Aesthetic Party of the Revolution (APRE)

The Libertarian Reds (LR) is a libertarian socialist party in Lodamun.

Ideology
The logo of the LR represents the five pillars of its ideology:


 * Anti-capitalism (popular autonomy)
 * Anti-statism (voluntary associations)
 * Egalitarianism
 * Free-market (mutualism)
 * Non-violent revolution (peaceful discussion)

The aim of the LR is to approximate the positions of libertarian socialists to the extent possible within electoral politics. We believe that society will be free when workers seize the means of production *for themselves* and neither bosses nor the state try to act on their behalf.

The LR seeks to remove all restrictions on workers' activities, especially collective organizing. We want to allow workers to form radical labor unions like the anarcho-syndicalist unions and industrial unions that history has shown to be effective for freeing workers. To this end we neither want to prohibit workers from forming labor unions nor require them to join labor unions. Revolution happens when workers take back the means of production of their own free will.

Unlike other "socialist" parties, the LR does not want to hand industry over to the state. The current problem is that the many who work don't manage themselves; they are managed by the few who would rather be bosses than workers, parasites than producers. We find the position of modern Marxists to be absurd. After all, if communism is the abolition of private property, how is the goal furthered by making industry the private property of the state? Putting industry into the hands of the state usually, if not always, amounts to putting workers under the thumb of one collective boss. Or, to use a different metaphor, if you want the people at the foot of five small hills to be able to climb to the top, you don't do it by moving them to the foot of one big hill. The LR's voting record then is often "laissez-faire", though the real aim is to protect workers from the encroachment of another boss -- not to preserve capitalism.

When we have no choice but to allow some form of government control, we prefer decentralization, as we believe this comes closer to the ideal of a society in which there are multiple worker-managed syndicates. We also prefer democratic procedures over non-democratic procedures.

The LR opposes slavery, prison labor, social conservatism, and movement towards theocracy or a police state.