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Well. I have to say that the latest results have really suprised me. Here I was expecting a tight 3 way race. :wacko:
Total Vote: 36
Marxists: 25 - that's right 25 out 36 votes cast or 69.4% of the entire vote.
Democratic Anarchists: 7
NatComs: 4
Inevitably people are going to proclaim the Marxists the victors here. But don't forget that these polls can change alot. ofc Trotsky is now the favourite for a 3rd consecutive term but its not all over.
Out of interest what has made the Marxists so good this time around? I though their platform was slightly weaker in comparison to the other factions than their previous ones. Do you just really like Trotsky? Do you feel everyone else is very weak?
Total Vote: 36
Marxists: 25 - that's right 25 out 36 votes cast or 69.4% of the entire vote.
Democratic Anarchists: 7
NatComs: 4
Inevitably people are going to proclaim the Marxists the victors here. But don't forget that these polls can change alot. ofc Trotsky is now the favourite for a 3rd consecutive term but its not all over.
Out of interest what has made the Marxists so good this time around? I though their platform was slightly weaker in comparison to the other factions than their previous ones. Do you just really like Trotsky? Do you feel everyone else is very weak?
As a measure of Marxist popularity 2 more people voted for the Marxists whilst I was writing my last post.
Can I remind everyone that the faction has been renamed the Marxists. I am counting votes when people write Marxist-Leninists but remember that it has changed.
Can I remind everyone that the faction has been renamed the Marxists. I am counting votes when people write Marxist-Leninists but remember that it has changed.
I've never -not- voted Marxist so far, so my opinion doesn't count for much, but I'd say maybe because the Democratic Anarchist platform hasn't changed much (at all?), and they essentially said they'd rather people die of disease than go without work. For the National Communists, well, they didn't get many votes last time, but maybe it's the overt racism finally scaring people off?
Maybe the Capitalist coalition is making people realise Trotsky is the one we need right now, too.
Maybe the Capitalist coalition is making people realise Trotsky is the one we need right now, too.
The alternatives are not much better.
Let Trotsky kill everyone and purge the world, for DA's and NK's are powerless without any good alternative policies.
I am tired of Goldman.
Where is the Anarchist spirit?
Let Trotsky kill everyone and purge the world, for DA's and NK's are powerless without any good alternative policies.
I am tired of Goldman.
Where is the Anarchist spirit?
I think that the no change agenda of the DA really sucks, they look like conservative here. And the Nakis are still the same. Very few people will vote for them, as marxist will vote marxist, antimarxist will go with the DA. So it left only the swing voters, who vote for the best agenda, and the marxist's agenda is still a marxist one (though very classical), DA is no change, and Nakis motivations are less than clear, frightening the party members. I think it's no surprise the marxist are leading(as always at the begining of the election, anti marxist voters wait to see the best move to counter the marxists, while marxist quickly vote)
National Communists
We who support the National Communist's are sick and tired of the slander that has been used against our faction. There have been those who have claimed we are secretly nationalistic capitalist in a communist guise. They have called us racist and bigoted. These are all lies, foul lies. The type of lies that the American's recently used in their own elections to destroy the heroic ASP.
Yes we support the independence of Africa, but this does not mean we wish to see an African nationalistic state. No, quite the contrary in fact. Just as the VSVR does not dictate policy and control the governments of the CSR, the Soviet Union, Bhutan, Sweden, Finland, or France.. so too should it not dictate policy over Africa.
West Africa is a highly diverse region. The majority of the citizens living there speak german and have cultural similarities with people in Cologne. This is good. We are one step closer to a world communist society, yet it is insane and unrealistic to believe that all of Africa can be managed from the governmental seat in Cologne. What the National Communist's support is the creation of an autonomous african government. One whose seat is somewhere like Dakar, that can have their own assembly and that will be able to participate independently in the Comintern.
We have heard the Marxist's claim that Africa is not ready for independence? If anything it is they who are the racists or bigots. Such talk sounds terribly close to the Paternalism of the Imperialist powers. We must move against these ideas. Let an African Communist Government handle the incorporation and liberation of those regions still tribal and undeveloped. Surely, they could manage such efforts better on the continent then we could from Cologne.
Vote for the National Communists. Free the World!
We who support the National Communist's are sick and tired of the slander that has been used against our faction. There have been those who have claimed we are secretly nationalistic capitalist in a communist guise. They have called us racist and bigoted. These are all lies, foul lies. The type of lies that the American's recently used in their own elections to destroy the heroic ASP.
Yes we support the independence of Africa, but this does not mean we wish to see an African nationalistic state. No, quite the contrary in fact. Just as the VSVR does not dictate policy and control the governments of the CSR, the Soviet Union, Bhutan, Sweden, Finland, or France.. so too should it not dictate policy over Africa.
West Africa is a highly diverse region. The majority of the citizens living there speak german and have cultural similarities with people in Cologne. This is good. We are one step closer to a world communist society, yet it is insane and unrealistic to believe that all of Africa can be managed from the governmental seat in Cologne. What the National Communist's support is the creation of an autonomous african government. One whose seat is somewhere like Dakar, that can have their own assembly and that will be able to participate independently in the Comintern.
We have heard the Marxist's claim that Africa is not ready for independence? If anything it is they who are the racists or bigots. Such talk sounds terribly close to the Paternalism of the Imperialist powers. We must move against these ideas. Let an African Communist Government handle the incorporation and liberation of those regions still tribal and undeveloped. Surely, they could manage such efforts better on the continent then we could from Cologne.
Vote for the National Communists. Free the World!
Marxist!
One reason for this masssive marxist turnout might be the fact that people are afraid this aar will end without a final war
One reason for this masssive marxist turnout might be the fact that people are afraid this aar will end without a final war
Marxists
While the Cuban Republic is fairly tempting, releasing Africa as well was just a dealbreaker.
While the Cuban Republic is fairly tempting, releasing Africa as well was just a dealbreaker.
Honestly, the only thing that made me hesitate was that they are led by Trotsky. Council Communism, Internationalism and Social Reforms make this pretty much my dream faction. With the constitution in place I'd like to think that Trotsky won't be able to pull his usual authoritarian shenanigans, too. The DAs suffer from not wanting to do anything. If they wanted to expand the comintern powers as well I might have considered it, but they don't. As for the nakis, this will come as a bit of a shock but I'm quite the internationalist, so I'd never vote for them.
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Machiavellian is right. Everyone points at Drexler's Very Merry Band of Drunken German Dwarves and shouts, "Racists, racists! Nationalists, capitalists, evil-doers!", and yet is it not the DAs and the Marxists who say that Africa is "not ready" for independence? Is it not they who apparently believe that the African is not yet smart enough or developed enough to rule himself? Oh yes, sure, the French, the Russians, the former Austro-Hungarians, and the like are all intelligent and developed enough to be somewhat independent, but the African is not? Is Africa not a great deal of the VSVR's industrial and manpower? Are they not even more industrialized and powerful than we were, when the VSVR was born?
Hypocrites, I say! Hypocrites!
Hypocrites, I say! Hypocrites!
Yeah, I think expanding comintern powers might be a big differerence for the Marxists. The Nacis have free Africa, the marxists have increased comintern integration. The DA, however, have no vision in this election; most of the voters are alienated by the nationalism of the NC. All in all, this gives a good electoral turnout for the Marxists.
It is not that Africa is not ready. It is that Africa is already free, in the same way that the Ruhr is free and Wallonia is free. They live in a democratic, socialist state in which they control the means of production and freely elect their leaders. Why do they need to be split away? Because the people who live there look different to us?
I concur with Raph, also.
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