The revival of socialism in EgelionAugust 5317Last month we received news of a new political movement reappearing in Egelion, the Communists. While largely inactive for many years, they're now organising to return and restore the Socialist Republics of the past. Dissatisfied with the current status quo, kept for many centuries, the workers are starting to rise up. The need for an organised proletariat has led to the formation of a new political party, the Partido Obrero de Unificación Comunista (Workers' Party of Communist Unification) by Álvaro Peña, which pretends to be a big-tent Communist party with the main goal of abolishing capitalism and the monarchy altogether. Álvaro Peña has made a public announcement about it:
Egelian, Caillean and Ghadrashi workers, we have for a long time been having to deal with a weak economy that should be more developed by now, with us, the people, suffering the consequences of it. We've had to deal with governments that don't do anything for us, including monarchs that haven't even managed to convince us of needing them. Our military is useless, our position in the international world is null. Our workers are suffering, and we desire nothing but to bring what they've been dreaming of: a land of stability, progress, safety, and freedom. Not stability for a system unable to keep itself; not progress for a class that doesn't know the definition of suffering; not safety for a government seeks our demise; not freedom for those who don't deserve it. Freedom for us workers, for us who fight for a cause of greater good, who seek a bright and new Egelion.
Workers, it's our time to vote. Don't vote for those who don't think of you, don't vote for those who seek to divide you more. Vote for those who want a solution, who want improvement and progress. Vote for those who will defend your rights. Vote for the POUC!
Whether the words of Peña will be enough to convince the workers, after so many failed Socialist Republics, and many failed socialist parties, is yet to be seen. They have still four years to prepare and get stronger. When asked about what trend of Communism the POUC follows, Peña answered:
Our party seeks to avoid any kind of unnecessary division, as much as is possible. We have Communists of all kinds here, although I can say we're mostly Metzists. However, it is true there are different, more specific, currents of Metzism inside the party line. That's something difficult to control. While, currently, it's unimportant, since we all agree on our main and most important goal being the abolition of the current system, it's also true that in a future different factions might appear. Let it be clear, for now at least, that our party considers itself progressive, secular, and pragmatic. It's not our ideas that shape the world, but the world that shapes our ideas. We will try to access power by any means necessary, in the most efficient way possible.
Some people tried reading between the lines, in particular with the last sentence. Some people is starting to accuse the POUC of wanting to start a coup or revolution, some are also speculating that the use of the word 'pragmatic' is an euphemism to justify all sorts of wrong policies that the POUC will support and enact, in case of reaching power. Peña hasn't talked about these rumours, however, the words of Peña have been vague enough to seed doubts in people's minds, possibly giving a chance to the POUC to get big.