Ideology Name Generator

Real ideologies are named in only a handful of ways, and copying those habits is what makes an invented one feel lived-in. The oldest pattern is a root plus -ism: a value (liberal, social), a thing to be protected (nation, environment) or a founder (Marx, Thatcher) turned into a creed. The second is the compound label, where one word modifies another to mark a splinter: Agrarian Syndicalism, Techno-Feudalism, Lunar Monarchism. Greek-suffix government words (Geniocracy, Thalassocracy) describe who rules rather than what they believe, and founder names come in two flavors, the blunt -ism (Varenism) and the more reverent Thought, Doctrine, Line or Synthesis (Hollowmoon Thought, the Voss Synthesis).

The names that sound most convincing carry the history of a fight. Prefixes such as Neo-, Post-, Orthodox, Reformed, Left and Radical imply an earlier version someone broke away from, which is why Reformed Solarism feels older than plain Solarism. Insults that became labels (Leveller, Whig, Impressionist) are another rich vein, so a faction called the Hollow Men or the Unsworn should probably have been named by its enemies first.

For a setting, give one ideology a dull institutional name, one a founder's name and one a mocking nickname that stuck; that mix reads far more real than a matched set of -isms.