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Putting the foundations of a left-defender organization
Topic Started: 10 Jan 2014, 19:32 (1,036 Views)
Kryftland
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Here was comrade Socialist Space Republic's plan for a Left defender organisation:
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The following is my proposal for the organization of a new leftist defense force. I look forward to your feedback.

Scope

The coalition aims to protect ALL left wing regions irrespective of membership
It seeks to ensure their security by encouraging:

Each region has an active founder
or
Each region has a large contingency of WA nations endorsing an active delegate
or
Each region has password protection
or
a combination of the above

The organization is confined to defensive actions and any non-defensive actions will only be engaged in in unusual and extreme circumstances.

Membership

Regional Membership
Applications from regions wishing to formally join the RDC must be accompianied with a commitment to provide at least one active WA nation for defensive duties
Individual Membership (Letters of Marque)
Individual nations whose region does not hold membership are encouraged to join in a private capacity and will be admitted upon receipt of commitment to make their WA capabilty available upon demand to the Commander.

Executive

The executive of the organization is the Commander. In order to facilitate military operations being carried out in a timely and swift fashion, the Commander has the power of deciding to engage in operations in accordance with the principles of the organization.

While individual members may stand for election to the post of Commander, in order to encourage regional participation only membership regions may vote on candidates.

The Commander is elected by the membership regions with one vote each by region for a period of 60 days. There is no term limit on the position of Commander. In the event of no successor being agreed upon at the end of each term the incumbent shall remain in place until the Council reach a decision on the new candidate.
Also, at the end of the term, operations ordered by the Commander should be finished under auspices of the new commander.

The Commander may only be removed from office during term if impeached by a majority vote of the membership regions.

Operations

As mentioned above operation will be defensive in nature and once an operation is engaged, all members are compelled to participate in order to ensure functioning military capabilities.
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Beyond defensive measures, can we move towards limiting the powers of fascist and right wing powers without becoming more agressive?

If the coalition is for defence, what is the offensive variation of this force?
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The offensive variation involves attacking founderless fascist regions, ejecting all the natives and transforming them into trophy regions. This is done in an attempt to deny fascists a platform for their ideas in this game. However many of the major Fascist regions at the moment have active founders which makes them practically invulnerable to attack. Of course just about any region can become founderless, either because the founder chooses to leave the game or because they got in trouble with the mods and had their nations deleted. So it can take quite a while for a fascist region to become vulnerable, if ever. Also, nothing can stop Fascists from founding new regions to call home it is basically an endless and pointless fight that mostly centers around smaller regions. So long as fascists IRL exist and come into the game fascism will be present here.

This organization intends to take a different approach. Instead of denying fascists a platform it is intended to secure one for the left in all its many incarnations. I believe that this is a much more sound strategy in the long run, given the nature of game mechanics.
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Misley
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As both The Red Fleet and The MT Army have shown in the past couple of weeks, even regions with active founders can be vulnerable to invasions - TRF invaded five fascist regions with active founders, and The MT Army is still holding a bronze-level member region of the Right Wing Uprising with support from the Fleet and other Antifa forces. Offense does not always mean taking regions as trophies.

The repeal of the Liberation of Nazi Europe enabled the right wing on NationStates to finally remobilize their WA forces, and the effects of this can be seen at Liberal Haven, where the RWU has entrenched forces that have stolen and passworded a vulnerable region, and even in The International where we were hit by a tag raid -- the democratic nature of socialist and communist regions means that we generally have executive WA Delegates, while fash regions typically don't. This makes us vulnerable to tag raids even where we have active founders.

Keeping an active offensive military forces the fash to devote WA resources to reclaiming regions that we strike, meaning that we can have more of our own resources focused on defense.
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True, even regions with founders can be vulnerable, but I disagree that it ties up the WA endorsements of the fash since regions with a founder need only wait for the founder to log in and restore order. Most of the time there is no need to organize a liberation. The region that the MT Army still holds is the exception, not the rule. So I would actually counter that it actually ties up the endorsements of the left for a task that more often than not has no tangible long-term effects. It can only serve to strike at the enemy's morale, and even this is limited. As you point out Fascist regions do not require an executive WAD and can easily ensure that another tag raid cannot be made for months if not years to come, meaning that they can recover their morale in safety.

Edited by Grobladonia, 8 May 2014, 23:47.
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8 May 2014, 10:42
True, even regions with founders can be vulnerable, but I disagree that it ties up the WA endorsements of the fash since regions with a founder need only wait for the founder to log in and restore order. Most of the time there is no need to organize a liberation. The region that the MT Army still holds is the exception, not the rule. So I would actually counter that it actually ties up the endorsements of the left for a task that more often than not has no tangible long-term effects. It can only serve to strike at the enemy's morale, and even this is limited. As you point out Fascist regions do not require an executive WAD and can easily ensure that another tag raid cannot be made for months if not years to come, meaning that they can recover their morale in safety.

Striking at the enemy's morale can be beneficial to us, though. I was resolved to strike back after the tag raid on TI because the left has been stagnating for months and we have desperately needed a refresher. The MT Army's raid on FIU and the Red Fleet's five-region raid sparked activity and renewed some interest in the raider/defender game among the left.

I disagree that raiding ties up endorsements of the left. No leftist regions have been raided to my knowledge during the MT Army/Red Fleet raids, and if any are, it is easier to mount a defense against these as we can also call upon "apolitical" defender allies such as the Lazarene Liberation Army. Regardless, the full capacity of The Red Fleet was not engaged in our raid, nor are they currently engaged in ongoing operations.

Even if a region is raided, it is easier to pull WA nations off a long-term raid (as many raids are) to a defensive operation where there are natives to endorse or antifa sleeper puppets with large amounts of influence ready to activate as a defensive WAD.
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Is their any official forum or region that makes home for the left-defender group?

I think if your going to create a left defender group it needs to be truly united and heavily organised. Thier are already many small scale defender groups cropping up which will pull some power away from a larger force.

Although not very democratic, a region used for both a safe haven for socialists regrouping after a raid and also a power house to aim at any right wing powers would need to have a founder only leadership.

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Currently the discussions are taking place on The Red Forum. Feel free to join. :)

Edited by Grobladonia, 9 May 2014, 15:10.
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