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samcarsten
Sep 13, 2022

by vyelkin
Mr. Bates has given me permission to take over the Tarheel Republic from the permabanned creator. I am from the same area and pledge to continue it's socialist history. As such, the Tarheel Republic supports the Bering Strait Treaty.

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samcarsten
Sep 13, 2022

by vyelkin
Do we have a WHO or FDA equivalent yet? Might be worth legislating.

samcarsten
Sep 13, 2022

by vyelkin
Speaking of standardization, do we have anyone ensuring interComentern standardization of various things?

samcarsten
Sep 13, 2022

by vyelkin

NewMars posted:

There is one, very important thing that we need standardized. What is a "vote" and what does the bill of rights guarantee?

This is a very tricky one. You see, the comintern is not some bourgeoise democracy running on an insipid and false "one man one vote" system. Within it there are many currents, from the vanguard parties to anarchist communes and in order to thread this needle we have to consider what they are and what they want.

You see, many on the right of the comintern's political spectrum, the red democracies, tend towards the idea of a universal vote, decrying vanguard parties as oligarchic in their structure. But vanguard parties exist as a political necessity in their areas where counterrevolutionary thought is a real, ongoing issue. These parties often have _internal_ democracy, but access to this is restricted on the base of party membership. None of this gets into the vagaries of syndicalist structures that have their franchise be based around industrial participation, direct-vote anarchies and council structures as well as numerous, more idiosyncratic philosophies found in various places. In light of this, it may be best to create the definition of vote as one that's not too restrictive, yet is a weapon against personalism and degradation into dictatorship, a reminder that although the vanguard is necessary today, it is a duty to expand it to all the people as part of the ongoing construction of socialism.

Therefore my idea is to render it as the right to participate in the organs of political discourse within a nation, be they council, assembly, legislature or party, through member-chosen delegation or representative or direct assembly, restrictable to membership of socialist parties, but with the requirement ongoing expansion of party membership. And that these organs must participate in internal debate and construction of legislation or political initiatives that cannot be implemented without their consent.

I'd be ok with defining it as that, given you've included expanding party membership.

samcarsten
Sep 13, 2022

by vyelkin

Pacho posted:

The NOMAD Speaker for Civil and Human Rights proposes the creation of a Comintern Judiciary (JUCOM) with judicial power over all international and interplanetary legislation. The purpose of this is to generate a strong legal corpus with the legitimacy to enact Comintern Law while respecting each polities judiciary framework.

At the same time, NOMAD proposes the creation under JUCOM of the General Inspectorate, tasked with investigating and reporting on omissions, delays or crimes regarding Comintern Law. The operatives would be called General Inspectorate Judicial Operatives and Enforcers or GIJOEs and they would be a multidisciplinary civilian taskforce. Although, for obvious reasons it can include former security or military personnel.

This move would also explicitly and/or implicitly move intelligence assets from SPECTRE to JUCOM and would serve as a check on them. The GIJOEs would have a rivalry with SPECTRE agents that could range from friendly to bitter

The Tar Heel Confederation Seconds this motion. A judiciary is necessary, lest the larger body of Comintern law be without enforcement.

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