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    (you're wrong, this is a faction and they will fight at every level to express their values in the system - either you CHOOSE the level they factionally define things, or they mess up everythin)
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    '''Reds''' are a notable global [[faction]] of people with common values.
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    Used politically it will usually refer to anti-capitalists, specifically communists, who adopted this as their signal colour long ago.  It stands for the blood shed by workers in the wage slavery system, and by soldiers in the wars started by capitalists for their own profit (yeah ok don't blame me I'm just the [[troll]]).  They tend to really dislike workplace practices that exploit people like [[prison labour]] or [[child labour]] or [[slavery]], although they see these as part of capitalism.  They often focus on specific individual media barons or corporate figures as 'the worst problem' at any point in time, and distrust even [[Greens]] and [[Pinks]] in many cases.
     
    Accordingly, there will likely be a [[faction]] of Reds in the [[Consumerium social club]] and they very likely will insist on some [[factionally defined]] terms and [[standard label]]s for products produced by [[fair trade]] criteria.
     
    They will probably ''not'' want their own [[Consortium license]] because of their ideological objections to [[patent]] and [[copyright]] law in general.  They may advocate the [[Consumerium License]] just becoming the [[GPL]], or having no license at all as some kind of protest.  When asked how specific [[bad copy problem]]s or [[self-interested fork problem]]s will be dealt with, and how [[worst cases]] and [[threats]] related to these will be averted, their answer will always be "these are all symptoms of capitalism - they will not go away until capitalism is smashed - so if these happen then just smash capitalism" etc. etc. rant rave.
     
    They will also likely be quite active in the [[content wiki]] - Communists are great reporters of facts, since they suspect everyone and everything with any connection to capitalism, and will always find "a fly in the ointment".  For this very reason, however, their analysis tends not to be as strong or objective as that of [[Greens]], and, they tend to be pretty damn boring too.
     
    Don't let them do your marketing either.  They hate marketing, maybe because they're so bad at it.
     
    They are also good at [[municipal government]].  Many [[European cities]] are run by Reds, and these might be willing to use the [[Consumerium buying signal]] to make actual [[public sector buying decision]]s.  That'd be great!

    Revision as of 20:41, 24 November 2003

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