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Beliefs
Towards An Organic Society 
Society is a body, and a body must be organic. Nowadays, in the West, society is considered a mere collection of atomized individuals, and what this breeds is harmful and rugged individualism that has repercussions on society as a whole and the individuals themselves. Vigourism redeems essential designing and building an organic society while not diverging into vulgar collectivism and thoughtless egalitarianism. There are five concepts necessary to achieve this ideal.
- A harmonious society where class collaboration reigns supreme over any destabilizing attempt and sign of class struggle; we can actualize this through a corporatist economy, one divided into corporate groups, each of which manages a specific economic sector.
- A Parliament not made up of conflicting parties headed by senile, greedy, and incompetent people but of the representatives of the workers and employers of each corporation.
- A technocratic elite appointed by the government to make sure the policies implemented by the Parliament are congruent with the betterment of society.
- A society held tight by a strong sense of community and belonging obtained through a nationalistic and communitarian culture.
- By considering society as organic, we must unify it. Nowadays, we regard the State as an entity distinct from the community, and we don't redeem the latter as a unified entity but as a mere collection of singular individuals. Society is fundamentally considered an inorganic assemblage of individuals. That is, through a liberal lens. The State must become congruent with the nation, and individuals must be an integral part of the nation. We can only achieve this by having a unified culture; an organic state has to be monocultural.
Body Production 
The economy of an organic state can't be capitalistic. Organicists must oppose liberalism in all forms, for it is antithetical to our goal. As explained earlier, an organic state needs to be opposed to any form of class conflict; this means that both capitalism and socialism aren't viable. We need a harmonizing third position that takes the best of the two systems to create a new one: corporatism. Corporatism is not a new idea, but it fell out of the political discussion with the fall of fascism and nazism. However, corporatism remains the best system to achieve class collaboration; in Europe, we can see how society has tried to conciliate liberalism with class collaboration, failing.
So, how does a corporatist economy work? Differently from liberalism, it doesn't put the interest of private individuals as paramount; instead, the fulfillment of society's needs takes its place. Singular industries wouldn't be considered such; they would become part of corporate groups based on the products they make. Agricultural, Clothing, Transport, Infrastructure, Art and Entertainment, and Military are all corporate groups that would be created in a corporatist economy.
We should strive to achieve autarky as soon as possible so that we'll be able to be self-sufficient; this would result in the economy effectively becoming organic and not bound to external actors. Autarky is also a strategic objective, as it means not relying on other nations.
An organic and corporatist economy should strive to achieve full employment; to use an analogy by Alexander Raven Thomson:
We will suppose there are twenty families on an island in the Pacific, who by the use of primitive methods of agriculture can feed themselves by eight hours' work a day. Were a passing philanthropist to supply them with a plough, he would be introducing rationalisation. The islanders would find that fifteen families could now supply the needs of the community. If they were foolish enough to follow the methods of Western Civilisation, they would condemn five of their families to unemployment, and supply them with just sufficient food to keep them alive, according to the calculations of the medicine-man of the island. The most primitive savages would scarcely be as foolish as this. They would quickly learn that by a readjustment of the hours of work to six a day instead of eight, all would have employment and would enjoy more leisure.
Fighting unemployment should be a central priority for the organic state. This means fighting against the lumpenproletariat not as people but as a class; the state should renovate abandoned buildings or build new ones and make them new homes for the lumpenproletariat. Moreover, a crackdown on crime in the more depraved areas will be needed; the individuals who take advantage of the people living here, such as hard drug dealers, should be put in jail, while the people who need help will be rehabilitated for free and reintegrated into society.
Some fixed policies would be:
A work day of no more than 8 hours
Lowered retirement age to 60 years, with an immediate annulment of the Fornero Law
A minimum wage of 9 euros per hour
The Corporate State 
Societal Issues 
Reshaping Education 
Regarding education, Vigourism considers the Italian education system to have little to no redeemable qualities, as it's incredibly obsolete and inefficient. It believes it must be forcefully socialized.
First of all, schools should be made fully public, and private alternatives should be banned, with their buildings either being used as public schools or for something else. The total education spending should be around 6% of Italy's GDP, similar to Finland's. Students shouldn't buy any books; they should be lent by the school, with fines in case of noticeable damage to these books. They should have a much smaller role in learning anyway, so lending them wouldn't be a problem.
Education should be both practical and theoretical. High schools in Italy are currently divided into three big types; the first one, called 'Liceo', is more theory-focused and it mainly prepares you for university; the second one, called 'Professionale', is more practice-focused and it prepares you for a job; then the third one, called 'Tecnico', is a mix of these, but it's regarded as more practice-focused. This division should be eliminated, as education should be similar between different people; moreover, you have to choose what type of school to go to at about 13 years of age, which is far too early and wastes potential. They should be radically reformed; there should be some mandatory subjects such as history, literature, Italian, general education skills, sex education, and a second language which can be French, English, or German. The other subjects would be optional (there should be a minimum amount of hours a student should do), and it would also be possible to choose to do more hours of the mandatory subjects.
Homework shouldn't be a thing. If you need to spend more than 10 minutes at home on something that you did in the morning the teacher didn't explain it well. Exercises should be made at school and they should be practical when possible so that students learn to apply theory and abstract notions to real-life situations. Students could do exercises by themselves at home following some of the teacher's suggestions, but they shouldn't be mandatory.
Lastly, education shouldn't be a simple learning process; it should serve as a preparation for the future. Nowadays education is made with a focus on the past, without taking into consideration that the future won't be the same as the present. A passionate youth makes a strong nation. For this reason, the youth should be instilled with values such as pride and patriotism, and old beliefs such as Christianity should be heavily discouraged. In general, education should shape the youth, not just teach notions.
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