Federal State

For a Democracy to exist with in the U S.  a series of reforms must be made:

- The Presidential Cabinet (Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the Attorney General.):
This branch needs to become the head of the Executive branch of the U.S. and should be appointed by Congress based on skill, knowledge, and merit. Forming an Executive Committee and abolishing the office of the President.

Senate:
The Senate will need to be reformed to be elected by run-off votes and to be withdrawable. If they are found to be taking bribes from Unions, Businesses, etc. they are to be removed and replaced. Their wages are to be based on the hours they work and to be fixed to the lowest wage of the Country.

House of Representatives:
This office is to be selected through sortition to truly allow everybody to have a say in the affairs of the Country and its administration on a large scale. They will serve a total of two years to allow for each citizen to have the ability to hold this office.

National Board of Arbitration:
This board will consist of a spokes person from Syndicates, Co-operatives, Guilds, Works Boards, and Trade Associations.
They will set the national economic policies, labor laws, and public service projects. As well as appoint ministers into courts of labor to arbitrate between managers and labor in cases of dispute between the two.

Municipalities and States

Each community, town, and city should be converted into municipalities ran by councils and committees instead of by mayors.
Each Municipality should have:
- Trade Association
- Municipal and Federal Courts
- Municipal Council :
   + Treasury
   + Agriculture ( Federation of Farm Workers)
   + Commerce (Two delegates from the Trade Association and ten citizens of the Municipality)
   + Education
   +Energy
   + Health and Human Services
   + Housing and Development                         
   + Transportation
   + Treasury
  

- Federation of Works Boards, Syndicates, and Trade Guilds

Municipal laws will be made through grass-roots democracy.

The Municipal Federation:

The  State will hold a Senate which will be called the Municipal Federation it will hold a delegate from each Municipality. The delegate will speak for the Municipality and can be withdrawn this will be a legislative body for each State.

House of the People:

This will be organized in the same manner as the House of Representatives in the Federal State and will act as a house of review.

What is Libertarian Marxism

Libertarian Marxism is a broad category of Marxism that includes:

 - Council Communism

 - Situationism 

 - Autonomost Marxism

 - Communization 

 - Left Communism

 - Freudo Marxism

 - De Leonism

 - Open Marxism

 - Luxembergism 

- Democratic Marxism

 

The definition from Wikipedia gives a pretty good view of it: 

"Libertarian Marxism refers to a broad scope of economic and political philosophies that emphasize the anti-authoritarian aspects of Marxism. Early currents of libertarian Marxism, known as left communism,emerged in opposition to Marxism–Leninism and its derivatives, such as Stalinism, Maoism, and Trotskyism. Libertarian Marxism is also critical of reformist positions, such as those held by social democrats. Libertarian Marxist currents often draw from Marx and Engels' later works, specifically the Grundrisse and The Civil War in France; emphasizing the Marxist belief in the ability of the working class to forge its own destiny without the need for a revolutionary party or state to mediate or aid its liberation. Along with anarchism, Libertarian Marxism is one of the main currents of libertarian socialism." 

Our philosophy is relatively close to Anarchism and really it isn't to far off to call some of us Anarchists. It is also good to mention that over all we do associate with Anarchists more than we do with Marxist-Leninists since our political theories are similar. 

This specific writer, like the Anarchists, emphasize the need for a federation of worker councils. I also emphasize the need for workers to unite under a democratic and socialist banner. I personally believe the best way to do this is through Syndicalism, Social insertion,the use of propaganda, pushing for solidarity between workers, and the use of a popular front between Libertarian Socialists. 

Libertarian Marxism contributes to the Libertarian movement a wide corpus of theory and tactics that is complimented by the Anarchist theory. Marx stated that the Proletariat must take hold of the means of production, but he never said how. Later on in the Councilist period the Marxists stated that we must form worker councils and create a federation of councils. This answer to the problem is in the style of the Anarchist Bakunin who stated that there must be a federation of communes. It must be stated that the only thing that sets an Anarchist from a Libertarian Marxist is that we use a different corpus of theory than Anarchists. Our corpus includes Dialectic Materialism as a means of understanding history and the nature of Capitalism. 

Notes on Buddhist Socialism

The Eightfold path of Dhammic Socialism

1. Right Livelihood: Abstaining from profiting through dishonesty, corruption, harm or bloodshed.

For a free society to keep itself libertarian, egalitarian, nonviolent, and honest, it would involve maintaining high levels of transparency and accountability. Naturally, this would include seeking sources of revenue which do not include corruption, exploitation, or harm such as usury, monopolization, third world exploitation, arms dealership/war profiteering, etc.; and holding accountable those that do. Social cohesion is facilitated by the voluntarily democratic association and consensus of its individuals.

2. Education and Prosperity: Democratic access to food and drink, shelter, clothing, medicine and all information media.

As Dhammic Mutualists, we contend that every living being has a natural right to the satisfaction of needs according to ability. Necessities should be openly accessible by all people, and to keep these necessities self-sustaining, recipients are encouraged to give something in return according to their ability, such as labor, trade, support, or some equivalents thereof, etc. regardless of their gender, class, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.

3. Equanimity: Encouraging tolerance, forbearance, and loving-kindness towards all beings - human and animal.

This is the compassionate awareness that recognizes and respects the rights of all beings, however different those rights may be. Facilitating the universal rights of all involves the amelioration or abolition of class distinctions and social inequalities and injustices based on race, gender, religion, sexual preference, species, etc. Thus this awareness strikes at the root of any kind of divisive hatred or injustice. We are all in this together.

4. Egalitarianism: Facilitating the empowerment of each individual and allowing them to possess a means of production either individually or collectively.

This is achievable through the development of dual powers or alternative social institutions within existing society until such institutions eventually replace prior ones. Eventually, a to a vast network of federations or markets of free local, yet interdependent, markets will develop. This gradualism of interdependent networks is essential in ending the natural exploitation of multinational corporations and military-industrial complexes. This involves building and supporting decentralized, grassroots, community-based economies. Essentially, it is the co-existing of many different markets and federations within a interdependent, decentralized network. In a sense, this is the organization and development of a new society within old network, or framework, of the previous one.

Within a mututalist (or truly libertarian, noncapitalistic) market, each person might possess a means of production either individually or collectively. People may be self-employed (such as artisans, farmers, independent contractors, etc.), or part of specific producers or consumers cooperatives, a large workers' democratically controlled syndicate or enterprise, etc. Also, mutual banks and credit unions would be democratically controlled which would lend to producers at a minimal interest rate, and trade would represent equivalent amounts of labor (or equivalents thereof) in a truly free market.

Therefore, in the mutualist approach, no one would sell their labor to others but would instead work in democratic cooperatives, networks, syndicates, enterprises, etc; or even for themselves. Benjamin Tucker once stated that, if any kind of wage labor was to exist, the removal of statist privileges (such as banking market entry barriers, legal tender laws, and enforcement of land ownership not based on occupancy and use) would result in the workers' natural wage being their "full product". That is, no individual will profit from the labor of another because everyone is paid equally for equal hours worked and no one will have an ultimate authority over another.

5. Freedom: Assisting in the liberation of all beings from dukkha.

We all experience the stresses and sufferings (or “dukkha”) of life at times to various degrees. Dukkha is a Sanskrit term, variously translated as (dis)stress, anguish, unsatisfactoriness, suffering, tension, despair, etc. In Buddhism, it is one of the three marks or seals of existence (along with impermanence and non-self) and is the First Noble Truth.

We are ultimately social beings, and one’s own suffering can affect many others in varying degrees. Therefore it would benefit us all to work together to help one another in overcoming these, such as in improving our living situations to maintain a higher standard of living. This is supporting local markets, Such as buying locally and supporting local markets, thus growing the local economy. Multinational corporations and capitalist economics - in seeking to maximum profit, “outsource” wage labor to foreign, often times much poorer, source which is usually conveniently controlled by a strong dictatorial or military regime. Alternatively, or they pay to bring illegal aliens to the work-site so that they can pay them less for longer hours at the expense of local workers’ and their unions.

6. Integrity: Acceptance of the six-colored Buddhist flag and Dhammacakra as international Buddhist symbols.

The Dhammacakra is the Wheel of Natural Law, set in motion by the Buddha over 2,500 years ago. The Buddhist flag is a modern creation which was jointly designed by Mr. J.R. de Silva and Colonel Henry S. Olcott to mark the revival of Buddhism in Ceylon in 1880. It was accepted as the International Buddhist Flag by the 1952 World Buddhist Congress.

7. Felicity: Applying the use of Gross-National Happiness (GNH) alongside traditional economic indicators to measure the quality of life and non-economic well-being. This is an important step in maintaining a higher standard of living.

Everybody knows that Gross National Product (GNP) only measures the sum total of material production and exchange in any country. The term Gross National Happiness (GNH) was coined by Bhutan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (who has also played a major role in bringing democracy to Bhutan) in 1972. GNH is a quantitative measurement of the quality of life and of non-economic well-being and happiness. GNH value is proposed to be an index function of the total average per capita of the following measures:

1. Economic Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of economic metrics such as consumer debt, average income to consumer price index ratio and income distribution.

2. Environmental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of environmental metrics such as pollution, noise and traffic.

3. Physical Wellness: Indicated via statistical measurement of physical health metrics such as severe illnesses, weight, etc.

4. Mental Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of mental health metrics such as usage of antidepressants and rise or decline of psychotherapy patients.

5. Workplace Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of labor metrics such as jobless claims, job change, workplace complaints and lawsuits.

6. Social Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of social metrics such as discrimination, safety, divorce rates, complaints of domestic conflicts and family lawsuits, public lawsuits, crime rates.

7. Political Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of political metrics such as the quality of local democracy, individual freedom, and foreign conflicts.

8. Peace: A commitment to avoid imposing our beliefs through coercion, manipulation or force and to utilize every opportunity for open dialogue and cooperation.

NOBLE TWELVE FOLD SOCIAL PATH

The key word accompanying every factor of the path is "right" or "correct" (samma). Correctness is not to be defined in dogmatic terms. Nothing is correct but by the grace of Dhamma, that is, when it is in harmony with natural law and appropriate to the causes, purpose, time, society, individuals involved, and oneself. Thus, the meaning of "right" or "correct" depends on the causes and conditions of each case. We must be mindful, sensitive, open-minded, flexible, creative, and insightful to keep track of and respond to the diverse changing circumstances.

The nobility of our path is also crucial. We, of course, do not mean "noble" (ariya) in the ordinary hierarchical or classist way. Literally, the Pali word means "to go (ya) away from one's enemies (ari)." Traditionally, "enemies" refers to the kilesa. Above, we have made it clear that kilesa social structures are the enemies of all beings. Further, the path is noble in that only noble, skillful means are used. For example, we avoid violence. Let us give careful thought to "noble means."

Right Religion

Right Education

Right Leadership

Right Organization & Government

Right Communication

Right Culture

Right Sexuality & Family

Right Economics

Right Ecology

Right Play

Right Monitoring

Right Sangha & Solidarity

STRUCTURES OF SELFISHNESS

Greed (lobha): Capitalism & Consumerism

Anger (kodha):Militarism & Injustice

Hatred (dosa): Racism, Classism, & Exclusivism

Lust (raga): Prostitution In Entertainment, Tourism, & Business

Delusion (moha): Education & The Media

Competition: Capitalism, Sports, & A Way Of Life

Fear (bhaya): Medicine & Religion

Sexism: All Kinds Of Kilesa. 

My Communist Bullets

What is Democratic-Communism

 

  Democratic-Communism, is a form of Communism that focuses on the creation of worker led Industrial Unions and Mass Strikes as a means of establishing worker control. We hold that a Socialist society must be led democratically by the workers themselves. We strive for the abolition of capitalism, wage labour, and the division of human beings into social classes, for the end of the dictatorship of the capitalist class, and to replace it with direct democracy.As well for a socialist-communist society, for the end of sexism and male domination, and finally against all forms of racism, nationalism and patriotism. We unlike Council-Communists don't encourage a passive approach, we recognize that in order for the revolution to occur we most educate, antagonize, and organize the proletariat against the capitalist class. We do incorporate some Anarchist principles as a means of creating the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 

What is Communism?

Communism is a stateless, classless, and democratic society that we aspire to.  The means of production would be democratically owned and wealth will be distributed according to everyone's need by everyone's ability. 

What is Socialism?

It is the period that is between Capitalism and Communism. During this period the workers will form union councils and start making laws democratically. What will be laid down during this stage will prepare for the Communist stage. A Socialist society is marked by the democratic ownership of the means of production. Marx used the terms Socialism and Communism interchangeably. The two were not considered different stages till Lenin and only Leninists use them to refer to different stages. 

What is the dictatorship of the proletariat?

   The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is when the working class takes over the means of production and forms a federation of worker's councils or a worker's republic.  The Dictatorship of the Proletariat has been the subject of controversy because of Lenin's take on it was a Party Dictatorship over the Proletariat, this take was condemned by Rosa Luxemburg and Herman Gorter who advocated a worker's democracy. Democratic-Communists condemns the use of a vanguard party and the use of a state that forms Lenin's dictatorship over the workers. 

Who are the Proletariat?

The Proletariat are the oppressed workers of society. They are alienated by the wealthy class from the means of production. 

What is the Means of Production

The Means of Production are the instruments of labour such as the factory, machines, wood,  mines, etc. 

What is the role of the Party

The role of the party is made clear in the Communist Manifesto. It is to organize and antagonize the Proletariat to overthrow the existing order to bring about Communism. We reject the Party dictatorship of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, or Mao and affirm the creation of Socialism through the working class themselves. 

How do we establish a socialist society?

We establish Socialism through a mass revolution of workers against the exploitive capitalist state and the capitalist class. 

What is our relation to other Communist movements.

We are a Libertarian-Marxist movement and we stand in opposition to the State-Capitalist tendencies of Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, and Maoism and the Neo-Fascist Jucheism. We stand in solidarity with other Left-Communist movements and with Anarchy-Syndicalist and Anarchy-Communist movements. 

How do we learn more about Democratic-Communism?

We suggest reading the writings of the following you will come across contradictions between the writers but it is a great way of developing your theory. 

Rosa Luxembourg

Herman Gorter 

Georg Lukacs

Pannekoek

Mattick 

CLR James 

Raya Dunayevskaya

Karl Korsch

Bakunin

Kropotkin 

Marx

Engels

Doesn't the Collapse of the USSR mean that Communism is a failure?

The USSR was a State-Capitalist economy it was not Socialist in anyway. A Socialist economy is marked by the workers owning the means of production. In the USSR the means of production was owned not by the workers but by the state which was ran by the party not the workers. We must also point out that the fall of the USSR was do to the global economic stagnation that all of the world capitalist economies were facing at that time. It must also be said that most Russians want a return to something similar to the USSR and sees Stalin as a hero. The life expectancy rose in the USSR and there was no jobless, hungry, or homeless in the USSR.  As well as the USSR achieved technological and economical advancements in its 70 years that took other nations 100 years. 

  Doesn't Communism go against human nature.

No. For most of human history we held property in common and lived in a classless and stateless federation of tribes/communes. There was no rich and there was no poor. This changed when the human race evolved into an industrial society which caused new divisions of labor and thus society. This caused a class division in society beginning with the feudal class society and then the capitalist class society.  

Is there any working model of a Communist society?

There are some national models currently in effect yes. The only models I know of are the  Zappatesta and Marinaleda villages. These though are not Marxist but are Anarchist, but they are liberating non the less.

What is the red flag?

The red flag is flown on remembrance of the workers and all of the worker revolutions. It was first flown in 1834 during the French Revolution by the Socialists. It was flown by the Paris Commune and has been flown as a sign of Socialism, Communism, and Anarchist-Communists.   It in short is the only flag that ties all workers under one banner. It was said by Blanqui, " It is said it is a flag of blood. It is only red with the blood of the martyrs who made it the standard of the republic.Its fall is an insult to the people, a profanation of the dead."

Socialist Bullets

Humans are social beings;they depend on the their social surroundings to determine what is moral or immoral. 

A socialist nation must aid a popular socialist uprising, as communism can not be achieved if a majority capitalist threat is on the borders. 

Economic stability must be achieved in order to provide health care, housing, jobs, clothing, and food to the proletariat. 

The proletariat must have increasing control of the means of production; by the time capitalism completely falls the proletariat must be masters of the means of production. 

Education is a basic need for the working class and must be freely provided.

Newspapers, blogs, and news channels (TV and Internet) are expressions of basic information sources and there should two forms; one that gives just the information, and several that gives it from different party views (ie. one that is Marxist, one that is Capitalist, etc.). 

The role of the vanguard is to rally the masses, and then to protect the revolution from counter revolutionaries. After the revolution the vanguard is to gradually dissolve over time and to reassure that the masses can govern themselves. This means they must be well educated and the capitalist culture has been dissolved. 

All work places must be under the control of the workers. This means the following;

Comrade Court to take care of work place problems.

Complete Union control with little state interference.

 The work places must have in house medical care incase of major accidents. 

All extra work must be voluntary and any harder extra work must be met with extra leave time to rest. The leave time must be paid and be of higher wage than if it was from normal work. 

Our economy is not money based, but till something replaces the market system of distribution of goods the use of markets is necessary. This place an obligation on scientists to work to improve technology like 3D printers. 3D printers allow for a new way to distribute goods and allows the consumer to participate in the making of said goods.  

 Temporary state seizer of all private property not including the means of production. This is necessary for the purpose of distribution on the market place over time the state must give the private property to the masses who will democratically distribute it. 

Socialist Libraries should be opened. These will have the works of Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Engels, Moses Hess, and other Socialist writers. This is to encourage research into different approaches to socialism. This library should also include historical sources of different socialist nations and our nation. It must include the failures in order for our next generation to learn and grow. Historic nations include the CCCP, China, DPRK, Zapatista, etc. 

I am dividing capitalism into three oppressed groups; the proletariat, the peasantry, and the intelligentsia. But only the proletariat is revolutionary as they are the vast majority and directly under the bourgeoisie. 

Man is interconnected with nature; he not above it in anyway and in all reality must coexist with it. If we can not learn to coexist with nature it will lead to our collective death. 

A goal of the vanguard is to turn our disunity into unity. Our individualist attitudes into collectivist. What I mean is that the vanguard must teach us that our actions effect everyone not just you. In essence it is to create workers solidarity. 

We must be a true collective, instead of working just for individual interests we must work for the interest of the entire collective. We must not do this though by limiting individual autonomy, but by creating social standards that encourages this

Study of economic theory, study of Marxist and other socialist works, fluent in Communist, Socialist, and Anarchist  theories, fluent in vanguardist theories, and is widely liked by the masses. The previous list should be what is required to be a socialist leader. This list is to prevent revisionism and reactionary counter-revolution. As well to be added to the list, must be a member of the working class.

Leader worship is counter revolutionary. Leader-worship is a practice that originated in ancient cultures and is an important part of Fascist and Nationalistic ideologies; thus it has no place in an internationalist ideology such as Communism or Socialism. 

We must be a double edged sword that cuts the head off of the four headed monster of Capitalism, Fascism, Imperialism, and Nationalism. We take a blow at them with Socialism and we take the decapitating blow with Communism. Out of the body we build a better society, we replace Capitalistic antagonism with solidarity, we replace the Fascist perpetual war with peace, we replace Imperialism with free trade, and finally we replace Nationalism with Internationalism. 

It is important to preserve democratic processes that we dismantle the Electoral Collage. The very existence of the Collage makes a farce out of democracy. 

It is important to make an Union Council with representatives from each labor union, the union council appoints the vanguard leader. I suggest this as a means of allowing a worker's  republic, the council members are elected first at the local and  then at the national. 

The Vanguard is multi-tendacy and must include:

Marxist-Leninists

Trotskyists

Maoists

Left-Communism.

Juche

Titoists

Socialists

Anarchists

Autonomist Marxists

Patriotic-Socialists

      In order to establish Socialism it is necessary to establish an international Socialist current.

Humans have needs that surpass their material needs this being their social needs. Their social needs are four-fold religious, familial, peer, and education. The Socialist society must not touch the churches, must provide free education, and work to cut work hours only to socially necessary hours while maintaining an economic stable environment. 

 A  Socialist Democratic-Republic must be set up. Meaning that all power will be in the hands of the people. Laws, political matters, war, and treaties must be voted on by the people. But representatives must be elected for international matters. These representatives are given temporary power by the people and can be with drawn by the people.   

(Note: I don't hold to all of these views anymore)

My actual religion.

Gods

The gods can be divided into two categories: 

Heavenly 

Earthly

The heavenly gods are Sol and Luna, along with the planets.  The Earthly gods are nature spirits, Azrael and spirit guides. All gods came from the All Spirit. The All Spirit was born from the void and the combination of all of the spiritual elements. The All Spirit broke up his spirit into fragments and they formed the Great Gods. Each deity has a certain culture with different likes and functions within that culture. Sol the head god of the sun shares his function with Shemesh, Shapshu, Amateratsu and other sun gods, the same is with Luna she shares her role with other moon gods and goddesses. The storm is ruled over by Balu, but he shares this role with other gods from different cultures. 

Trees hold a spirit that can be evoked in worship and it can be honored in ritual. The same goes with rivers, oceans, and streams. The wind itself holds a spirit, everything around us is alive, they each hold a shard of the spirit of the All Spirit.The All Spirit is nature it self, he is a simple metaphor for the spirit that all things share. It is gender less and formless, the Taoists call it Tao the Hindus call it Brahman. I will simply call it the All. 

Each humans hold at least one type of spirit men holds a masculine spirit females feminine spirits. But some hold the form of a gender while have the opposite spirit, this results in homosexuals, cross dressers, and people associating with another gender. These people are holy and to be respected. In Native American traditions these people were seen as being able to channel multiple energies and able to communicate with male and female spirits from the other side. Though I believe in reincarnation I still see the "two-spirit people" as holy and to be treated with great respect. 

Each person has one or more patron deity, this god is someone he/she has a close connection with and who that is may change as the person's knowledge of the realms change. 

 

Eclectic Rules

When conducting rites with gods from multiple pantheons make sure their personalities don't clash

Don't offer any form food or any other item that may offend a god's culture. For an example Canaanite Illim does not like pork they see it as impure. The Aztec Teotl finds the offering of money offensive. 

Not all of the gods are the same they are autonomous beings that has developed their own likes and dislikes.

 Nine words the Eclectic Rede attest: Steal what works, fix what's broke, fake the rest.

Try to perform rites in nature when possible 

Meditate often

Respect every culture and their gods as long as they aren't harming anyone.

Respect nature. 

When obtaining an item from a tree or herb offer something of value. 

 Soul

The concept of the soul I have adopted is similar to the concept found within the Gita. The soul is a spark of The All, or in Hindu Brahma. When we die the soul casts off our body like a cloak and reincarnates. We reincarnate in order to learn and to better the world around us. Our goal is to end the need to reincarnate and to leave a better future. 

Morality

Morality remains a relative concept. What is considered moral and correct now may be deemed immoral later in the future. The same is said with ideas and customs of the past. It was common for Aztecs and Mayans to perform human sacrifice to their gods but now to do so is deemed immoral. An Eclectic view of morality should be eclectic. Plato was a great philosopher, but he was Homophobic, I personally like Sidhartha's moral teachings. He pin point's the origins of human sufferings and gives a remedy for it. 

Pantheon

Sol: God of the Sun and disperser of ignorance.

Luna: Goddess of the moon and comforter. 

Ba‘lu Haddi:  the Thunderer, He ensures the life-giving rains, thus making the land fertile for agriculture. Ba‘lu Haddi lives atop his mountain, Tzapanu. His lightning is compared to cedars.

Azrael: God of death, he is pictured of having six wings and having eyes all over his body. His weapons are a sword,scythe, and a dagger. He also carries a vile to escort the souls to Summerland where the souls will review their previous life. If the soul was completely evil (For an example Hitler) he puts the soul through a realm of purifying fire before it reincarnates. 

Tara: Goddess of the Earth, Her form is green.

Pan: Horned god of the hunt and guardian of wildlife.

Tsuki-No-Kami: Lord of the moon

My pantheon includes a wide range of nature spirits that controls the flow of rivers, wind, trees, and mountain gods. It also includes the Ancestors.