[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] Internal Cleaning
--[X] Purge the Progressive Independents for being crypto-aristocrats! Form student militias; Red, Gold and Orange Guards who will launch a Cultural Revolution targeting the last remnants of the old regime that make up the core of the Progressive base.
--[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] Open up our borders to all the oppressed of the world, offer citizenship and employment to all willing to come live in Germany.
