Fishist Socialism, Utopian and Scientific

The book Fishist Socialism, Utopian and Scientific was written by James Faustino after the establishment of Golden Fishism and Fishist Religious Socialism, which arose after the Golden Fish came from the heavens and preached to Naquezas. The book is the first of the Fishist Scientific Socialist ideological variety. 
The book is comprised of five chapters and a preface. "The Necessity of Distinction", "The Hypocrisy of The Existence of The Church of The Golden Fish", "Fishist Utopian Thought Vs Fishist Scientific Thought", "The Necessity For a Working Class Vanguard Party", and "The Role of The Golden Fish and Their Teachings in Revolution and Society". Some chapters are dedicated to analyzing specific political situations within Fishism and its various schools of thought at the time, while others attempt to paint a picture of what a Fishist vanguard party would look like. The text gets inspiration from both ancient Abexilasi philosophers, as well as Xeroism.
= Fishist Socialism, Utopian and Scientific =
=== Preface ===
I, Jamison Florence Faustino, have never, except on the short occasion, been a very politically charged man. However, with the wild event that was the Golden Fish’s first preachings taking place in Naquezas, I became exactly that. The Golden Fish’s ten commandments were simply too alluring not to follow. For a time, I even joined the Church of the Golden Fish, I was even the one who wrote the first chapter of “The Book of The Golden Fish”.
I have since then come to my senses, and while I still follow the teachings of the Golden Fish, I recognize the blatant hypocrisy of the Church of The Golden Fish and the ideological movement of Fishist Religious Socialism which has sprung from it. 
In fact, I would argue that because of this hypocrisy, Fishist Scientific Socialism follow the teachings of the Golden Fish better than the likes of the Church of The Golden Fish and the religious-socialists. Over the following chapters I will logically reason this and prove that it is Fishist Scientific Socialism, not Fishist Religious Socialism, that a revolutionary mass movement in Acreon should be built on.
=== Chapter One - The Necessity of Distinction ===
Given the inherent religious nature of the Golden Fish, and by consequence, Fishist-Socialism as an ideology. The distinction between the proletarian vanguard and the Church of The Golden Fish as two separate entities with separate roles to serve in the revolution and the society which it will give way to becomes a necessary one to make. 
It becomes necessary because of the threat of the deification of the Golden Fish, something that even they have warned us mortals against. Deification that, if it were to take place, would blind the working people with utopian ideals of a perfect society brought about by the Golden Fish’s "ten commandments" without any scientific thought, which is required to actually bring about such a society.
=== Chapter Two - The Hypocrisy of The Existence of “The Church of The Golden Fish” ===
Those who preach the Golden Fish’s teachings of equality, democracy, and revolution, in promoting its ideals have found themselves consequently promoting their “Church of the Golden Fish”. Meanwhile the mere existence of a church dedicated to the Golden Fish goes directly against the the Golden Fish’s teachings, 
“Now let me be clear. I can help protect you, but I cannot lead you, for that would be nothing more than a dictatorship by the holy over the mortal. I will guide you on your path to a greater society, but you must lead yourselves, manage yourselves, work yourselves, together, as equals.” - The Golden Fish
The Golden Fish has made it clear that their leadership of us would be a “dictatorship by the holy over the mortal”, thus, a church dedicated entirely to them is antithetical to the very teachings the Church of the Golden Fish claims to preach.
=== Chapter Three - Fishist Utopian Thought Vs Fishist Scientific Thought ===
The Religious Fishists however have another integral problem in their belief system, for they lack scientific thought. While the scientific Fishist analyzes the world around them through a logical historical and dialectical materialist lens, the religious Fishist finds themself, while dedicated to socialist ideals, lacking the scientific analysis to actually bring about revolution and with it a new society.
Their idea of socialism and interpretation of the Golden Fish’s teachings is founded on the utopian idealist basis that sees itself as somehow outside of history, assuming that we can, through rationality and reason, simply conjure up the picture of the perfect society in our heads and then warp reality in accordance with that vision.
In short, the utopian religious Fishists attempt to impose their ideas on reality, rather than deriving their analysis from reality and the material analysis of history, examining the contradictions within society and figuring out what the solutions to these contradictions entail.
We, if we want to make progress as a society, cannot come up with a perfect utopian ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. Instead the basis and path to socialism is to be found within capitalism, feudalism, and slave societies themselves, within their internal contradictions between their respective exploiter and exploited classes.
=== Chapter Four - The Necessity For a Working Class Vanguard Party ===
But if the utopian idealist Churchists and religious Fishists are not the ones to lead the revolution then who is? The answer to that is found in ancient Abexilasi philosophers and Xeroism, with the ideas of the vanguard party and the “mass line”. 
Before explaining the vanguard party however, we must go over the alternatives often used in the lack of an organized vanguard party, and why they are inadequate. Without revolutionary theory and a revolutionary party to improve on such theory and organize around, the spontaneous movements of the masses do not end up curing the diseases of systems such as capitalism. Instead becoming subservient to spontaneity, and opting for movementism.
Movementism addresses individual ails of the people and particular injustices through popular movements, but lacks any kind of cohesive unified strategy and theory for the overthrow of the capitalist system which would genuinely put power into the hands of the working class. Movementism than often expresses itself in one of two ways, economism and terrorism. 
Economism in this sense focuses on improving the conditions of workers from within the capitalist system. Meanwhile terrorism is something of a reflection of this, and constitutes individuals or small groups engaging in violent acts with the goal of changing a political situation without the support of a mass movement. These are two sides of the same coin, as they simply bow to different extreme ends of spontaneity.
Now to explain the necessity of a people’s vanguard party in particular. The upper classes employ an entire state apparatus to maintain their power. Meanwhile the working class spends almost the entirety of their day at work. This provides very little time to the workers to agitate and organize as well as educating others and themselves to the point of getting proletarian class consciousness. In order to combat this, the vanguard party is to be led by dedicated revolutionaries who work to this end full time. These trained revolutionaries will generally form the core of the party, however this sort of central committee does not mean that they should dictate from above the outer party membership who then command the masses to do this or that.
Instead party policy should be decided through democratic centralism. Party members would discuss with other party members their suggestions for policies which will then be voted on by other party members. Once a vote is held and the policy suggestion, whether becomes party policy or not, party members are required to uphold that decision whether they agree with it or not. If they do not agree with the decision made, they can work democratically from within the party to attempt to change that decision. Unity in action, diversity in thought.
Meanwhile the purpose of the “mass line” is to internally reconnect the internal party members to the central leadership and externally connect the party to the wider working masses. As the indigenous philosopher of Abexilas, Marimonn explains in his ancient writings, written long before the advent of the Iristor’s Comet event,
“In all the practical work of our Party, all correct leadership is necessarily "from the masses, to the masses". This means: take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas, then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time.” - Marimonn, ancient indigenous Abexilasi philosopher 
This combined with relentless criticism and self criticism forms the Scientific-Fishist idea of the vanguard party and “mass line”. It is always important however to remember that it is not the party which will bring about the revolution, but the masses. The party cannot attempt to control the masses, for they must instead follow the will of the masses.
In conclusion, an “Acreoni People’s Vanguard Party” of sorts must be formed and must lead the revolution while being subservient to the will of the working class. Gathering complaints from the populace and scientifically analyzing the material conditions of Acreon in order to correct those inefficiencies as well as grow the Fishist revolutionary movement.
=== Chapter Five - The Role of The Golden Fish and Their Teachings in Revolution and Society ===
However, with all this said, what of the Golden Fish and their teachings? What is their role in the revolution and the society which the revolution makes way for? Well, to state it bluntly, the role of the Golden Fish is nearly exactly what they themself defined their role as. The Golden Fish’s ten founding ideals are a guide to build on and alter according to what the material conditions of any given situation require, and nothing more. Any Fishist sect which claims the Golden Fish's words are set in stone and not to be changed no matter the circumstances are likely the utopian idealists whose ideological integrity was debunked prior in the book.
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