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File:NapoleonI.png Napoleon I

Bonapartism is an Authoritarian Unity and culturally center ideology based on the beliefs of Napoleon Bonaparte and his followers and successors. in the strict sense, it aims to establish an imperial regime in France at the head of which would be placed a member of the family of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in the broadest sense, it aims to establish a nation-state with a strong and centralized executive which is authoritarian and largely undemocratic but relied on plebiscites to rise to power both times.

History

After the death of File:MaximilienRobespierre.png Maximilien Robespierre, the French Directory controlled France. This government was extremely unpopular, so a young Corsican boy named Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the government and proclaimed himself the First Consul. Eventually, as he protected France and expanded his borders, he gained more popularity and, therefore, crowned himself Emperor.

Bonapartism as a pejorative

In modern times, the term File:Bonaparte.png "Bonapartism" has been used more generally for a political movement that advocates an File:Sec.png authoritarian centralized state, with a File:Auto.png strongman charismatic leader based on anti-elitist rhetoric, army support, as well as conservatism. Within leftists circles, Bonapartism is used to describe counter-revolutionary authoritarian leaders that use leftist, anti-capitalist, or anti-imperialist rhetoric as means to gain support from the masses but once in power rule like an emperor for life and revert the gains of the revolution to benefit themselves and a new caste of elites.

Bonapartism is often seen as the precursor to various File:Fash.png Fascist ideologies espoused by the likes of File:Mussolini.png Benito Mussolini, File:Hitler.png Adolf Hitler and File:BritFash.png Oswald Mosley.

Leaders and political figures. that aren't clearly left or right may be referred to as Bonapartists. This includes US senator and governor of Louisiana File:Long.png Huey Long, Argentine dictator File:JuanPeron.png Juan Perón, etc. All aforementioned politicians combined policies that are associated with both the left and right while using authoritarian tactics to maintain power.

Bonapartism is often used by many leftists including File:Ormarxf.png marxists, anarchists, File:Trot.png trotskyists, and File:LeftCom.png left communists, to describe anti-communist authoritarian socialists such as File:Nasser2.png Gamal Abdel Nasser, File:Burmasoc.png Ne Win, File:SaddamHussein.png Saddam Hussein, File:Gaddaficap.png Muammar Gaddafi, File:Hafez al-Assad.png Hafez al-Assad, File:Bashar al-Assad.png Bashar al-Assad, File:Arafat.png Yasser Arafat, etc, who all explicitly rejected Marxist class struggle in favor of File:Corptism.png class collaborationism and actively banned or persecuted domestic left-wing movements while also being allied to the File:Cball-USSR.png Soviet Union, which some would argue was itself an elitist Bonapartist regime of its own.

File:Cball-Russia.png Russian President File:Putin.png Vladimir Putin is sometimes described as a Bonapartist leader with a Napoleon Complex due to his ability to gain support from people on the left and the far-right alike, despite maintaining and strengthening Russia's oligarchic system for his own benefit at the expense of the Russian working class.

Beliefs

Economic Beliefs

Napoleon's economic beliefs were pragmatic and aimed at consolidating power and promoting File:Protect.png national prosperity. He implemented key economic reforms to File:Indust.pngmodernize and stabilize the French economy. The creation of the Banque de France in 1800 demonstrated his commitment to File:Bankocracy.png financial stability. Napoleon also introduced the File:Regulationism.png Napoleonic Code in 1804, providing a comprehensive legal framework that promoted property rights, contractual freedom, and legal equality. While these reforms fostered economic development, Napoleon's policies also had a militaristic component, as he saw economic strength as crucial for military success. The Continental System, an economic blockade against Britain, exemplified his geopolitical approach to economic strategy, attempting to weaken a major rival.

File:Classnat.png Geopolitical Beliefs

Napoleon's geopolitical beliefs were driven by a desire for French dominance in Europe. His File:Imp.pngexpansionist policies were often justified under the banner of spreading revolutionary ideals leading to the establishment of the French Empire through military conquests. The Napoleonic Wars aimed at restructuring Europe to serve French interests, and his vision of a Continental System sought to isolate and weaken Britain economically. Napoleon's geopolitical strategies were pragmatic, combining File:Strato.pngmilitary might with diplomatic maneuvering to maintain French dominance. The failure of the Russian campaign and subsequent military defeats ultimately led to the decline of his geopolitical influence.

File:Progconf.png Cultural Beliefs

Napoleon's cultural beliefs were a blend of revolutionary ideals and pragmatic adaptations to his conservative climate. While he initially positioned himself as a defender of the French Revolution, emphasizing principles like liberty and equality, he also recognized the need for social order and stability inside a majority File:Catheo.pngcatholic population. The Napoleonic Code codified key revolutionary principles. Napoleon sought to create a sense of French national identity through the spread of French culture and institutions across the territories he controlled. His policies often aimed at assimilating conquered regions into a unified French identity, reflecting a cultural imperialism to strengthen the cohesion of the French Empire.

Philosophical Beliefs

Philosophically, Napoleon was a pragmatist who prioritized effective governance over strict adherence to ideology. While he initially aligned with some revolutionary principles, he later abandoned the republican experiment and declared himself File:Auto.pngEmperor. His decision to reconcile with the File:Catheo.pngCatholic Church through the Concordat in 1801 was a recognition of the need for social stability and religious reconciliation. Napoleon sympathized with some Enlightenment ideals but was willing to compromise for the sake of political expediency. His philosophical beliefs were characterized by a belief in strong, File:Unitary.pngcentralized governance, where power was consolidated in the hands of a File:Enlightmon.pngcapable leader – a concept often associated with the pragmatic Machiavellian tradition.

Variants

File:NeoBonaparte.png Neo-Bonapartism/Napoleon III Thought

Neo-Bonapartism/Napoleon III Thought is the Ideology of Napoleon the Third and marked his rule from as president1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870.

Before his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. He was born at the height of the First French Empire in the Tuileries Palace at Paris, the son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (r. 1806–1810), and Hortense de Beauharnais, and paternal nephew of the reigning Emperor Napoleon I. It would only be two months following his birth that he, by Napoleon I's dynastic naming policy, would be bestowed the name of Charles-Louis Napoleon, however, shortly thereafter, Charles was removed from his name. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was the first and only president of the French Second Republic, elected in 1848. He seized power by force in 1851, when he could not be constitutionally re-elected. He later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French and founded the Second Empire, reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by Prussia and its allies at the Battle of Sedan in 1870.

Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the File:Colonial.pngFrench colonial empire, made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and personally engaged in two wars. Maintaining leadership for 22 years, he was the longest-reigning French head of state since the fall of the Ancien Régime. However, his reign would ultimately end upon his surrender to Otto von Bismarck and Wilhelm I on 2 September 1870.

Napoleon III commissioned a File:Saint-Simonianism.pnggrand reconstruction of Paris carried out by the prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann. He expanded and consolidated the nation's railway system and modernized the banking system. Napoleon promoted the construction of the Suez Canal and established modern agricultural practices, which helped end famines in France and made the country a leading agricultural exporter. He negotiated the 1860 Cobden–Chevalier Free Trade Agreement with Britain and similar agreements with France's other European trading partners. Social reforms included granting File:Synd.pngFrench workers the right to strike, the right to organize, and the right for File:Confem-alt.pngwomen to be admitted to French universities.

In foreign policy, Napoleon III sought to reassert French influence in Europe and globally. In Europe, he allied with Britain and defeated Russia in the Crimean War (1853–1856). His regime assisted Italian unification by defeating the Austrian Empire in the Second Italian War of Independence. It later annexed Savoy and Nice through the Treaty of Turin as its deferred reward. At the same time, his forces defended the Papal States against Italian annexation. He was also favourable towards the 1859 union of the Danubian Principalities, which resulted in the establishment of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Napoleon doubled the area of the French colonial empire with expansions in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. On the other hand, the intervention in Mexico, which aimed to establish a Second Mexican Empire under French protection, ultimately failed.

From 1866, Napoleon had to face the mounting power of File:Anti-German.pngPrussia, as its minister president, Otto von Bismarck, sought to unify Germany under Prussian leadership. In July 1870, Napoleon reluctantly declared war on Prussia after pressure from the general public. The French Army was rapidly defeated, and Napoleon was captured at the Battle of Sedan. He was swiftly dethroned, and the Third Republic was proclaimed in Paris. After he was released from German custody, he went into exile in England, where he died in 1873.

File:Bokassa.png Bokassaism

Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921–1996) was a Central African military officer and political leader who ruled the Central African Republic from 1966 to 1979, first as president and later as self-proclaimed emperor. A former officer in the French colonial army, Bokassa seized power through a coup against President David Dacko and gradually consolidated authority in his own hands. In 1976, he transformed the republic into the Central African Empire and crowned himself Emperor Bokassa I in a lavish ceremony modeled partly on Napoleonic symbolism, reflecting his commitment to absolute monarchism, despite at times describing his rule as a form of File:Conmon.pngconstitutional monarchism.

Bokassa’s regime was marked by an intense File:Cultofpersonality.pngcult of personality, centered on his image as a paternal and imperial figure. His governance style blended File:Strato.pngstratocracy, given his military background, with features of File:Statecap.pngstate capitalism, as the state maintained strong control over economic activity while distributing privileges to loyal associates. Observers have characterized his system as exhibiting traits of File:CronyCap.pngcrony capitalism, File:Plutocrat.pngplutocracy, and even File:Klep.pngkleptocracy, as political loyalty was often rewarded with economic advantage. Some analysts describe this hybrid as a form of File:TotCap.pngtotalitarian capitalism, where political repression and economic patronage operated simultaneously.

Ideologically, Bokassa positioned himself as File:Anticommunism.pnganti-communist and File:Antisoc.pnganti-socialist, aligning with Western interests during the Cold War. At the same time, he invoked File:Anti-Colonial.pnganti-colonial rhetoric and File:Pan-Africanism.pngPan-Africanism, portraying himself as a defender of African sovereignty. His personal admiration for France, however, revealed a strong File:Cball-France.pngFrancophilia, and French political and military support played a key role in sustaining his rule for much of its duration. Commentators have occasionally noted parallels or expressed sympathies between Bokassa and figures such as File:NicolaeCeausescu.pngNicolae Ceaușescu and File:Gaddafi.pngMuammar Gaddafi, particularly regarding centralized authority and political spectacle, though these comparisons are interpretive rather than formal alliances.

Religiously, Bokassa was raised Catholic and at one point framed his authority in terms resembling File:Catheo.pngCatholic theocracy, intertwining religious symbolism with imperial legitimacy. In 1976, he briefly converted to Islam, leading some to describe a short-lived experiment with Islamic theocracy, though this conversion was widely viewed as politically motivated and was later reversed.

His rule was further overshadowed by severe human rights abuses. Allegations of File:Butcher.pngpoliticide, including violent repression of political opponents and protesters, contributed to his eventual overthrow in 1979. Persistent accusations of File:Cannibalism Legalization.pngcannibalism and File:Sexocracy.pngsexual misconduct, have been widely reported, though the factual basis of some of these allegations remains debated. Critics have also attributed to him traits of File:AuthNarciss.pngnarcissism and File:Kak-Dunce.pngkakistocracy, citing erratic decision-making and the elevation of unqualified loyalists.

Economically, Bokassa promoted aspects of national agrarianism, seeking agricultural self-sufficiency while simultaneously asserting imperial grandeur through costly ceremonial expenditures. His imperial project included elements of File:Imp.pngimperialism, though primarily symbolic within a limited territorial context.

Jean-Bédel Bokassa’s legacy remains deeply controversial. His regime combined monarchical spectacle, authoritarian governance, economic patronage networks, and nationalist rhetoric in a fragile state structure heavily dependent on foreign backing. His fall from power marked the end of one of postcolonial Africa’s most dramatic and contentious experiments with personalist rule.

File:Romanticism.png Red Napoleon/Tukhachevskyism

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (1893–1937) was a Soviet military commander and theorist, often nicknamed the “Red Napoleon” for his ambition, strategic vision, and rapid rise within the Red Army. Born into a minor noble family in the Russian Empire, he was educated in a military academy and initially served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army. In his early life, he was shaped by the structures of File:Arist.png Aristocracy and File:Tsar.png Tsarism , reflecting his social origins before the upheavals of 1917 transformed his political trajectory.

Following the Russian Revolution, Tukhachevsky joined the Bolsheviks and became a committed participant in the Red Army during the Civil War. He aligned himself publicly with File:Lenin.png Leninism, embracing centralized authority, party discipline, and the militarized defense of the revolutionary state. His theoretical contributions to military doctrine such as deep operations strategy reflected a strong orientation toward File:Mil.pngmilitarism, emphasizing mechanization, offensive maneuver, and the modernization of armed forces as essential to socialist state survival.

Despite his loyalty to the revolutionary regime, Tukhachevsky’s relationship with Joseph Stalin deteriorated. He was widely regarded as aligned with strands of File:Anti-Stalin.pnganti-Stalinism, at least in institutional terms, as he clashed with Stalin over military autonomy and modernization priorities. In 1937, during the Great Purge, he was arrested, accused of treason and conspiracy, and executed. The charges included claims of File:Mach.pngopportunism and secret collaboration, though historians largely consider these accusations politically motivated fabrications.

Accounts of Tukhachevsky’s private beliefs remain contested. Some biographical interpretations suggest he harbored skepticism toward orthodox Marxist economic doctrine, implying elements of File:Antisoc.pnganti-socialism in private reflection, though evidence remains inconclusive. Other controversial claims have attributed to him forms ofFile:Anti-Semitic.png anti-Semitism, File:Christophobia.pngChristophobia, or even File:Russophobia.pngethnic self-hatred, yet such assertions are debated among scholars and often derive from hostile or politically charged sources rather than definitive documentation.

Culturally and philosophically, Tukhachevsky displayed interest in pre-revolutionary Russian heritage, and later writers have speculated about affinities with File:SlavTheo.pngSlavic neo-paganism or reactionary cultural motifs. However, these associations are largely interpretive and not central to his documented military career. His strategic outlook, while revolutionary in organizational scope, has sometimes been described as possessing elements of File:React.pngreactionaryism, insofar as it combined modern military technology with hierarchical command structures rooted in earlier traditions.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky remains a significant figure in Soviet military history. His doctrinal innovations influenced later Soviet operational art, even after his execution. His life illustrates the volatility of revolutionary politics, where aristocratic origins, revolutionary commitment, institutional rivalry, and ideological suspicion intersected within the highly centralized and often perilous environment of early Soviet governance.

Personality

Bonapartism supports the Enlightenment and supports spreading its values everywhere, however; he is also a pragmatist and thus doesn't support too much radical change.

He wants to usurp the throne of Spain & really hates Russia for some reason.

How to Draw

The design of Bonapartism is based around two symbols - the flag and coat of arms of the First French Empire.

File:Napoleon flag.svg

Flag of Bonapartism

1. Draw a ball
2. Make the French flag by coloring the ball navy blue-white-red with three vertical bands
3. Add two golden staffs crossed diagonally in the center white band
4. On top of the staffs draw a cobalt blue shield with a golden eagle in the middle
5. Add a golden necklace around the shield, going from the upper sides to the bottom
6. Draw a crowned gold knight helmet on top of the shield
7. From the helmet, draw golden wavy stripes going to the sides
8. Draw the ball wearing a black Bicorne, brimmed with yellow and fitted with a File:Republicanismpix.png maroon-white-blue cockade
9. Add the two eyes

You're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Navy Blue	#002654	rgb(0, 38, 84)
	White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)
	Red	#CE1126	rgb(206, 17, 38)
	Cobalt Blue	#004995	rgb(0, 73, 149)
	Gold	#D7B93C	rgb(215, 185, 60)
	Maroon	#AE0000	rgb(174, 0, 0)
	Yellow	#FFC400	rgb(255, 196, 0)
	Black	#161616	rgb(22, 22, 22)

Relationships

Amis (Friends)

• File:Enlightmon.png Absolutisme éclairé - Has great ideas.
• File:Mach.png Machiavélisme - How I came into power and how I maintain it.
• File:Imp.png Impérialisme - The French empire will spread the revolution worldwide! VIVE L'EMPEREUR!
• File:Merit.png Méritocratie - I love Meritocracy and helped it become a part of Europe.
• File:Nietzsche.png Nietzschéisme - Nietzsche believed that I am a higher human.
• File:Moncap.png Monarcho-capitalisme - Napoleon III liked you.
• File:Krit.png Kritarchie - “My glory is not that I won forty battles and dictated the law to kings… Waterloo wipes out the memory of all my victories… But what will be wiped out by nothing and will live forever is my Civil Code.”
• File:Emon.png Monarchisme électif, File:IllibDem.png Démocratie illibérale & File:Pop.png Populisme - The people of France voted for my dynasty twice in a totally not rigged referendum. I get my power from the military the people, not divine right.
• File:Indust.png Industrialisme - I made France a great industrial power.

Neutre (Neutral)

• File:Catheo.png Théocratie catholique - Relations with France and the Catholic Chruch were deeply severed years prior, though in the end we reconciled. Napoleon III even protected you from the Piedmont-Sardinians.
• Jacobinisme & File:Republicanismpix.png Républicanisme - I am the true successor to the revolution!
• File:Consti.png Constitutionnalisme - "A Constitution should be short and obscure"
• File:Clib.png Libéralisme classique, File:Enlightenment.png Pensée des Lumières - The people shall have rights, but shall not have the vote! Supporters of mine liked you though during the Second Empire and File:Reactlib.png he seem to like me nowadays for this phase.
• File:Integral Nationalism.png Nationalisme intégral - I love France too but why don't you like the Enlightenment?
• File:Fash.png Fascisme - Why do you admire me?
• File:Nazi.png Nazisme - You visited my grave? Dammit, that Austrian painter took the French onions.
• Théocratie islamique - While Muhammad was a great man, France cannot accommodate your model. At least you also throw File:Fem.png them in the trash.
• File:Cball-Ottomanism.png Ottomanisme - I fought against you in Egypt and your Empire made an alliance with the Coalition. However, you then joined me way after even if you remained neutral during the rest of my Wars in Europe but though, we both hate the Austrians, Russians, and Spaniards and Napoleon III even created a trio between his Empire, yours and the British Crown.
• File:Reactcross.png Réactionnaire - Jacobins say I'm you, some of you hate me, while others support me. But no matter what you or they say, I'm a modernizing force who destroyed the old order. That being said, I did restore the Church and I did end the arguably liberal Thermidorians and the socialist Babouvists during my first and second rule respectively.

Ennemis (Enemies)

• File:Feud.png Féodalisme - Napoleonic code go brr... HRE go bye-bye.
• File:Urb.png Patchwork - Down with bordergore.
• File:Therm.png Thermidorisme - Directory get rekt. Though, in some way I was more conservative than you, especially on religious grounds.
• File:Montagne.png Montagnisme - National Assembly also get rekt.
• File:Reactsoc.png Socialisme réactionnaire - I loved humiliating Metternich.
• File:Cball-HRE.png HRE - MAIS PAS D'OIGNONS AUX AUTRICHIENS, NON PAS D'OIGNONS À TOUS CES CHIENS!
• File:Feuillant.png Feuillantisme - I'm emperor now, deal with it!
• File:Heart-Integralism.png Intégralisme - Hippity hoppity your country is my propert- OW MERDE!
• File:Bism.png Bismarckisme - F*cking Prussian!! You ruined my second chance!
• File:HighTory.png Duc de Wellington - 18 June 1815, worst day of my life.
• File:Klep.png Des fonctionnaires corrompus - Throw them in the trash!
• File:Ludd.png Mauvaise infrastructure - Throw it in the trash!
• File:Fem.png Droits des femmes - Throw them in the trash!
  • File:Fem.png File:LBubble.pngWait, really?File:RBubble.png

• • File:Bonaparte.png File:LBubble.pngWell, yeah.File:RBubble.png

Further Information

Wikipedia

• File:Bonaparte.png House of Bonaparte
• File:NapoleonI.png Napoleon Bonaparte
• Napoleonic Wars
• Napoleonic Code
• File:Bonaparte.png Bonapartism
• Bonapartist party
• File:NeoBonaparte.png Neo-Bonapartism
• File:Bonaparte.png First French Empire
• Second French Empire
• Coup of 18 Brumaire
• 1851 French coup d'état
• Continental System
• Crimean War
• Second French intervention in Mexico
• Franco-Prussian War
• 1804 French Constitutional referendum
• 1852 French Second Empire referendum
• Napoleon complex
• Empire Style
• Sister republic

Videos

• The Napoleonic Wars (Parts 1 and 2) by OverSimplified
• Why "Neither Left Nor Right" Just Means Right Wing | Bonapartism by File:SecondThought.png Second Thought
• NAPOLEON'S STRUGGLE AGAINST FREEMASONRY: BONAPARTE AGAINST ROTHSCHILD by File:French Fascism (Alt).png The Fascifist
• THE IMPERIAL FRENCH CAUSE: IN DEFENSE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE by File:French Fascism (Alt).png The Fascifist

Gallery

Portraits

• Napoleon's Imperial Standard
  Napoleon's Imperial Standard
• File:Bonaparteball.png
• File:BonapartismNew.png
• In Exile
  In Exile

Artwork and Comics

• Credit: File:Colmin.pngTheLegend2T, Source
  Credit: File:Colmin.pngTheLegend2T, Source
• Credit: File:Ktech-icon.png K-Tech, Source
  Credit: File:Ktech-icon.png K-Tech, Source
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