NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: This thread is tied to my "The Leader's Plan" thread. Basically, you can request the book be sold in your nation.

AP: The book, "Against Communism" is now ready to be sold in foreign nations. Containing the thoughts and beliefs of Hiro Kuroda, the book takes a look into what Kuroda calls "communist hypocrisy" and cites numerous people, including Bakunin and Kroprotkin. Kuroda writes about the "crimes of false communists" and discusses events like the Great Leap Forward.

This book is recommended for any nation that is anti-communist or any nation that is open to books discussing varying political beliefs. There is no consensus in estimating how many copies will be sold overseas.

Communication from Smith Publishing
We would look to gain publishing rights to this book, and we will distribute in freely, in accordance with the Communist Act.

Communication from Smith Publishing
We would look to gain publishing rights to this book, and we will distribute in freely, in accordance with the Communist Act.

We would be pleased to give you publishing rights for the book, "Against Communism".

Buy & Sell, Inc. would like to purchase five million copies of the book, "Against Communism", as well as purchasing publishing rights.

Buy & Sell, Inc. would like to purchase five billion copies of the book, "Against Communism", as well as purchasing publishing rights.

We are pleased to give you publishing rights, and five million copies are being sent to your nation.

The Indian Soviet Commonwealth's near six million public libraries offer great potential distribution for just about any book, but for the blandly-titled Against Communism to arrive in Beth Gellert direct from The Japanese Reich it would have to be certified by the Soviet Commune product of socialist labour. It is not presently thought that books printed in TJR are likely to qualify for this label.

However, it is almost certain that one Soviet citizen at least will read the book, either abroad or on-line, and that translations will begin to appear on the Soviet Intranet from where, if widely-read, they may be transcribed and republished without permission.

Such is the Soviet way.

We are pleased to give you publishing rights, and five billion copies are being sent to your nation.

OOC: My mistake, change that to five million.

"Juche is the son of Communism, raised to be as ruthless as his father was and is."

"If capitalists sell the rope they'd be hanged with, the proletariat makes the rope they would be hanged with."

So far, piracy involving Against Communism has been rather low, with on-line readings falling some way short of an essay on digestive anomalies in giraffes and just ahead of Domestic Goddess.

Of course Juche is the son of communism, an interesting curiosity to Soviet students studying Korea, Romania, and Albania in particular; and of course the prole makes his own noose, that's a good part of the reason for him being moved to kick up a bit of a fuss and hang the capitalist in the first place.

A handful of citizens have begun to take an interest in the Japanese Reich and have attempted to make contact with locals via the world wide web, with a view to distributing communist -particularly Igovian- literature. Or else to provoking a government crack-down that will show the reactionary authorities for what they really are and provoke the populace to write of their own revolutionary ideas.

So far, piracy involving Against Communism has been rather low, with on-line readings falling some way short of an essay on digestive anomalies in giraffes and just ahead of Domestic Goddess.

Of course Juche is the son of communism, an interesting curiosity to Soviet students studying Korea, Romania, and Albania in particular; and of course the prole makes his own noose, that's a good part of the reason for him being moved to kick up a bit of a fuss and hang the capitalist in the first place.

A handful of citizens have begun to take an interest in the Japanese Reich and have attempted to make contact with locals via the world wide web, with a view to distributing communist -particularly Igovian- literature. Or else to provoking a government crack-down that will show the reactionary authorities for what they really are and provoke the populace to write of their own revolutionary ideas.


OOC: When the author wrote about the proletarian making his own noose, he meant something different.

One of the famous quotes from the book is this one:

"Kropotkin wrote this letter to Lenin, the first "Bolshevik" leader:

An announcement has been placed in Izvestiia and in Pravda which makes known the decision of the Soviet government to seize as hostages SRs [Social Revolutionary party members] from the Savinkov groups, White Guards of the nationalist and tactical center, and Wrangel officers; and, in case of an [assassination] attempt on the leaders of the soviets, to “mercilessly exterminate” these hostages.

Is there really no one around you to remind your comrades and to persuade them that such measures represent a return to the worst period of the Middle Ages and religious wars, and are undeserving of people who have taken it upon themselves to create a future society on communist principles? Whoever holds dear the future of communism cannot embark upon such measures.

It is possible that no one has explained what a hostage really is? A hostage is imprisoned not as punishment for some crime. He is held in order to blackmail the enemy with his death. “If you kill one of ours, we will kill one of yours.” But is this not the same thing as leading a man to the scaffold each morning and taking him back, saying: “Wait awhile, not today...”

And don’t your comrades understand that this is tantamount to a restoration of torture for the hostages and their families.

I hope no one will tell me that people in power also do not lead easy lives. Nowadays even among kings there are those who regard the possibility of assassination as an “occupational hazard.”

And revolutionaries assume the responsibility of defending themselves before a court which threatens their lives. Louise Michele chose this way. Or they refuse to be persecuted, as did Malatesta and Voltairine de Cleyre.

Even kings and popes have rejected such barbaric means of self-defense as the taking of hostages. How can apostles of a new life and architects of a new social order have recourse to such means of defense against enemies?

Won’t this be regarded as a sign that you consider your communist experiment unsuccessufl, and [that] you are not saving the system that is so dear to you but only [saving] yourselves?

Don’t your comrades realize that you, communists (despite the errors you have commutted), are working for the future? And that therefore you must in no case stain your work by acts so close to primitive terror? [You must know] that precisely these acts performed by revolutionaries in the past make the new communist endeavors so difficult.

I believe that for the best of you, the future of communism is more precious than your own lives. And thoughts about this future must compel you to renounce such measures.

With all of its serious deficiencies (and I, as you know, see them well), the October Revolution brought about enormous progress. It has demonstrated that social revolution is not impossible, as people in Western Europe had begun to think. And, for all its defects, it is bringing about progress in the direction of equality, which will not be corroded by attempts to return to the past.

Why, then, push the revolution on a path leading to its destruction, primarily because of defects which are not at all inherent in socialism or communism, but represent the survival of the old order and old disturbances, of an unlimited, omnivorous authority?"

The life and works of the Anarchist Prince are well known in Soviet India, and this may in part be to blame for the book's thus-far poor showing in the Commonwealth. School children grow-up learning of the Bolshevist usurpation of the Russian Revolution and of the slanging matches between Marxist-Leninist and Anarchist-Communist factions. They almost universally recognise the inferiority of the Bolshevist part in such bouts, but rarely does this induce one to rail against communism. Why should it? Quoting the Anarchist Prince won't whip-up much anti-communist sentiment in Soviet India!



(OOC: All right, enough rambling, I'm off to bed. Nearly four in the morning!)

The life and works of the Anarchist Prince are well known in Soviet India, and this may in part be to blame for the book's thus-far poor showing in the Commonwealth. School children grow-up learning of the Bolshevist usurpation of the Russian Revolution and of the slanging matches between Marxist-Leninist and Anarchist-Communist factions. They almost universally recognise the inferiority of the Bolshevist part in such bouts, but rarely does this induce one to rail against communism. Why should it? Quoting the Anarchist Prince won't whip-up much anti-communist sentiment in Soviet India!



(OOC: All right, enough rambling, I'm off to bed. Nearly four in the morning!)

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To criticize the Soviet Union after Lenin, the book uses this essay by Emma Goldman.

The Commonalitarianism found the book Against Communism to be rather drab, citing ancient statements about proletarians, and other failed economic ideas as its basis led the readers to assume that this was a political piece by centralized corporations to support their form of economics. Communism was like mercantilism, a dead economic system that was only partially successful.

A refutation was printed, A New Basis For the Common Man, The Economics of Direct Ownership, detailing the corporate forms in the Commonalitarianism, Partnership, Individual Ownership, Registered Family Syndicate, Registered Business Syndicate, Cooperative, Registered Cooperative Group, and Public Private Consortium.

The Commonalitarianism found the book Against Communism to be rather drab, citing ancient statements about proletarians, and other failed economic ideas as its basis led the readers to assume that this was a political piece by centralized corporations to support their form of economics. Communism was like mercantilism, a dead economic system that was only partially successful.

A refutation was printed, A New Basis For the Common Man, The Economics of Direct Ownership, detailing the corporate forms in the Commonalitarianism, Partnership, Individual Ownership, Registered Family Syndicate, Registered Business Syndicate, Cooperative, Registered Cooperative Group, and Public Private Consortium.

OOC: Just to clarify, the book was written against the crimes of communist leaders (and perhaps other things) and not really focused on communism in terms of economics.

The World Soviet Party, while not going as far as banning the book, does not expect big sales, in fact, only one copy was sold, to the only fascist living in TWSP.
This guy happens to be an 80-year old who was a military junta supporter back in the 50s and he's in jail for firing into a crowd during a peaceful protest in the 60s.
But we'll make sure he gets his copy.

Anonymous underground artists get their hands on Against Communism, they illustrate it with the various pictures of the communist leaders in farcical positions. It becomes a sensational underground bestseller. A trial is held with one of the artists, Joey Chen, being sent to Mandatory Reform Camp for pornographic content for six months.

This makes him an instant celebrity. He appears on the cover of Issues Today Magazine with shots of him going into the courthouse. A variety of wildly dressed protesters are standing outside the courhouse chanting Release Chen, Freedom Now, and other similar slogans.

Pirate issues of the unexpurgated illustrated Against Communism appear on the web which become a bestselling hit with hundreds of thousands of downloads all ovr the Nation States world. You have a bestseller.

Citizens of Beth Gellert are far more puzzled by works coming out of Commonalitarianism than from Japan, and double-check their economic indicators before returning to their business satisfied that, yes, our economy is still communistic, and yes, it's still bigger than Commonalitarianism's. Whew!

Meanwhile, Soviet citizens continue to gradually take a bigger and bigger interest in Japan, the products of an education system amongst the best 0.01% in the world being keen to discuss revolutionary history and theory with the Japanese. It is very much hoped that the Japanese will see Soviet India's left-communist victory over Bolshevism in a new and positive light.

A nameless comrade in Bihar, meanwhile, has issued a limited production run of a book titled, Against Capitalism. ...In fact it is merely the Soviet Commune's year-end report on the Commonwealth's economy for 2006, when it was amongst the top 0.2% best performing on earth. Not the wittiest satire in history, but one that carries a point.