[pp.int.general] Translation of the Pirate Manifesto

[Félix Robles]

*enhance

2009/11/11 Félix Robles <redeadlink at gmail.com>

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> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Reinier Bakels <r.bakels at planet.nl>wrote:
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>>  I am becoming a bit confused: is there actually a document, a sentence,
>>> anything, that is (more-or-less) "official" and on what (almost) all the
>>> Pirate Parties agree?
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>> No, afaik there is not. By the end of 2008, the manifesto "A-B-C" project
>> was abandoned by most contributors after heavy flame wars, and in the end is
>> really was the project of a single man, Carlos Ayala. During the Helsinki
>> meeting early this year, it was *not* discussed at all. Carlos was
>> disappointed, but he was pretty alone.
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>> The Uppsala document (composed during the summer 2008 meeting) wasn't so
>> much intended as *the* PP "Manifesto", but more the by-product of a (very
>> useful) workshop, a mental exercise to better understand PP goals and
>> strategies.
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> The Uppsala document was written by the Swedish, alone, AFAIK.
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>> I wrote a one page "PPI Principles" document for the Helsinki meeting (see
>> attachment), more to provide an alternative than because I believe(d) that a
>> manifesto was (or is) a priority. We spent little time on it in the meeting,
>> fortunately. *The purpose of a political party is to gain votes*, and a
>> "philosophical" documents like a manifesto should be judged from that
>> perspective: does it help to get more votes? As you know, *actually
>> deceptively few voters read party programs.*
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> The purpose of any political party is or should be to achieve their
> political goals in order to enhace society. In a democracy, this is possible
> if people vote them.
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> If our purpose as political parties was just to gain votes, no social or
> copyright issue would matter us at all.
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> The purpose of a political party is/should be to enhace society, gaining
> votes is just the means.
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