Mannensdorf Communities

Mannensdorf Communities, officially known as the Königsfelde Free Territories, are a series of radical communist cooperatives located throughout the Krün region with a series of exclaves scattered around the northern communities within Königsfelde Canton. These communities get their name from the commune of Mannensdorf the largest continuous Communes, itself spawning from the Nordhalbinsel Aufstandsarmee (Northern-Peninsular Insurrectionary-Army), a radical anarchist group that had managed to successfully dislodge the Republican garrison in the region.

The Mannensdorf Communities are distinct from other regions in Common-State mainly due to their practices, following an extreme interpretation of agrarian-style Cardinal Socialism often referred to as Mannensdorf Communism whose first and foremost agenda is the abolition of all forms of property through common-ownership. Mannensdorf Communism has often been considered the black-sheep amongst the rest of the Ovan Revolution if only due to its extremity in achieving its internal social transition.

History

Communization

Revolutionary Trials

The Revolutionary Trials were a series of populist kangaroo trials set up by the NHAA for the purpose of finalizing the Revolution. Revolutionary Courts were set up in almost every occupied settlement, and were extremely public in their proceedings, taking in government officials, militants of the old regime, landowners, and 'reactionaries', in reality being anyone who overly criticized or resisted the actions going on. The Courts were particularly harsh against members of the clergy and openly religious individuals, and would begin proceedings against individuals brought in from across the country in the height of their activity.

The Revolutionary Trials were particularly harsh, and were as public as possible, broadcasted over television and radio. They were used to expressly criticize the injustices of the old regime, putting those they tried in positions to defend against those critiques and in the process, demonize them and their ideals. The Trials had another, more subtle affect however, as they created an overarching environment of fear. People drew to support the NHAA both out of a fear for 'the reactionary,' as well as out of fear of being labeled as one. The "Revolutionary Culture" that spawned from there fused the other revolutionary actions, creating artificial support for mass communization and the wide-scale infrastructural reforms perpetuated by the NHAA.

Active Politics

Common Assemblies

Much of life in these communities is organized around the Genossenschaftsversammlung, or Cooperative Assembly, a general community assembly meant as a politicoeconomic council. Every member of the community is able to participate, with different communities meeting at different times and with differing frequencies. Cooperative Assemblies operate differently than Labour Councils in that they're direct bodies of government, rather than representative, and allow for joint, voluntary forum between both the workers and consumers of a community.

Larger territories are managed by Distributive Committees, elected by the assemblies below them. These Committees are generally small and manage wide-scale political actions, while doubling as open forums for the cooperatives of their localities to coordinate at their needing. Committee's host direct action periods once per-month, wherein anyone from their localities may participate in a form of direct democracy, with the committee acting as legislature and the citizen acting as the executive.