Communal Humanism. How would you rate and critique this ideology?
I’ve been developing a political/philosophical framework I call Communal Humanism, and I’m interested in hearing how people from different viewpoints evaluate it. I’d appreciate criticism, ratings, and debate. Since I'm Hungarian that is the first country where this ideology would most likely be tested first IRL, if I manage to establish a political party.
Below is a concise summary of the main ideas:
Name: Communal Humanism
Position: Far-left with syncretic tendencies
Symbol: Purple Butterfly
1. Biological roots of morality
Communal Humanism argues that basic human morality originates in biology, not ideology or religion.
Evolutionary anthropology suggests that humans evolved strong prosocial tendencies during the Paleolithic: empathy, cooperation, shared childcare, fairness, and reciprocal aid. These instincts formed the foundation of early human survival.
According to this view, moral “rightness” often corresponds to behaviors that activate evolved bonding circuits (e.g. helping others), while moral “wrongness” corresponds to behaviors that trigger evolved aversive states (e.g. harming group members).
2. Babyhood as the Peak of Human Well-Being
This ideology holds that babyhood represents the most protected, cared-for, and neurologically rewarding phase of human life. It is the period where biological needs for safety, touch, attachment, and constant care are most fully met.
This stage is considered the “Eden” of an individual human life not in a mystical sense, but in a neurobiological and emotional one.
3. The Paleolithic as the Collective Human “Eden”
Communal Humanism also views the Paleolithic as the era that best matched human social and psychological design: small, cooperative groups, shared parenting, egalitarian structures, and low material inequality. This is not presented as utopia, but as the ecological context humans evolved for.
Modern life is seen as a mismatch with these ancestral conditions, which contributes to many contemporary social problems (loneliness, disconnection, alienation, etc.).
4. Parenthood as a “Second Eden” for Adults
Raising children is interpreted as a way adults re-enter some aspects of the early human emotional environment: caregiving activates bonding chemistry, increases empathy, and re-engages the same neurobiological systems that shaped early human morality.
Parents, in this framework, partially re-experience the emotional grounding that defines infancy.
5. Natalism and the Value of New Life
Because new life gives another human the chance to experience this “Eden” and extends the collective human experience, the ideology is strongly pronatalist.
It views parenthood, childcare, and caregiving as central social values.
6. Communal Responsibility and a Caring State
Communal Humanism holds that the state should take responsibility for the welfare of its citizens in the same way that individuals are responsible for caring for children and community members. The ideal society is one that mirrors cooperative Paleolithic structures scaled with modern tools by emphasizing:
- shared responsibility
- social support networks
- communal care
- strong emphasis on pro-social development
- interdependence rather than hyper-individualism
7. Structured Youth Socialization (“Butterfly Camps”)
A proposed policy inspired by this framework is a structured, communal youth program (similar in structure to national service but non-military), intended to help young adults develop social responsibility, empathy, caregiving skills, and experience with essential community roles.
These would be the immediate policies the Communal Humanist Party will do if it ever gets a 2/3 majority:
Rewrite the Constitution to include these parts:
-The goal of human life, just like of all other life is reproduction, our bodies are vehicles for our genes
-The best period of a human's life is babyhood, a time of Eden. By producing more humans, we give more people the chance to experience Eden, and by becoming parents and caregivers, adults get a second chance at experiencing Eden second-hand through their children
-There is nothing more noble than when a human sacrifices their life to save the life of another
-Humans are inherently good and their moral compass comes from Biology, save for those who have antisocial personality disorder. Everyone can test this on themselves: Imagine acting in kindness towards others, being social, and enduring pain to help others and you feel in yourself a warm rush of oxytocin and a connection to others. Now imagine torturing and murdering someone for personal pleasure and gain, and you get a cold, empty, hollow feeling and feel disgust and a disconnection from others. These are "caveman ethics", the basis of our morality. Evolution selected these traits because those people who didn't co-operate couldn't survive in the Paleolithic. Homo Sapiens have existed for 300.000 years, and 290.000 of these years were spent in the Paleolithic as hunter-gatherers
-Having more humans enhances the collective human experience, making our lives richer
-The State has a duty to care for its citizens, just like how every human being has a duty to care for their fellow humans
Then, the "Butterfly camps will be implemented:
It will be made mandatory for every citizen who reaches the age of 18 to move to a camp for 3 months. Since the logo of the party (and my ideology, Communal Humanism) will be the purple butterfly, they will be called "Butterfly Camps". In the camps, people who freshly became adults will experience communal living in barracks, taught various basic adult life skills, and they will be taken to work at various jobs, such as becoming Nursing Assistants, Garbage Collectors, Sewage Treatment Plant Workers, Soup Kitchen Cooks etc.
This whole thing will be similar to how military conscription works except this won't be a military training camp. The main goal of these camps will be to steer young adults towards being social, responsible, and empathic people, and to nip Incel, Hikikomori, and NEET tendencies in the bud.
Miscellaneous policies:
-Abortion will be banned except if the mother's life is in danger, but if the mother chooses to sacrifice herself to give life to her baby, she will be given a state award and a pompous burial. Contraception will be legal, but everyone will be encouraged to have at least 3 children, so the population will increase
-There will be enough state-owned farms, factories, and processing plants to have every basic product needed for life, from basic foods to hygiene products be domestically produced in these state-owned institutions, and there also will be a state-owned supermarket chain and a chain of state-owned restaurants where these products will be available
-There will be full LGBT freedom. Indeed, because of the population increase because of the Natalist policies, many LGBT pairs will get to adopt children
-Every drug will be banned, except alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine (which will be allowed at State-owned stores) and LSD (which will be used in psychotherapy)
-Eugenics will be completely banned. Children with Down syndrome and similar genetic disorders will be seen not as burdens, but as teachers, who teach healthy people about care and compassion. Finding out that the child you are pregnant with has a genetic disorder is not a legal reason for abortion
So, what do you think about this ideology?
Posted Dec 1, 2025, 6:53 PM UTC