A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
Friday, February 26, 2021
Get in touch with " Radical Ron "
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Scene from " Giant " : Rock Hudson defends Mexican migrant in Texas restaurant
This is one of the greatest red white and blue scenes in Hollywood movies. Here Rock Hudson plays a very privileged white male. In this brawl with a thuggish restaurant owner he defends the common humanity of Mexican people. Their basic human rights, whether they are legal or illegal migrants or immigrants. In the background we hear the " Yellow Rose of Texas " song.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
A stale Marxism still at war with religion
This is NEWS on the sectarian SEP controlled World Socialist Web Site . The ideological zombies on the Left would prefer that world socialism embrace the New Atheism. I suspect that ONLY a turn toward Catholicism and Christianity can save SOCIALISM as a movement . What have militant atheists like Stalin, Hitler , Mao done for the common people ? Working class people will never worship MATTER-IN-MOTION or build a cathedral around the " God Particle ". What a profoundly SCIENTIFIC idea : A universe from nothing ! The human soul will prefer " Genesis " : : In the Beginning... " The sectarian Marxist parties would still establish an OFFICIALLY ATHEIST state. And with BIG BROTHER leading it !
Monday, February 22, 2021
EGO of bureaucrats and politicians does not save lives !
What the mainstream news media will not tell you is that the team of Governor Gina Raimondo ( soon to be YOUR Secretary of Commerce) and Dr. Nicole Alexander Scott , MD are a disaster in the fight against COVID-19 on the home front. The treatment of elderly patients in nursing homes in Rhode Island is nothing less than a crime against humanity.
Fwd: Useless public officials in COVID-19 pandemic
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 14:22
Subject: Useless public officials in COVID-19 pandemic
To: <letter@globe.com>
Sunday, February 21, 2021
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Fwd: Neo-liberalism at war with FREE SPEECH ?
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 14:23
Subject: Neo-liberalism at war with FREE SPEECH ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
If MONOPOLY social media can muzzle the president of the United States -or now ex-president Donald Trump - FREE SPEECH is effectively dead in the USA . For years " liberal " Democrats have condoned attacks - especially on college campuses - on the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. The late professor Howard Zinn wrote scathingly of the limits of FREE SPEECH in " OUR democracy ".
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Fwd: More OPEN public libraries ?
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 12:42
Subject: More OPEN public libraries ?
To: <letter@globe.com>
Monday, February 15, 2021
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
Fwd: In this pandemic most public libraries here in paranoid restrictive mode
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 14:34
Subject: In this pandemic most public libraries here in paranoid restrictive mode
To: <letter@globe.com>
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
David North and his World Socialist Web Site saved the world from fascist Trumpism ?
[ " The fascists have marshaled and demonstrated their full brutishness. But as Trotsky noted, the laws of history are refracted through the prism of accident. I propose a double bill for this powerful film, wonderfully edited. Screen Eisenstein's immortal scene from Ten Days That Shook the World (1920), the storming of the Winter Palace. "
They dreamed of the dictatorship of Trump, we gave them the dictatorship of the proletariat.."] ( COMMENT from a " comrade " today on WSWS )
What deluded TRUE BELIEVERS ! Who is this WE ? The Democratic Party constitutes the vanguard of the " dictatorship of the proletariat ? David North and his WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE stopped a fascist movement in the United States ? Perhaps voters for Joe Biden saved the world from " Hitler " Trump ?
This from a phony " Trotskyist " personality cult party with no roots at all in the American or British working class. Whenever I see the name David North I am reminded of my favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker ". How many " proles" in his obnoxious , sectarian Socialist Equality Party ? For years now the party members have resembled those weird " Clears " in the Church of Scientology. They could be a footnote in a new revised edition of Eric Hoffer's classic : " The True Believer ".
Yes , indeed " WE " gave them the dictatorship of the proletariat " . Given some miraculous break from the pagan god of HISTORY David North and his SEP followers would give us a Stalinism Redux nightmare - with still faithful, Christian working class people being re-educated by a reconstituted " Society of the Godless ".
Radical Ron was banned from the WSWS as a " resident Catholic , anti-Semite , fascist " . But then ALL the long established organizations on the Left now seem contemptuous of the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization .
If there is hope for DEMOCRATIC socialism it lies in the CHRISTIAN proles !
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Not a whiff of Christianity in DNC based " identity politics "