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Springtime of Freedom: A Guns of Old John Brown Riot Quest

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[] [Socialist Party] The Socialist Party Program for the 16th Freedmen's Republic Congress
-[] Plank 1: Establish a Congressional Social Planning Committee to coordinate the actions of the national enterprises and such worker cooperatives as accept its recommendations.
-[] Plank 2: Nationalize and centralize private banks, under a Board appointed by and accountable to the Social Planning Committee, for the purpose of providing credit to the national enterprises and worker cooperatives; condition credit to worker cooperatives on compliance with Social Planning Committee recommendations.
-[] Plank 3: Nationalize and centralize import and export enterprises for the purpose of negotiating more favorable rates with foreign traders.
-[] Plank 4: Reform the electoral system to national proportional representation with recalls.
-[] Plank 5: Move the Congress to declare war on each and all of the Northern Warlord States, in concert with the rest of the DeMoines alliance.
-[] Non-legislative plank 1: Move the International Workers' Association in New York to establish an American Socialist Bureau in New Orleans to coordinate between socialists of different parties in the revolutionized American states, and between socialists across American states, revolutionized and not.
-[] Non-legislative plank 2: Establish a party Propaganda Bureau to coordinate the political positions of party newspapers and radio broadcasts, and the positions taken at rallies and debates by party candidates according to the party program; and to purchase and distribute radios and loudspeakers to party branches.
-[] Coalitions: Socialist Worker's Party, Worker's Party.

After Walpurga Voight was locked out of her own party's legislative agenda setting (OOC translation: lol, our entire circle was waylaid by IRL bullshit for several days), she has emerged at the forefront of the new Socialist Party.
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Radios require electronics, do we actually have the necessary industry?
And more importantly: radios are absolutely a TOP SECRET BURN AFTER READING sort of deal and we do NOT want to hand them out willy nilly because they represent a HUGE force multiplier for us. Please don't do this.

[] [Socialist Worker's Party]
-[] Form a unionized state corporation (The Republican Pharmaceuticals Collective) and expand it at breakneck speed via economic planning by material balances, focusing on the mass production of the so-called Wonder Drugs: aspirin, penicillin, and streptomycin. The key steps in the synthesis of their active ingredients are to be considered Trade Secrets and all immediate profits from the enterprise are to be funnelled back into more expansion, until such as time as we can create enough product to trade overseas in bulk.
-[] Form the Fifth Column: a foreign intelligence service dedicated to establishing and equipping networks of spies and saboteurs in enemy territories and agitating for revolutionary action. Their first targets are to be the Warlord States and Pacifica.
-[] Reform the electoral system to national proportional representation with recalls, and establish secure long range radio communication stations in order to make recalls faster as well as allow faster communications between local and national bodies for the purpose of economic planning.
-[] Spin up mass production of internal combustion engines running on diesel fuel, as well as factories for the production of tractors (to help our farmers grow more with less labour) and trucks (to make our army highly mobile). Upgrade existing oil refineries to generate the necessary diesel fuel.
-[] Advocate for the reform of military standards and champion the formation of several volunteer mixed gender and womens' only units.
-[] Non-legislative: Crash the Radical Republican Party's business association meetings with hecklers, deface their posters, loudly decry the petty bourgeoisie that the RRP had made its bed with.
-[] Non-legislative Run an informational campaign, explaining that our focus on developing our industries is not due to lack of desire to strangle imperialists and reactionaries, but due to a desire to strangle many more imperialists and reactionaries and to keep strangling them at a steady and sustainable rate.
-[] Socialist Party, Worker's Party

@The Laurent, can I convince you to swap out building fortifications for establishing a bauxite mining and strategic aluminum refining operation in Arkansas? Aluminum is the big thing we're lacking right now for making good aircraft, and it's so damn valuable we can also artificially restrict how much we release on the open market to make a killing. I'm imagining that the Aluminum refinery in particular is guarded to hell and back and the workers are screened carefully to prevent the secret of its manufacture getting out.

Likewise, instead of jumping into making a 20th century navy, can I suggest working up to it by first developing marine diesel power-plants? This synergies well with the tractor and truck diesel engine in my plan, and unlike steam plants, diesel has lower maintenance requirements as a source of naval motive power which is cheaper for us.

@Physici, can I convince you to drop:

-[] Change election type to STV or other proportional system, with larger districts that each have multiple candidates. Allow for recalls of representatives.

In favour of:

-[] Spin up a steam turbine manufacturing plant, which can provide turbines for the coal power plants need for aluminum manufacture, running electric trains, and begin electrifying the nation.

Turbines are one of the keystone techs for electrification, and since we want to jump to electrified rail, we need to build the supporting industries.
 
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CyberEnby said:
Radios require electronics, do we actually have the necessary industry?
And more importantly: radios are absolutely a TOP SECRET BURN AFTER READING sort of deal and we do NOT want to hand them out willy nilly because they represent a HUGE force multiplier for us. Please don't do this.
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If radios are still super-secret shit, then the party won't be able to buy them to distribute.
 
[X] [The National Union Party] War Today, Revolution Tomorrow! Better Treatment Edition

Liberation NOW!
 
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@Physici, can I convince you to drop:
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Hmm, yes. It should be fine if we can maintain a left wing coalition. Though I'm a little afraid that we'll end up with Workers/Freedman coalition and no electoral reform, then.

Edit: If we don't get reform this turn, I'll just make y'all agree to joint-list candidates next turn.
 
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[X] [The National Union Party] War Today, Revolution Tomorrow! Better Treatment Edition

lol, let's continue this direction. Become relentless militarists
 
Physici said:
Hmm, yes. It should be fine if we can maintain a left wing coalition. Though I'm a little afraid that we'll end up with Workers/Freedman coalition and no electoral reform, then.

Edit: If we don't get reform this turn, I'll just make y'all agree to joint-list candidates next turn.
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I'd recommend that you keep the electoral reform bits, rather than sacrificing the Worker's Party appeal for the sake of redirecting some of the economic growth toward this specific thing. Electoral reform to burn out the rot already setting happening at all is more important than redirecting resources to increase the speed of one specific aspect of industrialization.
 
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I'd recommend that you keep the electoral reform bits, rather than sacrificing the Worker's Party appeal for the sake of redirecting some of the economic growth toward this specific thing. Electoral reform to burn out the rot already setting happening at all is more important than redirecting resources to increase the speed of one specific aspect of industrialization.
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I second this motion.
 
Yeah, I think I'll leave direct investment in industry for later then. We need to add proportional taxes to actually have money first anyway.

Edit: Also I had forgotten when I switched that there's voter issues this time that I was trying to appeal to.
 
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[X][The Worker's Party] Utopia is within reach.
-[X] The government working with civil society is to find as many volunteers as possible who want to build the ideal socialist cities and farming communities.
-[X] Prioritize the poor, minorities, civil war veterans and groups of people looking for something bold and new in the new socialist cities and communities.
-[X] Build said cities and communities
-[X] Coordinate and pool together recruits and resources with the utopians in the Worker's Republic to build cities and communities in our neighbors.
-[X] Assemble and send out our best speakers to tour the imperialist nations of Europe and the countries in our continent and speak with people high and low about the new socialist era and why they should support it. With a focus on the warlord states up north.
-[X] Non-legislative Form the anti-war bloc with like minded people.
-[X] Non-legislative Agitate for the government to enact universal healthcare.
-[X] Coalitions: As Utopians we believe that everyone should work arm in arm and as such we will coalition with anyone.
 
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[X][The Worker's Party] Utopia is within reach.
-[X] The government working with civil society is to find as many volunteers as possible who want to build the ideal socialist cities and farming communities.
-[X] Prioritize the poor, minorities, civil war veterans and groups of people looking for something bold and new in the new socialist cities and communities.
-[X] Build said cities and communities
-[X] Coordinate and pool together recruits and resources with the utopians in the Worker's Republic to build cities and communities in our neighbors.
-[X] Assemble and send out our best speakers to tour the imperialist nations of Europe and the countries in our continent and speak with people high and low about the new socialist era and why they should support it. With a focus on the warlord states up north.
-[X] Non-legislative Form the anti-war bloc with like minded people.
-[X] Non-legislative Agitate for the government to enact universal healthcare.
-[X] Coalitions
As Utopians we believe that everyone should work arm in arm and as such we will coalition with anyone.
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The way you formatted your Coalitions line messes with it showing up properly in the vote tally. The text needs to be on the same line as the X.
 
[X] [Socialist Worker's Party] Fight Corruption, Advance Democracy!

In the interests of not splitting the party, I'll move my support to this plan.
 
[X] [Socialist Worker's Party] Fight Corruption, Advance Democracy!
 
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      [X] [Socialist Party] The Socialist Party Program for the 16th Freedmen's Republic Congress
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      [X][The Worker's Party] Reform and Preparations
      [X][The Worker's Party] Reform and Preparations
      -[X] Dredge the rivers to allow barges to travel them.
      -[X] Begin government-owned construction of utilities and ports/seaports throughout the Republic, particularly where they are most needed.
      -[X] Change the electoral system to a more proportional system such as STV and add the ability to recall.
      -[X] Establish a government program for veterans to provide free medical care as well as assistance finding a job, including prioritized hiring at government industries.
      -[X] Encourage small farms to collectivize in the agricultural industry by providing grants for coops to buy agricultural machinery.
      -[X] Non-legislative: Focus on tying cooperatives and government unions to the party, showing the WP as their champion.
      -[X] Non-legislative: Advocate for private businesses to re-organize as cooperatives, both as a "smart business sense" that cooperatives are naturally better and tend to receive more government benefits and in a moral sense, that democratically run industries are simply the freedmen way of doing things.
      -[X] Coalition: Socialist Worker's Party, Freedman's Party, Socialist Party
      [X][The Worker's Party] Utopia is within reach.
      -[X] The government working with civil society is to find as many volunteers as possible who want to build the ideal socialist cities and farming communities.
      -[X] Prioritize the poor, minorities, civil war veterans and groups of people looking for something bold and new in the new socialist cities and communities.
      -[X] Build said cities and communities
      -[X] Coordinate and pool together recruits and resources with the utopians in the Worker's Republic to build cities and communities in our neighbors.
      -[X] Assemble and send out our best speakers to tour the imperialist nations of Europe and the countries in our continent and speak with people high and low about the new socialist era and why they should support it. With a focus on the warlord states up north.
      -[X] Non-legislative Form the anti-war bloc with like minded people.
      -[X] Non-legislative Agitate for the government to enact universal healthcare.
      -[X] Coalitions: As Utopians we believe that everyone should work arm in arm and as such we will coalition with anyone.
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      [X] [Socialist Worker's Party] Fight Corruption, Advance Democracy!
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      [X] [Freedman's Party] Swaying With The Times
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      [X] [The National Union Party] War Today, Revolution Tomorrow! Better Treatment Edition
      [X] [The National Union Party] War Today, Revolution Tomorrow! Better Treatment Edition
      -[X] Plank 1: End of Old Tyrants - Begin a Campaign against the American Warlord States
      -[X] Plank 2:Heal the wounds of Yesterday - Reach out to Veterans to address issues of injury, addiction, and trauma
      -[X] Plank 3: Prevent the Wounds of Tomorrow - Allow and encourage the formation of military unions to ensure problems and grievances of soldiers, sailors, ouvriers are addressed quickly
      -[X] Plank 4: Polyglot campaign - Encourage learning additional languages with an emphasis on Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese
      -[X] Plank 5:Bureau of Revolutionary Affairs - Establishment an organization to reach out to and assist resistance, revolution, anti-colonial, and anti-imperialist groups around the world
      -[X] Non-legislative Plank 1: Encourage our voters to enlist in the the military
      -[X] Non-legislative Plank 2: Rename to The International Revolutionary Party
      -[X] Coalition Any
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    • The political right was finally beginning to see a resurgence in the country, bolstered by a divided left, but the radicals and revolutionaries determinedly fighting for the dream of John Brown had a number of advantages, including having been in government the past two years, during which the standards of living and welfare of the nation had continued to increase.

    Furthermore, the transformation of the old National Union Party into the International Revolutionary Party had bolstered their spirits, especially with their leader, the eccentric John Humblewauser III publicly giving himself a baptism and flogging in a dramatic rebirth ritual. Their new platform was centered almost entirely around the military and anti-imperialism, continuing an aggressive trend.

    The platform of the International Revolutionary Party:
    -Plank 1: End of Old Tyrants - Begin a Campaign against the American Warlord States
    -Plank 2:Heal the wounds of Yesterday - Reach out to Veterans to address issues of injury, addiction, and trauma
    -Plank 3: Prevent the Wounds of Tomorrow - Allow and encourage the formation of military unions to ensure problems and grievances of soldiers, sailors, ouvriers are addressed quickly
    -Plank 4: Polyglot campaign - Encourage learning additional languages with an emphasis on Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese
    -Plank 5:Bureau of Revolutionary Affairs - Establishment an organization to reach out to and assist resistance, revolution, anti-colonial, and anti-imperialist groups around the world
    -Non-legislative Plank 1: Encourage our voters to enlist in the the military
    -Non-legislative Plank 2: Rename to The International Revolutionary Party
    -Coalition Any

    The International Revolutionary Party
    Discipline: 5
    Popularity: 3
    Localism: 2


    The Worker's Party saw the Utopian faction of the party, bolstered by internal political chaos, make a play for dominance in this year's campaign, but as per usual they were decisively defeated, their plans for the construction of new communities defeated in the face of a proposal focused on the navy, infrastructure, and electoral issues.

    The platform of the Worker's Party:
    -Dredge the rivers to allow barges to travel them.
    -Begin government-owned construction of utilities and ports/seaports throughout the Republic, particularly where they are most needed.
    -Change the electoral system to a more proportional system such as STV and add the ability to recall.
    -Establish a government program for veterans to provide free medical care as well as assistance finding a job, including prioritized hiring at government industries.
    -Encourage small farms to collectivize in the agricultural industry by providing grants for coops to buy agricultural machinery.
    -Non-legislative: Focus on tying cooperatives and government unions to the party, showing the WP as their champion.
    -Non-legislative: Advocate for private businesses to re-organize as cooperatives, both as a "smart business sense" that cooperatives are naturally better and tend to receive more government benefits and in a moral sense, that democratically run industries are simply the freedmen way of doing things.
    -Coalition: Socialist Worker's Party, Freedman's Party, Socialist Party

    The Worker's Party:
    -Discipline: 7 (Organized, but with many competing tendencies)
    -Popularity: 7
    -Localism: 4



    The Radical Republicans continued their campaign of fiscal conservatism, law enforcement, and backing the bourgeoisie, a campaign which had greatly benefited their vote share, especially as the right wing of the Freedmen's Party began to shift into their camp.

    The platform of the Radical Republican Party:
    -Plank 1: Start a Naval Reorganization Program, expanding both our navy and ports in order to defend our trade routes and bring in more trade.
    -Plank 2: Build forts along our border with Mexico and the Warlords.
    -Plank 3: Establish sensible immigration quotas, keep them high for now to appeal to moderates.
    -Plank 4: Provide more funding to law enforcement to keep order, especially in Texas.
    -Plank 5: Designate some coastal cities as Free Economic Cities, where businesses can operate under less bureaucratic red-tape to bring in more trade and investment.
    - Non-legislative plank 1: Politically unify the RRP by enshrining the party's new platform of "fiscal conservatism, safe borders, etc." into its official program.
    -Non-legislative plank 2: Create our own affiliated associations, unions and advocacy groups for businessmen, industrialists, traders and managers to agitate for policies in our favor.
    -Coalitions: Freedmen's Party, Worker's Party (in a coalition with the Freedmen's Party)

    The Radical Republican Party
    -Discipline: 5
    -Popularity: 5 (There's been a sudden influx of new members)
    -Localism: 6



    The Socialist Party, founded by Walpurga Voight following what her enemies described as an electoral defeat and her allies described as procedural ratfucking, entered their convention with grim determination, aware of the uphill battle they were facing and ready to fight it tooth and nail.

    The Socialist Party Program for the 16th Freedmen's Republic Congress:
    -Plank 1: Establish a Congressional Social Planning Committee to coordinate the actions of the national enterprises and such worker cooperatives as accept its recommendations.
    -Plank 2: Nationalize and centralize private banks, under a Board appointed by and accountable to the Social Planning Committee, for the purpose of providing credit to the national enterprises and worker cooperatives; condition credit to worker cooperatives on compliance with Social Planning Committee recommendations.
    -Plank 3: Nationalize and centralize import and export enterprises for the purpose of negotiating more favorable rates with foreign traders.
    -Plank 4: Reform the electoral system to national proportional representation with recalls.
    -Plank 5: Move the Congress to declare war on each and all of the Northern Warlord States, in concert with the rest of the DeMoines alliance.
    -Non-legislative plank 1: Move the International Workers' Association in New York to establish an American Socialist Bureau in New Orleans to coordinate between socialists of different parties in the revolutionized American states, and between socialists across American states, revolutionized and not.
    -Non-legislative plank 2: Establish a party Propaganda Bureau to coordinate the political positions of party newspapers, and the positions taken at rallies and debates by party candidates according to the party program; and to purchase and distribute phonographs and loudspeakers to party branches.
    -Coalitions: Socialist Worker's Party, Worker's Party. If coalition partners attempt to reform the military to relegate women to supporting or subaltern roles only, withdraw confidence & supply and shift to maximum obstructionism.

    The Socialist Party
    Discipline: 8
    Popularity: 4
    Localism: 2

    After their dramatic and chaotic convention ended with a faction of the party walking out, the remainder was quick to ratify a platform and slate of candidates in hopes of minimizing the damage to their electoral and non-electoral prospects.

    Platform of the Socialist Worker's Party:
    -Plank 1: Introduce a watchdog system of random audits on all governmental organs.
    -Plank 2: Transparency laws will be legislated so that citizens are properly informed on how the government works.
    -Plank 3: Abolish electoral districts and move to a fully proportional system of representation.
    -Plank 4: Slowly restructure state owned industries to be runned as collectives and offer grants to help expand non-state owned collectives.
    -Plank 5: Expand and improve educational institutions nationwide.
    -Non-legislative plank 1: Found a volunteer group to help the poorest communities of the country.
    -Non-legislative plank 2: Make contact with individuals and groups of similar ideological alingment in the continent (including Pacifica if possible) to better expand the revolution and the party's influence.
    -Coalitions: Worker's Party and Socialist Party

    The Socialist Worker's Party:
    -Discipline: 7 (Highly organized, but with a number of competing tendencies)
    -Popularity: 5
    -Localism: 1 (They are totally opposed to the local patronage networks scattered across the country)



    Finally, the Freedmen's Party had continued to be a plurality that did not manage to be a majority, and that only by dint of a divided electorate. However, despite still being excluded from government, the party members retained their confidence, both in their leadership and their victory.

    The platform of the Freedmen's Party:
    -Plank 1: War now seems very likely, if not inevitable, so insist on the creation and firming up both of checks within the military... and the creation of more military hospitals, a better support structure, and more, to support our brave troops in... whatever they may soon be doing.
    -Plank 2: Encourage, once again, a policy of grants and aid for agricultural workers! They should not be left behind!
    -Plank 3: New and radical ideas of talk therapy and more have been occasionally popping their heads up. Encourage its growth through grants and support... including in the military.
    -Plank 4: A strong offense requires a strong defense: build up fortifications at key junctures as determined by the army.
    -Plank 5: Address naval shortages by creating more top of the line ships, ships of the early 20th century... today!
    -Non-legislative plank 1: Begin contesting at least in areas you are stronger any WP/SWP influence over unions... they'd certainly make a more just "machine" than the one you have now.
    -Non-legislative plank 2: Strengthen organization of rural areas as one of the key redoubts/bastions of Freedman Party support.
    -Coalitions: Anyone. Yes, even the Socialist Party. Reluctantly.

    The Freedmen's Party
    -Discipline: 6
    -Popularity: 7 (they are the natural party of governance, despite recent setbacks)
    -Localism: 6 (the party machinery is heavily intertwined with local bureaucracies)
     
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