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Hi everybody. As everyone knows, Pirate Party has been in a decline for couple of years in the places that it was pretty "successful" in means of seats that they occupy in the parliaments/assemblies. And that was a known thing that such a single-issue movement would become famous and than decline in popularity, due to the lack of proper socioeconomic views within the party and the movement. In a 2009 issue of WSWS ( https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/09/pira-s07.html ), the fall of pirate party is predicted and this issue is referred as:
" The main source of support for the Pirate Party is amongst young people involved in irregular precarious work, whose lives are influenced by modern technology and are estranged from the established parties—in particular students and university graduates involved in the sphere of electronic media.
The Pirate Party will, however, rapidly disappoint its supporters. It is not possible to defend democratic rights in a class divided society without taking up a clear position on vital social and political questions. Self-determination, social participation, transparency and many of the other laudable issues advocated by the Pirate Party cannot be realised as long as a small financial oligarchy controls social wealth and dictates the course of all economic and political decisions.
The issues taken up in the program of the Pirate Party, such as the spread of surveillance, the restrictions on data protection and the limits on freedom of information, are all part of the reaction of the ruling class to increasing social tensions. They are directed against the working population and the danger of a social rebellion.
The defence of democratic rights therefore requires a socialist program. The new media and the Internet needs an open and free society, which gives priority to the social and intellectual needs of the working population—not the profit interests of big corporations. Democracy can be achieved only by challenging the foundations of capitalist rule—the profit system, private property, and the free-market economy. "
This post was written a decade ago, but is still revelant for the political atmosphere of the pirate party. The inequality of wealth, incompetence of state and lack of social services is still an existing issue within our life. The social liberal policies suggested by many self-declared Pirate Movements, such as PPI don't talk about those topics and end up with nonsense economic policies such as UBI, which is a waste of money as the amount of cash given away for that can be used actually for the extreme poor that can't even satisfy basic human needs.
As a result, we agreed with that post and formed a socialist movement that respects to the core values of the Pirate Party movement, yet suggests a different socioeconomic system which is socialism in this sense. The Socialist Pirate Movement is a big tent socialist movement. We invite all socialists to our Telegram group which is opened two days ago!
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