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Working on Red Flag<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n How would decisions be made in communism?\u201d asked a new friend. We had just met at a party and she was looking at Red Flag<\/em><\/strong> for the first time. \u201cBy consensus? Or in popular assemblies?\u201d she wondered.<\/p>\n I explained our view of a mass communist party, open to everyone who shares our goal and who we can convince to join. All comrades should be in a collective (sometimes more than one). Friends are welcome at the meetings where we try to discuss things until the political \u201cline of struggle\u201d is clear and we are close to a consensus. Then all of us agree to carry out the plan \u201ceach according to commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n But, I admitted, it\u2019s hard to do that with big issues that affect the work of the party as a whole. We have collectives on different continents. We can\u2019t all meet. When the masses hold and exercise communist power, we\u2019ll be able to use technology \u2013 but not yet. I said to my new friend that if she joins the party, she will help figure this out.<\/p>\n I thought about it more later. The main party-wide decisions we make regularly concern what to put in Red Flag<\/em><\/strong>. How do we decide?<\/p>\n First, we rely on the initiative of the collectives (mainly) and individuals. What do they need in the paper? What are they willing to write?<\/p>\n Next, we have an editorial collective. It tries to get input from many areas using social media. Then it meets to review all the articles. We struggle to keep the authors\u2019 \u201cvoice\u201d and main ideas. But we also try to make sure that the agreed-upon Party line is presented clearly. Sometimes it\u2019s hard to figure out which is the main aspect \u2013 how much editing does a piece need? We discuss it until we are close to consensus, then make a plan.<\/p>\n And if we agree we need something that nobody has volunteered to write, we try to find someone with the commitment to come up with a draft \u2013 often on short notice. Others will contribute later.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not easy, but this is one way we are learning how we\u2019ll make decisions in communism.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s more. Someone, somewhere, disagrees with something in the paper. We hope they are still distributing that issue! But we also want that comrade or friend to write a letter explaining their opinion. That way, the paper can unite the whole party, and all Red Flag<\/em><\/strong> readers, in the struggle to decide or sharpen our political line.<\/p>\n So, the process of producing and distributing Red Flag<\/em><\/strong> shows important elements of communist decision-making: Bringing more and more people into the process. Relying on their initiative and creativity. Struggling for consensus and acting on it collectively \u2013 sometimes when we don\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n When we say \u201cJoin us!\u201d this is what we\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n Working on Red Flag How would decisions be made in communism?\u201d asked a new friend. We had just met at a party and she was looking at Red Flag for the first time. \u201cBy consensus? Or in popular assemblies?\u201d she wondered. I explained our view of a mass communist party, open to everyone who shares … Continue reading Red Flag and Communist Decision-making<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2286,"parent":3072,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3123","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3123\/revisions\/3127"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Front page of this issue<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"