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Chapter 8: NEW REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
3. Do it differently from the Communist Party.
I have stated that the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention is a decentralized network-type organization without a central leadership, but such network-type organizations tend to have too loose membership and easily become group-based organizations.
Therefore, the membership of the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention is organized somewhat strictly, and only those who have agreed to all the articles of the Commons' Convention Covenant, which is the constitution of the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention can become members.
Those covenant members are obligated to pay operating expenses equal to or higher than the minimum amount specified in the agreement once a year.
In addition to the Central (or Federal) Liaison Committee members, the members of local Commons' Convention Liaison Committees are chosen by lottery from among the members of the alliance - in the case of local level Commons' Conventions, they must be residents of the jurisdiction - for a term of approximately two years.
In this way, by implementing a rotation system for positions within the organization through a lottery system, it is possible to prevent leadership members from becoming fixed and creating an authoritarian internal party bureaucracy, as is the case with Communist Party organizations.
In addition, the general meeting delegates who have the right to attend the general meeting of the Commons' Convention are elected from among the Liaison Committee members of the provincial (or quasi-zonal) and regional Commons' Convention, but in addition to these, a prescribed number of general members can become a general meeting participant on a first-come, first-served basis.
Although the number of these core alliance members will be limited to some extent, so-called organizing activities such as acquiring party members will not be carried out. Instead, full-time employees will carry out inspirational activities using the Internet, and focus on spreading voluntary external sympathizers.
The membership and organization of the Commons' Convention is by no means circle-like, but it is also not a Communist Party-style "iron unity"; with a limited number of covenant members as the core, it will be composed of a large number of voluntary sympathizers forming an extension, and will be an amoeba-like organization that can be described as a "flexible alliance."
3.5. Fusion of red and green
The pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention differs ideologically from the Communist Party in that it internalizes ecology. This was also reflected in the new planned economy method implemented after the revolution called sustainable planned economy, which we saw in Chapter 2.
In this regard, it is worth recalling that since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, ecological parties such as the Green Party have emerged mainly in Europe in response to the unprecedented rise in interest in global environmental issues.
However, the Green Party is generally negative about communism, and only advocates tightening environmental regulations within the framework of capitalism, without attempting to fundamentally change the mode of production. In this sense, their position ends up being "green capitalism," which simply dyes capitalism green.
This will only result in capital being used to pursue opportunistic profit-seeking strategies such as eco-business. A symbolic example of this is the nuclear power export policy, which promotes global warming countermeasures as its rationale, but "green capitalism" cannot essentially criticize the eco-opportunistic business practices of capital.
On the other hand, labor unions tend to join forces with management in opposing environmental regulations, fearing that a decline in production or an increase in production costs due to stricter environmental regulations will result in layoffs. The Communist Party, which shows its understanding of the union's position, is also likely to take an anti-ecology position, partly due to its wariness of the Green Party's rise.
The pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention aims to redefine a new communism that internalizes ecology, existing between anti-communist "green capitalism" and communist "anti-ecology."
The traditional symbol color of communism has been red. Since the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention also aims for communism, it is fine to use red as its base color, but add green to it. However, it should not be just a two-tone color of red and green, but something like an arabesque, a fusion of red and green in a deep dimension.
3.6. Collective non-voting movement
The main activity of the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention is, first of all, the development of a collective non-voting movement, which will become a new method of revolutionary movement. In other words, with the World Commons' Conventionas the base, through the collaborating Commons' Conventions of each country, you will gradually increase the number of abstainers in various public office elections, undermine the legitimacy of existing parliaments and governments, and lead to an eventual revolution.
What should be noted here are movements in countries where voting is mandatory with penalties. In this case, abstaining will be considered a criminal act. However, in most cases it is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine and not strictly enforced, but if abstention is severely punished, it becomes a form of conscientious disobedience.
On the other hand, in countries where public office election systems do not yet exist, or even if they do exist, where elections have become a mere formality due to one-party rule, collective non-voting campaigns cannot be effectively developed in the first place. In such a case, the Commons' Convention should focus on the counter-legislative activities mentioned in the next paragraph rather than the abstaining movement, or, if that is difficult, the Commons' Convention in exile should be formed abroad.
Incidentally, the Commons' Convention movements in countries where communist parties have established one-party rule systems seem at first glance to be a contradictory act of "communism confronting communism", but there are discrepancies between the partisan communism of the established communist parties and the communism of the Commons' Conventions, so "communism confronting communism" is not a contradiction.
In this case, rather than attacking the dictatorial Communist Party externally from an anti-communist standpoint, a movement is developed to internally counter it with a new, redefined form of communism.
3.7. Counter-legislative activities
The second mainstay of the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention activities is counter-legislative activities. That is, counter-legislative activities are legislative activities carried out by the Commons' Convention in opposition an existing legislative body. Of course, when "legislation" mentioned here, in the pre-revolutionary stage, it remains a private program that has no effect as a regular law, but when the revolution is completed, it becomes an official law, so to speak, it is a chrysalis of law .
At the center of this is the Charter. A charter is the highest standard equivalent to a constitution in terms of the existing national legal system, and can practically be called a constitution. As already mentioned, communism does not assume a sovereign state, so the constitution, which is the highest standard of society, comes in the form of a charter (the Charter of the Commons' Convention).
These Charters use the Charter of the World Commons' Convention which also serves as the Charter of the World Commonwealth, as a unified source of law, and each Charter of the Commons' Convention is enacted. In this way, Charters are enacted in multiple layers for each sphere, forming a web of Charters.
In addition to the enactment of the Charter, the enactment of economic legislation related to the mechanism of a sustainable planned economy also constitutes an important counter-legislative activity of the pre-evolutionary Commons' Convention. In order to avoid the post-revolution economic and social turmoil, careful pre-revolutionary preparations are indispensable, since the abolition of the monetary economy is a major undertaking in human history.
3.8. Abstinence from becoming a political party
Beyond the two pillars of activity mentioned above, one question may be whether the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention should also engage in political party-like activities such as participation in elections.
While basically agreeing with the direction of the Commons' Convention, which aims for a new communism, if capitalism has a strong vitality and will not easily collapse on its own, It may be possible to make a cautious recommendation that we should aim for possible reforms through elections within the framework of capitalism.
However, the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention should not turn into a political party or similar political organization. This is a major turning point from the established Communist Party.
As mentioned earlier, in the post-Soviet world, many remaining communist parties participate in parliamentary elections and hold a certain number of seats. At the same time, most of them have effectively abandoned the communist revolution and adapted to capitalism because it would be difficult to win and retain seats if they did not do so.
It is also because the bourgeois parliamentary system forces all parliamentary parties, including the Communist Party, to assimilate to capitalism as an implicit condition for retaining seats. As a result, the meaning of the term "communism" evaporates and becomes a nominal name. It would be meaningless for the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention to follow the same path as the remaining Communist Parties. Therefore, the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention should be strictly prohibited from turning into a political party and participating in elections.
In the end, the pre-revolutionary Commons' Convention is not a political party, nor is it an underground organization, but it must maintain its character as an open movement organization that is scheduled to become an official governing organization after the revolution.
