I think we can safely say its not "Suck all the magic out of the world, actively attack spiritualism, kill any mage who doesn't follow your paradigm." Is not how ascension is supposed to work
If I recall them correctly (there's four editions of MTAs I have to keep distinct!) 1e and 2e both state that the Technocracy is making a path to global Ascension - but it would be the Ascension of the lowest common denominator, accomplishing Global Ascension without allowing for people to be special or wonderful. (Like, if we're going to complain that the Technocracy are kind of fascist, I think it's entirely fair to point out that the Traditions are kind of Objectivist.)
On the other hand, the Technocracy is directly responsible for the imperial projects of most European powers, and at least partly responsible for the genocide of the natives in various areas of the world that aren't Europe, as well as numerous sapient umbral entities I think you're going to have great difficulty making a utilitarian argument for the technocracy's existence.
Are you sure that's not just the Nephandic corruption that has been in the Order of Reason since it's founding? This is a thing in the setting that makes any claim about the responsibility of the Order of Reason/Technocracy in any real-world evil hard to ascertain.
In addition to the Traditions, which are groups that are members of the Council of the Nine Mystic Traditions, and the Conventions that make up the Technocracy, MTAs also has groups called Crafts. Crafts are like unaligned Traditions, or more correctly, Traditions are Crafts aligned to the Nine Mystic Traditions. In the 2e era, White Wolf released a book full of Crafts (the
Book of Crafts) that contained quite a lot of them. Among the Crafts in that book were the Sisters of Hippolyta and the Wu-Keng.
The Sisters of Hippolyta were a group of pagan feminists who could trace their roots back to ancient Greece. They were clearly inspired by utopian separatist feminism, because they were a female-only Craft of feminist mages big on total non-violence and living in communes. Their paradigm was based on the idea that women, being the ones who could give birth, naturally had a stronger connection to life-forces than men, and that magick was not metaphysical, but more of an intuitive thing. Each Craft had a small number of spells written up, and the Sister's were for gardening, healing, childbirth, more healing, escaping pursuit, and killing themselves rather than being captured. While written with the best intentions by a female feminist, they represented a lot of rather ugly ideas about man-woman relations, like how they stigmatized rape as being worse than death.
The Wu-Keng were a group descended from male Chinese mages who'd disguised themselves as women at one point. As punishment for this, they were cursed to forever wear these disguises and to bind their feet, and were locked into servitude to demons. They persist by kidnapping male babies and raising them into their religious order. This process involves raising them as girls, which due to how the book is written in total ignorance of actual transwomen, mean they end up genuinely believing they are women (the book keep referring to them as men or "women" though). The Wu-Keng are raised to seek out men in powerful positions and become those men's wives and lovers, which allow them wield power through those men in service of their Nephandic masters.
b) get a better paradigm, seriously girl, this is why the Traditions were losing the war with people with high-ranking Life wasting their skills like this.
Nitpick: the Sisters of Hippolyta are a Craft, not a Tradition. They also don't participate much in the Ascension War, and their tactic when the Technocracy comes to wipe them out is mass ritual suicide.
