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danteIL
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[EMAIL] Mister Dalton Trumbo

It looks like Mister Alan Johnson's paranoia was right! I was contacted out of the blue by Dalton Trumbo (email: daltontrumboSPLATgoowy.com):

Dalton Trumbo wrote:

Comrade Dante,

My name is Mister Dalton Trumbo. I am an associate of yours at the Otis Elevator Company. Let me be honest, my status is actually "retired associate". I am a member of the board, one of the "elders". There is a very serious matter I need to discuss with you, Comrade Dante. The leadership of our company is in the hands of a man who is a danger to us all. I know you have grown close to this man, Mr. Alan Johnson, but please know that you are in grave danger. At this very moment, he is meeting with Mister Abbott about dealing with you. He is absolutely convinced that you are the blonde man noted in these "anonymous" notes that he has received. You know our great company has marched this world through its muddy history. We have not been perfect but we have tried to take care of the the "greater good". All of our success is now at risk because of one man. I'm sure you have heard the rumors about Mr. Alan Johnson's private pleasures and witnessed his erratic behaviour. This is not a leader for the people of Otis. Change is in the air, Comrade Dante. Many of us have been meeting secretly over the last few months. I want you to know that you will be part of it. It is time for Otis to rethink its one man rule philosophy. I believe we need to remember our ancestors, the slaves. How would they rule over this "company"? We the people of Otis are working toward the greater good, aren't we? What about the people who still starve, Comrade Dante? What about the people without education? What if we used the power of Otis Elevator to free all the people? Take my hand, Comrade Dante. Help me change the world. My friends and I still believe that Otis should carry on and rule. I mean, without us there would be only chaos. We believe we could all be empowered to share this world, if we had the right kind of leader. All the good and the bad can be distributed to the masses. We must take the reins from Mr. Alan Johnson and hand them over to our new leader. A new "Mr. Alan Johnson", who is good and caring and can be taught to see the world for its possibilities. A leader who will listen to all and end this world of slaves. We believe we have found the right person to groom to lead this new world. Will you join us? If you do, we will protect you from Mr. Alan Johnson. You have my solid promise. Let me leave you with the first line from one of my favorite films.. Do you like films, Comrade Dante? Films are a magnificent reflection of our society.

In the last century before the birth of the new faith called Christianity, which was destined to overthrow the pagan tyranny of Rome and bring about a new society, the Roman Republic stood at the very center of the civilized world. "Of all things fairest," sang the poet, "first among cities and home of the gods is golden Rome." Yet, even at the zenith of her pride and power, the Republic lay fatally stricken with a disease called human slavery. The age of the dictator was at hand, waiting in the shadows for the event to bring it forth. In that same century, in the conquered Greek province of Thrace, an illiterate slave woman added to her master's wealth by giving birth to a son whom she named Spartacus. A proud, rebellious son who was sold to living death in the mines of Libya before his thirteenth birthday. There, under whip and chain and sun, he lived out his youth and his young manhood dreaming the death of slavery two thousand years before it finally would die.
Let us march together, Comrade Dante.

Dalton Trumbo

The bold was in the original email. Obviously, the movie quote is from Spartacus.

So this is an interesting situation. On the one hand, we have Mr. Alan Johnson, an obviously sociopathic and dangerous man using his Spoocheeeee power for his own purposes. Taking him down would be a good thing, as Mr. Trumbo suggests. But then we would still have Spoocheeeee and the (unknown) danger that they/it represents. I guess the White Rose is the 'third way' then...

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:04 pm

konamouse
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Ah, liberal use of "comrade". Dalton Trumbo was involved in the American Communist Party (and hence his blacklisting and imprisonmnet). He also was one of the writers of the movie "Spartacus". Interestingly enough, about a slavery revolt in the Roman Empire. Hmmm.....

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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:52 pm

danteIL
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New email exchange with Comrade Dalton:

I wrote:

Comrade Trumbo,

I am very flattered that you chose to contact me, out of all the possible hardworking individuals at Otis Worldwide. Spartacus is a great movie, Mr. Trumbo, and serves to remind me of the great history that stands behind us.

It is true that recently I have gotten to know Mr. Alan Johnson. Unfortunately, this includes his darker side as well. So far, I have not felt any direct threat from him, as I have continuously sought to assure him that I pose no danger to him, blonde hair or not. I can only hope that he continues to think positively of me. He has indeed been erratic at times, and I believe increasingly a danger not only to himself but to others as well. I share your opinion that the well-being of Otis and all that it stands for would be threatened if he were to remain in control of things. Therefore, I am indeed intrigued by what you say, that you believe you have found the right person to be the new leader. Who is this person? I know that Mr. Alan Johnson, in his current paranoid state, has caught wind of this possibility and is actively planning to protect himself from any attempts to remove him from power. I am sure that you are aware of this, but even so, I hope that this person is careful and under protection. In the meantime, I am more than interested to learn more, and will do what I can to aid in the greater aims of Otis, even if that means staying close to Mr. Alan Johnson. In that spirit, let me close this with a quote from another great movie: "My father taught me many things... keep your friends close but your enemies closer."

Until we talk again,

Dante

Dalton Trumbo wrote:

Comrade Dante,

A good quote and a very, very good film. Change is upon us, Comrade. I cannot and will not reveal our new leader until the time is right, but you will know soon. Today was another Mr. Alan Johnson fiasco! He's rushed off to London to collect something that should have never gone missing! He is an idiot ruler! I will be in contact with you tomorrow about our plan for the week ahead. The madman will soon be gone forever. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

Let us march together, Comrade Dante.

Dalton Trumbo

This time, his quote is from Network.

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:12 am

konamouse
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Maybe you can seriously befriend him, totally agree that Mr AJ has gone off the deep end, and suggest you/your friends can deal with Mr AJ with a piece of the Spoocheeeee disc? We want to help Otis Corporation be successful.

But DO NOT tell him we have the other pieces.

In chat Red said something about telling Trumbo that Mr AJ has the successor in custody (but doesn't know that the young man is the planned successor). We would like to borrow a piece of the disc to make a good replica (with slight modification to the lettering) and trade the replica to Mr AJ for the release of the successor.

Keep him talking, danteIL! He's our last hope to SAVE THE FIVE, SAVE THE WORLD

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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:07 am

danteIL
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So after our discovery of the motto today, I wrote Mr. D.T.:

I wrote:

I pledge:

Spoocheeeees of the world unite for the common good

Dalton Trumbo wrote:

My Comrade Dante,

Good to have you with us. Change is in the air. You will receive information tomorrow about our next meeting. You will also receive your assignment. This assignment must be completed before the meeting. Expect to hear from me in the early afternoon.

Spoocheeeees of the world unite for the common good!

Let us march together!
Comrade Dalton Trumbo

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:25 pm

konamouse
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konamouse wrote:

Comrade Trumbo,
I am someone of like mind to your desires to make this a better world.
Like you, I am very disallusioned with Mr Alan Johnson and feel he is
mentally unstable. Please let me know if I can be of service.

Heather

"Spoocheeeees of the world unite for the common good"

Looks like the same reply.

Trumbo wrote:

Comrade Heather,

Good to have you with us. Change is in the air. You will receive information tomorrow about our next meeting. You will also receive your assignment. This assignment must be completed before the meeting. Expect to hear from me in the early afternoon.

Spoocheeeees of the world unite for the common good!

Let us march together!

Comrade Dalton Trumbo

We're getting assignments? Tomorrow afternoon? I have to work late again tomorrow then take my mom out to dinner <sigh>. I hope we get a little time for this.

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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:29 pm

danteIL
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As promised, Mister D.T. has contacted me about my assignment, although it is mysterious:

Dalton Trumbo wrote:

You will find your assignment when you find a new spoocheeeee manifesto.

Thank you, Comrade.

EDIT: nevermind, it wasn't that mysterious:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

http://anewspoocheeeeemanifesto.blogspot.com/

EDIT2: The missing letters on the page spell out the following message:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

To demonstrate your committment to the Spoocheeeee Communist Party, you must complete the following assignment: We need a new flag for Spoocheeeee under our new regime. The flag must speak to the world about the new Spoocheeeee. If you will send to me your ideas, designs, photos, videos, drawings via email, I will post these on the inner circle and we will discuss them at our next meeting, which will take place December One, at Eight.

So, get those creative juices flowing!

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:51 pm

konamouse
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For the archive - The posted manifesto

Quote:

The New Spoocheeeee

The history of all hitherto exising Spoocheeeee society(2) is the histry of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lor and serf, guild-master(3) and journyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each tie ended, either in a revlutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common rui of the contending classes. In the earlier epochs of hitory, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangemen of society into various orders, a manifold gadation of social rank. In ncient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprenices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations. The modern bourgois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done awa with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new cnditions of oppression, new forms of strggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the Spoocheeeeegeoisie, possesses, howeve, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Soiety as a whole is mre and more splitting up into two great hostile caps, into two great classes directly facing each other � Spoocheeeeegeoisie and Spoocheeeeeletariat. Fro the serfs of the iddle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earlest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the Spoocheeeeegeoisie were developed. he discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising Spoocheeeeegeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, rade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in comodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impuls never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid developmet. The feudal system of industry, in which industrial producion was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markes. The manufacturing system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labur between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop. Meanime the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising. Even manufacturer no longer sufficed. Thereupon, steam and macinery revolutionised industrial production. The plac of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Indutry; the place of the industrial middle class by industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois. Modern industry has established the world market, for which the discovery of America aved the way. This market has given an immense development to cmmerce, to navigation, to cmmunication by land. This development has, in its turn, reated on the extension of industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion te Spoocheeeegeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handd down from the Middle Ages. We se, therefore, how the modrn Spoocheeeeegeoisie is itself the product of a long cours of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange. Eah step in the development of the Spocheeeeegeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an ared and self-governing association in the edieval commune(4): here independent rban republic (as in Italy and Germany); there taxable "third estate" of the monarchy (as in Frace); afterwards, in the period of manufacturing proper, servng either the semi-feudal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact, cornerstone of the great monarchies in general, the poocheeeeegeoisie has at last, since he establishment of Modern Industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern reresentative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern stte is but a committee for managing the common affais of the whole Spoocheeeeegeoisie. The Spoocheeeeegeoisie, hisorically, has plaed a most revolutionar part. The Spoocheeeeegeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly trn asunder the motley fedal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left reaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callos "cash payment". It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religiou fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philisine sentimentalism, in the iy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved persnal worth into exchange value, and in place of the nuberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom � Free Trade. In one word, for exloitation, veiled by religious and poitical illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation. The Spoocheeeegeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupaion hitherto honored and looked up to with revernt awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, he priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers. The Spooceeeeegeoisie has torn away from the family its sntimental veil, and has reduced the amily relation to a mere money relation. The Spoocheeeeegeisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the bruta display of vigor in the Middle Ages, which reactionaries so much admire, found its fitting compement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accmplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades. The Spoocheeeeegeoisie cannot exist ithout constantly revolutionizing the nstruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Coservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the boureois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, re swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can osify. All that is olid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses hs real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. The need of a constantly expandin market for its products chases the Spoocheeeeegeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connectios everywhere. The Spoocheeeeegeoisie has through its exploitation of the world arket given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in very country. To the great chagrin of Reactioists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the naional ground on hich it stood. All old-established national industries have ben destroyed or are daily beig destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a lif and dath question for all civilized nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material rawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products re consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wats, satisfied by the production of the country, we find nw ants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-suficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universa inter-dependence of nations. And as in mterial, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature. The Spoocheeeeeeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely acilitated means of cmmunication, daws all, even the most barbarian nations into civilization. The cheap prices of commoditie are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image. The Spoocheeeeegeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban opulation as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part f the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the cuntry dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian ountries dependent on the civilized ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, te East on the West. The Spoocheeeeegeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralized the mans of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The ncessary consequence of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provincs, with separate interests, laws, governments, and systems of taxation, became lumpd together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, on national class-interest, one frontier, and one customs-tariff. The Spoocheeeeegeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal prodctive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjectio of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry an agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whol continents for cultivation, canalization of ivers, whle populations conjured ot of the gound � what earlier century had even a presetiment that such productiv forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the Spoocheeeeegeoisie built itself up, ere generated in feudal society. At a cetain stage in the devlopment of these means of production and of exchane, the conditions under which feudal socety produced and exchanged, the feudal organization of agriculture and anufacturing industry, in one word, the feudal relations of proprty became no longer compaible with the already developed productive forces; tey became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder. nto their place stepped free competition, accompanied by a ocial and political constitution adapted in it, and the economic and political sway of the bourgeois class. A similar movement is going on before our own eyes. Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. or many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revot of modern productive forces gainst modern conditions of production, aainst the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeois and of its rule. It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on its trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epideic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absrdity � the epidemic of over-production. ociety suddenly finds itself put back into a stae of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the upply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disosal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for thes conditions, by which they re fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the Spoocheeeeegeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new marets, and by the more horough exploitation of the old nes. That is to say, by paving the way for more exensive and more destructive crises, and by diminising the means whereby crises ar prevented. The eapons with which the Spoocheeeeegeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are nw turned against the Spoocheeeeegeoisie itself. But not only has the Spoocheeeeegeoisie foged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons � the modern working class � the proetarians. In proportion as the Spoocheeeeegeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the Spoocheeeeeletariat, the modern working class, developed � a class of labourers, who live only so long as they fin work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capitl. These laourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commdity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitdes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. Owing to the exensive use of machinery, and to the division of labour, the work of the proletarians has los all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. ence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the mans of subsistece that he requires for maintenance, and for the propagation of his race. But the pric of a commodity, and therefore also of labour, is equal to its cost of production. In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the age decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and diviion of labour increases, in the same proortion the burden of til also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hurs, by the inrease of the work exacted in a given time or by increased speed of macinery, etc. Modern Industry has converted th little workshop of the patriarchal master into the grat factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of labourers, crowded into the factory, are organizd like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hirarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slavs of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daly and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manuacturer himself. The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more pett, the more hateful and the mre embittering it is. The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labor of men superseded by that of omen. Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class. All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex. No sooner s the exploitation of the aborer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the Spoocheeeeegeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the middle class � the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen generaly, the handicraftsmen and peasants � all these ink gradually into the Spoocheeeeletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competitio with the large capitalists, partly because their specialize skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production. hus the Spocheeeeeletariat is recruited from all classes of the population. The Spoocheeeeeletariat goes through various stages of developent. With its birth begins its struggl with the Spoocheeeeegeoisie. At first the contest is carried on by individual labourers, then by the workpeople of a factor, then by the operative of ne trade, in one locality, against the individal bourgeois who directly exploits them. They direct their attacks not against the bougeois conditons of production, but against the instruments of prouction themselves; they destroy imported wares that compet with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they set factories blaze, they eek to restore by force the vanishe status of the workman of the Middle Ages.
At this stage, the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whol country, and broken up by their mutual competition. If anywhere they unite to form more compact bodies, this is not yet the conequence of their own actve union, but of the union of the Spoocheeeeegeoisie, which class, in order to attain its own political ends, is compelled to set the whole Spoocheeeeeletariat in motion, and is moreover yet, for a time, able to do so. At this stae, therefore, the proletarians do not fight their enemies, but the enemies of their eemies, the remnants of absolute monarchy, the landowners, the non-industrial bourgeoi, the etty bourgeois. Thus, the whole historical movement is concentrated in the ands
of the Spoocheeeeegeoisie; every victory so obtained is a victory fr the Spoocheeeeegeoisie. But with the development of industry, he Spoocheeeeeletariat not only increases in number; it becomes cncentrated in greater masse, its strength grows, and it feels that strength more. The arious interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the Spoocheeeeeletariat are more and more equalzed, in proportion as machinery obliterates all istinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low lvel. The grwing competition among the bourgeois, and the resulting commercial crises, make the wages of the workers ever more fluctuating. The increasing improvement of machinery, ever more rapidly developing, makes their livelihoo more and moe precrious; the collisions between individual orkmen and individual bourgeois take more and more the character of collisions between two classes. Thereupon, the workers begin to form combinations (Trades' Unons) agaist the bourgeois; they club toether in order to keep up the rate of wages; they found permanent associations in order to make provision beforehand for these occasional revolt. Here and there, the contest breaks out into riots. Now and then the workers are ictorious, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not n the immediate result, but in the ever-expnding union of the workers. This union is hlped on by the improved means of communication that are created by odern industry, nd that place the workers of different localities in contact wth one another. It was just this contact that was needed to centralize the numerous loca struggles, all of the same character, nto one national struggle between classes. But every class struggle is a political struggle. And that union, to attain hich the burghers of the Middle Ages, with their mserable highways, required centuries, the modern proetarian, thanks to raiways, achieve in a few years. This organization of the proletarians into a class, and, consequently into a olitical party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the wrkers themselves. But it ever rises up again, stronger, firmer, mightier. It compel legislative recognition of particular interests of the workers, by taking advanage of the divisions among the Spoocheeeeegeoisie itself. hus, the ten-ours' bill in ngland was carried. Altogether collisions between the classes of the old ociety further, in many ways, the course of development of the Spoocheeeeletariat. The Spocheeeeegeoisie fids itself involved in a constant battle. At first with he aristocracy; later on, with those portions of the Spooceeeeegeoisie itself, whos nterests have become atagonistic to the progress of idustry; at all time with th Spoocheeeeegeoisie of foeign countries. In all these battles, it sees itself compelled to appeal to the Spooheeeeeletariat, to ask for help, and thus, to drag t into the political arena. The Spoocheeeeegeoisie itself, therefoe, supplies the Spoocheeeeeletariat with its own elements of politial and general education, in other words, it furnishes the Spoocheeeeeetariat with weapons for fighting th Spoocheeeeegeoisie. Further, as we have already seen, entire sections of the ruling class are, by the dvance of industry, precipitated into the Spoocheeeeeletariat, or are at least threateed in their conditions of existence. These also supply the Spoocheeeeeletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress. Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the ecisive hour, the progress of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact ithin the whole range of old society, assumes such a violnt, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the Spoocheeeeegeoisie, so now a portion of the Spoocheeeeegeoisie goes over to the Spoocheeeeeletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, ho have rased themselves to the leve of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole. Of al the classes that stand face to face with the Spoocheeeeegeoisie toay, the Spoocheeeeeletarat alone is a really revolutionary clas. The other classes deay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Indstry; the poocheeeeeletariat i its special and essential product. he lower middle class, the small manufacturer, te shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the Spoocheeeegeoisie, to save fro extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They re therefore not revolutionary, but conservaive. Nay more, they are reactionary, fr they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance, they are revoltionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfe into the Spoocheeeeeletariat; they thus defed not their present, but their intersts that eist in the near future, they desert their own sandpoint to place themselves at that of the Spoocheeeeeletariat. The "dangerous class", [lumpenSpoocheeeeeletariat] the social scu, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layrs of the old society, may, here and thre, be swep into the movement by a Spoocheletaran revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary itrigue. In the condition of the Spoocheeeeeletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped. The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anythin in common ith the bourgeois family relations; modern industry labour, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national caracter. Law, moralty, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests. All the preceding classes that got the upper hand sought to fortify their already aquired status by subjecting society at large to their conditions of appropriation. Te proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation. They have nothing of their own to secure and to fortify; their mission is to destroy all previous securities for, and insurances of, individual property. All previous historical movements ere movements of minorties, or in the interest of minorities. The proetarian movement is the sef-conscious, independent movemen of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority. The Spoocheeeeeletriat, the lowest stratum of our present "let them eat cae" society, cannot stir, cannot rais itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air. Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the Soocheeeeeletariat with the Spoocheeeeegeoisie is at first a national strugge. The Spoocheeeeeletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own Spoocheeeeegeoisie. In depicting the most general phses of the development of the Spoocheeeeeletariat, we traed the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing socity, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the Spoocheeeeegeoisie lays the founation for the sway of the Spoocheeeeletariat. Hitherto, every form of soiety has been basd, as we have already seen, on the antagonis of oppressing and oppressed classes. ut in order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assurd to it under which it can, at least, continue its slavish existence. The sef, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeis, under the yoke of the feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. The moder laborer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the procss of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident, that the Spoocheeeeegeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slve within his slavery, because it cannot help leting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instad of being fed by him. Socety can no longer live under this Spoocheeeeegeoisie, in other words, its existence is no loner compatible wit society. The essential conditions for the exisence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the Spoocheeeeegeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the Spoocheeeeegeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the Spoocheeeeegeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the Spoocheeeeeletariat are equally inevitable.

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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:04 pm

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What an anticlimactic 300th post

The Spoocheeeee Manifesto is, of course, the Communist Manifesto's first chapter with Spoocheeeee inserted.

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:47 pm

enaxor
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Just received this from Dalton.

Dalton Trumbo wrote:

Comrade,

You have your assignment.

Before the next meeting of the Beverly Hills (SCP) Cell, there are a few tasks you must attend to as well.

All members of the Beverly Hills (SCP) Cell must have code names. Select your code name and reveal it only to me.

All members of the Beverly Hills (SCP) Cell must pledge to be prepared for the December revolution.

All members of the Beverly Hills (SCP) Cell must pledge to not reveal the location of the secret meeting place (when it is revealed to you) to anyone.

All members of the Beverly Hills (SCP) Cell must pledge to write a note to Mr. Alan Johnson and profess to have been approached by by the members of the Beverly Hills (SCP) Cell to lead Spoocheeeee. You must also profess that you are blonde.

And finally all members of the Beverly Hills (SCP) Cell must pledge to contact Patricia Moore and tell her "a boy's best friend is his mother".

Let us march together!

Dalton Trumbo

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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:05 pm

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Please, no one tell Mr AJ about that last requirement. He might take a closer look at Dwin and note his being blond. It may then click about Kevin being chosen by the elders as Spoocheeeee's next leader (therefore putting his life in danger).

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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:19 am

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I've made my pledges and designed my flag.

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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:54 pm

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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:25 pm

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So does the code name have to be based on anything in particular? Or just anything?

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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:29 pm

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Code Name

Jenna wrote:

So does the code name have to be based on anything in particular? Or just anything?

I just picked something completely different from any name I have ever used.

SPEC: we'll be in some kind of chat and won't know who is who in the room (only Comrade Trumbo will know) and there could be others in there who are not players but we won't necessarily know who is a player and who is a character perhaps?????

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:31 pm

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