The new international revolutionary movement and a possible split.
Maksim Chuikov
Evening, fellow comrades!
The new international revolutionary movement.
What is this new international revolutionary movement, that you may have heard of? Let me begin from the beginning. After the annexation of eRussia the vanguard for the international revolutionary movement crippled with the ecountry. As the former eRussian territories became eRomanian territories, the ruble quickly lost its value. This had a direct impact on the massive peoples' owned GOSPLAN program which was the largest industrial complex in eRussia at that time. Without any RON the program quickly started to fall apart as workers started to leave or move to other hotspots like eAustralia or eThailand.
During the last months, new planned economies, similiar to the GOSPLAN program in eRussia have started to emerge in eSpain under the control of Bloque Obrero and eTurkey under the control of the Turkish Communist Party. With new people's owned planned economies we can begin a new era in the revolutionary movement. Instead of relaying on political control, which is highly unstable, we can move indirectly on the free-market economy and challenge the capitalist parties with our close-to-free commodities.
To those of you who don't know how a planned economy works, let me sum it up to you quickly. The peoples' owned and operated planned economies work after the principle of "from each according to ability, to each according to need". What does this mean in practice? It means that the workers who own and work for the planned economies are payed the minimum wage, but the commodities they produce are available for almost free. The idea is that the workers' buy their needed commodities and donate back the money to the planned economy. This way the money keeps going in circles. Due to the taxes, it's obvious that the planned economies are going on minus a little every day (more on this later). But imagine the losses of the petit-bourgeoise and larger bourgeoise companies when their commodities are not selling anymore!
The advantage of having a majority in the Congress is that the workers' can now raise the taxes, which make the conditions for the capitalists tough and also withdraw the tax money and donate it to the people. This way we can one day exterminate the ecapitalists from the market.
Until recently, these planned economies have been restricted to local trade only. These planned economies can't start producing enough commodities to undermine the capitalists before the industries are expanded. Before we can start with this phase of challenging the capitalists, we must satisfy our workers'. Due to the lack of funding and natural resources in their respective ecountries most of the planned economies have been forced to buy the natural resources from the ecapitalists. This is where the new phenommenan in the international revolutionary movement steps in the picture. If every Socialist party in their respective ecountry specializes into a specific area, we can start to supply each other until we can gather more support, expand the industries and finally begin with the phase of entering the free market economy. Negotiations are currently going on between the Bloque Obrero of eSpain and the CPSU of eRussia. This deal will mark the first trade in the international socialist market.
The birth of sectarianism in the international revolutionary movement?
As I explained in the previous article, the new economical cooperation between the Socialist parties worldwide is a new way of spreading the revolution in eRepublik. This economical cooperation between parties worldwide is seen by many 'economists' as the new way of realisticlly making a change in the esociety. The argument for this would be that the planned economies gain more and more support which naturally leads into support in the Congressional elections and an increase in the fighters strength.
Of course, there are still various organizations who feel that it's necessary to continue with the old ways of carrying out the revolution. The second most popular way of fighting for the revolution is still the anti-imperialist movements that exist world-wide, as an example the Workers' Militia. The Workers' Militia has managed to gather about 160+ members in their cause. You would think this is a lot for a radical-left-wing organization, but given the time the organization has existed it's extremely low. The enormous costs for fighting the imperialists is extremely high aswell. These resources could be invested into funding and expanding communes.
As I've pointed out, these movements grow extremely slow, which proves that the worldwide struggle for emancipation from the bourgeoise can't begin from fighting in wars or. The majority of the eRepublik party don't know anything about ideologies and will therefore not join a Socialist or Communist party before getting something out of it.
The anti-imperialist movements have not played a significant role in the massive wars either. Giving their amount of volunteers and equipment they can't play any significant role in a massive war against eRomania, eHungary or eIndonesia, to name a few.
Negotiations between the Workers' Militia and the new international revolutionary movement or the Internationale have been a failure after failure. The Workers' Militia does not support PTOs' or send labour help to communes. If this goes on it might escalate and give birth to sectarianism amongst the eRepublik revolutionaries.
- Maksim Chuikov.
Comments
In theory it's a good idea, but I have trouble seeing how it would work out in practice. Who would work for minimum wages if not a committed socialist? And who would buy the products? -Everyone. The products would be sold out quickly and those who worked wouldn't be able to buy anything. The system will get exploited unless you have huge production numbers (which is a game-engine limitation because there's no technology that makes things more efficient). So in essence you're describing a communist "economy" in a communist society. But for that to work the capitalist economy has to be abolished first.
But before we can establish a communist economy (which I think is impossible in this game as it is now), we need to establish a socialist economy. Which is a very hard thing to do in itself. A computer program responsible for planning will be required.
The Workers' Militia is probably one of the biggest organizations memberwise in the eWorld, which is quite a success. Our operations are not necessarily promoting an immediate revolution, but favors one in the long run through its internationalist and socialist actions which are remembered for long time by all antiimperialist allies. It works as PR for socialism at the same time as it produces real lasting results.
WALL OF TEXT. No thanks.
I share the opinions about this that Radsoc has expressed. I cannot see how this economic strategy could work in a massive capitalist society.
However, if the strategy is modified a bit, so the goal for the commune companies regarding pricing is always about keeping the lowest price on the market, the companies should be able to produce and grow. That way, the capitalist companies will be forced to lower their profits more and more until they have no margins left, and either are forced to cut wages or close their businesses. It's important that the commune workers are guaranteed their needs in which case.
It's encouraging to see that the international movement of the working class start to realize that nationally based political parties doesn't really help bringing on socialism. It just helps certain members of the political class to bring on themselves. We can't vote away capitalists, but we can buy them out.
As a member of the so forth hidden think tank ULMEIC (Universal League for the Material Elevation of the Industrious Classes), I agree fully with the thoughts of Maksim Chuikov. It is time to change the world.
This type of a "communist economy" may not work in theory, but this is the general outline for every planned economy currently in business. The Bloque Obrero, Peoples' Communist Party and CPSU are currently operating massive economies which do work.
This hasn't yet been approved or even discussed officialy by the Internationale. Every party in their respective ecountries will naturally have to adjust their program after the peoples' wishes.
The GOSPLAN program in eRussia supplied the entire party aswell as non-party members with food. You should remember that we had a large food production giving the population amount of eRussia at that time. In order for the planned economies to supply the ecapitalists constantly would require loads of food factories, which should be no problem.
Even if Workers' Militia works as a PR for socialism, that's the only thing that helps the international revolutionary movement. Even if the Workers' Militia has a lot of members, it will have to grow in the long run in order to become a significant organization in the eyes of the esociety. This in turn requires massive amounts of donations of money and commodities. So in the long run, the Workers' Militia is dependant of this international socialist market.