Ectrans.png]] Manufacturing [[File:Ectrans.png]]
To be fair, the Romanian industrial capacity that is today is shameful. Today, because of globalization, most products in Romania are not even made in Romania, despite the fact that we are not really that bad when it comes to our own internal resources. My policies on trade will seek to reshore many jobs back home and bring back what was once Romania's manufacturing. We need to subsidize our manufacturing. The base of manufacturing (not just in Romania) will be based on renewable energy, eco-friendly public transportation (but also automobiles) and semiconductors as the main leaders of manufacturing, not just rejuvenating manufacturing but also making it green.

Overview
Owfism is a socially progressive ideology, supporting many  progressive societal reforms that make society more equal overall. I sort of support things like intersectionality, that is, identifying multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage and focus on all factors and not selectively, on each one. Although, I am not quite sure on how good the methods social justice warriors use, as they have not produced the greatest results of the left and they are mostly just culture war stuff. While this would be a 2nd importance, with the 1st being economics, it is still important outside of just culture wars. I seek to uphold social justice because of my  egalitarian elements.

The modern left and  modern right are equally dogmatic, as they both prefer either political correctness or political "incorrectness", seeking to make each one of their political beliefs completely on top over the other, despite it going against democracy and liberty. While as I said I hate how they focus on just petty cultural issues and not on helping the people and all I still do believe in things like LGBTQ+ acceptance and rights,  societal secularization,  abortion rights,  criminal justice reform,  gender equality,  drug legalization,  rehabilitative justice,  environmental justice,  racial equality etc.

These ideas generally reflect individualism, stemming from the  libertarian rationale on freedom and  my  anti-authoritarian stances, people should be allowed to do what they want but there should still technically be a limit of sorts, as such, I am more  culturally liberal. I believe in extensive  civil liberties, like  sexual freedom,  right to privacy,  freedom of movement,  freedom of speech and assembly and the  right to die.

These cultural views can be described as culturally left, which makes me similar to typical culturally left-wing ideologies, however, I still hold a slightly skeptical view of  woke leftists but also heavily opposed to  socially conservative ideologies as they're mostly anti-individualist overall.

Philosophy

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Ideological Critiques

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=Relations=
 * -| Self-Inserts=

Friends
Yoda8soup Thought (//) - You're not that bad! You want worker ownership of the means of production like I do. To be honest, economically we are basically alike. Although, your control on free trade basically goes too far, I hate tariffs. Based! (//) - Yo! You become a world federalist, now that's based! We are pretty much in agreement on economic issues, although you may some stances I am in disagreement with, you are actually more based than before.

Mattism (//) - Not a bad ideology, we are pretty similar, the only difference we have is that you're too protectionist for me and are also in favor of defensive democracy, you are also more economically moderate but other than that, you are a good ideology.

Celfloskyism (//) - Pretty nice ideology, and it clearly seems you want not just equality but also freedom for the Chinese people, although I don't really like the ideas of Irredentism, your cycle democracy is not really something I like. You support virtue ethics and existentialism, although I am not that utilitarian though. Otherwise, pretty good!

AshleyHereism (//) - Yo, this is actually based for an anarchist, existentialism and absurdism are very based! Oscar Wilde is also based! I don't agree with Diogenes, but he was savage and independent, and I like that. It's nice how you support some Stoicism. Overall, you're mostly an anarchist version of me, which is pretty interesting.

Uzarashvilism (//) - Economics wise, you are pretty similar to me, as we both believe in a socialist market economy, and the fact that we both believe that the Nordics are just (for now) the countries with the best economic model (or rather, least evil) in the world. Not bad, however, our difference comes in social and international issues, first off, you are too conservative, you can at least be more progressive by supporting SJW-Lite. Also on international issues, you can still be a globalist and oppose "economic globalization" (like me). So yea, too isolationist. But yea, pretty good overall.

Glencoeism (//) - Wow, you are pretty based! I agree with you on PWA, we both stride for a sort of Co-operative, meritocratic society, if only you were more global... BE MORE GLOBAL!

Inexistent Ideology (//) - Not bad, just be less nationalist, more progressive and also more pro-market. Oh and more democratic. In rest pretty good.

Rocksism (//) - Not bad, and yes, Camus is based. You may be too communalist and marxist for my liking, but overall, pretty good!

BrainRustism (//) - Some of your stances on education are pretty admirable, yes, you should be able to sell candy at school, it improves competition and prevents a school monopoly engaging in unfair price gouging. You're actually not that bad, even if I disagree with you on some things.

Neo-Kiraism (//) - Your philosophy of absurdism is based, you're agreeable in some areas like eco-socialism,  but I am not that Marxist overall, preferring mutualist socialism instead. Internationalism is based, but come on, you got to support a world federation. Overall, not too bad.

Pantheonism (//) - Pretty interesting ideology and not that bad at all, pretty based when it comes to diplomacy, but still, why monarchism and why can't you be more progressive?

Atronism (//) - Marxist-leninist, I know, you seem to be slightly authoritarian and not libertarian, but hey at least you're progressive (even if way too progressive) and are Laicist, like me. Which is absolutely based. A more leftist and slightly more authoritarian version of me. Not bad.

Braun Spencer Thought (//) - You are basically reincarnated LBJ, your economic policies are not that bad but you should be Socialist and while you support a world federation I despise your support of tariffs and also your support of interventionism. Interventionism should typically be the last call not the first call. Pretty close onto being in frenemies.

Frenemies
Post-Councilism (//) - I hate vanguard centralism, and I am just generally not really into Communism in general, nor do I agree with Zizek, although you're quite literate in political/philosophical theory, which I admire. I wish to have said more but sadly I am not that literate in the beliefs you have so...

HelloThere314ism (//) - Your beliefs are not really beliefs that I tend to agree with, and also, on some parts, your page is unfinished so I don't really know how to rate you, but it is clear you know theory, so that's nice.

Ultroneism (//) - You are the most literate user on here on basically anything, now that's something, however, my opinions on your ideolo- I mean philosophy. In rest, my ideology disagrees with your ideologies on many things or I am just too illiterate on some things to give a proper opinion.

BasedManism (//) - I am just gonna beyond the ideas of based and cringe and just put you in frenemies tier definitely not because of the fact I am too lazy to read your page right now although I don't know, your page doesn't seem to mention ethics for example, only seems like it mentions metaphysics and logic. So, I can't completely judge your philosophical beliefs, so yea, you go here. Also come on at least I have some influence from Kant in epistemology

FinalFantasy24ism (//) - Your ideology is literally just Hu Jintao as a self-insert. No really, that's what it is. So you belong here.

Enemies
Implianium (//) - Its nice how you hate religion, but bruh why state atheism? And come on, why do you support genocide, ultranationalism and anti-urbanism!?! And god dang it you want psychopaths to be their own class, what is this? I really hope this is LARP.

New Model Of Cheesenism (//) - Unironic islamo-fascist. You are no good.

Lanceism (//) - Eh, the only tolerable thing of you is your move to more moderate economics, but your forced christianization and support of theocracy is very cringe. Also stop being so traditionalist like, why oppose gays and abortion? Oh and why the hell do you want cigarettes to be legal, which cause 480,000 deaths/year, x48 more than heroin and crack which literally kills nobody, illegal? Your ideology is still terrible, even if slightly improved.

Reginald thought (idk) - What? Climate change will only be eventful in 500 years? Bro, what? It's already eventful and is changing stuff NOW. Let alone 500 years from now. I don't reject soup kitchens and charity, but it isn't useful to just almost replace government welfare with it. Also why illegalize drugs and trans people? This is cringe.


 * -| Quadrants

Friends
Libertarian Left - This is probably the best quadrant out there and the one my ideology belongs to as you know, I am economically left-wing but also civically libertarian. Tbh, it better than the other quadrants even if it has some people that I may not personally like.

Libertarian Unity - You're not perfect, as you just are moderate and all but hey at least you want the people to be free and aren't as bad as Libertarian Right.

Frenemies
Libertarian Right - Your economics are awful and most of the things about you are also awful, but uh... you at least want people to be free?

Center - Stop being so moderate! PROGRESS! PROGRESS!

Left Unity - It's nice that you advocate for left-wing economics but can you pls be less statist?

Enemies
Authoritarian Left - Oh come on, examples of you in practice have never turned out to be good (the Soviet Union, Maoist China etc.) they all became authoritarian states that didn't really manage to achieve Socialism.

Authoritarian Right - You not only are authoritarian (and even totalitarian) you also combine it with the exploitative capitalist system, bruh.

Authoritarian Unity - You combine the worst of both Authoritarian Left and Authoritarian Unity. (Although, not all of you guys are completely terrible, still be less statist).

Test results
Closest match : Democratic Socialism

Closest match : INTP

Closest match : Libertarian Socialism

Closest match : Liberal Socialism

Closest match : Left-Libertarianism

Announcement

 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - I need an ideology image (you know, like this: [[File:OwfBall.png]]) but one which actually encompasses my ideological beliefs. The ideologies that would be part of it are to be Geolibertarianism and Libertarian Market Socialism. (Can include 2 other ideologies in the combination, of your personal preference, must be ideologies Owf adheres to)
 * - [[File:Owff.png]]
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - Thank you!

Comment
Owfism - Deleted old comments

Rocksism - Add please (also is that the Limberwisk flag?).

Owfism - Yes it is, I thought it was cool since I couldn't think of another thing other than that (and I will add you soon, kinda busy rn)
 * [[File:Rocksismicon.png]] Rocksism - It is cool (if it existed I'd move there too).

Implianium - Add me

- Add me? :)

- Hi, I re-added you. Would you mind adding my ideology again?

- Readd me please.

- Btw, the geolibertarian market socialism page was my very old self insert, idc about it anymore so you can revamp it if you want, kinda like what Aaron did with Bleeding Heart Geolibertarian Market Socialism.
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - Wow, I actually didn't know that, I just saw the page and just saw how accurate it was to my ideology, so I just adopted that. Yea, I could maybe revamp it.
 * - Also, could you please add me?


 * - Add me?


 * - Add Please.


 * [[File:BasedMan.png]]BasedManism - add me?


 * [[File:Uzarashvilism.png]]Uzarashvilism - Yo there, add me?


 * - Re-add me fellow Wilde enjoyer.


 * - Monism isn't the principle that mind and body are united in each "individual" human. It is the principle that all of reality is one thing, that there is no body or mind but rather these are modes or aspects of the one thing, as such you and I and every other human are actually one "object" or thing and thus we do not have bodies, but rather each seemingly individual body is actually just a "limb" or part of the whole.


 * - Could I use text of your ideology to my policies?
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - Yes you very much can.


 * - "Let's first begin with the definitions of both ideas, first off, rationalism is the practice of basing actions and opinions on reason and knowledge. Then, empiricism is the opposite, with it being the practice of basing actions and opinions on belief or emotional response." WHAT? - Rationalism is the principle that knowledge derives from reasoning, as such logical reasoning. While Empiricism is the epistemological belief that sensory experience such as scientific observation is the source of knowledge - it has nothing to do with belief, emotion, or opinions. What utter dribble, as if Descartes didn't also utilise empirical arguments and Locke didn't use rationalist principles.

- Yo! You're a cybersocialist now too that's based as hell! :D
 * - Gorbachev is based [[File:Gigachad.png]]
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - Indeed [[File:Gigachad.png]]
 * [[File:Neokira2.png]] Neo-Kiraism - add me lol

- Add me plz

Glencoe- add me Plz


 * - This is definitely me when I confuse conceptualism and nominalism.
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - I never heard of that term before, I had heard of nominalism and I thought that would fit, I will change that.
 * - "The main problem of metaphysics, which precedes the essence of objects is the problem of universals and particulars." - Essences are univerals so it doesn't precede, but is simultaneous - and if one was taking a purely historical look at the evolution of the problem, essence actually precedes.  "There is a view however, that asserts that universals don't exist, that being conceptualism" - Neither Conceptualism nor Nominalism assert that universals do not exist. let me go over the quadrants; Platonic or Strong Realism holds that universals are mind independent and transcendent, that is they are abstract and exist as neither material or immaterial objects. Then you have Aristotelian or Immanent realism that holds that the "form" or essence or universal of lets say a cat does not exist in and of itself, but is rather immanent and never seperate from the particular. Then you have a range of Nominalisms which can include conceptual nominalism or conceptualism. Conceptualism holds that the concepts within the mind are univerals, i.e. I imagine a cat as a universal cat that is neither a tabby or a simese or black or tall or etc. While the nominalist holds that the only universal is the actual word cat, and thus the imagined cat is always a particular cat that you have experienced or can mitch-match together.  "And even if there was a form, what would the perfect form of "cat" be?" Plato's 'Forms' may be perfect (even this is not strictly true, because Plato's Forms are just the absolute form i.e. a cat and nothing else, or the "Good" and nothing else, unlike say a small cat which is both a cat and small) - but universals are just shared properties that all the particulars have, i.e. a tall cat and a small cat are both cats, doesn't make "cat" perfect.  "In conclusion, I believe that the only thing that actually exists are merely material particulars" Nominalism nor Conceptualism leads to materialism, All nominalists historically have been empiricists, but not materialists. As such Ockham believes in immaterial objects such as God and the Angels, Berkeley was a subject Idealist, but someone like Hobbes thought everything was matter.

FinalFantasy24-Please Add me:https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/UserWiki:FinalFantasy24 BrainRustism - Add?
 * - Am I missing something? Where Neokira supports Juche?
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - When I added Neokira, it said on their page that they are sympathetic to Juche, maybe they have removed that or something, I should probably look. Edit: Yea, they removed that, I will adjust that in my relations soon

- Do you have discord? BrainRustism - What is it that you disagree?
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - Sorry I don't.
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - I don't really agree with an armed insurrection against the school system, and also its not school that is causing us to fail its the un-meritocratic system that we live in, which sadly, school doesn't mention us. The problem with school can be solved through reforms not armed insurrection.
 * [[File:Glencoe.png]] Glencoe- Hydrogen Powered planes are green they should be used
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - Yea I kagree, I know, I said the thing I said because well even those are not that common compared to regular planes.

Pantheonism - Add me?

New Model Of Cheesenism - re added me

Atronism - Seems like you've shifted a little bit more to the left, which is based. Add me?

- I arrive with a question. Is your flag supposed to be a reference to this?
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - Yes

Braun Spencer Thought - Add me, maybe?

Lancebarnett - Trash economics and social ideas
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - My views are not perfect, neither are yours, we are equal.
 * [[File:O'Langism.png]]O'Langism - Nice response.

Lancebarnett - add me

reginald thought - add me pls

- Ayo can you re-add me I re-added you and you are based as ever. :)


 * - Completely wrong about the egoist on the social contract. Please don't spread misinformation.
 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - What is the egoist stance on the social contract then?
 * - The state of nature has never existed and is merely a thought experiment, you are immediately born in a social relation of power, the family or community, you don't spring out of thr ground but rather have a mother. Secondly, Stirner is not a philosopher of "Negative Liberty", his critique of freedom and liberty is that it can only ever be negative, "freedom from". He doesn't want a state of nature, not absolute negative liberty. And his critique of human rights is not that they are constructed, but rather they are "human" rights and no his rights. They are alienating.

Lanceism - can you edit me for changing views

- Hey Owf, I became a world federalist. Could you update your opinion on my ideology, please?