Technicism

Technicism is the Political theory based on the reliance and confidence in Technology, Science, and Progressivism as the ultimate benefactors of society. It is the opposite of Right-libertarianism, although often mistakenly classified as the opposite of Luddism, and is classified as a form of Leftist Authoritarianism. Ideals included as part of this Ideology include Equality for all Humans, a singular Authoritarian body for enforcing these philosophies, and the destruction of a Tolerance-based Society accompanied by the replacement of it by Technological Assimilation.
Technicism is also the belief that humanity will ultimately be able to control the entirety of existence using technology. In other words, human beings will eventually be able to master all problems, supply all wants and needs, have a profound control over the outcome of formerly uncontrollable variables. From a market of abundance, Technicism allows for a variety of a form of Leninism. This involves the connection of these ideas to the abdication of religion as a higher moral authority and the replacement of such with Logic through Empirical Science, including the derivation of Technicism through these methods.
In many cases, Technicism is a position regarding the commonly held belief that newer, more recently developed technology is better. This is evidenced by more recently developed computers being faster than older computers, and more recently developed cars have greater gas efficiency and more features than older cars. Although, because current technologies are generally accepted as , future technological developments are not considered circumspectly, leading to a Capitalization of Technology, further degrading the purely scientific aspects & benefits of Progress. Technicism can be considered as an Idealistic attempt to solve this problem by forcing Technological Progress as the singular Political machine. Technicism can be used as a subtype of Progressivist technocracy, in the sense of the control of society by technicians and scientists.
Etymology
The term Technicism is derived from a portmanteau of the English technic, meaning having to do with Technology, added to -ism, the English suffix denoting abstract nouns. Although the term is considered to be a neologism because of it being coined in the recent past, there are implicit past references to a similar concept in multiple different works such as scientific, political or artistic. This is supported by the fact that, although many Leftist Organizations do not mention Technicism, they would technically be classified as a Technicist Organization.
Philosophy
Technicism is the belief that humanity will control most to the entirety of its existence through technological tools or will be able to solve all to most of current hindrances and problems through technological advances. This includes the possible creation of an economy of abundance, appealing to Transhumanism and Communism or even to control time with very advanced technologies in the distant future.
Such philosophy would also advocate for the destruction of superstition, religion, biological nature, and other doctrines without empirical relevance and quantitative methods that are useless for technological Progress. Where it followers or people called "technicists" usually choose to follow or develop in fields related science, engineering or other technical/scientific areas.
It stands in stark contrast and opposition to current ideologies such as Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism, Liberalism, Conservativism and all other Political philosophies that reject or oppose technological development.
Social and Political system
Technicism promotes the proposition of the form of government known as Technocracy (associated Leninism and Marxism), where power is entrusted to Technological delegated institutions. This is defined as a Marxist Technobureaucratic administration and is responsible for managing key elements of a society by empirical/rational methodologies by the Scientific method.
Although technicist economic and social theory is still in its early stage, it is cataloged in the interdisciplinary field of Communism. As socioeconomic system it promotes a collectivist and egalitarian approach, where the only class division relies in Leninist labor divisions in which it aims to reach or at least orient towards a post-scarcity economy, absent from private property, rejecting the price system, and openly promoting a direct allocation/planned resource management by objective/scientific knowledge, creating a society of free access, focused on the automation of the means of production and steady state economy.
As an early reference example we could point to the technocratic movement that born in the United States during the 19th century, which promoted an economic system called Thermoeconomics, which appeals to the laws of thermodynamics for the economic calculation, distribution, energy efficiency and sustainability. In current times, the movement of Scientific nationalism advocates for the creation of a nation devoted solely and purely to these ideals
Debate
The geocultural approach, which appears in France in 2013, points out that fragmented technical analyses are unable to understand the world in its globality. Civilizations, which are living organisms cannot be apprehended only by the multiplication of technicist approaches. Thomas Flichy de La Neuville and Oliver Hanne propose to reintroduce political and cultural criteria alongside technical analyses so as to recover an intelligence of the world.
Techno-utopianism
An example of a specific form of Technism is techno-utopianism, such as that described in the woks of Jacques Fresco.

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