Ideologies

Political ideology means a set of ideals, doctrines, principles and values that drives a social movement, institution, class or a political party. Ideologies are meant to explain how society should work, by combining many principles under a single word. They essentially serve as a "blueprint" for a social order that the ideological group seeks to establish.

Compared to the Hearts of Iron IV's sytem of allegiance-based ideologies, *Red Vistula* features 9 distinct **political ideologies**, meant to better represent the country's government.

## List of ideologies

### Industrialism

> *Many desire it. We are a slack people but deeply destructive. Should there be a revolution, only God knows where it will end. I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. We need a despot!* ~ Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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With Nikolai Bukharin's decision to uphold the New Economic Policy, therefore preserving the mixed market system in the newly-established Soviet Republic, many radical politicians felt this was a wrong change. Under the Tsar, Russia has been a primarily agricultural country, with the major part of its population being peasants. Accordingly, the new Soviet regime has no chance of survival, unless it starts to heavily modernize, both in order to defend itself against the capitalist threats, as well as spread the revolution throughout the world. These politicians in the Soviet Republic came to be known as **the Industrialists**. Like the name suggests, the name comes from their main ideal - Russia should immediately ditch its backwards agricultural-based economy, and immediately make a switch to an industrial one, no matter the cost. Industrialists also believe in the need for a state-controlled economy, and their harsh opposition to NEP. What sets them apart from other Marxists, however, is their immense militant fervor, advocating for a rapid spread of the worker's revolution. Due to its totalitarian tendencies, Industrialism is often condemned and frowned-upon by most of the world, including the international left.

### Marxism

> *The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.* ~ Karl Marx, *The Communist Manifesto*
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Marxism, scientific socialism, sometimes simplified to just **communism**, is an ideology that grew out of the socioeconomic analysis conducted by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and later published in Marx's works such as *The Communist Manifesto*. As marxist thought is hard to precisely describe, and is often the source of many debates, it's difficult to state what it exactly means. Self-declared marxist movements, however, often describe themselves with following agenda: the abolishment of private property, and subsequent control of means of production (factories) by the workers. Marxists also wish to abolish the class system, in which people are divided into the elite, high, medium and low class. Many marxists also reference the term *dictatorship of proletariat*, which means a system in which all power actually belongs to the workers, rather than the elite voted into the office. The government chosen by the workers is, therefore, tasked with ensuring quality through the overal control of the means of production. Moderate marxists are often criticized by both radical sides of the international left: industrialists believe it's not enough to create a true "worker's paradise", while the socialists and anarchists believe that the bureacracy of marxist systems only leads to creation of new "elite" class, such as the high party members of the Communist Party.