As a citizen of the United States I have only a sardonic smile for the plight of Sony and this FREE SPEECH FOR CAPITALISTS crusade. As a Democratic Socialist I am well aware of the limits of FREE SPEECH in the United States.
I remember passing out a "Bill of Rights for Working People" here in Rhode Island as a presidential elector for the Socialist Workers Party in 1976 and 1980. We did at least make it on the ballot -a triumph for whatever little democracy still possible under decaying capitalism (Peter Camejo, later Ralph Nader's Green Party running mate, was the SWP candidate in 1976. The decline of the SWP into a personality cult is another long story)
That movie "The Interview" is now showing in some Providence theaters. I will not see it. What is so very FUNNY about a political assassination-carried out by a sinister shadow government, the CIA torture-murderers, in a world-gone-mad- with irrational violence?
And President Obama suggests that impoverished North Korea compensate Sony USA for lost profits! I still think the only cure for this sick, money mad capitalist society is a more viable form of Democratic Socialism.
But in true Orwellian fashion the American ruling class tries to quarantine the very idea of SOCIALISM. They don't want the common people even to imagine a saner, more just society. Witness the cruel 50 year embargo of poor heroic Cuba.
But the more oppressed working class Americans cannot be fooled. They are back in the streets again seething with righteous wrath. If you are a poor black kid here-tempted to redistribute social surplus value- you are most likely to be executed on the spot – for some petty crime against sacrosanct private property rights. Forget about a costly jail sentence. Even the electric chair is not cheap.
I remember passing out a "Bill of Rights for Working People" here in Rhode Island as a presidential elector for the Socialist Workers Party in 1976 and 1980. We did at least make it on the ballot -a triumph for whatever little democracy still possible under decaying capitalism (Peter Camejo, later Ralph Nader's Green Party running mate, was the SWP candidate in 1976. The decline of the SWP into a personality cult is another long story)
And President Obama suggests that impoverished North Korea compensate Sony USA for lost profits! I still think the only cure for this sick, money mad capitalist society is a more viable form of Democratic Socialism.
But in true Orwellian fashion the American ruling class tries to quarantine the very idea of SOCIALISM. They don't want the common people even to imagine a saner, more just society. Witness the cruel 50 year embargo of poor heroic Cuba.
But the more oppressed working class Americans cannot be fooled. They are back in the streets again seething with righteous wrath. If you are a poor black kid here-tempted to redistribute social surplus value- you are most likely to be executed on the spot – for some petty crime against sacrosanct private property rights. Forget about a costly jail sentence. Even the electric chair is not cheap.
We say put people before THINGS!
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