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 | www.NewDemocracyWorld.org What Would New Democracy Do If We Were In Brazil? 
 
 Good question. Not having detailed info, we can only make generalizations, but I feel sure we would do much as we do now; that is, encourage people to make democratic revolution the open and conscious goal of their struggle. Within the goal of revolution, the tactics would be:     1) Spread the struggle to all  elements of the working classes, farmers and agricultural workers,  etc.. Extend the struggle to the workplace, with mass strikes, occupations,  takeovers of all production, etc..     2) Win the military to the  Revolution. Encourage soldiers'  councils, etc.     3) Promote everywhere democratic  discussion of a new society. What should be its goals and  direction, how should real democracy be organized? Within this broad framework, I think New Democracy would want  to show that the idea of a new world is an extension  of the best values that ordinary people already exercise in their  lives. Revolution is not a step into unknown territory. It is a step  into the best of what working people already do now, and extending it to  the whole of society. Ordinary people organized in democratic  discussion--not political or intellectual elites--are the best judges of the  possibilities and organization of the new world. I assume that all or many of these things are being done now in Brazil;  they are the things that people have always done when they become more  confident and conscious of their own power.  Of course there will be many elements of the status quo that will seek to  sidetrack and destroy the Revolution: the Left, the Right, the U.S., all  antidemocratic forces. So New Democracy would have an additional task. In  addition to promoting positive ideas about people, we would want to:     4) Subject all anti-democratic ideas and  forces to exposure and defeat. These are my thoughts. I'd be interested to hear others'. 
 
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