Communism Values

Getting Good Points on What Communism Is:
(Urg, I'm getting sick of these guys. I'm going to move on to something else soon enough. Probably after Spring Break.)

What We Fight For

Progressive Labor Party (PLP) fights to smash capitalism -- wage slavery. While the bosses and their mouthpieces claim "communism is dead:" capitalism is the real failure for billions all over the world. Capitalism returned to the Soviet Union and China because socialism failed to wipe out many aspects of the profit system, like wages and division of labor.

Capitalism inevitably leads to wars. PLP organizes workers, students and soldiers to turn these wars into a revolution for communism -- the dictatorship of the proletariat. This fight requires a mass Red Army led by the communist PLP.

Communism means working collectively to build a society where sharing is based on need. We will abolish work for wages, money and profits. Everyone will share in society's benefits and burdens.

Communism means abolishing racism and the concept of race.

Communism means abolishing the special oppression of women workers.

Communism means abolishing nations and nationalism. One International working class, one world, one Party.

Communism means the Party leads every aspect of society. For this to work, millions of workers -- eventually everyone -- must become communist organizers. Join Us!

What I Would Hope To Accomplish

After explaining my ideas to my mom, I would like to get even more specific about what I am studying what I would hope to accomplish in the future.

1, I am studying unconventional economic development. Supply-side, human capital, social capital, entrepreneurship.

2, I am asking policy questions about basic human services of people outside of the mainstream, murky policy pool. Communists, socalists, social democrats, radical centerists, libertarians, anarcho-capitalists.

3, I am interviewing local leaders about their experiences with Cleveland, OH and their hopes for the future.

4, I am forming a model of neighborhood-wide, marginal development that encourages ownership, citizenship, and capturing multipling dollars.

5, I am looking for ways to enforce social contracts without the use of government as it is understood presently.

I am using the "24 Necessities" as a launching model for essential firms that are currently underused, overused, misused, or disconnected in neighborhoods. If I can get a working model, I want to break them up into "Urban Hood," "Small Town," "Rural Area," "Underdeveloped," and "Blank Slate".

While I still study in college and freely talk, listen and record, I want to develop directories of Cleveland resources for using my model.

It would be ever so awesome if I could go to graduate school and work on my model seriously, for academic consideration, while experimenting in Cleveland neighborhoods.

Research Ideas from Class: Agglomeration in Nonprofits, 3

Backward Linkages

Backward linkages connect firms by channeling their money, information, and materials together.

Why shouldn’t nonprofits that work with similar clients share information and resources? Even profit-seeking businesses do that. Businesses form trade unions and professional associations. They study each other’s movements to spot trends. They recruit the same sort of people, so they watch where fresh workers come from. They have mutual interests and studies have shown that industries thrive when the businesses work together to increase the pie for them all. That way, they are free to specialize and develop distinct identities.

Research Ideas from Class: Agglomeration in Nonprofits, 2

Forward Linkages

Forward linkages are distribution chains connecting producers/suppliers with customers.

Developing strong forward linkages are important for any nonprofit, but I have seen some not take this process seriously because they were too enthusiastic about getting their service out to people and not about doing it rationally. They throw hundreds of flyers out across an area when developing a relationship with a few local leaders gets information out faster. They try to reach children individually instead of going to the school. They say, “We are inclusive, we want to help everyone!” but they don’t take the time to develop relationships to REACH out to all desired clients, such as writing Spanish versions of their information. Also, to maintain these relationships. High performing programs and plans should be nurtured.

Research Ideas from Class: Agglomeration in Nonprofits, 1

Internal Economies

When a firm expands to cover multiple activities, it reduces cost by internal agglomeration. “The spreading of fixed costs over a larger output, greater division of labor, the potential for using alternative technologies, and saving through bulk purchases are sources of internal agglomeration.” (72) Economies of scales, which is efficiency by size, can also be internal agglomeration by being concentrated in one place.

Internal economies are helpful at spreading fixed costs over larger outputs. Examples are

• Sharing buildings: multi-use, time sharing. Catholic churches have shared their large buildings with other congregations to cut down on paying the costs.
• Sharing equipment: communal resources, labs.
• Sharing infrastructure: roads, connections. Which comes naturally with being in the same location.
• Savings through bulk purchases
• Greater division of labor

Research Ideas from Class: Agglomeration in Nonprofits, Main

Agglomeration in Nonprofits

Do nonprofits locate near each other and build off each other the same way that service businesses do? Do they internally develop like businesses? What are the location factors for nonprofits?

Could nonprofits gain from internal economies? Could they gain from studying forward and backward linkages? And, can some nonprofits develop into a localized economy that could sustain a small population?

Research and Writing

"Let the words from my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, my lord, my strength, my redeemer."


Just got back from the Congress on Christian Education. A forum about economic development gave me the proper way to organize my ideas for application (as opposed to academic).

1) Introduction
2) Needs
3) Approach
Which breaks off into (7) Goals, each with (3) Objectives and Methods
4) Evaluation
5) Budget

I should break my research and experiences up by this... Hmmm. More on this, later.