- 10 Apr 2009 08:58
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I've just written a first draft of the RF political platform, and I welcome any suggestion and criticism.
Revolutionary Front: Party philosophy and Program:
Revolutionary Front (RF) represents the non-statist revolutionary left aimed at eliminating all forms of socioeconomic, political, racial and sexual oppression and domination. The RF opposes both the hierarchical and oppressive state apparatus, and the destructive and exploitative capitalist economic system; and RF advocates for their replacement by a complete democratic organisation of all aspects of the society from the grassroots level up. The restructured society will cherish individual rights and liberty as well as collective interests of different social groups and the society as a whole.
Whilst the RF expresses sympathy for many of the social, economic, environmental and foreign policies advocated by the Social Liberal Democrats (SLD), we do not believe most of these policies can be implemented in a state capitalist society. The historical record of the social democratic parties in Western capitalist states demonstrates the limitation of and resistance to social democratic demands by the combining power of the State and Capital, resulting very often in the eventual betrayal of the social democratic program and of the people supporting it.
RF argues that a more radical critique and major transformation of the society is necessary for policies of the kind put forward by SLD to be realised. In this, RF opposes to the kind of reformism that does not recognise the limitations of social democratic reforms, and instead favors a realistic assessment of the nature of power and class relations in society, based on which the strategies for continued struggle and revolution are derived from. In bringing out a more decent and just society, RF in principle rejects the use of violence unless in self-defense but warns the initiation of violence often comes first from the State with its monopoly of violence through coercive state apparatus such as the police and army.