DemRep - A new blog about Republican Democracy

[Q]

Rakunin and me started a new blog. To quote the "hello world!" about article:

The DemRep is a project of two marxist socialists who want to illustrate the centrality of (the absence of) radical political democracy in today’s world. While we both are members of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), probably one of the bigger international revolutionary socialist organisations in the world, we do not speak in its capacity. Instead our purpose here is to start a debate on several questions: Democracy within the workers movement, Marxist programme, Party and – not to forget our namesake – the Democratic Republic.

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It is the purpose of this blog to start to engage in a theoretical discussion on political democracy, programme and republican values as a contribution to a cultural change within the left and the whole of society, so we can start to take our responsibilities seriously.
You can read the rest on the blog: DemRep (http://demrep.wordpress.com/).

We hope to bring you great entertainment value and maybe we can even learn a thing or two by engaging in debate, the latter of which is kinda the whole point.

So, add the rss feed to your favorite readers and keep posted!

[Die Neue Zeit]

I've gotta join! :D

[Q]

I've gotta join! :D

When we've planted our flag a little more firmly - that is, posted a little more about what we think about what a "democratic republic" is (and isn't!), about the subject of workers democracy, about the need for programme and party - we're very happy to post guest contributions as well. The point of the blog after all is to start and contribute towards a debate on the left about these values and what they mean to people :)

[Die Neue Zeit]

No, no, I don't mean as a founding blogger, just as a regular commentator for the Comments section. :blushing:

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i would take out the "probably" and just say "one of the largest international..."

every group is one of the largest X, you just have to draw up a large list of the largest X.

[Q]

i would take out the "probably" and just say "one of the largest international..."

every group is one of the largest X, you just have to draw up a large list of the largest X.

I'm sorry, but what is the point you are making?

[ellipsis]

you don't need to down play your org by saying that it is "probably one of the biggest..."

just say "one of the biggest..."

[Q]

you don't need to down play your org by saying that it is "probably one of the biggest..."

just say "one of the biggest..."

The reason why we are a little cautious in the formulation is because:
1. We don't want to appear to be boasting ourselves.
2. Due to the high secrecy regarding membership numbers in left groups, it truly is a guessing game.

[Q]

Some belated updates:
- A small history of republicanism: the Pledge of Allegiance (http://demrep.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/47/) (18 March)
- A small history of republicanism: the American “democratic republic” (http://demrep.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/52/) (3 April)

[Die Neue Zeit]

I replied to one of those two America-centric blogs this morning.