The year is 1890, in the United States of America. Revolutionary movements are about to sweep the world in the coming decades: what's the fate of yours?
In this riot quest you play as a grassroots political organization. Not political parties, but instead minor groups that would seek to either influence electoral politics or create change from outside the system. Examples you may be familiar with would be the Democratic Socialists of America, or the Black Panthers.
New readers! You may skip the first part of this quest by reading the summary here. The next post has the new instructions on making an organization.
The year is 1890, in the United States of America. Revolutionary movements are about to sweep the world in the coming decades: what's the fate of yours?
In this riot quest you play as a grassroots political organization. Not political parties, but instead minor groups that would seek to either influence electoral politics or create change from outside the system. Examples you may be familiar with would be the Democratic Socialists of America, or the Black Panthers.
Explicitly revolutionary groups are allowed and encouraged and a revolution happening in this quest is likely. During a revolution groups are separate but can be allied (think Bolsheviks/Mensheviks/SRs/anarchist of Russian revolution).
If one does happen, this will turn into a nation quest in addition to still controlling your organizations.
Player organizations aren't necessarily enemies or rivals. For example multiple could join together to form/support a political party.
For this first vote, you will create any number of political organizations to play as. You may also do this in any vote afterwards.
Each turn you can vote for one or two groups, and can switch. Groups with no support will slowly lose in game support, and then disband.
The number of people who vote for a group upon its creation determines its size. The same name but different sub-votes indicates factions within the organization.
[] Name of group
-[] Circumstance of founding
This can be a short sentence or paragraph, basically just how and why it exists.
-[] Locale
Where the core base of your support is. Ex. New England.
-[] Core supporters
Ex. Miners, factory workers, railroad workers, farmers, soldiers, intellectuals, petit-bourgeois, factory owners, big business, feminists, pacifists, etc. Can choose multiple.
-[] Ideology
Ex. Mutualism, anarcho-communism, marxism, etc.
Future turns:
There are two types of main turns. The first will be a general planning stage. Every group will have a plan vote where within that group they compete for what they will be doing this turn. Write-ins are allowed.
These various plans are in character what the organization is debating doing.
[][Group name] Plan name
-[] Do this thing
-[] Do this other thing
Second vote is just straight up voting for a group. This will affect their gain in popularity this turn. You can also add a single word subvote to determine the current vibe of the organization. This vote starts after the first vote but applies to the next update, so I can write this update before it finishes.
Additionally, I have a channel on there Wordsmiths discord server called physici-experiment. I don't give extra unasked for info there (or at least not extra compared to people PMing me questions) so it is very much not required, but there is a lot of player discussion there.
[X] West Coast Union Association
-[X] Formed to organise cross-union support, sympathy strikes in particular.
-[X] California
-[X] Agricultural unions, migrant labour, some industry unions
-[X] Loose, but mainly marxism and agrarian socialism
[X]Plan:IN THE NAME OF GEORGE! (AKA The Land and Labor Reform Party)
-[]Group Name: The Land and Labor Reform Party
--[] Circumstance of Founding: Formed as a Political Sucessor of the United Labor Party's Georgist Wing by followers of reformer, and thinker Henry George, they took to the idea of the Single Land Tax and its Anti-landlord tendencies on top of a few of his other ideas. The LLR formed following a massive fight between the party's founder and the Socialist Wing of the ULP, who insulted George as a "Weak Kneed Liberal fighting for Capitalism's folly" and the insuring brawl left a bar, two carriages and a streetlamp destroyed along with several injured. This led to the final break with the Socialist Wing and their supporters. Now free to chart a new course, they lean upon the works of Henry George and their founder for some direction. But the ideals and future is bright, and much can be done.
---[] Locale: Michigan and loosely in The Dakota States and Minnisota
----[] Core Supporters: Small Business and Farm Owners, Progressives, Internationalists?! Classical Federalists (AKA Small Government types?).
-----[]Ideology: Georgism (THE LAND), Progressiveism, Civil Rights* Private Property Ownership.
*In Regards to seeing Sharecropping as Evil and that all men regardless of skin color should own LAND! Without issue!*
[X] The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
-[X] Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
-[X] New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
-[X] European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers
-[X] Anarcho-Collectivism (Wikipedia Article)
Not the most creative when it comes to writing up stuff, but I thought I'd put it out there just in case.
[X] The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
-[X] Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
-[X] New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
-[X] European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers
-[X] Anarcho-Collectivism (Wikipedia Article)
Yeah this seems interesting, Radiants anarchista burn across time
[X] The People's Party
-[X] Dissatisfied by the major political parties, the Southern Farmer's Alliance and Industrial Union has decided to form a third party that can challenge the conservatism of the Republicans and Democrats, without having to run on their tickets. Drawing upon their previous ties to the Knights of Labor, and absorbing the radical/socialist elements of the Union Labor, Greenback, and Anti-Monopoly Parties, they will fight for the rights of both rural and urban laborers. They may even fight for them regardless of skin color, as there currently is a fight amongst the leadership over the possibility of integrating the Colored Farmers' Alliance into the party, as not only do Black Sharecroppers make up a considerable percentage of the population, The Lodge Billof 1890 may turn them into a considerable voting bloc in the South if it passes. However, such a move would undoubtably cost them an equally considerable amount of support from the white population.
-[X] Locale: Texas and the Southern Great Plains/Western South
-[X] Core Supporters: Farmers, Unionized Industrial Workers, Black Sharecroppers??
-[X] Ideology: The Ocala Demands, Racial Equality??
The possibility of the Populist Party not shooting itself in the foot due to racism appeals to me.
[X] The Forty Acres Movement
-[X] During the civil war, the slaves were promised freedom and land. They are no longer slaves now, but they never saw anything of the forty acres and the mule they were promised. Now they're forced to work for the rich white sons of former slavers as sharecroppers. How little has changed! But God gave the land to the people, not to the rich whites. It's time for things to change!
-[X] The South, centered around the Black Belt
-[X] Sharecroppers, predominantly African-Americans
-[X] Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Yeah 😂. One of my earlier iterations of this concept was a mix of parties and non-parties so I'll allow it but electoralism is going to be a side-show. State level elections will be possible to win eventually but on the national level the 2 party system is pretty entrenched.
Yeah 😂. One of my earlier iterations of this concept was a mix of parties and non-parties so I'll allow it but electoralism is going to be a side-show. State level elections will be possible to win eventually but on the national level the 2 party system is pretty entrenched.
Yeah, my idea with "The People's Party" is to focus more on the internal factionalism and infighting of such a group, rather than the electoralist aspects. The fight over Racial Equality in the South while trying to appeal to both Rural and Urban voters will be the major conflict(s) my plans will be built around for the foreseeable future.
[X] The Society of Friends of All Faiths
-[X] The SFAF originated when a Quaker man in New York got lost in the Lower East Side and ended up sheltering from the rain in a kosher butcher shop, where he began a debate about religions with a rabbi. The two exchanged contact information and began writing letters, slowly introducing others to the philosophy Bernstein and Friend came up with during their correspondence exchanges.
-[X]Primarily New York City, with some support in the broader Mid-Atlantic region
-[X] Jews, Quakers, Catholics, and other religious minorities
-[X] The SFAF believes that all religions have at least a kernel of truth in them, and so deserve value and protection. As such, they advocate for tolerance, the protection of Catholics, Jews, and other such groups, and dialogues between different religious groups. The position of many of their members on the outside of society has led them to begin developing beliefs about the importance of community, the illegitimacy of unjust authority, and a number of other radical beliefs. In effect, they are advocates of pluralism and religious social democracy or socialism.
[X] American People's Futurist Alliance
-[X] Founding: The rapid industrialization and technological development of the late 19th century caught the attention of a variety of up-and-coming inventors, industrialists, political reformers, and even the occasional revolutionary. A "Futurist Symposium" held at the 1878 World's Fair in Paris helped catalyze them into a political movement, of which the APFA is the American manifestation.
-[X] Locations: Major urban centers, especially in the Northeast, West Coast, and industrial Midwest
-[X] Base: Intellectuals, reformist/anti-machine politicians, immigrants (both wings); trade union leaders, feminists, civil rights advocates (left wing); industrial magnates, nationalist politicians, military officers (right wing)
-[X] Ideology: Technocracy, anti-corruption, education reform—the right wing advocates for "rational management" of politics as well as the economy and for the "technological and societal uplifting of primitive cultures", while the left wing backs socially progressive causes on the basis that bigotry and excessive hierarchy stifle the development of society.
[X] Radical Centralist Party
-[X] Founding: The failed Reconstruction in the South radicalized a lot of former Republicans that were disgusted with the failure of Reconstruction. Jim Crow convinced them that that America was in dire need of constitutional modernization and a more powerful central government unburdened by Federalism.
-[X] Locations: Major urban areas outside the former Confederacy
-[X] Base: students, civil rights activists, white collar workers, legal professions, left-wing intellectuals
-[X] Ideology: For the Radical Centralists the story of America after the Civil War is one of failure and stagnation. Jim Crow and the continued dominance of corrupt, racist and paternalistic rule by the Democratic Party in the South and machine politics in general shows that the Constitution doesn't give the state the necessary tools to solve the relevant problems of the day. America has to develop and not blindly venerate a constitutional order that has proven to foster division and tyranny. The Centralists are mainly interested in ending Federalism which they see as an anachronistic remnant designed to give outsized political influence to local elites and creating a much stronger central government with broad powers to intervene in the economy and local politics. Beyond the goal of creating a unitary state with a strong central government the party is deeply fractured. The left factions wants a strong redistributionist central government that empowers the workers and uses the military to crush the structures of racism and tyranny in the South. The centrist faction is agnostic on economic matters but opposes a de-facto second occupation of the South and advocates for a less radical and more gradual approach to ending Jim Crow. The right faction wants to make sure that the new, strong central governments respects private property. They want a stronger central government to better defend American interests on the world stage. They see the South as backwards and underdeveloped and are mainly interested in unleashing its industral potential.
[X] The Friends of the Huddled Masses
-[X] Created in response to the Page Act, Chinese Exclusion Act and longtime mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, what was once a loose coalition of advocacy groups and Chinese district associations on the West Coast has evolved into an organization dedicated to championing the rights of East Asian Immigrants in search of a better future.
-[X] California, Pacific Northwest, areas with large Chinese Immigrant populations (and a branch in New York City.)
-[X] Chinese laborer, farmer, worker, and business owner populations
-[X] Loose, pro labor, pro Chinese advocacy
