This is a reupload of the Right Wing Progressivism wiki page because the website that hosted it got shut down. Because I enjoyed the work that has been done, I decided to reupload it here. I added some minor edits and commentary at the end.
Right-Wing Progressivism is an ideology created by Russian-Canadian Youtuber UBERSOY that holds a Right-Wing view of hierarchy and competition and a Progressive view of history focused on the successive improvement of politics and other comparable systems through innovations in how they self-organize.
It believes that Western democratic systems are stuck in the early 20th century framework while other systems like the markets, technology and bioengineering have significantly improved further. It also believes that the West is regressing from an open system into a closed system due to government/corporate managers having an unchecked ability to enforce a homogenous elite adherence to Leftism and it’s anti-competitive, anti standard, and anti-meritocratic goals, coupled with dysgenics, eroding culture and an influx of foreigners.
To update the political system to current market realities, Right-Wing Progressivism advocates for a system called Tectocracy or Market Democracy, in which legislation is created by an Epistocratic Online Direct Democracy limited to unevenly-weighted licensed voters, legislation is enforced by delegates selected by and from the voters, individual judges are not used in the justice system, and taxpayers personally decide where their taxes are spent instead of relegating this authority to the government.
(Although this page focuses on UBERSOY’s ideology, “Right-Wing Progressivism” has also been used to describe Right-Wing Postliberalism by Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute and Stephanie Slade of Reason Magazine, and to describe Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimism” by N. S. Lyons.)
Influenced By:
People:
Herbert Spencer
Alexander Bogdanov
Adam Smith
Hegel
Plato
James Burnham and Sam Francis
Francis Fukuyama
Alexander Dugin
Vladimir Vernadsky
Charles Darwin
John Stewart
Daniel Bell
Charles Davenport
Spandrell
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Ricardo Duchesne
Nick Land
Jonathan Haidt
Auguste Comte
There are obviously other people like Eric Kauffman, Emil Kirkegaard and Edward Dutton and Michael Woodley who have significantly shaped by views, but only with regards to research and not philosophy itself.
Schools of Thought:
Modernization theory
Progressive Darwinism
Early 20th Century Progressivism
General Systems Theory and Tektology
Biorealism
Managerialism
Hegelianism
Platonism
Techno-Optimism
Niche construction theory
Russian Darwinism
Positivism
History
I have started developing this theory in late 2010s when I first tried applying the principles of evolution to politics, biology and culture.
Right-Wing Progressivism was first hinted at in UBERSOY’s YouTube videos, but none of it’s concepts were explained until the video Neoreactionaries are Wrong About Cthulhu was published on August 26th, 2022, which critiques the Neoreactionary view of history and asserts its own. A more thorough overview of the ideology was given in the video Right Wing Progressivism Explained, published on October 30th, 2022, which explains UBERSOY’s view of progress versus the Left-Right dichotomy, the concept of Biorealism, his belief that the Left-Wing status quo is regressive and dysgenic, and some of his arguments for epistocracy and only the right being consistent in bringing a progressive vision. Following this, a follow-up video eventually became the “Right-Wing Progressivism Manifesto”, which more thoroughly explains most concepts of the ideology and tectocracy, and which was published on Substack for paid subscribers over two years later on November 28th, 2024. The manifesto mentions subsequent editions which will be released in future inshallah and address the issues of morality, culture, economics, nations and biology.
Beliefs
Right-Wing Progressivism differs radically from Social Justice movements in what it understands “progress” to be. It’s view is rooted in the works of Herbert Spencer, Alexander Bogdanov and Hegel, but also in niche construction theory and in the anti-Malthusian tradition of Russian Darwinism.
Progress is defined as the “perpetual successive elevation of an organization above the environment (nature and other organizations) done through the process of selection” in which “organizations” include not only human societies, but also biological organisms, market products, et cetera.
Under this understanding, organizations do not progress through a process of natural selection, but by engaging in “proactive selection” or “assembly”. That is, organizations emerge, assemble, and reassemble themselves (a concept taken from Tektology) to increase their impact upon the environment. In this interpretation of Darwinism, organizations, rather than the environment, possesses the agency of selection, and proactively reorganize both themselves and the environment. By progressing, organizations improve themselves and “overcome” the environment, which then incentivizes a reorganization of environment in response. When an organization improves itself and rises above the current standard, it’s new mode of organization, or “innovation”, is either adopted by other organizations and diffused throughout the environment, or alternatively, the environment produces countermeasures of its own.
Because of this, progress is split into two types/stages:
Vertical progress - When an organization innovates and reorganizes such that it rises to a higher level of fitness, efficiency and impact.
Horizontal progress - When the innovation is adopted by other organizations, and becomes diffused throughout the environment.
Right-Wing Progressivism believes that organizations require “differentiation” and “integration”. The components that make up an organization must be complex and internally heterogenous to specialize in their given niche (differentiation), while the overarching organization must have “organizing principles” which stop components from working against the overall system (integration). The ideal and most progressive kind of organizations are those in which the “energy” of specialized components reinforces and feeds back into the system’s organizing principles. This process is called “integration through differentiation”. As well as this, components that can re-adapt and thrive in a variety of circumstances (a concept associated with the g factor in humans) are emphasized as being ideal.
These principles are present in every sphere and the goal of the political arena as the prime force of organization of the nation, thus becomes the maximization of agent output and impact on society.
Right-Wing Progressivism advocates for this view of progress over the Left-Wing view because it sees it’s definition as universally applicable rather than being limited to social/economic politics informed by leftist moral reasoning, and because it believes that any vision of progress that ignores the vertical aspect will eventually undo itself by reaching diminishing marginal returns.
Political Progress
Stage 1: Loyalty Symbolic Ideology (Primitive Ideology)
This initial stage of ideological development is characterized by a hyper-centralized mode of governance, centered around one differentiated element (could be a group). It is typically characteristic of primitive societies and autocracies.
Organization: Society is organized by the absolute rule of one autocratic differentiated element.
Focus: The system emphasizes the virtue of loyalty in serving the tyrant and his bureaucracy.
Progressive Constraint: This stage strongly punishes any forms of differentiation, thereby securing submission at the expense of progressive political continuity.
Transition: A society typically passes this stage by either becoming disorganized, being absorbed by another society, or independently evolving into a higher state where the political apparatus is optimized by an intermediary class. Typically the introduction of Capitalism and Civic virtues solves the issues.
Stage 2: Ideology / Idealistic Competition (Combined Social Values)
This stage represents the mark of modernity, emerging when individual systems of knowledge begin to compete in a pluralistic field.
Organization: Multiple differentiated systems of knowledge coalesce into a combined organizational framework for interpreting and acting upon social reality.
Focus: Passionaries acquire a sense of political consciousness and perceive political phenomena based on ideological frameworks, triumphing over personal loyalty.
Characteristics: Politics ceases to be personal, abstractions and social values take the primary role. Societies are often highly moralistic and diverse in their ideological composition, with various generalized principles competing against each other in the political arena (e.g., capitalism, Marxism, fascism, feminism). This heterogeneity increases social differentiation.
Transition: The transition to the next phase commences when an ideology is valued not for its symbolic significance or purity, but for its ability to integrate into management. This leads to the ascent of a generalized social estate focused on substantively optimizing the polity through refinement of the process itself, rather than pursuing particular ideological ends. This typically devolves into a form of technocracy or a managed elite controlled democracy, or a creation of direct-democracy.
Stage 3: Pragmatic Functionality (Tectocracy / Infrastructural Ideology)
This is the final optimizing stage of ideological evolution, where functional utility becomes paramount and are mostly concerned over improving the infrastructure through which agency is being expressed.
Organization: Idealistic competition is replaced by the competition and integration of differentiated elements into a syncretic governing apparatus according to the principle of greater function.
Focus: Functional utility triumphs over the uncompromising idealism characteristic of the previous stage. This phase is marked by the creation and further optimization of integrative infrastructure.
Culmination: This stage results in the negation of the ideology’s form (idealism) and the complete assimilation of its substance (infrastructure). The system, exemplified by Tectocracy (an infrastructural model that aims to bring the polity to a higher level), comes to be perceived as ‘common sense’ and a neutral system carrying no differentiated ideological value, as it serves the interests of the generalized estate.
It does not mean the end of ideology per-se, it means, much like with Capitalism, it’s practical universalization.
Loyalty → Ideology → Pragmatic Functionality.
The Political Trialectic
Right-Wing Progressivism also believes that ideological progress (separate from political progress) comes from the number of principles or foundations that an ideology integrates and operates under, as this is believed to increase how many areas it can compete in.
Drawing from Herodotus and Plato’s three forms of government, the three estates, “Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality”, Spandrell’s trichotomy and other concepts, Right-Wing Progressivism identifies that three political principles have existed throughout Western history:
Hierarchy - “an emphasis upon higher things in politics”, which progresses throughout history from inefficient hierarchies towards pragmatic hierarchies.
Freedom (also called liberty) - “the propensity for autopoiesis”, which progresses from negative to positive freedom.
Democracy - which “deals with the matters of peoplehood, equality, and representation” and progresses from a mob rule to a people self-organizing into a government via direct-market democracy.
Autocracies and puritanical ideologies can only have one dominant foundation, while contemporary liberalism has integrated freedom and democracy. It is believed that tectocracy will produce a trialectic between all three foundations, in which they each encourage each other to perpetually grow while always balancing each other out.
Tectocracy
While Right-Wing Progressivism believes that Western politics has stagnated, it also believes the economy is a directly analogous system that has already progressed to a trialectic, integrating hierarchy, freedom and democracy in the Mixed-Market Economy. This is since it is largely meritocratic and wealth is unequal (Hierarchy), all actors can participate in it (Freedom), and almost all do as consumers with the collective power of consumer demand (Democracy), which are integrated through regulation.
So, to form a political trialectic, it is believed that the political equivalent of a mixed market economy must be adopted. This is called tectocracy or market democracy. Voters are considered equivalent to consumers, who create “demand” through voting. Since consumer demand has no “representatives”, tectocracy is a Direct Democracy. Since consumer spending is unequal, voters will have 1-10 votes based on political literacy and personal success and virtues, with no vote granted to those who cannot pass a political literacy test or who haven’t paid taxes recently (50-75% of the population). That way people with good virtues and lifestyles are incentive while social parasites and incompetent people are excluded.
Right-Wing Progressivism also justifies licensing only a select portion of the population to vote on the basis of statistics regarding US voters, including that a significant portion of voters (at least 35%) are completely politically disinterested and uninformed about any policy, while the average voter puts party tribalism over policy considerations. It also justifies direct democracy on the basis that voter demand has no effect on policy implementation in contemporary representative democracies.
TLDR: Tectocracy marks the endpoint of political history, where governance aligns with the laws of nature and organization, guided by self-selected, competent actors rather than traditional hierarchies.
Mechanism of implementation:
Infrastructure - Online political social media (Agora) + Offline Delegative branch, responsible for Congress functions.
Entry - Those who have passed a political literacy test / posses voter licenses. Delegates will be those who have a significant following on the Agora platform.
Allocation of Power - Competence, through open political/market dynamics (akin to influencers on social media)
Selection of Mechanism - Becoming a political force is dictated by personal skill and social forces, making it, representative, dynamic and meritocratic. This contrasts with the current managerial elite, which is plagued by incompetence, poor feedback loops and mostly responsive to donor and elite pressures.
Branches
In this system, members of the voting population create, modify and deliberate on federal and local policy through an online social app in the directive branch.
Given that they pass basic checks, members may be elected to the delegative branch by their peers, which handles state administration and which is given strong authority to enforce legislation. All delegates must be elected and regularly reelected so that the state bureaucracy is regularly subjected to democratic pressure and selection, and so that members will most likely be popular and passionate within their field. Although the delegative branch is somewhat comparable to an executive branch, there is no head of the branch or “president”. The country will be self-governed without a need of a ruler.
The judicial branch is to be reformed to consist of legal experts who vote on the verdict, sentencing and orders of legal cases in extensive juries to nullify the extreme biases of individual judges. Right-Wing Progressivism also advocates against the courts relying on case precedence, and believes that cases should be broken into their components by AI, and “universal principles” should be applied to the components of a case in order to make a judgement.
Legislation is passed by a voting majority of the directive and delegative branches, struck down by a voting majority of all three branches, and constitutional amendments are also made by a simple majority of all three, to ensure a dynamic and living constitution.
Biorealism
Drawing influence from Auguste Comte’s Law of Three Stages, Right-Wing Progressivism believes that there are three/four stages of progress in the social sciences, these being:
Firstly, a metaphysical or idealistic stage, in which phenomena are interpreted through unquantifiable theories of mental/social constructions, subjective experiences and metaphysics.
Secondly, an environmentalist stage, in which phenomena are interpreted through economic and environmental conditions.
Thirdly, a Biorealist stage, in which phenomena are interpreted through the subject’s biology, and biological reductionism is utilized.
Finally and ideally, their synthesis into an AI capable of discerning what methodologies should be used when, preferring more progressive ones when possible, and creating the ideal and least biased system of knowledge possible.
Right-Wing Progressivism believes that Biorealism is the highest stage because any phenotypical features of humans and human societies can only exist within the framework of their biology. Although phenotypes and genotypes can both influence each other, this asymmetry of one always requiring the other makes biological reductionism generally preferable. Examples of fields employing biorealist methodologies include evolutionary psychology, zoology, or sociobiology, which are cited as having higher rates of experimental replicability than social psychology or sociology, which tend to reject or minimize biological determinism in human behavior.
Right-Wing Progressivism also views ideas like Cultural Relativism, or Social Constructionism as being methodologically idealist and associated with Leftists, while socioeconomic analysis is environmentalist and generally politically neutral. The adoption of these metaphysical theories and rejection of biorealism in sociology is explained by the Left gaining a monopoly in the field, causing it to be homogenous, not subject to internal debate or competition, and subsequently regressive.
Here is a short AI summary of my document if you are interested:
UBERSOY Comments:
A better definition of Biorealism is here. The next stage in the theoretical development of Right-Wing Progressivism will come with what I call “Biological Politics”, the application of Biorealism to human affairs and its broader implications. I won’t reveal much yet, but I plan to release a video on it in early 2026.
Other than that, it was a pretty enjoyable summary of my manifesto, through omitting large sections of me analyzing the current environment, criticism of the Right, the nature of power, transformation of liberalism and the generalized estate.
I’ve been recently working a lot of hours offline so you may have noticed a small downturn in article output, but I will try to stick to one article a week schedule until the situation will improve, hopefully within a month.
I’m also slowly working on a YouTube video so stay tuned for that too. I’d also appreciate some feedback and suggestions on what type of content I should post more of. My next Substack article is going to be about online actually being real life.