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The results from my poll which tl to do next have been pretty inconclusive and for the moment only one of six proposals is out of consideration. Regardless which I´ll do in the end, it is still some time for me to decide. I want to finish my current one first and that still takes some time. In the meantime I decided to start research for all of them one by one, starting here with the national technocracy one. In the tl I want another ideology to take nazism´s role in the destruction of the Weimar republic, replacing it with a more dangerous regime than otl. The ideology is intended to be not by itself evil, but in the logical conclusion rather unpleasant nonetheless. Right now I want your help with fleshing out the ideology, to find people influencing its development and the first generation of politicians founding the party and leading it to government. Some of the core protagonists have to be fictional of course to start the whole idea, but I want to keep their number as small as possible. Below I wrote a short draft of some kind of “national technocratic manifesto” to give you an idea what I am aiming at.
Revocation of Versailles, the unification of all German lands and a reestablishment of Germany at its rightful place are the ultimate goal. This can be best achieved by the following policies:


Efficiency-orientation: We must get the most out of everything, including human resources and to avoid waste. Some conclusions from that: Happy and healthy workers are more productive, therefore social security, good wages, the right kind of holidays and the like are to support. Excessive and wasteful consumerism is to avoid though. Racism reduces the usefulness of certain human resources, therefore is not to support. Different tools for the same application are wasteful, therefore standardization is of extraordinary importance.


Devotion to science and eduction: Technological superiority is a major factor for a nations power, its economic strength and its standard of living. Thus everything helping to achieve and keep it is to support.


Ordoliberalism (yes I realize the term is younger, but I had to name it somehow): Competition is good since it promotes progress and a self-purification of useless parts of the industry. The economy has to be seriously controlled though since it unchecked produces a lot of waste and ultimately will fail.


Meritocracy: Privileges and birthrights can hinder the advance of the capable and promote the incapable. Only ability and education should decide about ones progress.


A strong and modern military: In the end a nation´s power and security is funded on the ability to defend it by force. Therefore a strong military, founded on modern principles, is a core responsibility of every government. The t failure to follow technological progress and to adapt doctrine to it is the ultimate reason for the defeat in the Great War.
Sources which sprang to my mind as inspiration for or influence on that kind of ideology were Platon, Francis Bacon´s New Atlantis, Gustav Schmoller, Henry Gantt, Thorstein Veblen and obviously the Italian facism, though I am looking for further ones and for people which could participate in founding such a party in Germany.
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