Torontoism



Torontoism is a self-insert ideology based on the political beliefs of Canadian internet musician Antonio Toronto. Antonio Toronto is economically Socialist (though pro-market, as long as it is well-regulated), culturally reformist, and civically liberal (though leaning heavily towards libertarianism), as well as alter-globalist, environmentalist, feminist (technically), and above all other secondary alignments, populist. Over all he is quite a moderate socialist, which is why he prefer to call himself a progressive or a cooperativist.

Followers of Antonio Toronto's beliefs (known as Torontoites) believe that socialism is inevitable. However, they believe that it is being delayed by complications in socialism created by anti-revisionists, as well as a complacency towards neoliberal capitalism from left-leaning parties. As a solution to this, they believe in simplifying socialism into 3 basic principles:

1. Implementing Workplace Democracy 2. Providing the needs of the people 3. Making Parliamentary democracy more direct

In order to pass off true socialism as "progressivism". This will fuel a constant stream of leftist reforms and activism until Socialism is achieved in a given country, in this case Canada (but hypothetically it could work for any liberal democracy).

= Cultural Views  =

Harm Principle = Torontoists believe in a basic principle known as the harm principle, which states that if one is not harming others, themselves, or the law, which would be based upon this principle, then an individual should be able to do whatever they want. This would be seen as a compromise with traditionalists and progressives as this would allow an individual to live as traditional or neoteric life that the individual desires, and as long as the individual's lifestyle doesn't harsh on others, then they would be free to live as they please. This principle would also affect law enforcement, as laws and the police system would be replaced with community-elected law enforcers who would enforce laws that state what goes against the harm principle. LGBTQ+ Rights = Torontoites believe that queer rights are inalienable, and wish to codify things such as same-sex marriage, the ability to change your gender on legal documents, the ability to change your genitals with gender-affirming surgery, etc. In contrast, they have semi-controversial beliefs when it comes to gender and marriage. You see, they believe that while gender is a social construct made up by society, they don't necessarily see them as bad things and that the individual should be able to pick and choose what gender roles and structures to conform to, they also really love marriage and wish to simply redefine it as "a union of two (or more, we don't judge) individuals who are deeply committed to each other in a romantic sense" in order to make the term more progressive and open to all. This may be conceived as traditionalist and controversial to more radical progressives, as many wish to abolish gender entirely. Femminism = While Torontoites are huge advocates for equality of all genders, they believe that modern feminism doesn't do that and actually does the opposite and fights for female supremacy. While technically you could call a Torontoite a feminist, they would much rather call themselves humanists, as humanism is intersectional and calls for the equality all peoples regardless of gender, sexuality, race, etc. They also have quite controversial views about marriage amongst feminists, as they quite like marriage and wish to simply redefine it as "a union of two (or more, we don't judge) individuals who are deeply committed to each other in a romantic sense" in order to make the term more progressive and open to all. This may be conceived as traditionalist and misogynistic to quite a lot of feminists, as many see marriage as inherently misogynistic.

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Cooperativism = Cooperativism is basically another word for workplace democracy, and Torontoites are absolutely obsessed with Cooperatives. They believe in increasing the cooperative sector whilst in the process of achieving the conditions for a bloodless revolution, in which the cooperative sector would take over the space the private sector currently has. They belive that workplace democracy is the purest form of socialism and is what separates modern socialism from social democracy. This, as well as the regulations on the market and the increase of union power, would box in private business owners and monopolies until the Torontoite government would just, remove private business owners entirely in a peaceful and non-violent way. Trade Unionism = Torontoites believe that expanding the power of collective bargaining is quite possibly the single best way to achieve the conditions for a bloodless revolution. By giving more power to trade unions and worker's syndicates, the Torontoite movement would gain more respect as they brought upon the middle-class prosperity that would naturally occur. This would get the movements more votes and therefore more power. This, as well as the regulations on the market and the increase in the cooperative sector, would box in private business owners and monopolies until the Torontoite government would just, remove private business owners entirely in a peaceful and non-violent way. Regulationism = Torontoites believe that the best way that a socialist economy is not through a planned economy nor a free market, but rather a mixed economy in which both nationalized services and cooperative workspaces coexist. However, the cooperative businesses would not operate within a lassez faire market, but rather a more Keynesian and regulationist market. This is because we still can't be sure that the cooperatives would not, say, harm the environment to cut production costs and that because a Torontoite socialist system would have to achieve gradually in order for it to be ideal, private businesses would still be around for the first little bit of a Torontoites time in power. These regulations would cut down on environmental harm, fix prices, and make sure everything is fair trade. This, alongside the increase of union power and the cooperative sector will box out private business owners until we can remove them non-violently.

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Achiving Socialism = Torontoites would prefer to establish socialism via progressive reforms rather than with a violent revolution. How they would do this is that they would take over the furthest left mainstream party in their country, get elected, and establish a transitional social libertarian state. Once this social libertarian state is reached, the conditions will be raised to a standard in which voters associate prosperity with the Torontoite party, and give even more power to them. Once they have this power, they can force out private owners and place private businesses in either the public or cooperative sector, as well as make the parliamentary system more direct. Social Programs = Torontoites believe in having a robust welfare state that would provide many social programs to the citizens of the nation. These social programs would include free healthcare, dental care, MENTAL health care, education, basic housing, and food via food stamps, amongst other basic needs. All of this would be done through either nationalized industry (in the case of things like healthcare and education) or through paying cooperatives to provide necessities (in the case of things like food and housing). Replacing The Senate = Torontoites believe that the state should run Westminister system of parliamentary democracy, but with a very libertarian twist to the system, it would get rid of the Senate. In the current style of the Westminster system there are two parts of government, the house of commons, which is democratically elected, and the senate which isn't, they wish to replace the senate as they view having a non-democratically elected body vote on whether to pass laws is an insult to democracy and therefore the people. To correct this injustice, they decide to replace the senate with, in theory, the polar opposite, direct democracy. After a bill is passed in the house of commons, it would be held to a referendum in which the people can vote on whether to pass it as a law or amend it. If the bill gets a 2/3 majority, it gets passed as a law and gets put in place immediately. If it doesn't, then it goes back to the house of commons for amendments. If the bill is rejected in the popular vote 3 times, then the bill is thrown out altogether.

= Relationships = Real Ideologies =

[[File:Mega_Yes.png]] True Comrades
- Literally me  - LITERALLY ME  Basedism - L I T T E R A L L Y   M E   - You can work in two ways. The first is as a reversal of, in which you liberalize a country by turning an oppressive, state capitalist beurocracy pretending to be a communist nation into a free, cooperativist democracy. The second is how I use you, as socialism disguised as progressivism. Oh, and btw, BOTH ARE HELLA BASED!!!! - Aw hell yeah I LOVE TRADE UNIONS!!! Increasing the power of collective bargaining is the perfect way to achieve a political revolution. - "Liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.” is a quote I live by  - PERFECT ECONOMICS.   - HOLY SHIT IT'S LITERALLY THE BEST PART OF THE TWO IDEOLOGIES ABOVE!!!   - Glory to Canada and all who live in it.   - FUCK NAZIS. BASH THE FASH!!!! stop calling everyone you disagree with a nazi tho, there's a fine line.   - Man I sure do love human rights!  Moderate Progressivism - Ah yes, the best way to do cultural values.   - Realistically I'm a conservative, as I wish to conserve the culturally left-wing values of Canada. Most conservatives are just regressive and make people like me get lumped in with SJWs and I lowkey hate it. Thank you for allowing me to conserve progressive values, you a real top G!   - YEAH THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT! DEATH TO TOTALITARIANISM!!!   - HELL YEAH I LOVE TOMMY DOUGLASS!!!!!  Corbynism - Quite honestly my biggest inspiration, even above Sandersism - BERNIE! MY MAN! I LOVE YOU BUD! Also, don't worry I know that you are a socialist. Don't listen to those tankies, you just know how to make socialism work. Evolutionary Socialism - You are how I explain to commies that politicians like Bernie Sanders are actually socialist actually. Thank you, good friend. New Democratic Party - you've been scarred with liberalism, but I can bring you back to your Socialist roots. Labourism - Our bri'ish comrades...... well, we love him at least. Left-Democratism - Our comrades in the states - QUEER LIBERATION!!!! - The best take on Marxism. - AW HELL YEAH I LOVE THE LABOUR THEORY OF VALUE!!!! But how do we measure the labour of white-collar workers? Office employees are workers too right?

[[File:Yes.png]] Friendly Fellows
- I mean your literally  but not socialist so I guess you're based. liberal CAPITALISM isn't based, be socialist like me so you can be TRULY BASED!!! - Almost everything was perfect, but unfortunately we need a welfare state bro. Why can't you be a libertarian OR HELL EVEN A MINARCHIST? We must work within the system to achieve real leftist change. - The first anarchist, I'd like to think that I'm a liberal-democratic version of you. Again, welfare state is necessary actually. Be libertarian instead. - Same as the above, but a welfare state is necessary tho. - Y'know I used to call myself an Anarcho Socialist.... then I realized that WELFARE STATE GOOD ACTUALLY (god I'm a broken record) - You're so close to being based man. Just get rid of the whole capitalism thing and you'll TRULY BE BASED!!! - I mean, you're better than the above, but still, capitalism bad bro. is pretty based tho.

[[File:Meh.png]] Mid MFs
- You have some good theories and I do love your materialist philosophy and do try to follow it, but you're too complicated for my tastes. How are we going to achieve a "dictatorship" of the proletariat if the proletariat doesn't understand what the fuck you're talking about?! I just feel if you simplified some stuff and became less extreme I would like you more. - not really a fan of full-on communism... Nor full-on anarchism... You're fine I guess. - The best feminist, though I must say, humanism/egalitarianism is far better. - *sigh* Welp, at least you like gay rights.... AnCaps are TRASH THO- - Look, Huey, buddy, I really want to like you. You were so based and did almost everything right, but unfortunately, you are too conservative and authoritarian for me to put you any higher.

[[File:No.png]] Counter Revolutionaries
- Stop holding back left-leaning parties. The status quo is crumbling, just give way to socialism already!!! - FUCK OFF TRUDEAU. YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING YOU SAY YOUR GONNA DO. - You say that the people run the state and therefore own the means of production, BUT HOW COULD YOU CLAIM THAT IF THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT CAN RUN IN YOUR ELECTIONS ARE PARTY OFFICIALS!?! -  is the better Guevara. - Totalitarianism is evil, and your brand of enforcing progressivism is too violent. If only you were less extreme...  - Same as the above, but your a capitalist. I don't know if you're better because it's KEYNSEAN capitalism, or worse. After all, it's capitalism in the first place, but all I know is that you're weird. Also, stop calling yourself the " Canadian Model". YOU DO NOT REPRESENT US!! Pretty much all Conservatives - REGRESSIVES!!! ALL OF YOU!!! GET BACK!!! ecxept  you're cool, you get me. Also, LEAVE ONTARIO ALONE - While you DID defeat the  in WW2, BUT YOUR STILL A DICTATOR, AND THEREFORE A RED FASH!!! YOU ARE THE VERY THING YOU SWORE TO DESTROY. Also, my sources say you were quite homophobic, so fuck you x2. And you only fought against the Nazis because they broke ur treaty, so fuck you x3.

[[File:Mega_No.png]] YOU’LL PAY FOR YOUR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY FOU FACKIN HOSER-
- oh FUCK NO. Ain't no way in HELL that you BANNED CO-OPERATIVES AND WERE ANTI-QUEER!!! bro how the fuck are you worse then - Litteraly  BUT AT LEAST   DENIES IT!!! - Ah yes, Fascism for liberal democracy. I fucking hate it. - Fuck Maxime Bernier. All my homies hate Maxime Bernier. - Literally just  but you spread conspiracy theories, you are a disgrace to the name of populism. Also, fuck Pierre Polievre - Mussolini deserved everything that happened to him. - You deserved to be tortured, killed using the very gas chambers you killed millions in, had your body mangled, and had your mangled body paraded around Germany for all of the lives you have taken. Also, you clearly aren't a socialist. Why do you call yourself a "National Socialist"?! - People mistake you for socialism, but I see who you really are. You are the economics of the devil. - The most evil ideology that could be concived. - Corporate elites destroy our democracies and ruin the rights of the people. So, therefore, kill the elites. Self-Inserts = WIP AF

[[File:Mega_Yes.png]] True Comrades
- Litteraly me but with more focus on environmentalism. SUPER FUCKIN BASED!!!!!

[[File:Yes.png]] Friendly Fellows
O'Langism - Super cool, however, I still cant wrap my head around how anarchy can work. Otherwise, he's pretty dope.

[[File:Mega_No.png]] YOU’LL PAY FOR YOUR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY FOU FACKIN HOSER-
Varients = WIP AF

[[File:Mega_No.png]] YOU’LL PAY FOR YOUR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY FOU FACKIN HOSER-


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