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The Prometheist League
To: The left-wing parties of the world
Dear Comrades and Friends,
The Prometheist League, the main communist party from the Commonwealth of Camden stands today watching the events unfolding in Toyou and in Caria. We have carefully analysed what is happening in Yujin, in Seora, in Arakan and now we are turning our eyes towards the Carian Revolution. The sad end of what could have been the greatest event in Toyou history has been brought by two main reasons: the lack of democratic tradition in those countries and by the opportunism that was characterizing the so called leaders of the oriental worker's movements.
The Socialist Ideology is an ideology that has one condition that has to be achieved first and that is democracy. The dialectical developments of nations shows that one cannot skip a cycle of socio-political development and thus its near impossible to have a nation and people which was under absolutism or totalitarianism for all its existence to skip directly to socialism. Socialism is an ideology of democracy and respect. We cannot afford to see such abominations as single-party states which declare themselves socialist. We must abolish the though of vanguard parties. It is clear that authoritarian regimes that call themselves socialist are just populist in nature and use the hopes, desperation and aspiration of the people to their own needs, presenting their coercive measures as being messianic salvation.
We cannot accept the idea of Vanguardism because it deforms the ideals of socialism. Achieving communism isn't done by instituting authoritarianism and then organize some left-wing socio-economic programs. To support our argumentation, we also have to criticize the idea of planned economy. The planned economy presented by Vanguardist parties isn't actually socialistic in nature, but is actually state capitalism wearing the rhetorical mask of socialism. The work places need to be socialized, true, but not through abuses or lack of efficiency, but through progressive taxation that brings money to the budget which in turn is distributed to the people through welfare programs. The state should support the creation of cooperatives which directly distributes its profits to the workers and also intervene in the market to stop the creation of monopolies and keep the market flowing through competition and development. Thus the private property must be checked, by the trade unions to be sure that there is no exploitation, but its destruction has shown in the past that it brings more harm than good. Orthopraxy and pragmatism must come before ideological orthodoxy.
Opportunism is the biggest enemy of socialism. We have seen and still see in Arakan how dictators create dystopian societies which present themselves as Utopias. The rule of Thakin Zeya is no more than a series venal lies compared to what a real socialist state is like. The Hongmenghui, with its War Communism again shows that you cannot have such social experiments in a society where traditional values which support obedience are so deeply rooted, like how Confucianism is in Yujin. For the Yujiner people to actually hope to begin their Social development, Colonel Sha Ruidiao must organize a democratic government and only after one hundred years at least, they can say that they start to have some democratic tradition. So that they can be sure that their ideological development won't slip like the Arakanese one.
For this, we are thus presenting to the comrades of the world what we call "Socialism of the sixth decade" or what some political analysts have called "Prometheism" as being a reformation of social democracy, a return to the roots of the center left-wing ideology. The main problem of the current SD is that its supports capitalist exploitation, working hand in hand with them, but presenting themselves as defenders of the people through their so called reforms. We know that a lasting socialist society must be created only through the means of reform and democratic process but even if we do our reforms, we must not forget that we are still representing a line of thought of communism. In other words, even if we are taking the gradualist road, we must not lose ourselves in punitive reforms but have a clear goal in our minds, that is the development of socialism and the reaching of communism.
For this, we humbly ask our fellow Social-Democratic and Communist parties to also reform their beliefs and adhere to the ideas of Socialism of the Sixth Decade. In short, the main tenets of Prometheism are:
- Socialization of the work places, by the creation of Trade Unions, and state intervention to block the creation of monopolies;
- Adherence to the principles of multi-party democracy. The only way in which a socialist party shows that their ideology is clearly superior over the others is by having the party kept in power solely through the will of the people and through free and secret democratic vote, in which all parties presenting the political specter are allowed to participate. Through their wise and efficient rule, we can be sure that we can avoid the creation of the sectarian vanguardist parties that are formed by bourgeois proletarians.
- The criticize of sectarianism. Socialism can only be achieved through democratic means and full or at least majority support from the people, not through elitist terrorist campaigns.
- The clear goal. The goal of Prometheism is not to lose itself in its own reforms, like the social-democrats, but to keep the goal of reaching communism as the main important thing for it.
- The creation of the new man, as a socially developed character, who understands the importance of self determination in a political, social and economical context.
In the end we hope that our ideas would reach our friends from across the globe and it would unite the communists and social democrats again, in hopes of creating a democratic and free society. We fully condemn the sectarianism of the Arakanese Socialist Programme Party, of the Seoran communists and of the Hongmenghui and we hope that our brothers and comrades from Caria would understand our pleas and would create the free society we envisage.
Signed,
Robert James Edwards
General Secretary of the Prometheist League,
Member of the Central Committee of the United People's Party
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@everybodyOOC: If TLDR, in just one sentence the thing is that I want to bring some ideological political RP back to the forum and thus this is a move to have your Social-Democratic and Commie parties return to a grassroots social-democracy.
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