Gaudanahism

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Gaudanahism is a political philosophy and ideology in Azkali characterized by seeking the rapid abolition of the state, and its replacement with voluntary free associations, the abolition of capitalism and the communal ownership of the means of production, and the abolition of all modes of social stratification and unjust, involuntary hierarchy. Gaudanahism is commonly characterized as both the most libertarian variant of socialism and as a variety of Left Socialism, though its status as a socialist ideology is debated and is rejected by the Gaudanahi Movement of Azkali, for which the ideology is named.

Gaudanahism envisions a society made of communes in free association with one another. Gaudanahism entails a society directly opposed to capitalism via its replacement with participatory economics, wherein money will no longer be necessary as a medium of exchange and will be abolished. Gaudanahism is directly opposed to the institution of the state, charcterizing it as an unjust tool of oppression and domination used by the upper class against the working class. Gaudanahism is also against the practice of hierarchy and unjust authority, which it characterizes as integral to a state. Proponents of Gaudanhism argue that with the end of capitalism and the institution of the state, traditional modes of class relations and social class will be dissolved, thereby ending all forms of systemic oppression. Gaudanahism also critiques, though is not necessarily opposed to, organized religion, social conservatism, and traditional gender roles and free love.

The ideals of Gaudanahism are taken from the era of Azkali statelessness, the period of Azkali history between c. 10,000 BCE and c. 1950 AD in which many portions of Azkali, most notably southern Azkali, operated as stateless communal polities. Proponents of Gaudanahism characterize statelessness as a political ideal and characterize the formation of the State of Azkali in 1967 as unjust, and as a direct cause of the Smoldering of Azkali. Gaudanahism is currently practiced in the portion of Azkali which is controlled by the Gaudanahi Movement, officially referred to as the Nation of Azkali.

Gaudanahism as a movement emerged in the mid-2010s in Azkali amongst the Generation of Uncertainess (Tsuokoñeke Azakuo), a majority of supporters being of high school age or younger. Tzali Aunasti released his seminal video essay