[pp.int.general] Stances on different ideologies (was: Current state of Piratenpartei Deutschland in general)

[Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet)]

> The pirate ideology is one that cuts across the whole political
> spectrum. We have the potential to get all kinds of supporters, from
> [...]
> The seeds for that
> ideology were sown many years before Rick founded the first Pirate
> Party, back when the Open Source movement was born, back when people
> started using the Internet and found an environment where culture and
> knowledge were truly free. Our core issues are the freedom of culture
> and knowledge, freedom from Big Brother schemes, freedom from big
> artificial monopolies. That is a flag we can rally people under, a new
> ideology that none of the traditional parties have an existing
> foothold on.
> [...]
> slow it down. Pirates who label themselves anarchists or socialists
> will make outsiders associate anarchism or socialism with the pirate
> ideology, and reject it because they reject anarchism or socialism. We
> don't want that.
>
> So let's make the Pirate Parties about the Pirate Ideology, and leave
> the rest to the other parties.

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