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Day 1143 of New World / Day 1 of the Halliman Regime


Editor's Note: The following bellicose screed was sent to us from a group calling itself the "Batallón de San Patricio (Saint Patrick's Battalion), supporters of the Red Army in the Americas". Please note that this article does not necessarily represent the views of the Socialist Freedom Party. We welcome a response from the Imperialist Party or other concerned citizens.



The Only Good e-Imperialism is Socialist-Imperialism



The recent pronunciementos from the born-again Imperialist Party are stillborn.

They represent the stale wishes of a failed vision.



Ugly vision promoted by the Imperialist Party.


Like Admin Himself, who eggs us on to spend our hard-earned cash on a failed vision of a world where only hate matters, our dear friends in the Imperialist Party have latched onto a set of misguided notions. Now they are seeking to hawk these worn-out wares to a justifiably cynical audience.

Both of them deserve some pity. I predict low profitability.


What is on sale here? Oh, look...

* Timeworn nostrums that were delightfully lazy and corrupt when they were young. But having lost their youthful corruption, they are no longer very interesting. And having shed their laziness and become a routine formula, they have also left behind their sense of langour. Thus they've become a form "business", of dullness. That is all.

* Mexico-bashing. Say, isn't that fun? Not like real life at all. Honestly, what kind of expert in this day and age expects to generate interest in a game by promoting e-genocide? Y'all who love to shout "greatest nation on earth": take note. You're seeing in this appeal the fading-away of a once-great dream.

* A litany of failures. The Imperialist Party is oddly precise in noting how terrible the eUSA has been at imperialism, how Americans in RL tend to be anti-imperialist, and then draws the somewhat fitful conclusion that only more, better imperialism is the solution.



Logical conclusion of the Imperialist Party platform


Although... on that last point, I actually half-agree. In fact, therein lies the glimmer of hope in the programme of the Imperialist Party. There is a "more, better" type of imperialism.

You see, our Imperialist friends are right about everything... if you turn everything they say upside-down.


Look, the only good, worthwhile e-imperialism in the New World is socialist-imperialism.





Every tired old dog in the game follows along picking over the trail of old bones left by the Admin: "Natural enemies." "Fight for resources." "Conquer the world." That's all tiresome, tedious and tasteless.

If you want to really have fun, turn the tables. Throw the money-changers out of the temple. Be a working-class hero. This may be the only chance you get.




Socialism and Individualism



It may surprise you to learn that e-Socialism is of immense value quite simply because it leads to an explosion of e-Individualism. It provides a way for you to forge a real legend for yourself.

Furthermore, the possession of private property is very often extremely demoralising, and that is, of course, one of the reasons why Socialism wants to get rid of the institution. In fact, property is really a nuisance. Property not merely has duties, but has so many duties that its possession to any large extent is a bore. It involves endless claims upon one, endless attention to business, endless bother. If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so.

Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it. As for being discontented, a player who would not be discontented with crappy surroundings and a low mode of life would be a perfect brute. Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read e-history, is the original virtue.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or try to max out his welfare benefits, which is considered by many to be a form of stealing. As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. No; a poor player who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented, and rebellious is probably a real personality, and has much in him. He is at any rate a healthy protest. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.


Why Private Property is Bad for You


But it may be asked how Individualism, which is now more or less dependent on the existence of private property for its development, will benefit by the abolition of such private property. The answer is very simple. It is true that, under existing conditions, a few players who have had private means of their own, have been able to realise their personality more or less completely. Not one of these men ever did a single day's work for hire. They were relieved from poverty. They had an immense advantage. The question is whether it would be for the good of Individualism that such an advantage should be taken away. Let us suppose that it is taken away. What happens then to Individualism? How will it benefit?

It will benefit in this way. Under the new conditions Individualism will be far freer, far finer, and far more intensified than it is now. I am not talking of the great imaginatively realised Individualism of my poet friends, but of the great actual Individualism latent and potential in e-mankind generally. For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that players thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of a player lies not in what he has, but in what he is.

Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false. It has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them with stupid ideas.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your perfection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot.



All Authority is Bad for You


Individualism, then, is what through Socialism we seek to attain. As a natural result the State must give up all idea of government. It must give it up because, as a wise man once said, there is no such thing as governing e-mankind. All modes of government are failures. It is useless to defend any of them.

In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralising. In e-America journalism has carried its authority to the grossest and most brutal extreme. As a natural consequence it has begun to create a spirit of revolt. People are amused by it, or disgusted by it, according to their temperaments.

What we need is popular control of the art itself, meaning the "world" of the game -- it's spirit.

Promoting a tired, old imperialism is just letting the Admin's tail wag you.

Socialist-imperialism, on the other hand, aims to overthrow everything that is tiresome, rotten, old, boring, and derivative. People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for a Socialist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the Socialist is no government at all. Authority over players and their "art" -- the way they play this game -- is ridiculous. All authority is equally bad.



Sickly Drivel, Sympathy and. Revolutionary Individualism


Revolutionary Individualism does not come to player through sickly drivel about duty, which merely means doing what other people want because they want it; or any hideous cant about self-sacrifice, which is merely a survival of savage mutilation. In fact, it does not come to a player with any claims upon him at all. It comes naturally and inevitably out of a player's desire to "touch the heart of god".

Revolutionary Individualism will also be unselfish and unaffected. It has been pointed out that one of the results of the extraordinary tyranny of authority is that words are absolutely distorted from their proper and simple meaning, and are used to express the obverse of their right signification. We see this in the sad pronouncements of the "Imperialist Party".

All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the small country or as the new player, and that no other player would care for us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of e-life, not with e-life's little sores and maladies merely, but with it's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom.

The wider sympathy is, of course, the more difficult. It requires more unselfishness. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature - it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist - to sympathise with a friend's success. In the New World stress of competition and struggle for place, such sympathy is naturally rare, and is also very much stifled by the immoral ideal of uniformity of type and conformity to rule which is so prevalent everywhere, and is perhaps most obnoxious in the eUSA.

e-Socialism aims at an Individualism expressing itself through joy. This Individualism will be larger, fuller, lovelier than any Individualism has ever been. Pain -- meaning an unrelenting global people's war and socialist-imperialism -- is not the ultimate mode of perfection. It is merely provisional and a protest. It has reference to wrong, unhealthy, unjust surroundings. When the wrong, and the disease, and the injustice are removed, it will have no further place. It will have done its work.

Players seek to live intensely, fully, perfectly. When we can do so without exercising restraint on others, or suffering it ever, and our activities are all pleasurable to us, we will be saner, healthier, more civilised, more ourselves.

Now that is a noble vision of a true Renaissance.






Free Oaxaca!

Liberate Mexico!

Freedom for all Occupied e-Countries!

The USA should be a beacon of freedom, not a jackboot factory!




Signed, O'Wild on behalf of the Batallón de San Patricio (Saint Patrick's Battalion), supporters of the Red Army in the Americas