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"We owe nothing in our origins from Adam Smith, Ricardo, Pareto, Proudhon, Bakunin, Karl Marx, Lenin, or any of the rest of the political philosophies. We do owe a debt to J. Willard Gibbs, Nikola Tesla, Steinmetz, Mac and John Rusk, and a thousand other American chemists, engineers, scientists, and technologists."

Howard Scott

Technocracy is an economically variable, culturally variable, anti-democratic ideology who supports a system where the scientific and engineering methods are applied to governance in order to manage society as an engineering project, through the use of technical experts. It seeks to replace methods of scarcity such as money, value, and debt, with an empirical accounting of all physical resources, products, and services, using automation to decrease the ammount of human labor required in the process. The ultimate goal of technocracy is provide the highest standard of living for everyone in terms of income, housing, healthcare, education, and leisure as sustainably possible.

History

The Technocratic movement first originated in the United States in 1919 as the Technical Alliance, aimed at showing the waste of the price system. It later split into Technocracy Inc. during the Great Depression. The Technocratic Movement proposed radical reforms at its time like replacing the government with unelected experts and a 16-hour workweek. The movement gained a lot of support as Americans were struggling during the Great Depression, but it eventually lost support as FDR signed reforms to the American Economic system and it now has a small and fringe support in the United States.

Examples of Technocracy have occurred in other countries before, mostly in Europe; They practiced Technocracy in general and they were usually implemented during a political crisis and would usually not last long. Italy currently has a Technocrat for prime minister after a political crisis resulted in the former prime minister withdrawing from the ruling coalition and thus stepping down as prime minister.

Saint-Simonianism

Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), better known as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science. He was a younger relative of the famous memoirist the Duc de Saint-Simon.

In 1817 Saint-Simon published a manifesto called the "Declaration of Principles" in his work titled L'Industrie ("Industry"). The declaration was about the principles of an ideology called industrialism that called for the creation of an industrial society led by people within what he defined as the industrial class. The industrial class, also referred to as the working class, was defined as including all people engaged in productive work that contributed to society, emphasizing scientists and industrialists, but including engineers, businesspeople, managers, bankers, manual workers, and others.

Saint-Simon also believed the primary threat to the needs of the industrial class was what he defined as the idling class: a tier of society that included able-bodied persons who, instead of using their labor to benefit the social and economic orders, preferred what he perceived as a parasitic life avoiding work.

In the Declaration, Saint-Simon strongly criticized any expansion of government intervention into the economy beyond these two principal economic roles, saying that when the government goes beyond these roles, it becomes a "tyrannical enemy of industry" and that the industrial economy will decline as a consequence of such excessive government intervention. Saint-Simon stressed the need for recognition of the merit of the individual and the need for hierarchy of merit in society and in the economy, such as society having hierarchical merit-based organizations of managers and scientists to be the decision-makers in government. His views were radical for his time. He built on Enlightenment ideas which challenged church doctrine and the older regime with the idea of progress from industry and science. Saint-Simon endorsed what critics have described as authoritarian or totalitarian means to achieve his goals, saying that opponents of his proposed reforms should be "treated like cattle".

Heavily influenced by the absence of social privilege he saw in the early United States, Saint-Simon renounced his aristocratic title and came to favor a form of meritocracy, becoming convinced that science was the key to progress and that it would be possible to develop a society based on objective scientific principles. He claimed that feudal society in France and elsewhere needed to be dissolved and transformed into an industrial society. As such, he invented the conception of the industrial society believing that society would restructure itself by abandoning traditional ideas of temporal and spiritual power. An evolution that would lead, inevitably, to a productive society based on and benefiting from, a "... union of men engaged in useful work", the basis of "true equality".

Saint-Simon's economic views and ideas were influenced by Adam Smith whom Saint-Simon deeply admired, and referred to him in praise as "the immortal Adam Smith". He shared with Smith the belief that taxes needed to be much reduced from what they were then in order to have a more just industrial system. Saint-Simon desired the minimization of government intervention into the economy to prevent disruption of productive work. He emphasized more emphatically than Smith that state administration of the economy was generally parasitic and hostile to the needs of production. Like Adam Smith, Saint-Simon's model of society emulated the scientific methods of astronomy, and said

"The astronomers only accepted those facts which were verified by observation; they chose the system which linked them best, and since that time, they have never led science astray.".

Saint-Simon reviewed the French Revolution and regarded it as an upheaval driven by economic change and class conflict. In his analysis, he believed that the solution to the problems that led to the French Revolution would be the creation of an industrial society, where a hierarchy of merit and respect for productive work would be the basis of society, while ranks of hereditary and military hierarchy would lessen in importance in society because they were not capable to lead a productive society.

Racial views

Saint-Simon believed that Europeans were superior. In the work De la réorganization de la société européenne, written with Augustin Thierry and published in 1814, Saint-Simon advocated that the united Europe which he envisioned should try to colonize the rest of the world: "To colonize the world with the European race, which is superior to every other race: to make the world accessible and habitable like Europe—such is the sort of enterprise by which the European Parliament should continually keep Europe active and happy." Writing in Introduction aux œuvres scientifiques du XIXe siècle, Saint-Simon states that he does not believe negroes to be equal to the Europeans for physiological reasons. In Lettres, he writes: "The revolutionaries applied the principles of equality to negroes. If they had consulted the physiologists they would have learned that the negro, because of his basic physical structure, is not susceptible, even with the same education, of rising to the intellectual level of Europeans." Jan Eijking writes that "Saint-Simon's understanding of a neutral, technocratic international sphere took existing social, economic, and racial hierarchies for granted"

Religious views

Prior to the publication of the Nouveau Christianisme, Saint-Simon had not concerned himself with theology. In Nouveau Christianisme, Saint-Simon presupposes a belief in God; his object in the treatise is to reduce Christianity to its simple and essential elements. He does this by clearing it of what he thought to be the dogmas and other defects that had come to define the Catholic and Protestant forms of Christianity. Saint-Simon posited a comprehensive formula for a "new Christianity": "The whole of society ought to strive towards the amelioration of the moral and physical existence of the poorest class; society ought to organize itself in the way best adapted for attaining this end."

Saint-Simon's conceptual recognition of the merits of broad socioeconomic contribution and Enlightenment-era valorization of scientific knowledge inspired and influenced utopian socialism, utilitarian political theorist John Stuart Mill, anarchism (through its founder, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon), and Marxism—Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels identified Saint-Simon as an inspiration for their ideas and classified him among the utopian socialists. Saint-Simon's views also influenced 20th-century sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen, including Veblen's influential school of institutional economics.

Foundations

The Technate

The Technate is the word used by Technocracy Inc. to describe a country where Technocracy could properly operate.

An example of a Technate that was theorized by Technocracy Inc. was the North American Technate which unified Canada, the United States, and Mexico as well as all the other countries in North America. They wanted this Technate to be self-reliant on its economy and not needing of trade, as it was claimed that without the wastefulness of the “ineffective price system”, the resources of North America would be more than enough to sustain its inhabitants.

Thermodynamic Economics

Thermodynamic Economics (shortened to Thermoeconomics) refers to the application of the Laws of Thermodynamics within the economy with the Thermoeconomic Theory of Value which says that the value of each product can be determined by calculations of the number of producers and the abundance of the resource.

How to Draw

Symbol of Technocracy

Technocracy is extremely easy to draw:

1. Draw a ball
2. Draw in a yin-yang style symbol (monad), with the left part in light grey (#D3D3D3) and the right part in red (#B22222)
3. Add the eyes and done!

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Personality

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Stylistic Notes

• Usually depicted as more intelligent than other ideologies and with deep knowledge of various scientific fields.
• While not explicitly technologically progressive, he often associates with pro-technology ideologies and enjoys sharing his scientific knowledge with them.
• While not particularly anti-capitalist, can be critical of capitalism for giving the wealthy power as opposed to the most skilled. That being said, he is elitist and sees those who are deemed "qualified" and "educated" as the ones who should rule over society, willing to ignore average people or populists because they are too dumb (at least according to him).

Variants

Neo-Technocracy

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Relationships

Friends

• Syndicalism & National Syndicalism - Profession-run industry gang!
• Market Socialism - Similar to the above, we should collaborate more.
• Socialist Transhumanism - I am usually you and you are usually me.
• Transhumanism - My more technologically advanced friend and lab-mate. I built his first augments, by the way!
• Cyberocracy - My dearest son, goes a bit extreme but still a genius.
• National Communism - Zhivkov was a cool leader.
• Noocracy - My father, who taught me from a young age. We disagree when it comes to who exactly is the wisest, though.
• Meritocracy - He has talent, and he has many achievements and similar views.
• Eco-Authoritarianism - Like me but green!
• Cosmicism - You and me are two peas in a pod when it comes to our love for philosophy and looking down at common people.
• Cameralism - "Science of the state"? That definitely sounds great.
• Falangism - José Antonio Primo de Rivera was based.
• Francoism - A world leader who finally listens to the experts and technocrats. The Opus Dei was very based for their work on the Spanish economic miracle too.
• Vperedism - The only kind of communism I really like.
• Chiangism - Thanks for promoting experts like Yen Chia-ken and Sun Yun-suan in the nationalist ranks who were the architects of the Taiwanese economic miracle.
• State Capitalism - Thanks for employing me in all of your countries.
• Corporatism - Another good economic system.
• Oligarchy - A collective of smart people is better than one, and plebs are just too dumb to rule themselves.
• Xi Jinping Thought — I like the Engineer state! wait
• Galbraithism - I like your conclusion, and you are also a good technical bureaucrat. Why haven't you studied advanced mathematics?
• Post-Humanism - the time has come execute order 66

Frenemies

• Capitalism - You're not the worst ideology, but you waste so much and put more importance on wealth and materialism as opposed to promoting a true Meritocracy.
• Scientocracy - My moderate brother, who thinks in a similar way to me, but why do you need the experts to tell the politicians how to think (they won't listen anyway), when the experts can simply assume direct control?
  • - Because rule by experts doesn't really work that well in reality.
• State Liberalism - Only Experts know how to rule, also Yasmin Ibrahim is one of best management professors. However, I have conservative, socialist, and fascist variants who disagree with you on many issues.
• Kleptocracy - I claim to hate corruption, but Howard Scott and Shevchuk are quite corrupt themselves.
• Reactionary Modernism - I appreciate some of your variants, but others give me pause.
• Police Statism -Police are not experts in most cases, but Counterintelligence Stae is composed of the best intelligence experts.
• Futurism - I appreciate the sentiment, but you're too crazy to be running a country.
• Aristocracy - My grandfather, who first started the path that led to my ideals, but is definitely not qualified to rule.
• Populism - The population isn't smart, and neither are you! However, sometimes you will choose me for the population
• Technoliberalism - One of my children, but do I have a reason to have a child with a failure?
• E-Democracy - Democracy is a failure, but at least you pay me to keep up your WI-FI.
• Agrarianism - For the last time, you do realize the fertilizers, machines and even seeds you're using are all fruition of technologies' advancements right?
• Combatocracy - You also support leadership based on skill, but you base it only on strength! The strong is not the professional!
• Illuminatism - You are very wacky with your obsession with symbols, and also very secretive. What do you mean, that you are the powerful and globalist version of me and being super-secretive is for the safety of club members?
• Anarcho-Syndicalism - You are pretty cool regarding a profession-run industry, however anarchy and going against intellectual vanguardism is really cringe. But at least Howard Scott was sympathetic to the IWW.
• Marxism - Marx was clearly well educated and because of it rightfully understood the capitalists can sometimes be ignorant of what's best for society, however his attempt to give power to average plebs and workers control of the means of production makes me sick to my stomach, though he was absolutely correct in hating those disgusting backward and inarticulate lumpen. They are the purest form of social scum!
• Eugenicism - Kinda bad optics, but your ideas were certainly on the right track. Why selectively prevent certain people from being able to breed for a more intelligent population when you can instead just make those who score higher on tests the main qualifier for status and thus coerce people to want to breed entirely with nerds like me over those stupid kakistocratic jocks.
• Chinese Theocracy - Select bureaucrats based on professional knowledge rather than background，based! but many of your emperors have no professional knowledge at all, and sometimes why do you call the knowledge I have learned "奇淫巧技"

Enemies

• Machajskism - Anti-state, anti-elitist, anti-intellectual, pro-democracy, radical populism, and NO LEADERS? My literal opposite!
• Lumpenproletariat Anarchism, Lumpenproletariat Socialism & Rautism - You're nothing more than a low-life degenerates who leech off from the best and brightest, and take pride in being everything that is wrong with humanity.
• Liberalism - Liberal democracy is a flawed system! Your average citizen has no knowledge or expertise in the political world.
• Libertarianism - NO STEP?!, Only policies based on scientific evidence can protect you.
• Kakistocracy - This is literally the rule of idiots! WHY DOES THIS EXIST?
• Neoluddism - He said WHAT about the industrial revolution?
• Democracy - Why is Kakistocracy here twice? Techno-populism is good though
• Pol Potism - STOP KILLING ME!
• Mediacracy - Only exists to sell and never to inform. Stands against practically everything I believe in.But I need you to help people believe me……
• Plutocracy - You think only people in extreme wealth should be in power, you are trying to cause a disaster here.
• Taoist Anarchism - I am using your symbol, but you don’t seem fond of my intellectual discourse.
• Ochlocracy - The classic madness of the crowds.
• (Esoteric) Soulism - Spiritual realm doesn't exist, you magical-thinking buffoon! What? Did lucid dreaming help Descartes create the scientific method?
• Hayekism - I'm not pursuing power. I'm just doing the right thing. You just don't want the government to be efficient.

Further Information

Literature

• Technocracy: Science vs. Chaos by Howard Scott
• Technocracy: Building a new sustainable society for a post carbon world by Andrew Wallace
• Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941 by William E. Akin
• The Technocrats: Prophets of Automation by Henry Elsner
• Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
• Looking Back: From 2000 to 1887 and Equality by Edward Bellamy
• Technocracy Study Course by Marion King Hubbert
• The Technocrats 1919-1967: A Case Study of Conflict and Change in a Social Movement by David Adair
• Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy by Jeffrey Friedman
• The Engineers and the Price System by Thorstein Veblen
• Technocracy: Social Universals by William Henry Smyth

Wikipedia

• Technocracy
• Technocracy Movement
• Howard Scott
• Thermoeconomics
• Category:Technocracy Movement

Videos

• IdeoLogs: Interview With A Technocrasist by IdeoLogs
• What If Technocracy Succeeded | Alternative History by Monsieur Z
• What Is A Technocracy? - NowThis World

Online Communities

• Technocracy Inc.
• Technocracy Wiki
• r/Technocracy
• r/physicsmemes

People

• Thorstein Veblen
• Howard Scott
• William H. Smyth
• Harold Loeb

Gallery

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