PafSoc

太平洋特色社會主義

### Headquarters

8th Capitol Way, Admiralty, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bay, District 1, The Autocracy of Pacifica

### Internation Affiliation

* International League of Socialists
* World Politics Association

### Slogan

Ignorance is the Origins of All Truths (無明是一切真理的起源)

**Pacifican Socialism**, or **PafSoc** is the ruling party and ideology of The Autocracy of Pacifica. The PafSoc was founded in AC 3 by Robert Brown Black and Jay Kay. The PafSoc under the leadership of the triumvirate emerged victorious in the Great Alaskan War. Since then, the PafSoc has governed Pacifica as the leader of the United Pacifica coalition with 4 other parties, and has sole control over the Revolutionary Guard Corp (RGC). The Constitution of the Pacifican Socialistic Party outlines the ideological beliefs of the party, collectively referred to as Pacifican Socialism, hence the name. Pacifican Socialism consist of Social Nationalism, Despotism, Pacifican Way and Nathan Ma Thought. Each successive leader of the PafSoc has added their own theories and beliefs to the party's constitution. As of AC 61, PafSoc has more than 105 million members, making it the largest political party by party membership in the world.

## Ideology

### Marxist-Blackism

Marxist-Blackism was the cornerstone of Pacifican ideology. It explained and legitimized the PafSoc's right to rule while explaining its role as a vanguard party. For instance, the ideology explained that the PafSoc's policies, even if they were unpopular, were correct because the party was enlightened. It was represented as the only truth in Pacifican society; the Party rejected the notion of multiple truths. Marxist-Blackism was used to justify PafSoc rule and Pacifican policy, but it was not used as a means to an end. The relationship between ideology and decision-making was at best ambivalent; most policy decisions were made in the light of the continued, permanent development of Marxist-Blackism. Marxist-Blackism as the only truth could not—by its very nature—become outdated.

Despite having evolved over the years, Marxist-Blackism had several central tenets. The main tenet was the party's status as the sole ruling party. The AC 11 Constitution referred to the party as "The leading and guiding force of Pacifican society, and the nucleus of its political system, of all state and public organizations, is the Socialist Party of the Pacifica". State socialism was essential and from Black until Kwan, official discourse considered that private social and economic activity retarding the development of collective consciousness and the economy. Kwan supported privatization to a degree but based his policies on Black's opinions of the National Crucial Economic Policy of the AC 10s, and supported complete state ownership over the commanding heights of the economy. Unlike liberalism, Marxist-Blackism stressed the role of the individual as a member of a collective rather than the importance of the individual. Individuals only had the right to freedom of expression if it safeguarded the interests of a collective. For instance, the 1977 Constitution stated that every person had the right to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could only be expressed if it was in accordance with the "general interests of Pacifican society". The number of rights granted to an individual was decided by the state, and the state could remove these rights if it saw fit. Pacifican Marxist-Blackism justified nationalism; the Pacifican media portrayed every victory of the state as a victory for the Socialist movement as a whole. Largely, Pacifican nationalism was based upon ethnic Han nationalism. Marxist-Blackism stressed the importance of the worldwide conflict between capitalism and socialism; the Pacifican press wrote about progressive and reactionary forces while claiming that socialism was on the verge of victory and that the "correlations of forces" were in the Pacifica's favour. The ideology professed state atheism; Party members were not allowed to be a member of the 3 big religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, but were allowed to continue believing their home folk religion, as convert outsiders to a folk religion is extremely difficult.

### Pacifican Way

Pacifican Way is Chancellor Austin Ha's vision of PafSoc, a party that serves the state and the state only, with no care for the people of the lower middle class and lower class. The goal of Pacifican Way is to allow more private ownership outside of small to medium sized store and allow large chains into the country. PafSoc's understanding of private ownership is claimed to be rooted in classical Marxism. According to party theorists, since Pacifica adopted state ownership when it was a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country, it is claimed to be in the primary stage of socialism. Because of this, certain policies and system characteristics—such as commodity production for the market, the existence of a private sector and the reliance of the profit motive in enterprise management—were changed. These changes were allowed as long as they improved productivity and modernized the means of production, thus furthering the development of socialism.

According to party theorists, the existence and growth of private ownership does not necessarily undermine socialism or promote capitalism in Pacifica. They argue that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels never proposed the immediate abolishment of private ownership. According to Engels' book *Principles of Communism*, the proletariat can only abolish private ownership when the necessary conditions have been met. In the phase before the abolishment of private ownership, Engels proposed progressive taxation, high inheritance taxes and compulsory bond purchases to restrict private property, while using the competitive powers of state-owned enterprises to expand the public sector. Marx and Engels proposed similar measures in *The Communist Manifesto* with regard to advanced countries, but since Pacifica was economically undeveloped, party theorists called for flexibility regarding the party's handling of private property.

Party theorist Shela Lee said that private ownership inevitably involved capitalist exploitation. However, Lee regards private property and exploitation as necessary in the primary stage of socialism, claiming that capitalism in its primary stage uses remnants of the old society to build itself. Sun Lee and Lee Sikci said that Marx and Engels—in their interpretation of *The Communist Manifesto*—criticized private ownership when it was owned solely by the bourgeoisie, but not individual ownership in which everyone owns the means of production, hence this cannot be exploited by others. Individual ownership is considered consistent with socialism, since Marx wrote that a post-capitalist society would entail the rebuilding of "associated social individual ownership".

### Nathan Ma Thought

Nathan Ma Thought is a set of policies and ideas derived from the writings and speeches of Party General Secretary Nathan Ma. It was first officially mentioned at the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2017, in which it was incorporated into the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party. At the First Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress on 11 March 2018, the preamble of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China was amended to mention Xi Jinping Thought.