my flyer to spread revolution in my city

[Kohai]

Red Liberation
The conditions in Greensboro, North Carolina are failing. This city has become taken over by the Capitalists and the businesses and they are controlling us with wages. The amount of businesses and business-related jobs have been steadily increasing over the past four months by about 1,000-1,100 jobs. However, with the increase of these business related jobs, unemployment rates have stayed in a common/steady rate of decrease since the increase in these Capitalist jobs. This is the reason we, the workers that are running this city; the people who allow this city to function and continue to grow, are calling for change in not just Greensboro, but to all of North Carolina to create better paying jobs, create gender and sexual identity equality in the workforce, increase the “living” wage to $15.00 an hour and improve the amount of hours that are assigned to the workers by decreasing the amount of harsh labor in order to sustain a healthy and stable society full of healthy and stable workers.
Many of you that are reading this may be afraid of the words “Socialism” or “Communism” or perhaps “Anarchism”, and you are afraid of those words because you have been taught that in school (and as well as conditioned that way by the American society), that all of those ideals are about “Government control” when it comes to Socialism or Communism and “Chaos and destruction” when it comes to Anarchism. These people that have taught you these things truly do not understand these ideologies at all and will most likely ignore you when trying to explain to them what these ideals are.
Now there must be an explanation as to what Communism, Socialism, Libertarianism, and Anarchism is and you should recognize what they all have in common and how they compliment each other:
1) Communism is the economic structure where the workers are the owners of the production and the businesses are run by the workers, whom which create Labor Unions to decide what the business can do to maximize stability.
2) Socialism, a word that has crept into American politics and economics in recent years, but has been misinterpreted by looking at movements in history that actually weren’t even Communist or Socialist related. Socialism is when the wealth of the community; the production that is manufactured in the community; and the progress of the community is equally distributed due to everyone doing an equal amount of service and positive impact.
3) Libertarianism, in America, means the absence of unnecessary laws, such as drug laws, automobile safety laws, police forces(they prefer police unions that are run by the police officers themselves), etc.. The point of this system is to create more freedom in society and to allow people to accomplish their goals in life without the interference of unnecessary laws and executive oppression.
4) Finally, the most terrifying word in America: Anarchism. Anarchy is freedom; equality; liberty; togetherness. Anarchy is the absence of a government and the nation is controlled by the people that live there. There is no discrimination, it is all equal and opportunities are available to all who reach for it. A major aspect of Anarchism that people see as a flaw is that “Anarchism is just going to be chaos and everything would be disorganized”. By saying this, you are judging the overall human race and saying that when humans are free, they will automatically destroy everything; you believe that humans are inherently greedy, selfish and inhumane? How could someone criticize their own species this way and insult them this way?
The Red Liberation Movement is to establish the American economy and workforce with a new Socialist outline and a fully Democratic society where popular vote is the only vote. We are fighting for all of you! We are fighting for the workers, the veterans, the women, the transgender community, the African Americans, the Hispanic Americans, the Asian Americans, and the European Americans that are being excluded by the Upper-Class Bourgeois-American society. We categorize ourselves as Anarchist Communists or Libertarian Socialists. A majority of the policies that are promoted by the Red Liberation are very leaning towards Left-Wing Libertarianism and Far-Left Socialism. We want the power to be laid in the people and what the majority of those people want for their community. Hear our voice! Recognize our struggle and let us fix it!

The Red Liberation Party



please let me know what edits i should make and if you think my writing style is bad/should change. anything else you wanna add is okay too (obviously). thank you for reading it too, i really appreciate that.
i plan on printing this on hemp paper (save the trees!) and passing it out to the locals and eventually i plan on holding lectures on Leftist Economics and organising a Red Liberation party in my city. My city, Greensboro, is in the southern US, yet the outcry for changing is almost at a scream right now. i want to protest alongside this organised group and spread the ideas of Peter Kropotkin, Feminism and of the Black Lives Matter movement.

[Freeloader]

Its nice to see some genuine enthusiasm.
First of all i should make it clear that i am not a "Anarchist Communist or Libertarian Socialist" so my criticisms (which i hope are constructive in some way) will be colored by my own political persuasion, that of just a Communist.


This city has become taken over by the Capitalists and the businesses and they are controlling us with wages.

This sounds like a conspiracy theory. When exactly was the city taken over by Capitalists ? in what way are we controlled by wages ?.

The problem here is that the exploitation of capitalism is reduced to a simplicity that sounds unbelievable, and it becomes a incorrect statement of capitalism and its exploitative nature.

My economic understanding is exclusively Marxist. For example to understand the term "wage-slavery" it is necessary to lay the groundwork of the labour theory of value, surplus value, labour power etc. Simply shouting "wage-slave" means little on its own. The interpretation of such "they are controlling us with wages" is also problematic, if im a worker with a wage fighting for higher minimum wage, all this seems to say is that the struggle is irrelevant because its merely a way of controlling you anyway. The political nature of a fight for higher wage is that it is a fight within the capitalist system over the magnitude of exploitation. The call for the end of the wage system is the recognition that wages-profits is an inherently exploitative system.

In addition i don't really agree with any of your definitions, and i find them wanting. But i think this is more of a difference in our politics.

In terms of the format of your flyer in my opinion its to wordy, i have found that the most effective flyers are those which are simple, employ graphics and are to the point. I would focus more on your distinction between what the mainstream media etc say about communist etc and what you are saying. The flyer could simply be a "They Say", "We Say" , advertising your lecture or your group for more information. Or if printing double side have some further more wordy content on the back.

With all sincerity Good Luck. My advice is more Marx less Libertarianism.

[Onddruid]

I agree that it is a bit wordy and I think the previous commenter had a good suggestion when it comes to a "they say" / "we say" format.

Also your flyer has a pretty huge scope, there will be people who identify as all of these things (communist, anarchist, libertarian etc) that will disagree or think you oversimplify or needlessly complicate these definitions.

I am most at home with anarchism and I like what you are saying but I think it would look better in an even simpler format. Instead of using lots of words to describe anarchism and anarchy as an ideal you could just make the statement about human nature that you end with. For example in a they say/we say form: "they say anarchism leads to chaos and violence and societal collapse / we say this is a very sinister and offensive view of what human nature is, humans cooperate and defend each other, nation-states force people into war, capitalists force people into poverty, corporations pollute the Earth and police are ever present to attack humans that cooperate and fight back against the powers that be"

Good luck!

[Kohai]

Red LiberationThe conditions in Greensboro, North Carolina are failing. The amount of businesses, manufacturing and business-related jobs have been steadily increasing over the past four months by about 1,000-1,100 jobs. However, with the increase of these business related jobs, unemployment rates have stayed in a common/steady rate of increase since the increase in these jobs. The LGBT community has been made a joke to the Right-Wing Conservatives due to the hate from our Governor, Pat McCrory and his agenda. This is the reason we, the workers that are running this city; the people who allow this city to function and continue to grow; the Red Liberation Party, are calling for change in not just Greensboro, but to all of North Carolina, the entire Nation, to create better paying jobs, create gender and sexuality equality in the workforce as well as in society, increase the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour and to limit the amount of hours that are allowed to be assigned to the workers to 8 hours a day to decrease harsh labor in order to sustain a healthy and stable working class.
Many of you that are reading this may be afraid of the words “Socialism” or “Communism” or perhaps “Anarchism”, and you are afraid of those words because you have been taught that in school (and as well as conditioned that way by the American society), that all of those ideals are about “Government control” when it comes to Socialism or Communism and “Chaos and destruction” when it comes to Anarchism. These people that have taught you these things truly do not understand these ideologies at all and will most likely ignore you when trying to explain to them what these ideals are.
Now there must be an explanation as to what Communism, Socialism, and Anarchism is and you should recognize what they all have in common and how they compliment each other:
1) The Bourgeois in America, the Capitalists will try so hard to make you hate Commnism because of what disgusting nations such as North Korea, USSR and Cuba have done in the past. These “Communist” nations are just Authoritarian State-Capitalists. We explain Communism as the economic structure where the workers are also the owners of the production and the businesses are run by its workers and these businesses/factories create Labor Unions to decide what the business/factories can do to maximize stability and equality in the economy and in society.
2) I am sure you have heard the word Socialism before and also been told that it is an oppressive and destructive system. They will tell you that the Soviet Union was a Socialist nation when in fact, they were hardly “True” Socialists at all. We describe Socialism as to when the wealth of the community; the production that is manufactured in the community; and the progress of the community is equally distributed due to everyone doing an equal amount of service and positive impact.
3) Finally, the most terrifying word in America: Anarchism. Anarchy is freedom; equality; liberty; togetherness. Anarchy is the absence of any government and the nation is controlled by the people that live there. There is no discrimination, it is all equal and opportunities are available to all who reach for it. A major mistake of Anarchism that most people see as a flaw is that “Anarchism is just going to be chaos and everything would be disorganized”. By saying this, you are judging the overall human race and saying that when humans are free, they will automatically destroy everything, you believe that humans are inherently greedy, selfish and inhumane? How could someone criticize their own species this way and insult them this way?
The Red Liberation Movement is to establish the American economy and workforce with a new Socialist outline and a fully Democratic society where popular vote is the only vote. We are fighting for all of you! We are fighting for the workers, the veterans, the women, the LGBTIAQ community and foreign immigrants that are being excluded by the Upper-Class Bourgeois-American society. We categorize ourselves as Anarchist Communists or Anarchist Socialists. A majority of the policies that are promoted by the Red Liberation are very leaning towards Left-Wing Socialism and Far-Left Anarchism. We want the power to be laid in the people and what the majority of those people want for their community. Hear our voice! Recognize our struggle and let us fix it!

The Red Liberation Party