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Politics in the United Soviet States of America

The November Revolution of 2015 swept away all vestiges of the old system. It seemed as if overnight the world had been turned on its head - America was now in the hands of bearded coffee-shop types, mad-as-hell blue collar workers, and the few middle class pricks that saw the writing on the wall and chose the right side (for means of self-preservation, of course!). After the initial Red Terror ebbed and the enemies of the people were safely under the heel, politics began to take a 'normal' course once more, with the dominant party splitting in response to political differences among the varied socialist sects that had briefly united to bring the revolution to fruition. It did, however, manage to execute a series of policies that could reasonably described as 'orthodox Trotskyism', setting the political center in a society with a nationalized, democratically-planned (by workers' councils) economy, the abolition of the standing army in favor of the armed people, world revolution as foreign policy priority number one, free love, legal drugs, and, of course, 1930s chic for all.

At the far-left of the political spectrum stands the Internationalist Communist League, a left-communist outfit that is ready to paint the world red. Libertine in its social sentiments, uncompromisingly Marxist in its political outlook, and skeptical of every alliance or temporary agreement with any capitalist power, the Internationalists are basically ready to start World War III tomorrow if it would mean the victory of the revolution. In a word, they're basically every neoconservative stereotype that exists on the paleoconservative right and liberal-left today, but hardcore anti-market and extreme libertines ready to wipe out civilization to destroy capitalism.

To the right of the Internationalists stands the Communist Party, but not by much. The Communists are the party of the November Revolution, and are basically on the same page with the Internationalists on policy, but are in practice far less willing to risk the eradication of life on earth to get there. The Communists are more willing to take a tempered approach at social revolution at home as well, gradually phasing in more radically libertine policies rather than implementing them full-stop in a matter of minutes, or whatever the Internationalists have in mind as far as communal living and all that goes.

The Labor Party occupies a position slightly to the right of the Communists. Initially set up by the Communists during the pre-revolutionary period, when the Communists split after the revolution, the Labor Party continued on as it's own entity. The Labor Party is essentially a kind of mish-mash of Stalinists (although they don't call themselves such), left-social democrats, and others who are committed to the centralized economy and the building of socialism, but aren't as keen on the idea of world revolution, preferring a 'realist' foreign policy. The Labor Party has a very economistic line, and is skeptical about the libertine policies of the Internationalists and the Communists, preferring to retain the 'progressive' features of the old society where possible.

Standing even further on the right than the Communist Party and the Labor Party is the Socialist Workers Party. Skeptical of centralized planning and of world revolution as a foreign policy initiative, the Socialist Workers Party is more or less a hodgepodge of Cliffites, 'libertarian' Marxists, left-leaning ecologists, Maoists, and others marginalized on account of their not supporting the dominant vision of what socialism should (or could) be. This group is united only by a shared dislike of the dominant parties, who return the favor by ruthlessly pillorying it at every they get.

The most right-wing party on the political spectrum is itself a descendant of the old parties under the American Ancien Regime, the Democratic-Republican Party. The Democratic-Republican Party is a merger of the old bourgeois parties, some members of whom wised up and decided to back the winning horse in the revolution. These days the Democratic-Republicans are the party of classical bourgeois ideology, promoting things like co-operatives (as opposed to planning), the utilization of markets, free love, free trade, and a peaceful foreign policy. Basically, it's a party somewhere between Henry George and Ron Paul, with some decidedly mutualist tendencies.

Other, smaller parties exist, but have little currency among the population. With the state officially hostile to religion (having removed all references to God from American currency, converted churches into sex clubs, and instituted a stringent anti-religious educational system), some religious reactionaries¹ have organized under the banner of the Matthew 25 club, but have been effectively shut out by the media and are treated as something of a curiosity by the public.


¹This doesn't mean reactionary in the sense that you and I understand it. The Matthew 25 group is largely supportive of the post-revolutionary changes to the economic system and to some extent some of the social changes (i.e. liberation of women, etc). It's essentially a liberal Christian outfit that wants to be able to proselytize, which is illegal under the USSA constitution. It's key leader, Rev. Scott Sunday, was recently arrested on charges of counterrevolutionary conspiracy to oust the workers' government, and is awaiting trial as we speak.