I don't think it fits a ideology, more like a cult - but the idea of a group that believes life is pain and the universe is imperfect, so the logical course is to kill everyone. Kinda like angry gnostics with more nihilism.

And by everyone, they mean everyone. And everything. Because of the theory of evolution stating that life can arise from chemical reactions, they can't "just" kill everyone. No. They have to destroy the universe to render it unfit for life.

So this leads to some weird group of strangely cheery and scientifically-interested people whose entire cause ammounts to the destruction of all all reality, gleefully studying and working and research and fighting, while singing songs to the end of all life and the universe.
 
I don't think it fits a ideology, more like a cult - but the idea of a group that believes life is pain and the universe is imperfect, so the logical course is to kill everyone. Kinda like angry gnostics with more nihilism.

And by everyone, they mean everyone. And everything. Because of the theory of evolution stating that life can arise from chemical reactions, they can't "just" kill everyone. No. They have to destroy the universe to render it unfit for life.

So this leads to some weird group of strangely cheery and scientifically-interested people whose entire cause ammounts to the destruction of all all reality, gleefully studying and working and research and fighting, while singing songs to the end of all life and the universe.

The hopelessness of that cause seems like it'd make it hard to get people to stick around for all that long. Most nasty cults have more immediate "goals" to indulge in, I think.
 
Unionism - the idea that Humanity must unite to survive. This in my opinion is the true way to unite humanity not sum peaceful federation but a form of revolutionary nationalism. On the more extreme side of the spectrum you have Conformatory Unionism were all of Humanity must be United in not just government but also in language Culture or maybe even religion. On the less extreme side of the spectrum you have Federal Unionism were Humanity is united in to one Federation were all People groups will have there own homeland were there customs continue nearly unrestricted.
 
Fun Futuristic Ideologies
Here's some obscure futuristic ideologies that I'm not sure if it's covered or have already been named:

Pan-autovorism = the idea that all multicellular living things including plants and animals have souls and deserve not to get eaten. Eating both plants (veganism) and animals (carnivore) is wrong and as such, the only ethical thing to do is cloning parts of your own body for self-consumtion in an effort to eliminate any immoral acts inflicted upon other living beings. Life is truly sacred and must be respected

Neoprimitivism = the elimination of industrial technology in society through back-to-nature lifestyle promotions. Goes back in pre-industrial ages from iron age, bronze age, copper age, and the stone ages.

Pancyborgism = the flesh is weak and as such everyone must be upgraded with technological implants and prosthetics

Theocorporatism = society is run by corporations who also function as religious institutions. Employers are also priests and preachers of the corporate religion. With multiple corporations came multiple denominations and beliefs.

Hyperpatriarchism = the elimination of cis-women through the development of human cloning via artificial womb and the creation of a single-sex species via deliberate femicide

Hypermatriarchism = the elimination of cis-men through the development of parthenogenesis technology and the creation of a single-sex species via deliberate androcide

Monoracialism = the elimination of different skin pigmentation in humans through forced genetic modification of populations towards a neutral single colour like grey, violet, or orange or something

Monosexism = elimination of all sexes through the creation of an artificial single-sex species

Pangenism = the idea that personhood rights and even citizenship ought to extend to all those that have gained sentience and metacognition. This includes true-AI, uplifted animals, extremely genetically-modified « ex-humans » like true furries etc, cyborgs, uplifted cyborg-animals, etc. The idea that humans should only be counted as people is anthropocentric.

Anthropism = human supremacist ideology

Technism = AI supremacist ideology

Adaptism = climate change is real but it's better that we adapt to the future climate rather than reverse the course towards pre-industrial climates. Raise the sea walls and move inland, develop GMO drought-resistent crops, etc. Forget the past, let's look forward to the future.

Technocorporatism = a society run mostly by corporations who are then run by for-profit artificial intelligences
 
Presuming this is aimed at making non-existing ideologies, I have a weird one.

Essentially, revolutionary confucianism.
The core idea is that power, to be legitimate (in having the mandate of heaven) and strong, requires consistent and constant challenge.

How I see this developing is in a "east asia industrialises first" tl as another approach at liberalesque values. The better versions would promote things like democracy as the constant challenge of the mandate, whilst darker versions form a sort of social darwinism.

How is this different from the ideal of 'rule by the sword' as used by Steppe Nomads? Wherein the ideal ruler is the strong and fearsome, not always the legitimate by birth and so forth. This was effective for creating powerful leaders, especially in martial matters. However, it promoted a persistent instability and requirement for rulers to gain victories against ever more dangerous enemies to acquire needed legitimacy.
 
How is this different from the ideal of 'rule by the sword' as used by Steppe Nomads? Wherein the ideal ruler is the strong and fearsome, not always the legitimate by birth and so forth. This was effective for creating powerful leaders, especially in martial matters. However, it promoted a persistent instability and requirement for rulers to gain victories against ever more dangerous enemies to acquire needed legitimacy.
The difference is on the onus.
The ruler is expected to maintain the mandate, but that doesn't entail them seeking out conflict.
An advocate of rev confucianism would want to create conditions by which the mandate can be challenged, be it democratic with regular elections, or working with violent groups to overthrow the ruler (and then working with other violent groups once the new bearer of the mandate is in place).

Where Steppes rulers needed to conquer or acquire enemies, such is not needed for the bearer of the mandate.
 
Travaillisme
So one of mines : Shepardism. Belief that the human being is part of the nature and has randomly developped a level of consciousness that makes it their duty to protect carbonated life on Earth, and take care of them until the lifespan of the Universe is ended.

Another from a HoI4 tl idea :
Travaillisme. Swiss Romandese version of communism, that believes everyone should be able to appreciate their work, to be able to provide the people with all they need without needing to resort on consumerism to hide people's work exhaustion. They tend to value social hobbies and promote house society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_society
 
Racial Communism - Only the "true race" (insert race here) can achieve perfect communism and other races would be best of on reservations or enslaved (socialized slave ownership).
 
Hyperpatriarchism = the elimination of cis-women through the development of human cloning via artificial womb and the creation of a single-sex species via deliberate femicide

Hypermatriarchism = the elimination of cis-men through the development of parthenogenesis technology and the creation of a single-sex species via deliberate androcide
I’d note that “patriarchy” (and probably “matriarchy”) refers to a more complex concept in human history than denigrating one gender more than another; “misogyny” captures that kind of thinking better.

I’d also note that killing off all human cis members of a gender isn’t necessarily the same thing as wiping out said gender to the extent that dominant social paradigms (like patriarchy) can no longer function. As an example, if heterosexual women in a society got rid of men, they might replace them with android constructs.
 
I’d note that “patriarchy” (and probably “matriarchy”) refers to a more complex concept in human history than denigrating one gender more than another; “misogyny” captures that kind of thinking better.

I’d also note that killing off all human cis members of a gender isn’t necessarily the same thing as wiping out said gender to the extent that dominant social paradigms (like patriarchy) can no longer function. As an example, if heterosexual women in a society got rid of men, they might replace them with android constructs.

The names I just picked up from the top of my head because I can't really think of any prefixes, suffixes, and base words in English that would fit the description. It could definitely be called hypermisogynism and the like. Making up English words without attaching names to it like Stalinism or Putinism is a bit hard imho
 
Neolubaism
Neolubaism - ideology born and bred in Sub-Saharan Africa enshrining the right of each constituent people of a country to be represented in the halls of power in a manner directly proportional to their demographic weight within that same country, regardless of form of government and level of authoritarianism. Strange as it may sound, its adherents also stand in direct opposition to the political wing of the Pan-Africanist Movement, often decrying its ultimate goal as the dream of someone blind to how history shaped the relationships among the continent's peoples.
 
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Racinisme
Racinisme - basically a 18th century, revolutionary French version of the Soviet policy of Korenizatsiya: its adherents think that, in order to bring the masses closer to revolutionary ideals and push them away from the reactionary hold of altar and throne, the revolution should get closer to them: therefore, the old royal provinces should be preserved as provinces of a democratic, federal France, their local languages should be promoted and used in order to increase literacy and make it easier for the people to learn and use French proper, and local people should be given precedence over non-local people in the day to day administration of the provinces.

I doubt this concept would go far in France, but I can see it become quite influential in Italy, Spain (where it would be incorporated into the proto-anarchist tendencies of the country's left) and even Switzerland, once Napoleon rolls in.
 
Political Physiocracy/Fundamentalist Georgism & Organicism
I've thought about two concepts from OTL that could be exaggerated in their idiosyncrasy and become "political ideologies":

1) Political Physiocracy or Fundamentalist Georgism - based on the Illuminist idealized version of the agrarian society as the most pure and uncorrupted. From the premise that all the wealth comes from the land and the earth, it would innaugurate some form of rural collectivism, but with a purposeful (and not accidental), albeit gradual, abandonment of the urban civilization. In essence, it would be a State-enforced fugere urbem, and its political organization is usually centered in provincial entities (parishes, counties, pagi, etc). Industrialism would be anathema to this system, but its emphasis in a collectivist economy brings a promise of a proto-utopian and non-conflicted society.

2) Organicism - it is based on the "Organic Work" concept developed by Polish thinkers, one especially interesting in the Colonial and Imperialist world. The basic gist is to create a policy of conformism by subject minorities, but in exchange, it would ensure the preservation of its cultural individualities; that is, a form to conciliate the premises of nationalism with imperialism. It might gain traction in multi-ethnic empires that had no condition of resisting a strong imperial power, such as those of the Russian and British Empires. It would be an interesting experiment to see it in the British Raj, but also in colonial Africa.
 
Cosmicism
Super fun stuff! I had one for a future history thing I'm working on called Cosmicism. Basically, society is divided between the Precariat (whose unifying characteristic is instability in consistent quality of life) and Kyriarchy (which is not a specific class or group but rather the web of connections that destabilizes the Precariat, and whoever profits off of it based on local context). Because climate shifts and resource scarcity (among other factors) expand the Precariat class by destabilizing existing societies it is the desire of Cosmicism to spread to encompass the entire human race, where the second stage goal becomes two-fold. First, because it considers itself a stabilizing force the entirety of human cultural history must be studied and preserved to serve as part of a universal human toolkit/monument to the human endeavor. Second, Cosmicism strives to expand human society beyond the Earth, both to extract resources (preserving the Earth's environment) and to prevent the total extinction of the human race in the event of a catastrophe.

While fundamentally a big government ideology (and categorically convinced of individual insignificance on a historical scale), Cosmicism is actually a fairly libertarian ideology, on the basis that anything that doesn't threaten the cultural history/technical progress of the human race, or public order, or long term species survivability more generally is allowed. Human insignificance ironically makes most personal stuff far beneath concern for the state, and makes the cult of personality "Great Man" style of politics verboten.

Styling itself the "Fourth Position" Cosmicism expands on the Marxist conception of history by swapping Liberalism for Capitalism and including Fascism as a reaction against Marxism. The current age is retroactively described as Nihilist, blending cynical distortions of the preceding stages in a terrible world destroying post-modern death spiral. Despite the fact that Cosmicism is a conscious reaction against it Nihilism is not considered an ideology in the Cosmicist conception of history.

Cosmicist historiography is divided into two different core concepts. The Four Positions are arranged in a chain called the Leviathan, made up of a series of stages where each next link reacts against all the preceding links. The length of each stage is different and leaves stronger or weaker traces in each subsequent stage.
  1. The first (and chronologically longest) is Feudalism, using an intentionally imprecise definition to cover every hierarchical society between the formation of settled states and the Enlightenment. Feudalism is characterized by mercantilism.
  2. A desire for liberty would give rise to Liberalism during the Enlightenment, which is characterized by general government non-intervention in ordinary human affairs (in theory at least). Liberalism and Socialism rely on different approaches to capitalism.
  3. A desire for equality gave rise to Socialism, which sought to use different degrees of government intervention to improve human affairs.
  4. A desire for fraternity would lead to Fascism, as conceptions of state and nation would be used to focus government intervention toward (or against) specific groups to strengthen social cohesion.
  5. Nihilism would congeal from the remains of the first three positions, relying on distorted history and a retrocultural impulse to try to shape social and governmental affairs. Because it is not grounded in reality Nihilism represents terminal decline, producing a fear of the future.
Cosmicism divides the future history into three stages of social complexity. The Leviathan is wholly contained in the Volksgeist stage of seperate states competing for dominance across history. A desire for eternity (a stable long-term flowering of human potential) ushers in the creation of Cosmicism and the Zeitgeist, a revolutionary wave. The ultimate success of the Zeitgeist would result in the Weltgeist, a united global humanity reaching out eagerly into the solar system.

The Fourth Position views the left-right political spectrum as reductionist, and relies on a complex political spectrum with four different axes. Progressive/Conservative governs social attitudes, Authoritarian/Libertarian deals with levels of personal freedom, Gradual/Radical deals with the pace of Cosmicist reform, and finally Populist/Elite relates where the mechanism for implementing this reform comes from. Rather than reduce figures and nations to points on a line this has the effect of creating a descriptive shape instead.

Theoretically at the conclusion of the Weltgeist stage a desire for expansion beyond the Solar System and a drive to achieve infinity would produce a Fifth Position capable of absorbing and surpassing Cosmicism in the creation of a constantly transforming human diaspora, not unlike the Scattering in Dune.
 
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