Today, thinking about it, it seems to me I saw more than I realized in calling the first Sacrificial. I would submit that all traditional cultures contain as a foundational element power structures which are non-negotiable and prejudicial to some group within the society, or to external groups. Take as an example the American Indians. Warfare was endemic, and constant among most of them. They often took slaves. War is a way of entering into a power relation, and war has been a constant of human society. The precise nature of a sacrificial culture is that in some way it is non-egalitarian with respect to some other group.
And the important point here is how it deals with pain. It deals with pain by making some group suffer more than others.
Egalitarianism–here I intend Sybaritic Leftism–responds with the claim that suffering is unnecessary, and that no one should suffer, including paradigmatically the pain of inequality.
Cultural Sadeists claim that EVERYONE should suffer, in the NAME only of compassion and relief from pain. There is a duel element here, which alone distinguishes it from a sacrificial order. In practice, you still have an elite that lives a relatively better life than the subjects, but rhetorically, the suffering inflicted on the masses is called benign, necessary, and for the general elevation of society.
Obviously, there have been over the years many ideological justifications of slavery. In America, blacks were claimed to be too stupid to take care of themselves. I would submit, though, that in Communofascism the extent of the deception, and the fact that deceit is integral to the project, requires a separate classification.
Finally, in Liberalism you choose your own pain. You have temporary leaders, but all power is understood as mutable and negotiable, and shared.
These are intuitions which I have perhaps not expressed coherently, and it may be that I have not in fact had good ideas, but I feel there is something here worth pursuing.
We need a direction as a society. We need to be moving towards something, something we all want. For that to happen, we need orienting ideas. Providing those ideas is what virtually all my on-line work is dedicated to.