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Post by blindpig » Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:43 pm

Continuing our effort to out philistines, opportunists, other lowlife... http://www.thebellforum.net/Bell2/www.t ... ml?t=82995

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A Turning Point on the Left? Libertarian Caucus Debuts at Democratic Socialist Conference
Saturday, August 05, 2017
By Adam Weaver, Truthout | Interview

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The Democratic Socialists of America, a traditionally progressive socialist organization founded in 1982, has seen it's membership increase multiply from roughly 5,000 to 25,000 members in the past year following the Bernie Sanders campaign and the subsequent election of Trump. Now, many on the left are looking at the organization as a barometer of sorts for the fate of the larger left. In addition, many are viewing the DSA convention this week in Chicago as a key turning point within the organization. Coming out of the DSA is a new caucus called the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. The LSC promotes a vision of "libertarian socialism" -- a traditional name for anarchism -- that goes beyond the confines of traditional social democratic politics. I asked John Michael Colόn, a member of the group's provisional organizing committee, to talk about its vision and goals.

Adam Weaver: The DSA has a range of tendencies and is sort of a "big tent" of socialist politics. What made you want to form a Libertarian Socialist Caucus (DSA-LSC)? Tell us about yourself and what you see as the political influences of the group.

John Michael Colόn: I've been a member of DSA for over a year; some of us involved have been members before the "Bernie and Trump bump." So it's not a matter of anarchists infiltrating and joining DSA ... but anarchists who have been members of DSA all along. We want to organize them as we believe that libertarian socialism is democratic socialism.

Once upon a time, before Trump and Bernie Sanders, there had been a thing called the Left Caucus which aimed to organize all the DSA members who wanted to push the organization to the left. It was good, I was part of it, but it's now basically defunct because with so many new members joining DSA, many are already to the left of the DSA. But what the existence of the Left Caucus proved was that caucuses based on ideological interests had a place in DSA. We want to be the first caucus within the DSA that had a more specific vision, that openly talks about a specific political direction that they would move towards. Rather than say we want to move the DSA to the left, we [are saying we] want to move to the left with specific positions and a specific manner. And not everyone who identifies with the left is going to agree.

Speaking for myself here, I believe that the LSC has an especially important role not just in promoting its own ideas, but also in setting an example for others for how to do caucuses right in being internally democratic, in co-existing, cooperating with and having cross-membership with other caucuses. Caucuses can be hubs of organizing activity, hubs of political education, hosting reading groups, etc. There's a dimension of caucuses that are akin to being political parties within the larger DSA.

It's important to note that you can't be in the LSC unless you are a dues-paying member of DSA. Most of our members were people who were already members of the DSA. There are some people who, because we announced our existence, joined DSA, and that's a consequence of the libertarian socialists already in DSA who were getting organized.

At the end of the day, the Libertarian Socialist Caucus, or any other caucus for that matter, is not an alien entity within DSA; rather it's a caucus of DSA members united around a shared interest.

What do you see as the commonalities and differences between the politics that you are looking to put forward and DSA's current politics and organizing? What are you looking to change?

I would contest the framing of the question a little bit. It's important to note that beyond the idea of big-tent socialism, the DSA doesn't actually have a party line. Outside observers, though, act as if DSA does, but the reality is it doesn't have a set of positions that you have to accept. Rather, the DSA is an internally democratic organization of socialists that adjudicate their disputes through liberal parliamentary norms of conflict resolution. In other words, if we disagree, like on the convention floor, it will be argued out on the floor between delegates. It's not a centralist organization where there's a party line and if you disagree you have to leave.

The problem is that, at this point, it's difficult to say exactly what LSC stands for because we don't have official positions. We just finalized our membership, and because we are democratic we haven't reached positions yet. There are probably shared values that we have that people in DSA don't have, and we want to promote those values and make them more popular.

These [values include] skepticism of the state, a critique of the state and seeing the state as going hand-in-hand with capitalism. A second component is a belief in radical democracy with a higher standard of democracy, one which is more rigorous. A lot of people believe that democracy is just elections. But we believe democracy means more than elections…that it is participatory.

We want to advocate and convince people by the strength of our ideas that there are things DSA should be doing and should be promoting. We want to see more things like directly democratic neighborhood assemblies, worker cooperatives, participatory budgeting, radical syndicalism and municipalism that DSA is currently not promoting, as well as the things DSA is already doing, like organizing workplaces and fighting bosses and landlords. We see these as the fullest embodiment of the values that unite the different kinds of socialism within the DSA under its banner.

The DSA's convention is happening in Chicago this weekend. With over 40 proposals and with the huge influx of new members who have entered the organization, many observers see this convention as a turning point. Can you tell us what you see as the key issues at stake that will be debated at the coming convention? How is DSA-LSC leaning on these issues?

I do want to answer this one by saying, like I said before, LSC doesn't have an official position yet. The very first event that we are organizing [Friday] morning is our first general assembly where members of LSC will follow a procedure presented to our membership to make decisions about convention debates. We are going to go one-by-one through all of the floor debate questions that will happen at the convention. If our assembly can arrive at a consensus, we are going to ask the delegates present to vote in accordance with that.

We don't know how many will show up exactly, but we are expecting, based on our listserve, something like 20 confirmed delegates, and we are allowing any DSA member to attend.

A major decision at the convention will be elections for the 16-member National Political Committee of DSA, which acts as a sort of national level policy and steering committee for the organization. Right now there's the competing Momentum/Spring Platform and Praxis slates, individuals drafted and signed onto a "Unity Platform" document, and now members of DSA-LSC are putting forward their candidates as well, called DSA Friends and Comrades. What do you see as the competing visions represented?

I can't say anything on our official position on them. Speaking only for myself, I think that Momentum and Praxis both have some pros and they both have some cons. They are all good organizers and comrades that have done good work. But I personally disagree very strongly with what I would see as the centralizing tendencies in Momentum's positions. But I'm only speaking for myself, and I know for a fact that other LSC members have different opinions.

What I would say about both Momentum and Praxis is that the way they came about is that [their candidates] only represent themselves. My hope is that in the future LSC sets an example where candidates are selected by caucuses and are accountable to them rather than self-selecting. And I think that's important because the platforms of the slates have shaped the convention as a whole, and it's more democratic if those conversations arise from larger groups of members within the DSA.

The DSA Friends and Comrades coalition is something that came out of LSC members and was organized by LSC members informally and hasn't been approved by the group. We wish them well, and some of us will vote for them and promote them on our social media, but they don't represent the LSC. Next convention we aim to organize a primary and democratic process to put forward a slate.

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It occurs to me that had OET hung in there that they could be riding the crest of a wave....it was always in the air and the libertarians knew it, guess their persistence and the theoretical weakness of Democratic Socialism made this inevitable. And how will this be much different than the current Democratic Party? Or for that matter the better part of Progressive Independent, at any given time?
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Bern, Baby, Bern! Progressives to Petition Sanders to Start New Party
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A group of US progressives are organizing to petition former US presidential candidate and current Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to reignite his “political revolution” by leading a new political formation outside of the Democrat Party.

Nick Brana, Sanders’ former national political director, is leading the effort after establishing the Draft Bernie organization in February. While lobbying superdelegates for Sanders during the election, Brana saw firsthand how corporate interests were the driving factor in Democratic Party politics, and has sent staff and volunteers across the country to gather signatures for a petition to convince Sanders to head a "people’s party" outside of the Democratic machine.

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Brana reasoned in a Huffington Post article he wrote after establishing the group that if Sanders started a new party, "we would begin with a least half of the Democratic base. Then we would add independents, anti-establishment voters, the white working class, young voters, third party supporters, people who’ve given up on the political process, and many conservatives who just want a decent life. Now we’ve got something far larger than the Democratic and Republican parties."

Prominent activist, professor and political analyst Cornel West endorsed the organization and joined in April 2017, saying during an interview with Democracy Now, “I was blessed to spend some time on the inside of the Democratic Party looking at the ways in which we could come up with some vision. And I was convinced that the Democratic Party was milquetoast, moribund. It lacks imagination, gusto; doesn’t have enough courage. It’s too tied to big money. The duopoly stands in the way of democracy."

The effort has also found support from Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, a group inspired by Sanders campaign, and Roseann Demoro, director of national nurses united, a progressive labor union that supported Sanders during his campaign.

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Working for Workers: Bernie Sanders Calls on Congress to Pass $15 Minimum Wage
Draft Bernie plans to deliver the nearly 50,000 signatures to Sanders at his senate office on September 8 while hosting the People’s Convergence Conference in Washington DC. The petition calls on the Vermont legislator to attend a town hall centering on why a new party is needed under his leadership.

"We’ll have the signatures printed and in open top boxes. I’ve sent the senator a personal message encouraging him to be there to receive the signatures," Brana told the Observer Tuesday. "The signatories are people of all colors, genders and ages who donated countless hours and gave funds they often could not spare to Bernie’s presidential campaign. Now they are united once more in their conviction that we need a people’s party free from corporate and billionaire money. Bernie doesn’t have to make any commitments. He just has to come sit down with his hard-working supporters who would like to speak to him."

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Happily, Bernie ain't gonna do no such thing, he's a good sheep dog. The fake left will generate these 'solutions' like clockwork, the way Ford produces year-models. The new 'shiny', anything, anything but communism.
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Former CIA officer John KiriakouPeople for Bernie Sanders Boots Sputnik Radio Host From EU Panel © AP Photo/ Cliff Owen

John Kiriakou, renowned Central Intelligence Agency whistleblower and co-host of Sputnik Radio’s Loud & Clear, was invited to address the European Parliament on national security whistleblowing before his appearance was scrapped at the last minute. Loud & Clear spoke with Kiriakou after the snub to find out what happened.

"Disappointingly," co-founder of People for Bernie Sanders Winnie Wong, there to represent the organization, "objected to the fact that I work at Sputnik and said they did not want to appear on a panel with me."

"I can't be on this panel with you," Wong told Kiriakou, by his account. "It's nothing personal. I think you should be proud for what you've done, but you work for Sputnik and so I can't be on the same panel," she said.

​"The Russiagate witch hunt strikes again," Walter Smolarek, producer of Loud & Clear, noted.


​Kiriakou was the only American imprisoned in connection with the CIA torture program authorized by President George W. Bush. His two-and-a-half-year jail sentence wasn't based on the fact that torture is illegal under both US and international law and that Kiriakou had participated in human rights abuses, but rather because he exposed the program publicly. Nobody from the CIA who participated in the torture program has so far been jailed for it, only the person who shed light on its blatant unconstitutionality.


​"Any time I come to Europe, I'm treated so well. Europeans have a much deeper understanding of these issues of national security whistleblowing, torture, drones and nuclear weapons — far, far more than Americans in general, so I'm always treated very well here," Kiriakou said Wednesday.

"I was supposed to appear on a panel this morning and then give a speech in the afternoon," the ex-CIA officer explained. The afternoon speech was able to go forward without any hiccups, "but unfortunately I was removed from the panel," he said, with a disbelieving chuckle, "after one of the other panelists objected to my presence."

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The digital hippies want to integrate life and work – but not in a good way
Evgeny Morozov
Data firms such as the rapidly expanding WeWork hope to blur the line between home and office. That won’t be any help to staff

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The digital turn of contemporary capitalism, with its promise of instantaneous, constant communication, has done little to rid us of alienation. Our interlocutors are many, our entertainment is infinite, our pornography loads fast and arrives in high-definition – and yet our yearnings for authenticity and belonging, however misguided, do not seem to subside.

Beyond the easy fixes to our alienation – more Buddhism, mindfulness and internet detox camps – those in the digital avant-garde of capitalism have toyed with two solutions. Let’s call them the John Ruskin option and the De Tocqueville option. The former extended the philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement, with its celebration of craftsmanship and romantic, artisanal labour by Ruskin, William Morris and their associates, into the realm of 3D printers, laser cutters and computerised milling machines.

Makerspaces and fablabs were to be a refuge from the office, with workers finally seizing the means of production. “There is something unique about making physical things. These things are like little pieces of us and seem to embody portions of our souls,” mused Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop, a chain of mostly US makerspaces, in The Maker Movement Manifesto in 2014.

The De Tocqueville option hailed the use of digital tools to facilitate gatherings in the real world in order to reverse the trends described by Robert Putnam in his bestselling Bowling Alone. The idea was that, thanks to social networks, people would be able to find like-minded enthusiasts, creating a vibrant civil society à la De Tocqueville.

Meetup.com, started in the early 2000s to facilitate “face to face, peer to peer” meetings, pioneered the model. “We subvert hierarchy,” said its founders, declaring that members of formal organisations should not need permission to get together and talk. Inspired by Bowling Alone, their platform played an important role in mobilising Howard Dean’s grassroots campaign in the 2004 US presidential elections; it also helped launch the Five Star Movement in Italy, now a political party but a decade ago just a crowd of angry citizens in search for easy tools of social mobilisation.

How did these two options fare? The John Ruskin option has faced a major challenge today, the distinction between artisanship and gentrification is blurry. Makerspaces had their reinvigorating uses for cognitive workers who were exhausted by mind-numbing office jobs but they also angered those not lucky enough to have mind-numbing office jobs in the first place.

Look at La Casemate, a fablab in Grenoble in France, which was vandalised and burnt on last month. Anarchists claimed responsibility and issued a statement, decrying city managers who cared only about attracting “money-hungry startups” and geeks. The maker revolution predicted by Hatch is already devouring its own children: on 15 November, Techshop filed for bankruptcy.

What then of the De Tocqueville option? Here, it is more complex. At the end of November, Meetup.com was acquired by WeWork, a $20bn startup that blends big data and real estate to offer (in its own words) “space as a service” – the latest variation on “software as a service”, the staple of the modern technology industry.

Boasting investors from Goldman Sachs to Japan’s SoftBank – in August, it poured in $4.4bn – WeWork is more than a network of 170 buildings across 56 cities in 17 countries. Its valuation exceeds that of the largest publicly traded commercial real estate company – Boston Properties – and is several times higher than that of real estate groups with far greater square footage under management.

WeWork’s pitch is simple: as a technology company, its main asset is its data, not its properties and its rapidly expanding size allows it to extract and analyse data related to their use and under-use (“buildings are giant computers”, says its blog). Armed with the data, it can then offer tenants flexibility on space, furniture and leasing.

Its high valuation assumes that it can dominate the business of services related to space in general – for example, by using data to help clients redesign and manage their own offices. Its bet is that managing space and real estate will follow the path of cloud computing and become a service offered by just a handful of data-intensive platforms.

Buoyed by new cash, WeWork is expanding in many directions. It has launched living spaces, where members can rent flats above their workplace. It has launched a wellness centre. It has acquired a coding school, where its future members might learn to code. It has announced an elementary school that will treat students as “natural entrepreneurs”, thus allowing their busy parents to see more of their kids – at work.

Its main innovation, however, is in branding. Rare is a Silicon Valley company that does not claim humanitarian intentions. WeWork, however, is beyond competition. Its self-proclaimed mission is to “create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living”.

“Our valuation and size today are much more based on our energy and spirituality than on a multiple of revenue,” its co-founder, Adam Neumann, told Forbes. Neumann, who grew up partly on a kibbutz in Israel, is building something extraordinary: a hi-tech kibbutz but without the pesky, socialism-infused egalitarianism (“We are making a capitalist kibbutz,” he told the Israeli paper Haaretz).

WeWork’s utopian ambition is to leverage big data – not the egalitarianism of the kibbutz – to resolve the problems of the workplace and of modern life alike. Alienation, on this reading, is not an omnipresent feature of capitalism, but an easily correctable – by data of course – bug. And what better way to fix it than by having the non-working lives of workers dissolve into their working lives; the data-hungry capitalist kibbutz will then take care to greet you by name and wish you a happy birthday.

Eugen Miropolski, a WeWork executive, says that, whereas in the past, “the residents of urban areas were brought together in part through town halls, gatherings in taverns, cafes and open spaces to hash out the subjects of the day,” WeWork aspires to be “a place where people can come together, talk, discuss new ideas, and innovate in a collaborative way”.

Thus, he concludes, “real estate is just the platform for our community”. Everything else, from kindergartens to yoga salons, arrives on top, optimised by WeWork’s data geniuses in what amounts to the 21st-century equivalent of the company town, albeit with much subtler forms of social engineering. In WeWork’s future, the hastily privatised public space is returned to citizens. However, it comes back as a commercial service provided by a lavishly funded data company, not as a right. Meetup’s civil society will keep on talking, inside WeWork’s buildings. But the struggle against alienation will now consist of applying even more data analytics and nudging to the tortured souls of overworked cognitive workers, who, in escaping alienated workplaces in the comfort of makerspaces and face-to-face meetings, have discovered that the workplaces have colonised their non-work lives instead.

The pioneer of scientific management, Frederick Winslow Taylor, had to design elaborate ways of extracting the knowhow from factory workers; WeWork relies on ubiquitous, permanent and mostly invisible data extractivism that makes no distinction between work and non-work. While in the late 1960s some leftwing intellectuals warned of the emergence of the “social factory”, where Taylorist production first comes to transform and dominate the life beyond the factory but eventually falters as the work becomes cognitive, the WeWork model points to a different future: society is brought back inside today’s factory – the modern office – but on terms that reinforce rather than undermine many elements of the Taylorist paradigm.

That all of this is couched in the language of the hippy movement does not make the underlying processes any less Taylorist. With the takeover of Meetup by WeWork, the struggle against alienation, thus, moves into a new stage: the De Tocqueville option is out, the Hippy Taylorism option is in.

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The digital hippies want to integrate life and work – but not in a good way
haha, the "dippies"

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Somebody go check the Kremlin wall and see if William Z Foster is tearing up the permafrost.
Attacks on Mueller probe: A conspiracy to destroy democracy
December 12, 2017 10:22 AM CST BY JOHN WOJCIK


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Left column, from top to bottom: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, Michael Flynn, and Fox News host Sean Hannity. | AP and Fox. Center column: Trump and Robert Mueller. | AP

Each day now seems to bring a fresh attack by the right-wing news media and Republican lawmakers on special counsel Robert Mueller and, with him, every single American institution—including the press and the FBI—having to do with the investigation of the crimes committed by Donald Trump.

The FBI, once championed by the right, is now castigated as a “secret police, KGB-style” outfit. Mueller and all his investigators are characterized as “Trump haters.”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary, calls for investigations of the investigators.

The “reasonable” South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says the time is past due time for appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails! (Never mind that past FBI probes of those emails resulted in findings of no criminal wrongdoing.)

Fox’s Sean Hannity demands nightly the “shutdown” of the Mueller investigation.

Judge Jean Pirro, the Fox TV star who violates conflict of interest norms because of her role as a Trump adviser, calls nightly for the firing of Mueller.

Right-wing pundits describe the Mueller investigation as an “assault on the presidency and an attack on the American people who elected this president.”

Conveniently, none of these attackers say a word about the fact that Mueller has already filed charges against four top Trump associates, two of whom have pleaded guilty to crimes. On Fox every night for two weeks now, there has been not a single mention of these charges. Instead, Hannity tells his audience that the Mueller probe is nothing less than “a direct threat to you, the American people.”

As aptly put by Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead California Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee which is investigating the matter, there is an effort underway by the right wing “to tear at the very idea that there is such a thing as objective truth.”

Of course, Trump and his inner circle do have a lot to worry about, but it is not the “fake media” or Robert Mueller that should cause them worry, but rather their own (mis-)deeds.

Michael Flynn had to give Mueller a lot of dirt in order to get off with just a charge of lying to the FBI.

It is almost certain that Flynn has already told Mueller that his instructions to lie to the FBI came from Trump himself.

In short, Mueller probably already has the evidence he needs to charge Trump with impeachable offenses. It is simply now a matter of collecting more evidence to corroborate testimony he already has. It is even possible that Mueller already has plenty of documentary evidence to back up the testimony he’s gotten from Flynn—which would explain why Trump’s acolytes in the media are so gung-ho about removing Mueller as quickly as possible.

But the sleaze and potential crime go way beyond the collusion and conspiracy around the Russiagate case. The wheeling and dealing with gangsters and money laundering by Trump, his family, and closest associates open up countless other avenues for investigators.

Witness the October assassination in her native Malta of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the outfit that brought the world the “Panama Papers.” From those documents, it has been revealed that Ivanka Trump got help for her father’s Panama hotel by employing international gangsters tied to Russian money launderers.

Caruana Galizia’s killing with a car bomb is being described as a classic mob-style hit job. Already, ten who were implicated in her assassination have been arrested on the island of Malta, a country whose government has its own deep connections to international gangster elements. These shady elements are just the type that the Trump family has cavorted with for years.

Mueller must be allowed to finish his probe. Discovery of the whole truth is the surest path to saving our democracy. As painful as the process might be, the Trump alternative—disparaging and destroying all the institutions that protect democracy in America—is a horror too great to even contemplate.

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Post by kidoftheblackhole » Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:53 am

To be fair, they're even on the slimy end of the Menshevik scale.

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You might be a Philistine if you belong to the DSA...
The Future China-U.S. Competition and Democratic Socialism
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The Washington Socialist <> February 2018

By Daniel Casey Adkins

The US and China will compete more directly both economically and politically in the next decade. The competition may strain American politics and change the US political balance if the US is to be more than second place to China. The US will become second if left to its current politics and the goals of its 1%. To compete with mercantilism, our nation needs to be organized by democratic socialism whose goal is to empower its entire people, not just the 1%.

China’s accomplishments include raising more people out of poverty than any other country in human history. China seeks to become the Middle Kingdom that it has always been in its own perception; the center with all the rest of the world at its periphery. Unlike most American billionaires, China can think in terms of decades and centuries. Using its wisdom and will, China has a program to make China great again that is based on science, technology, and education. China accounts for 21 percent of the world’s research and development (R&D) (the comparable figure for the US is 26 percent) and China’s R&D is growing at 18 percent annually (the US is growing at 4 percent).

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