Rules of the road & Introductions

Welcome to Red Flags, the best commie blog on the net. Focused on what's happening in the world communist movement, Red Flags will also include a wide selection of current writing from across the left, reporting and interviews from social movments, insurgent art and literature, as well as short histories of the human struggle for liberation.

This is a check-in. In lieu of a registration system, regular participants can sign-in with a short description of who they are and roughly where you're coming from. You need not use your actual name, but a short bio will help others disentangle what promise to be (sometimes) complex discussions. Just leave a comment with as much as you feel like saying about yourself. If you'd like to make any changes later, just post a new version and the old one will be removed. Checking-in is obviously optional.

Beyond digesting interesting articles, Red Flags hopes to foster an open space for debate and discussion online, where superficiality and slagging often rule the roost. Site traffic has grown enough to justify the work and I'm really happy that most of the commentators have aimed to inform. There is currently nothing like this online. My hope is that the powerful ideas of the communist movement, which I firmly believe promise to solve the most basic and intractable problems of humanity, will find a flower.

Rules of the Road

1) Flamebait -- Just don't do it. Willful distortions, known falsehoods and macho point-scoring are discouraged. Site moderation is lax, and I'd like to keep it that way. The sharpest knives go dull the fastest. Engage!

2) Principled discussion -- Attacks on the race, gender, nationality or religion of participants in not acceptable and degrades everyone involved. Assume the humanity of participants and you might get the favor returned.

3) This is an open, communist site -- It's open to people looking for a way forward, but not to every right-wing keyboard kommando. Consider yourself notified.

4) Security Culture -- Rumor-mongering, threats, advocacy of particular violence, etc. will not be tolerated at all. Please post only public documents from organizations. Do not send the private correspondence of others, nor internal bulltetins or discussions from organized forces. Red Flags respects the ability of organizations to have internal discussion, and will not serve as a platform for factionalism or sour grapes. Keep political discussion to questions of line and not dubious narratives of "who shot John."

Just because you don't have to sign your name, that doesn't mean you are invisible. The software used to host this site is not secure. The IP addresses of users are recorded. As with all internet traffic, the assumption should be that you should say nothing here you wouldn't want attached to your name in a court. This isn't just here -- it's true anywhere.

5) Responsibility -- Red Flags is independently owned and operated, and is not an official voice of any organization or trend. Open comments are the responsibility of the person who makes them. A diversity of beliefs will be featured, not all of which Red Flags agrees with. Don't assume anything. Individuals are free to post, but even when they are partisans -- unless specifically noted -- they are speaking as individuals trying to make sense of the world just like you. Please treat individuals and organizations with enough respect to make exchange, including sharp debate, possible.

Comments

[blackstone]

Central universal planning of economic development and ecological protection would be of the highest priority?!?!?

What is this communism or the New World Order?

[decentered]

The Vanguard brand is certainly just another nWo if you even want to call it that communism.

Ironically enough on the point of ecological protection, I'd refer you to George Carlin as well as examples like Chernobyl and the Korea DMZ to see how like the human species, good things happen when you let them be.

[Doe]

hi! my name is faccity! your site is good! i will visit it again! good luck!

[SS]

Hey Everybody,

I'm very new to the movement. I was ''radicalized'' about a year ago when I picked up a few books and started paying attention.

I consider myself a maoist and am sympathetic to RCP politics but not a supporter / member.

I've read many of the threads on this website and appreciate the wide array of political views that manifest themselves. I look forward to contributing mine as well.

[Christopher Day]

SS,

As you may have already figured out, many of the people who used to post regularly here (including Burning Man) are now writing over at: http://mikeely.wordpress.com/

Check it out.

[SS]

thanks man, yeah ive been reading that blog as well with great interest!

[Ira Wechsler]

Christopher Day's "critical" comments about my explanation of how communist production would be organized under the dictatorship of the proletariat are a joke. In no way were my comments arrogant and in no way did they assume there was not complexity in implementing them, since people's subjective consciousness has to be taken into consideration. The criticism of the person preceding Chris Day's hardly seemed like an honest questioner but more like a typiical anti-communist question. I did not ridicule him, I asked him to open his mind to other possibilities than what he has been trianed to expect. If that is arrogance it is so only in Cg hri's Days mind. I see him pandering to anti-communism to attack a correct political line that differs
with his RCP nationalist revisionism. That is not unusual or not to be expected. In a similar vein a Hispanic commenter from Harlem who works in construction issued a barrage of falsehood about PLP. H stated that PLP segregated Latino members in their clubs and they were not in ledership positions! Our party chairman is a Mexican-American woman and many of our club leaders and section leaders are
Hispanic and our International committee has members from Colombia, El Salvador, and Mexico. Our Most active work is among Latin and Black youth in the schools and factories. WE
set back the fascists in Boston in 1975 when the RCP was in hiding. Stick your right wing criticism where your toilet paper belongs.

[JB]

Well, Ira. Glad you've got everything well in hand. Now when exactly will your superior vision be delivering communism?

With your talents, I'm sure it will be any day now... and rest assured, everyone who's anyone will be eating their words, falling over each other to tell you how right you were.

[revolutionrysocialist]

red greet to all our rebels in the world

[Adriano Shaplin]

Hello Mr. Brandt,

I am watching Glenn Beck use your image on his program right now. I am a playwright working in New York City and I can forward you my CV.

I would like to discuss the fallout from today's broadcast with you, whatever it may be. I am very interested in your story.

Thank you for reading this.

Adriano

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