Post-dec philosophers often use the symbol of a hand breaking free through a page of the Declaration of Methods. This is not only an intended insult to both Preamblianism and Methodianism, but also differentiation from the Opened Hand's faction insignia, which is normally just the hand on its own.
Post-Declarationism Effect for Adherents: You have a +TN of 2 in all social offense and defense rolls on INT. Your depth tier counts as 1 higher when calculating your party's dynamic tier.
“The old vanguard can be our inspiration, but justice is our true duty. Our lands are poisoned by a cursed paper; the time has come for a new order.” -Azad the Equalizer
Post-Declarationism has its origins in the Opened Hand - a Hal'Tayatic faction which viewed the Preamblians as not going far enough in their opposition of tyranny. Indeed, given Preamblianism's commitment to private property and relative disregard for the poor, the Hand claimed that the Preamble had created a miniature "dystopia of property;" greed had poisoned what could have been a revolution of true freedom and comradeship. After the Opened Hand met with repeated failures in recruiting allies to its cause, some of its intellectuals put pen to paper, eventually crafting a philosophy to fully compete with both the Preamble and the Methodology.
Most of those intellectuals were in fact former Vanguard Rationalists, who had failed in their efforts to redirect the end of the Imperial Age into something closer to the Alacrian Revolution. Although these thinkers were veteran dissidents against imperial Ascendancy, the Declaration of Methods had outpaced their ability to formulate a quick response. The old vanguard had been left in the ideological dust, armed with reason but lacking the profound moral conviction that animated Preamblianism in particular. Thus the former Vanguardists eventually concluded that Rationalism alone was no longer sufficient. It had destroyed a dystopia of property in ancient times, but it did so largely through a historical coincidence of ideology. Now, a new vanguard would need to stand not just against Ascendancy or Declaration, but against the entire centuries-old paradigm of private property itself.
Like Preamblians, Post-Declarationists posit an absolute moral duty, but a much different one: Exploitation and inequality must be resisted. Always. Rather than simply opposing government, "post-decs" stand against all forms of what they consider injustice, criticizing private tyranny even more often than the public variety. They propose a system of collective property, in which goods and services are used for the benefit of the community rather than marketed for mere profit - a system similar to that enacted by the old Vanguard Alacris, but now a moral imperative even without artificial intelligence to conveniently manage economies.
As they view standing against property-centered inequality as a moral duty, post-decs support many forms of solidarity between commoners willing to resist their oppressors. The philosophy has been unable to shake its association with the Opened Hand; although not all post-decs directly support that "terrorist" organization, few to none openly oppose their methods, and thus the rest of Lur-Asko tends to distrust anyone who openly identifies as any form of post-dec. Interestingly - and damningly, to many outside observers - post-decs tend to spend almost no time criticizing the non-Declaration systems of Macska and Cevelky, despite the seemingly far greater tyranny found there. Those post-decs who care to comment on the issue will simply state the truth: unrest and reform seem far more possible within the Declaration realms. To Post-Declarationism, these realms stand at a critical crossroads of history: an opportunity for a true revolution.
Subschools Centralist Replacement Effect: Your trauma factor is increased by 2. Your depth tier counts as 1 higher when calculating your party's dynamic tier.
“Mercy is a fool's luxury, and 'empathy' is the cry of the defeated. If we cannot admit that it is better to be feared by our enemies than praised by them, the revolution is already lost.” -Alrekh of the Iron
Going even farther with the denunciation of the Declaration, Centralist post-decs take particular issue with that document's enthusiastic support of individual liberty. Far from guarding the actual well-being of the people, Centralists argue that those measures simply defend the interests of the wealthy, and create an illusion of choice which distracts the masses by blaming them for their own poverty. Centralists support the establishment of a strong, unilateral government - one which is willing to bend all ideas of liberty to the overriding goals of the revolution. The "despotism of the once-oppressed" must be established, with the authority to suppress all counter-revolutionary trends in society by virtually any means necessary.
Rather than the lasting legacy of something like the Ascendancy State, Centralist post-decs actually view their preferred government as temporary. Once its task is done and the revolution in society is completed, they hold that their state will simply wither away. This claim does little to assuage the fears of those who already fear post-dec ideology. Of course, fear is a welcome sight to the Centralist - any terror they can inflict upon the ruling classes and property-holders is a benefit, not a problem. Although Centralism has yet to convince major post-dec players such as the Opened Hand, it can already be seen expressed in the merciless nature of some of the Hand's members.
Continuist Replacement Effect: Your bWILL is increased by 1. Your depth tier counts as 1 higher when calculating your party's dynamic tier.
“Revolution, yes, but always revolving. If the circle is broken, we will know that the old ruler has returned. Let us not become that which we would overthrow, before we can even overthrow it.” -Inaya Hal'Freyvind
Continuism, though it claims solidarity with all post-decs, is clearly an opponent of Centralism within the philosophy. The subschool's name comes from its rejection of most "temporary measures" to secure the revolution. In their view, the revolution itself is continual, and there is no final stage in which huge paradigm shifts (such as the removal of the Centralist state) should take place. Instead, reformation must continue forever, as society continually evolves to counteract new forms of oppression and inequality. Continuists are always on-guard against the formation of a mere "replacement elite" within post-dec ranks. They warn that any centralized collective authority, even if it is superior to the old governments, will have a tendency to degenerate into bureaucratic tyranny.
In practice, Continuists are valued by the Opened Hand for their enthusiasm in spreading the movement to new lands, as their subschool also warns against confining the revolution to a single city or realm. Neither they nor their Centralist rivals have achieved an edge internally; the Hand (and most of Post-Declarationism in general) endorses a middle ground in which a transitional government is acceptable, but not absolute. Fortunately for the still-future revolution, all sides seem willing to put aside their disagreements in the name of solidarity, at least for now.