Councilism

Councilism, or Council Socialism, is a socialist political ideology that focuses on opposition to state socialism, as generally characterized by Collectivism, and also advocates for the formation of workers council's and council democracy.

At present, the largest Councilist organization is the Socialist Workers Party and the Union of Rephome is the one nation that currently operates on explicitly Councilist principles.

Ideological Roots in Barksism
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Split between Collectivists and Councilists
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Worker's Councils and Council Democracy
Council democracy is a political system in which the rule of the population by directly elected councils is exercised. The councils are directly responsible to their electors and are bound by their instructions. Such an imperative mandate is in contrast to a free mandate, in which the elected delegates are only responsible to their conscience. Delegates may accordingly be dismissed from their post at any time or be voted out (recall).

In a Council democracy, voters are organized in basic units, for example the workers of a company, the inhabitants of a district, or the soldiers of a barracks. They directly send the delegates as public functionaries, which act as legislators, government and courts in one. The councils are elected on several levels: At the residential and workplace level, delegates are sent to the local councils in plenary assemblies. These, in turn, can delegate members to the next level. The system of delegation continues to the Congress of Councils at the state level. The electoral processes thus take place from the bottom upwards. The levels are usually tied to administrative levels.

A workers' council is a form of political and economic organization in which a single local administrative division, such as a municipality or a county, is governed by a council made up of temporary and instantly revocable delegates elected in the region's workplaces. In a system with temporary and instantly revocable delegates, workers decide on what their agenda is and what their needs are. They also mandate a temporary delegate to divulge and pursue them. The temporary delegates are elected among the workers themselves, can be instantly revoked if they betray their mandate, and are supposed to change frequently. The delegates act as messengers, carrying and interchanging the intention of the groups of workers.

On a larger scale, a group of delegates may in turn elect a delegate in a higher position to pursue their mandate, and so on, until the top delegates are running the economic system of a state. In such a system, decision power rises from bottom to top from the agendas of the workers themselves, and there is no decision imposition from the top, as would happen in the case of a power seizure by a bureaucratic layer that is immune to instant revocation.

Role of the Party
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Socialist Internationalism
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Union of Rephome
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