Springtime of Nations II: A European Republic Quest

Because their business interest in us will give them a stake in our success seeing as they are beholden to their capitalist class, and once again if all our neighbors are to forever be our mortal enemies, how do you imagine we will defend against them, let alone defeat them, when they inevitably strike against us?
Counterpoint, their "business interest" in us will be used to defang our economy and render us a toothless tiger. They won't have a "stake in our success", they'll have a foothold in their actual interest, which is to ensure that Germany never actually poses a threat to them - "cooperation for economic benefits" and 50 years down the line we're still playing nice with them as they continue to repress their populations and hold high the monarchy and capitalists. The answer is that we must render our neighbors friendly. Via Sister Revolutions and collaboration with their proleterian and republican organizations. We did it in Spain!
 
Because their business interest in us will give them a stake in our success seeing as they are beholden to their capitalist class, and once again if all our neighbors are to forever be our mortal enemies, how do you imagine we will defend against them, let alone defeat them, when they inevitably strike against us?
Read up on how well borrowing from the World Bank has worked out for the third world some time.

Besides, we just aren't a very attractive target for foreign investment. Our cost of labor is very high by the standards of the day; why spend a bunch of money on a non-voting share in a German factory when you can make gigabucks working natives to death in the Congo?
 
Adhoc vote count started by notbirdofprey on May 13, 2023 at 11:05 PM, finished with 111 posts and 56 votes.

  • [X] Vanguard Communists
    -[X] Ante-Bordigism
    --[X] Introduce a national ration providing all persons within the Republic their guaranteed basic rights to food, clothing, and housing.
    --[X] Establish the Karl Marx Canal Authority with the mandate and powers to review the Canal's plans and propose modernized design elements, and introduce modern labor-saving devices and labor processes to hasten construction and free up workers for reconstruction projects.
    --[X] Establish municipal and district planning committees consisting of local and national political, and local worker, delegates to develop local economic plans in conformity with the national plan - such as it is - and to coordinate the efforts of local cooperative and state enterprises towards the accomplishment of the local and national plans.
    --[X] Experiment with implementing labor vouchers, in the Ruhr Area as it was relatively untouched by the civil war, as a starting point (along with the national ration) for decommodifying the internal economy.
    --[X] Establish a Continuing Committee of the International Socialist and Workers' Congress as a means of governing the activities of the Congress's members during the intervals between official Congress meetings. All activities, understandings and resolutions established and adopted by the Congress should be implemented in full by the Party as a whole.
    [X] Progressive Independents
    -[x] Plan Socialism with German Characteristics
    --[x] Support general lowering of taxation and tariffs to more sustainable levels.
    --[x] Diplomatically reach out to Britain and France, assuring them of the incredibly peaceful intentions of the German Republic and hopefully establish trade agreements with both.
    --[x] Open up the state owned industries and interested co-operatives to foreign investment from Spain, France and Britain through allowing purchase of minority shares.
    --[x] Support establishment of regional banks in each district or region to provide loans to citizens seeking to establish new innovative co-operative enterprises or allow them to deposit savings.
    --[x] Rationalize the current system of social security by transferring the duty of providing them to the unions and co-operatives, with the state supporting them through subsidies and tax breaks now.
    [X] Social Radicals
    -[X] Arsenal of the Revolution
    --[X] Ban the use of gold coinage for domestic transactions effectively switching to paper money for all transactions that don't involve foreign nationals or entities. Introduce upper limits for how much gold citizens and co-ops can hold and mandate that all gold above the limit is sold to the National Bank at market price.
    --[X] Overhaul the strategy, tactics, training and equipment of all military branches implementing the lessons we learned in the Second Civil War. Use the unparalleled expertise of our veterans to prepare the Second Republic for the next war.
    --[X] Initiate a broad program of urban renewal for the devastated regions of the Second Republic. Modernize and repair destroyed or damaged industry, underlining the Republican character of our rebuilding efforts with impressive monuments for the heroes of the civil war. Allocate additional funds to areas that remained loyal.
    --[X] Begin an mechanized construction effort to finish the Marx Canal quickly and use this as a flagship project to initiate a broader, nationwide infrastructure program. Focus on building or repairing roads and railways destroyed in the war, concentrating on areas of strategic importance.
    --[X] Lay the groundwork for long-term naval expansion by creating the necessary industry and infrastructure to expand both the navy and the merchant navy. The goals of this expansion are hegemony in the Baltic Sea and a stronger merchant marine to bolster our foreign trade.
    [X] Anarcho-Confederalists
    -[X] The syndicalist case against central bureaucratic answers
    --[X] organize collective answers to childcare and housework through workplaces, unions and cooperatives as a way to liberate women from domestic labour through the workers' self organization
    --[X] organize participative planning between local government and local workplaces, to find short circuit answers to demand where possible
    --[X] create a framework for German cooperatives to operate foreign branches in nations we have friendly trade relations with, enfranchising foreign hires as part of our worker owned structure
    --[X] experiment with more participative forms of schooling, encouraging both teachers and students to take an active part in organizing less hierarchical education
    --[X] welcome the marginalized of the world to Germany, offering citizenship and employment to those who lack a nation, are persecuted where they live or just want opportunities in a country that respect their contribution as workers
    [X] Constitutional Socialists
    -[X] Build Better Together
    --[X] Introduce a national ration providing all persons within the Republic their guaranteed basic rights to food, clothing, and housing.
    --[X] Seek to secure favorable trade treaties with the newly independent powers of Eastern Europe (Albania, Greece, Romania, and Serbia), free countries of the Americas (Union of Central America, the Caribbean countries, & the South American countries), as well as old and new sovereign states of Asia (Persia, Japan, Qing China, & the Philippines). This could help the economy and getting a foot in the door there could be good long term.
    --[X] create a framework for German cooperatives to operate foreign branches in nations we have friendly trade relations with, enfranchising foreign hires as part of our worker owned structure
    --[X] Direct the People's Labor Reserve to projects across the country with two main priorities 1)continuing the repair of our damaged infrastructure & industry as well as 2)expansion of transport infrastructure to facilitate domestic & international commerce
    --[X] Establish the Karl Marx Canal Authority with the mandate and powers to review the Canal's plans and propose modernized design elements, and introduce modern labor-saving devices and labor processes to hasten construction and free up workers for reconstruction projects.
    [X] Radical Republicans
    -[X] Plan Ready for War by 1890
    --[X] Repair, reintegrate, and expand internal infrastructure, especially rail lines. This is vital both to internal commerce and rapid mobilization.
    --[X] Expand our port facilities, both for receiving trade and for constructing warships. We will need a strong navy to protect our trade and challenge reactionaries in the Baltic.
    --[X] Resume work on the Karl Marx Canal, prioritizing advanced methods of construction rather than the old labor intensive plan.
    --[X] Have a formal review from our Combined Staff to determine what lessons of modern war were learned from the Civil War, and how best to conduct campaign efficiently and with minimal loss of life.
    --[X] Seek to secure favorable trade treaties with the newly independent powers of Eastern Europe (Albania, Greece, Romania, and Serbia). This could help the economy and getting a foot in the door here could be good long term.
    [X] Constitutional Socialists
    [X] Anarcho-Confederalists
    -[X] Anarchist-Technocrat Alignment
    --[X] Establish a bureau of independent citizen-researchers who are empowered to expect cooperation from the government on investigations of failures and best practices in administration, to maintain statistics and qualitive research projects on matters of public interest free of pressure from the government, and generally to effectively answer questions posed to them by legislators, cooperatives, public petitions, etc.
    --[X] Expand protections for freedom of thought and expression at universities, and promote the use of night classes for all curious adults.
    --[X] Expand protections for minorities in the face of government policing power by establishing a heightened level of judicial scrutiny for actions that target them, and making clear and public the avenues for such appeals. Allow minority communities to set up their own local police forces and set up special culturally-competent units of the National Police to handle national cases there.
    --[X] Establish a commission to review of military doctrine and operations in the Civil War, including civilians and common soldiers alongside military planners and officers, with an eye to identifying key reforms for military justice and legitimacy as well as battlefield success.
    --[X] Ask local governments and collectives in their area to identify the local infrastructure needs that are the most pressing and valuable, and support those local needs with the national supply of labor and material. Prioritize national resources to these projects first according to their benefit to the overall recovery and secondarily according to local damage.
    [X] Vanguard Communists
    -[x] Ante-Bordigism with Boats
    [X] Social Radicals
    -[X] Revolutionary War Now!
    --[X] Purge the Progressive Independents for being crypto-aristocrats and the Anarcho-Confederalists for their pacifism. The pacifist is, objectively, nothing more than an agent of the Tsar!
    --[X] Have our economic planners develop a Four Year Plan to double our military industry, massively expanding our production of guns, artillery, etc.
    --[X] Begin a naval rearmament program, expand our ports and build more warships, with a focus towards creating a strong Baltic Fleet to counter Russia and Sweden.
    --[X] Use the Labor Reserve to repair and expand our infrastructure, with a focus towards railways, roads and canals that are critical for military mobilization.
    --[X] Liberate Switzerland. Use our new border with Italy to start smuggling weapons to Italian Republicans.
    [X] Radical Republicans
    -[X] Anarchist-Technocrat Republicans
    --[X] Establish a bureau of independent citizen-researchers who are empowered to expect cooperation from the government on investigations of failures and best practices in administration, to maintain statistics and qualitive research projects on matters of public interest free of pressure from the government, and generally to effectively answer questions posed to them by legislators, cooperatives, public petitions, etc.
    --[X] Expand protections for minorities in the face of government policing power by establishing a heightened level of judicial scrutiny for actions that target them, and making clear and public the avenues for such appeals. Allow minority communities to set up their own local police forces and set up special culturally-competent units of the National Police to handle national cases there.
    --[X] Establish a commission to review of military doctrine and operations in the Civil War, including civilians and common soldiers alongside military planners and officers, with an eye to identifying key reforms for military justice and legitimacy as well as battlefield success.
    --[X] Ask local governments and collectives in their area to identify the local infrastructure needs that are the most pressing and valuable, and support those local needs with the national supply of labor and material. Prioritize national resources to these projects first according to their benefit to the overall recovery and secondarily according to local damage.
    --[X] Support the expansion of the navy and the merchant marine. Promote naval vessels as an outlet for social heterodoxy and unabashed libertinism.
    [X] Radical Republicans
    -[X] Plan Ready for War by 1880
    --[X] Repair, reintegrate, and expand internal infrastructure, especially rail lines. This is vital both to internal commerce and rapid mobilization.
    --[X] Expand our port facilities and resume work on the K.M. Canal, both for receiving trade and for constructing warships. We will need a strong navy to protect our trade and challenge reactionaries in the Baltic.
    --[X] Have a formal review from our Combined Staff to determine what lessons of modern war were learned from the Civil War, and how best to conduct campaign efficiently and with minimal loss of life.
    --[X] Seek to secure favorable trade treaties with the newly independent powers of Eastern Europe (Albania, Greece, Romania, and Serbia). This could help the economy and getting a foot in the door here could be good long term.
    --[X] Make service in the Leutewehr entirely obligatory, with the People's Labor Reserve and medicinal sectors the only option for objectors.
    [X] Progressive Independents
    -[X] Social Gospel
    --[X] Focus excess state funds on family subsidies and single family detached homes.
    --[X] Open up the Republic to lay social ministries from Catholic and Protestant churches and attempt a diplomatic thaw with the Vatican.
    --[X] Open up Germany to American missionaries and send a goodwill tour of German athletes and performers through the US.
    --[X] Legalize Christian and Jewish parochial schools that accept basic republican civic curriculum.
    --[X] Head off a laicist ministry of culture by creating independent government funded agencies for art and sport, which have supporting regional and traditional folkways in their charters


[X] Social Radicals
-[X] Arsenal of the Revolution
--[X] Ban the use of gold coinage for domestic transactions effectively switching to paper money for all transactions that don't involve foreign nationals or entities. Introduce upper limits for how much gold citizens and co-ops can hold and mandate that all gold above the limit is sold to the National Bank at market price.
--[X] Overhaul the strategy, tactics, training and equipment of all military branches implementing the lessons we learned in the Second Civil War. Use the unparalleled expertise of our veterans to prepare the Second Republic for the next war.
--[X] Initiate a broad program of urban renewal for the devastated regions of the Second Republic. Modernize and repair destroyed or damaged industry, underlining the Republican character of our rebuilding efforts with impressive monuments for the heroes of the civil war. Allocate additional funds to areas that remained loyal.
--[X] Begin an mechanized construction effort to finish the Marx Canal quickly and use this as a flagship project to initiate a broader, nationwide infrastructure program. Focus on building or repairing roads and railways destroyed in the war, concentrating on areas of strategic importance.
--[X] Lay the groundwork for long-term naval expansion by creating the necessary industry and infrastructure to expand both the navy and the merchant navy. The goals of this expansion are hegemony in the Baltic Sea and a stronger merchant marine to bolster our foreign trade
 
Read up on how well borrowing from the World Bank has worked out for the third world some time.

Besides, we just aren't a very attractive target for foreign investment. Our cost of labor is very high by the standards of the day; why spend a bunch of money on a non-voting share in a German factory when you can make gigabucks working natives to death in the Congo?
We could maybe appeal to conservative institutional investors, whatever the 1890s equivalent of a pension fund is, with a government backed guaranteed rate of return.

Having said that there probably isn't a lot of trust that our government will stick around. Also we shouldn't do it because, in the wise words of Sir Patrick Stewart, "Don't trust the liberals, they will betray you!"
 
Well Germany is still a parliamentary republic so even if the ProgInd get the most votes is still no enough to have majority in parliament, it is likely that they might end up running a minority government which tends to be much less stable than a majority government because if they can unite for a purpose, opposing parliamentary members have the numbers to vote against legislation, or even bring down the government with a vote of no confidence.
 
[X] Vanguard Communists
-[X] Ante-Bordigism
--[X] Introduce a national ration providing all persons within the Republic their guaranteed basic rights to food, clothing, and housing.
--[X] Establish the Karl Marx Canal Authority with the mandate and powers to review the Canal's plans and propose modernized design elements, and introduce modern labor-saving devices and labor processes to hasten construction and free up workers for reconstruction projects.
--[X] Establish municipal and district planning committees consisting of local and national political, and local worker, delegates to develop local economic plans in conformity with the national plan - such as it is - and to coordinate the efforts of local cooperative and state enterprises towards the accomplishment of the local and national plans.
--[X] Experiment with implementing labor vouchers, in the Ruhr Area as it was relatively untouched by the civil war, as a starting point (along with the national ration) for decommodifying the internal economy.
--[X] Establish a Continuing Committee of the International Socialist and Workers' Congress as a means of governing the activities of the Congress's members during the intervals between official Congress meetings. All activities, understandings and resolutions established and adopted by the Congress should be implemented in full by the Party as a whole.

Boats aren't worth a tie with the class-traitors!
 
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Well Germany is still a parliamentary republic so even if the ProgInd get the most votes is still no enough to have majority in parliament, it is likely that they might end up running a minority government which tends to be much less stable than a majority government because if they can unite for a purpose, opposing parliamentary members have the numbers to vote against legislation, or even bring down the government with a vote of no confidence.
I doubt they'd be able to. Much more likely to be a VanCom-SocRad-RadRep coalition govt I think. The ProgInds might be able to coalition with the Anarchists, but even then their focus on money might be an issue when the Anarkiddies are going for non-market solutions.
 
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Please note that any vote not in the proper format may not be counted correctly. That includes not having a plan beneath your party vote, having the wrong plan name, or anything else that makes the tally come out weird.
 
Counterpoint, their "business interest" in us will be used to defang our economy and render us a toothless tiger. They won't have a "stake in our success", they'll have a foothold in their actual interest, which is to ensure that Germany never actually poses a threat to them - "cooperation for economic benefits" and 50 years down the line we're still playing nice with them as they continue to repress their populations and hold high the monarchy and capitalists. The answer is that we must render our neighbors friendly. Via Sister Revolutions and collaboration with their proleterian and republican organizations. We did it in Spain!
Its not like we will have no control over the future investments or lack thereof?
Nevermind the running of our local coops?

Also congratulations we toppled the government of spain in the 19th century, it regularly topples itself!
France and Britain are entirely different beasts, both far richer and far more stable, and in a far better position to strike against us should they learn of our involvement in such actions against them.
And this part is just my opinion but i just don't think we can prevail against both france-Britain and Austria-Russia, one maybe but not both, and were not in our best condition, so we need some (semi-) reliable peace with one side, and i do not believe the people would countenance this with the eastern powers.
So West it is, and (at least for me) this need not be a permanent state of affairs.
 
[X] Vanguard Communists
-[] Ante-Bordigism
--[] Introduce a national ration providing all persons within the Republic their guaranteed basic rights to food, clothing, and housing.
--[] Establish the Karl Marx Canal Authority with the mandate and powers to review the Canal's plans and propose modernized design elements, and introduce modern labor-saving devices and labor processes to hasten construction and free up workers for reconstruction projects.
--[] Establish municipal and district planning committees consisting of local and national political, and local worker, delegates to develop local economic plans in conformity with the national plan - such as it is - and to coordinate the efforts of local cooperative and state enterprises towards the accomplishment of the local and national plans.
--[] Experiment with implementing labor vouchers, in the Ruhr Area as it was relatively untouched by the civil war, as a starting point (along with the national ration) for decommodifying the internal economy.
--[] Establish a Continuing Committee of the International Socialist and Workers' Congress as a means of governing the activities of the Congress's members during the intervals between official Congress meetings. All activities, understandings and resolutions established and adopted by the Congress should be implemented in full by the Party as a whole.

Boats aren't worth a tie with the class-traitors!
Remember to add "x"s to the brackets next to the plan and each plank.
 
Its not like we will have no control over the future investments or lack thereof?
Nevermind the running of our local coops?
The ProgInd plan explicitly takes away that control, by opening them up to foreign investment, aka "control of those industries and co-ops". That's what allowing them to invest in those things means! That they get to control part of it! That they expect a profit return on it!
 
The ProgInd plan explicitly takes away that control, by opening them up to foreign investment, aka "control of those industries and co-ops". That's what allowing them to invest in those things means! That they get to control part of it! That they expect a profit return on it!
???
I think the both of us have a very different idea of what kind of investment scheme is planned here, im not the plan creator, but ill assume they know that control for foreign capitalists isnt in the cards.
As for the return profit? Yes and? Quicker Industrial expansion now justifies returning some money to british bankers before we stop doing that once hostilities (in all likelihood) resume imo.

Also no answers to the second part then?
 
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[X] Constitutional Socialists
-[X] Build Better Together
--[X] Introduce a national ration providing all persons within the Republic their guaranteed basic rights to food, clothing, and housing.
--[X] Seek to secure favorable trade treaties with the newly independent powers of Eastern Europe (Albania, Greece, Romania, and Serbia), free countries of the Americas (Union of Central America, the Caribbean countries, & the South American countries), as well as old and new sovereign states of Asia (Persia, Japan, Qing China, & the Philippines). This could help the economy and getting a foot in the door there could be good long term.
--[X] create a framework for German cooperatives to operate foreign branches in nations we have friendly trade relations with, enfranchising foreign hires as part of our worker owned structure
--[X] Direct the People's Labor Reserve to projects across the country with two main priorities 1)continuing the repair of our damaged infrastructure & industry as well as 2)expansion of transport infrastructure to facilitate domestic & international commerce
--[X] Establish the Karl Marx Canal Authority with the mandate and powers to review the Canal's plans and propose modernized design elements, and introduce modern labor-saving devices and labor processes to hasten construction and free up workers for reconstruction projects.
 
[x] Vanguard Communists
- [x] Ante-Bordigism
-- [x] Introduce a national ration providing all persons within the Republic their guaranteed basic rights to food, clothing, and housing.
-- [x] Establish the Karl Marx Canal Authority with the mandate and powers to review the Canal's plans and propose modernized design elements, and introduce modern labor-saving devices and labor processes to hasten construction and free up workers for reconstruction projects.
-- [x] Establish municipal and district planning committees consisting of local and national political, and local worker, delegates to develop local economic plans in conformity with the national plan - such as it is - and to coordinate the efforts of local cooperative and state enterprises towards the accomplishment of the local and national plans.
-- [x] Experiment with implementing labor vouchers, in the Ruhr Area as it was relatively untouched by the civil war, as a starting point (along with the national ration) for decommodifying the internal economy.
-- [x] Establish a Continuing Committee of the International Socialist and Workers' Congress as a means of governing the activities of the Congress's members during the intervals between official Congress meetings. All activities, understandings and resolutions established and adopted by the Congress should be implemented in full by the Party as a whole.
 
[X] Social Radicals
-[X] Arsenal of the Revolution
--[X] Ban the use of gold coinage for domestic transactions effectively switching to paper money for all transactions that don't involve foreign nationals or entities. Introduce upper limits for how much gold citizens and co-ops can hold and mandate that all gold above the limit is sold to the National Bank at market price.
--[X] Overhaul the strategy, tactics, training and equipment of all military branches implementing the lessons we learned in the Second Civil War. Use the unparalleled expertise of our veterans to prepare the Second Republic for the next war.
--[X] Initiate a broad program of urban renewal for the devastated regions of the Second Republic. Modernize and repair destroyed or damaged industry, underlining the Republican character of our rebuilding efforts with impressive monuments for the heroes of the civil war. Allocate additional funds to areas that remained loyal.
--[X] Begin an mechanized construction effort to finish the Marx Canal quickly and use this as a flagship project to initiate a broader, nationwide infrastructure program. Focus on building or repairing roads and railways destroyed in the war, concentrating on areas of strategic importance.
--[X] Lay the groundwork for long-term naval expansion by creating the necessary industry and infrastructure to expand both the navy and the merchant navy. The goals of this expansion are hegemony in the Baltic Sea and a stronger merchant marine to bolster our foreign trade.
 
[X] Progressive Independents
-[x] Plan Socialism with German Characteristics
--[x] Support general lowering of taxation and tariffs to more sustainable levels.
--[x] Diplomatically reach out to Britain and France, assuring them of the incredibly peaceful intentions of the German Republic and hopefully establish trade agreements with both.
--[x] Open up the state owned industries and interested co-operatives to foreign investment from Spain, France and Britain through allowing purchase of minority shares.
--[x] Support establishment of regional banks in each district or region to provide loans to citizens seeking to establish new innovative co-operative enterprises or allow them to deposit savings.
--[x] Rationalize the current system of social security by transferring the duty of providing them to the unions and co-operatives, with the state supporting them through subsidies and tax breaks now.

I flipped a quarter to see if I would choose the PI's or the ConSoc's, as you can see I got the PI's
 
Firstly as far as i was aware the social services are not currently being provided in any adequate manner.
Secondly perhaps the gentlemen of the radical factions favour a four front war the next time?
We already have enemies to the North, East and South, what on earth possesses you to wish to add the west to that list?
We have a responsibility to our constituents, to see to their safety, prosperity and freedom;
You propose to destroy the first and Second with war, and the Third with the defeat caused by foreign policy so divorced from reality it would be banned from the catholic church.
On The contrary we shall secure our peoples safety with peace, their prosperity with trade and their freedom with the strength that they will bring to Germany.

Comrades, I ask you this when you consider the plight of the children, the disabled, the retirees and other such unfortunate groups, that the distribution of the burden to the people simply increases their economic stresses and woes. Consider the plight of the average co-operative, for which their pursuit for profits, as slim as they may be, should have to choose between those workers it employs, and the people of the communities for which it services.

Of course, to the Vanguard Communist, this is but the fundamental problem of an economic for which it's basis is the continued existence of commodity markets for wherein the pursuit of profits remains paramount regardless of how equitable it may seem. To us, the abolishing of these systems is the fundamental solution to this issue, to remove the profit motive and reintroduce true cooperation amongst the comrades of the world!

However, many would digress, so I shall say no further on the matter.

Regardless, to the basis of the question, the Progressive Independents claim that their system shall introduce the social services needed to service the people. But for what use is a daycare when that child has naught to look forward at home but an empty bowl for dinner? For what use does easing the way for which our financial systems operate, when they must spend all that they earn for food and clothing? The Progressive Independent provides solutions, but those that which only protect the middling proletariat, instead of truly providing for all, for the poorest, as those who still live in the ruins of Dresden are.

And to the question of foreign policy, I beg to ask that the Revolution possesses only permanent interests, that being the liberation of the proletariat of the world. Should we simply bow to the powers of international finance, for the sake of "appeasing" the West, for the mere reason that they do not sharpen their knives against us in this moment? Should we then stand idly when our fellow brethren in London, in Paris, in St. Petersburg, Wien, New York, Rome, and many other places, ask for our aid in the fomenting of a truly international cause, since that, as the Progressives would imply, would keep the peace between us and the bourgeois scum that govern the world? Or perhaps we should betray the cornerstones of our revolution, keeping with the "international order" for the sake of this false peace, as we did so many decades ago, when the Polish people revolted against the pygmy tyrant of the East?

Do not stain further the memory of what our dear comrade Garibaldi said in that year of '69, that any course of "realpolitik" cannot, and should not, be just cause for the end of another good republic.
 
[X] Constitutional Socialists
-[X] Build Better Together
--[X] Introduce a national ration providing all persons within the Republic their guaranteed basic rights to food, clothing, and housing.
--[X] Seek to secure favorable trade treaties with the newly independent powers of Eastern Europe (Albania, Greece, Romania, and Serbia), free countries of the Americas (Union of Central America, the Caribbean countries, & the South American countries), as well as old and new sovereign states of Asia (Persia, Japan, Qing China, & the Philippines). This could help the economy and getting a foot in the door there could be good long term.
--[X] create a framework for German cooperatives to operate foreign branches in nations we have friendly trade relations with, enfranchising foreign hires as part of our worker owned structure
--[X] Direct the People's Labor Reserve to projects across the country with two main priorities 1)continuing the repair of our damaged infrastructure & industry as well as 2)expansion of transport infrastructure to facilitate domestic & international commerce
--[X] Establish the Karl Marx Canal Authority with the mandate and powers to review the Canal's plans and propose modernized design elements, and introduce modern labor-saving devices and labor processes to hasten construction and free up workers for reconstruction projects.
 
And to the question of foreign policy, I beg to ask that the Revolution possesses only permanent interests, that being the liberation of the proletariat of the world.

Perhaps the delegates of this assembly should remind themselves of the permanent interest of the republic, that being the Welfare of its citizens.
Should we simply bow to the powers of international finance, for the sake of "appeasing" the West, for the mere reason that they do not sharpen their knives against us in this moment?

Peace is not submission,
Should we then stand idly when our fellow brethren in London, in Paris, in St. Petersburg, Wien, New York, Rome, and many other places, ask for our aid in the fomenting of a truly international cause, since that, as the Progressives would imply, would keep the peace between us and the bourgeois scum that govern the world?
and the destruction of the republic at the hands of the united forces forces of the monarchies would not avail them.

Or perhaps we should betray the cornerstones of our revolution, keeping with the "international order" for the sake of this false peace, as we did so many decades ago, when the Polish people revolted against the pygmy tyrant of the East?
Once again, Peace is not submission, our mandate demands the former and forbids the latter.
Do not stain further the memory of what our dear comrade Garibaldi said in that year of '69, that any course of "realpolitik" cannot, and should not, be just cause for the end of another good republic.
And i will not hear of the ending of the republic from those who have gleefully sabotaged the first.
 
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Perhaps we don't want to re-litigate the civil war, even in-character. I think that was not a fun time for many people including the QM.
 
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In regards to opening up investment, what would prevent investors from accumulating enough shares that they only need to convince a small fraction of a co-op's workers to screw over the other workers?
The idea of non-voting shares was floated on Discord, but as Nyvis said there, at that point why not just make it loans instead of letting them suck away surplus value forever?

The idea of temporary détente with the Franco-British bloc so we can build up to defeat the Austro-Russian bloc is appealing, but going about it by making our co-ops so vulnerable, while also fobbing off social security onto their shoulders (???), seems like the wrong way to go about it IMO.
 
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If the omake turns out to be canon then somewhere down the line we are gonna have a repeat of monarchist surrendering to the radreps thinking they'll be less hostile.
 
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