Vanguardism

Vanguardism (Stadtverisch: Vorhutismus) is a "tenet" of Staatism that was the last to be integralized into the Menschlicher Sternenstaat following the Second Human-Kizankai War. Brought to the forefront of Staat politics by Josua Wassermann as a result of the logistical scale of the Kizankai xenocide, vanguardism was posited as a means to utilize xenoi infrastructure and manpower in advantage of the Sternenstaat without outright xenocidal measures being employed. This was justified through emphasizing non-human sophonts (xenoi) as being separate in ideological objective from near-humans and their definitive, assured genocide, with xenoi themselves being seen as more akin to "animals that need protection", as Wassermann stated.

The sub-ideology of vanguardism was initially seen with extreme distaste, but it nevertheless appealed to major figures (such as the first Sternenkaiser Leonel Kästner) who sought to rapidly accelerate the industrial and technological powerbase of the Sternenstaat through any means necessary. The result of this gradual top-down adoption of vanguardism was the eventual end of the Kizankai xenocide, the dissolution of the various Kizankai Staatskommissariats, and the re-establishment of the Kizankai Shimanate as the first enthralled Staatsherrschaft. The Kizankai were enslaved en masse and put to work all across the Sternenstaat in assistance of military and civilian infrastructural construction projects, but in return for such dedication, their species were saved from extinction and were granted slivers of autonomy within their native territories.

In the modern day, vanguardism is used by the Sternenstaat to justify totalitarian rule over xenoi, with public images of such being shaped to portray humans as being the "shepherds of the lost sheep of the galaxy", in referral to the miscellany of xenoi across the Milky Way. This tenet of Staatism has been met with harsh criticism from other human supremacist groups in the galaxy, who view their "sparing" of xenoi from outright xenocide as cowardice.