PREAMBLE

This preamble contains some considerations as to political principles, in line with the communist position that statutory documents are not endowed with any kind of transcendent power.

We realized that our previous document with a series of free-form statements had a negative tone, and created more questions about the group than it answered. Hopefully, this new document, born from the experience gained by having both a bad statute and a bad non-statute, will resemble something good and productive.

Our five points, which we view as the basic observations that can be made from the world's current political reality in relation to communism, are as follows:

1. Communism is a society without classes, wage labor, and commodity production
2. The Communist Movement seeks to realize communism, it is a historical movement, in that it represents a political program, but is not always a present force
3. That this movement is not supported by a meaningful strata of the proletariat is not solely the fault of "dogmatism", nor solely the fault of an "unfavourable period" or "sabotage"
4. It is indeed the duty of this movement to be uncompromising, and to defend its internationalist program to the detriment of all popular sentiment
5. Still, a refusal to tail the current winds is not to be taken as a way to justify idleness.

These are stances predicated on the understanding that communism has been in free-fall since the mid-to-late 20th century, barring some outbursts here and there. The trend line of activity for the last two generations has firmly gone downwards: there is no class party or leading class organization. In fact, to claim that the communist program currently represents what many proletarians perceive to be their immediate interests is a denial of reality.

Over the last decade, we have seen something contrary to most of our predictions: while the petite-bourgeoisie is a class in crisis, in that its share of global capital is shrinking, its numbers increase constantly, with reforms to sole proprietorship and contract law in the "west" and in the "developing world" increasingly allowing for a new system of mixed employment via the combination of piece-wages and service work. This is an extremely demobilizing combination which we have not yet adapted to. The current status quo, while it may not last forever, means shrinking prospects for mass mobilization, and forces communists to adapt to fighting modern information wars. These wars are not fought by repeating old slogans or by attempting to paint a red sheen on old cliches, but by recognizing that there is a whole field of politics where numerical superiority matters little: it's best to have a hundred people in a hundred places, than a hundred people in a single place. Our situation is even less ideal then, considering the massive gap in communist activity between the 1990s and early-2010s, making the gap in experience between the militants of yesterday and today extremely significant.

It is because of this situation that we view it as valuable for our group to exist, not as an exclusive political agent with the intention to become a party or a leading organization, but as a place for the sharing and production of knowledge, distant from more intellectual undertakings while maintaining the unity between theory and practice. We then define that our immediate goals, informed by our current practice, are:

1. To build and host websites for communists
2. To take a supporting role in propaganda and agitation, combining traditional methods with new ones
3. To mount a section of communists with technical inclinations, in a similar way to how bourgeois technical associations articulate capitalist advocacy
4. To promote technical literacy in the communist sphere, and to engage in broader educational efforts whenever possible.

GOVERNING STATUTE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY TECHNICAL COLLECTIVE

On the Nature of the Organization

1. The Revolutionary Technical Collective is a banner of the free association of all communists and communist sympathizers with technical inclinations, founded on the 7th of July 2022, which shall last indefinitely. Its purpose is as follows:

1. To provide technical support for communists and assist in the presence of the communist movement in political life;
2. To mount a communist technical association in order to counter the political articulations of the bourgeois technical associations;
3. To promote technical literacy both in our political sphere, and to engage in broader educational efforts whenever possible.

Note: When we refer to that which is "technical", we mean all industrial, scientific, artisanal, and political technique.

2. A state of normalcy in the organization is constituted by the functioning of the Center of the Revolutionary Technical Collective and by the handling of obligations to its beneficiaries.

On the Contributors

3. A contributor to the Revolutionary Technical Collective is someone who participates in its discussions and renders support to the group by assisting in its actions, projects, and in its political development.

4. Contributors are expected to act with a great deal of autonomy, engaging and disengaging in action at their own personal discretion, and asking for the support of the group when desirable and convenient.

On the Political Resolutions

5. The Political Resolutions are the internal legislative objects of the group, reflecting existing measures and intentions.

6. The Political Resolutions may be written in any format and conveyed in any manner, including speech.

7. The scope of the Political Resolutions is unlimited.

On the Center

8. The Center is the maximum authority of the group. It may:

1. Approve, ammend, reformulate, suspend, or discard this statute;
2. Promulgate and retract Political Resolutions;
3. Evaluate and change the status of contributors.

9. The Center may be a single contributor or a group of contributors.

10. Upon the death, resignation, or incapacity of the Center, its responsibilities devolve to the whole group, which will be in charge of replacing it or reconstituting it.

On the Yearly Meetings

11. The Yearly Meetings are where all information about the actions of the group for the entire previous year are disseminated, and where new political resolutions are set.

12. While Yearly Meetings are to be preferably spaced by 11-13 months, they may be held on shorter or longer time frames.

On Conduct

13. It is expected that all contributors:

1. Are kind, and are able to practice understanding and assume good faith;
2. Are able to accept criticism and are able to criticize;
3. Do not make reprehensible comments, or act reprehensibly towards others.

14. All discrimination on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, place of birth, disability, and appearance is forbidden.

27th of June, 2025

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