European Socialism

Introduced by General Secretary Eamonn McDaragh, European Socialism is a mixture of doctrine and aspiration and has served as the guiding principle in Greater DCU’s foreign policy. Broadly similar to Trotsky’s doctrine of Permanent Revolution, the doctrine insists that socialism in one state is not possible and if Greater DCU is to ever advance from its current stage of Progressive Communism it must first ensure that neighbouring nations are also on the same route.

The reasoning behind this policy is that within a true Communist nation the state, and all the apparatus of the state, will have dissolved thus rendering the nation vulnerable to foreign interference. In order to avoid this scenario it is necessary that foreign threats are removed by the only permanent way – initiating class struggle and building socialist states throughout Europe. Only when the entire region is well on the way to Communism can Greater DCU itself advance.

However in order to avoid region wide war, the methods used to achieve European Socialism have avoided direct confrontation and instead focused on improving the awareness and revolutionary instincts of the working classes. Tools such as the Red Dawn program regularly operate within foreign nations with exactly that aim in mind. Nonetheless the need to establish a socialist order throughout Europe is the driving factor behind all of the Politburo’s foreign policy.

Although first proposed by socialist thinkers immediately after the Revolution, the isolation of Greater DCU during the Reconstruction ensured that there was little debate on the subject, or any foreign affairs, until the late eighties when the Revolutionary Council agreed that the nation was adequately prepared to open the borders. The phrase European Socialism was coined by then Assembly Member Eamonn McDaragh who would later develop it into a major doctrine on his election to the Politburo.