Communist Party of Otiacicoh

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Communist Party of Otiacicoh

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Established 1924
Official Ideology Marxist-Leninism (Official), Juche (Official), Christian Communism (Unofficial)
International Affiliation None
General Secretary Trevor Macmillan
Colours Red

The Communist Party of Otiacicoh is the ruling party of the Serene Democratic People's Fiefdom of Otiacicoh

History

The first Otiacicoh Communist Party was established in 1904 by a group of exiled Aztec students and intellectuals in the American city of Los Angeles. This group, led by the radical political writer Chimalli Quimichin, quickly fragmented as ideological differences arose. The Anarchists, led by Quimichin, were to found the short-lived Otiacicoh Freedom League while more dedicated communists attempted, and failed, to reform as an exclusively Marxist political organisation. It would take the actions of the Jewish writer and intellectual Moshe Makhoul (1862-1938) some twenty years later to finally establish a native Communist Movement within the Empire. Makhoul, who had studied at the Sorbonne during his twenties, maintained contact with French Socialists and was influenced by the Section Française de l'Internationale ouvrière. Though the First World War was to produce a schismatic effect on the French Socialist Movement, Makhoul was largely unconcerned about this due to the Empire's neutrality during the conflict. His regular letters to Ludovic-Oscar Frossard, the French Leninist Politician, convinced Makhoul of the need for a local movement, though the Frenchmen was unable to convince him of the necessary ideological purity of Leninism or the need for membership of the Comintern. The party had no sooner been founded, however, before it was banned by the Emperor Montezuma VII for 'sedition, malpractice and the worst manner of caxtiltecatl [Spanish ie. an unwelcome European intervention] thinking'. Makhoul, already in his sixties, was arrested and charged before the Teccali of Xochimilco to three years hard-labour (though on appeal this was reduced to two years house arrest). The now-underground party established meticulous records of those who were 'martyred' during this period and these can be viewed in the Communist Party Museum in Port Sunlight. The death of Montezuma VII in 1933 saw a reduction in the level of oppression, though the party was subsequently split by ideological differences.

The Isaac Watkinson Affair

The first major split of the second Otiacicohan Communist Party was the result of the inadvertent actions of a visiting English Catholic Parish Priest, Father Isaac Watkinson. A parish priest from Salford, Watkinson had arrived on the island in 1934 as part of an exchange program with the Archdiocese of New Tenochtitlan. Watkinson was struck, however, by the stark racial divide within the Empire and the gross inequality that existed. His work in the poor European neighbourhoods of the capital quickly brought his attention to the local Communist Party Official who, in no uncertain terms, denounced the young clergyman as 'an interfering foot soldier of a bourgeoisie institution'. Watkinson responded with a now-famous letter to the Party's General Secretary, the now-ailing Makhoul, in which the young man announced that:

The message of the Gospels is, surely, similar in manner and temperament to those of your Society? For, just as Marx commented that the bourgeoisie possessed a fetish with the spoils of capitalism, so did our Lord comment that "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

Watkinson's stark message was that the Party would never obtain any founding in the deeply religious society of pre-revolution Otiacicoh until:

All of your potential supporters are left in no doubt that the limits of your faith in the goodness of humanity are tempered by a reasoned faith in the wholly good nature of the Triune God.

Watkinson was return to England a few weeks after his controversial letter, though his effect on the Communists was nothing less than seismic. A significant minority continued to denounce the priest, arguing that any form of organised religion was incompatible with the dictates of the Dialect and Das Kapital. Others, however, were quick to seize upon the letter as the demonstrable reason why the Communists had failed to obtain wide-spread support in the mostly Anglican white neighbourhoods of the capital and the large southern cities. Many in the centre of the Party, however, agreed that the organisation should become less overtly atheistic in order to further its aims. As the Central Committee-member Herbert Longsdale noted:

The works of Marx and Engels contain nothing about the position of the peasantry in the proletarian revolution. For our founders, peasantry needed to be replaced before the advancement of the working classes could take place, and yet today, thanks to Comrade Lenin, it is not unthinkable to mention ‘The Workers and the Peasants’ as a natural turn of phrase. If Lenin needed to take-up the sickle in order to obtain the October Revolution, I do not think it an act of betrayal to take up the Cross for ours.

Most agreed, however, that the adoption of Christian Communism could only be utilized until a sizable bulk of European support was obtained prior to the appeal to the majority Mexica.

The two sides of the ideological divide were only kept together by the actions of Makhoul and, following his death in 1938, the party split into the majority Communist Party of Otiacicoh and the more ideologically-pure Marxist-Leninist People’s Party.

The American Invasion and the Civil War

The decision by the Emperor Montezuma VIII and the white Industrial Elite to join the Second World War on the side of Japan following Pearl Harbour outraged many throughout the Empire and saw the Communist Party, still dazed from years of infighting, propelled to the forefront of opposition. While Party Membership grew steadily during the Second World War, the organisation was still predominately white in its appearance with little or no efforts to reach out to the Aztec majority. The withdrawal of American forces in 1946 and the start of the Civil War demonstrated this and it was only the relatively late appearance of the charismatic Geography graduate, Noel Hoogaboom, which saw a reverse in fortunes and the first successful attempt to create a national pan-community Communist Party that, unlike the smaller Marxist-Leninist People’s Party, encouraged people of faith.

Today

Following the Communist victory in 1953, the Party has been the only legitimate political organisation allowed in the Fiefdom and has maintained tight controls on the media, armed forces and economy. The Party possesses a complex internal structure, with the Party Congress being the supreme organ. The Congress, supposedly, approves reports of the party organs, adopts basic party policies and tactics, and elects members to the Party Central Committee and the Central Auditing Committee. The CPO has 160 Central Committee members and 143 Central Committee alternate (candidate) members. The Central Committee meets at least once every six months. Article 24 of the party rules stipulates that the Central Committee elects the General Secretary of the party, members of the Political Bureau Presidium (or the Standing Committee), members of the Political Bureau (or Politburo), secretaries, members of the Central Military Commission, and members of the Central Inspection Committee. A party congress is convened every five years, with the last one taking place in 2002. As in most Soviet-style party states, membership of the Party is essential for any Fiefdom citizen who aspires to a post of any seniority in any government, management, educational or cultural institution, since all these bodies act as "conveyor belts" for party rule over all aspects of Fiefdom life. The influence of Juche and 'dynastic socialism' has led to an increasingly hereditary-nature in top Party Positions, with the most likely successor to Uncle Noel being his nephew, Trevor Macmillan.

Ideology

Though strongly influenced by Christian Communism, the party's official line has always been the loyal retention of Marxist-Leninism. The Fiefdom's Constitution of 1987 reaffirmed this and attempts to replace Marxist-Leninism with an Otiacicohan version of North Korean Juche have failed. The Party Leadership and Membership, however, have also been influenced by various strands of Communist Political Thought, from Stalinism to Maoism to KimSungIlism, that enriches the political discourse of the Party and continues to attract new members. In the Communist sense, therefore, the Party is a 'broad church' that is united by the common desire for the maintainance of the ideals of Marx and Engels and loyalty to the person and family of the Dear Leader, Uncle Noel.

Symbol

The symbol of the party was revised in 1971 to include the Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947 in order to add the symbol of 'loyal soldiers, Vanguard of the Revolution' to the more traditional images of workers and peasants.