Health care as a HUMAN RIGHT will never become a reality in a capitalist society : Report: 1,000 nursing homes have closed

A democratic socialist government in the United States will shut down all FOR PROFIT nursing homes and indeed will end the FOR PROFIT health care system in the United States . Health care as a HUMAN RIGHT will never become a reality in a capitalist society. Report: 1,000 nursing homes have closed YOUTUBE.COM Report: 1,000 nursing homes have closed

Imagine cant words and phrases to justify a colossal war crime : nuclear World War III ?

The Biden White House just has no moral authority to condemn real or fabricated Russian war crimes in the Ukraine. So far US involvement in the Ukraine -Russia conflict is being justified by stale Wilsonian blather ( one again " make the world safe for democracy " ? Imagine cant words and phrases - " FREE WORLD ", " SOVEREIGN nation " - to instigate a colossal war crime : nuclear World War III ! PEAK Hillary? Clinton WHITEWASHES War Crimes In Madeline Albright Eulogy: Katie Halper YOUTUBE.COM PEAK Hillary? Clinton WHITEWASHES War Crimes In Madeline Albright Eulogy: Katie Halper

I wish Howard Zinn were still around today to counter the propaganda of FREE SPEECH in capitalist , imperialist USA

I wish Howard Zinn were still around today to counter the propaganda of FREE SPEECH in capitalist , imperialist USA. I cannot imagine Howard being a fan of WOKE Democrats. For years now the " progressive " Democrats have promoted the HATE RUSSIA , New McCarthyism. They are presently fawning on the ZIONIST Jew war monger Zelensky , Ukraine president . I doubt if ZIONIIST Jew Elon Musk will champion anything resembling FREE SPEECH on social media in " OUR democracy ". Professor Howard Zinn had a very negative view of APARTHEID Israel. Yet the mainstream news media in the United States again and again connects anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, routinely censoring public opinion. Trump Calls Howard Zinn's Work "Propaganda." Hear the Legendary Historian in His Own Words. YOUTUBE.COM Trump Calls Howard Zinn's Work "Propaganda." Hear the Legendary Historian in His Own Words.

Misguided SOLDIER OF FORTUNE , Willy Joseph Cancel , 22 , killed in the Ukraine

A misguided SOLDIER OF FORTUNE . Did he get his view on FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY in an " American Gulag Prison " ? A human tragedy of a foolish war . In no way were ordinary working class Ukrainians longing for a dangerous and foolish alliance with effete, moribund , and rotting NATO . Where is the SANE really ON THE LEFT anti-war movement in the USA ? 22-Year-Old American Marine Veteran Killed in Ukraine YOUTUBE.COM [22-Year-Old American Marine Veteran Killed in Ukraine Willy Joseph Cancel, a 22-year-old Marine veteran, has died fighti Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, was killed on Monday while working for a military contracting company that sent him to Ukraine, his mother, Rebecca Cabrera, told CNN. Cabrera said her son was working as a corrections officer in Tennessee and had signed up to work with the private military contractor shortly before fighting began in Ukraine in late February. She told CNN he agreed to go to Ukraine. “He wanted to go over because he believed in what Ukraine was fighting for, and he wanted to be a part of it to contain it there so it didn’t come here, and that maybe our American soldiers wouldn’t have to be involved in it,” she said.]

" Nonviolence Institute reacts to overnight riots in Providence Caroline Goggin reports "

As a democratic socialist I can see how these diverse " BLACK LIVES MATTER " groups should appreciate MARXIST insights on role of the police in capitalist America and the impossibility of using either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party to stop irrational violence - and police brutality . Way back in 1965 Black Muslim revolutionary Malcolm X made a connection between racism and capitalism , between racism and imperialism . My favorite Malcom X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker ". Above all the police are there to protect capitalist PRIVATE PROPERTY rights. And THE STATE is there as an organization of the country's ruling class not to protect everybody's safety and " freedom " . Nonviolence Institute reacts to overnight riots in Providence YOUTUBE.COM Nonviolence Institute reacts to overnight riots in Providence Caroline Goggin reports. 0 Comments

So what difference does it make if Elon Musk pretends to champion FREE SPEECH in " OUR democracy " . Zionist Jews will still censor the social media . My comment here was just removed "

So what difference does it make if Elon Musk pretends to champion FREE SPEECH in " OUR democracy " . Zionist Jews will still censor the social media . My comment here was just removed " No doubt the ZIONIST Jew Elon Musk( a while back he had a friendly , private meeting with the corrupt Israeli leader Netanyahu ) will delight in destroying all critics of HIS agenda just as the ZIONIST Jews of the mainstream news media delight in censoring democratic socialists critical of THEIR agenda - like re-electing stupid, corrupt , increasingly senile " Sleepy Joe " Biden and instigating nuclear World War III with Russia over a SOVEREIGN Ukraine planned to be a second APARTHEID Israel . Will ordinary working class Americans fall for for this war mongering , stale Wilsonian blather - once again " make the world safe for democracy " ? I dare Elon Musk to defend my FREE SPEECH rights here . A champion of FREE SPEECH , Elon Musk ? As Karl Marx said a long time ago : " The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class " . Elon , if my comment here is REMOVED you can LIKE it on my FACEBOOK page Elon Musk DESTROYS AOC With One Tweet | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez MOCKED On Twitter! YOUTUBE.COM Elon Musk DESTROYS AOC With One Tweet | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez MOCKED On Twitter! Follow me on Odysee! https://odysee.com/@PatriotOutpost:fFollow me

Our animal friends die every day without worrying about the high cost of dying !

A democratic socialist America will immediately abolish the FOR PROFIT funeral industry here. Your LAST social security payment should cover cremation or an eco-respectful coffin funeral. Our animal friends die every day without worrying about the high cost dying ![ 3 Decomposing Bodies Found Inside Abandoned Funeral Home YOUTUBE.COM 3 Decomposing Bodies Found Inside Abandoned Funeral Home]

I see a 50 year old woman ( still charming, if no longer ADORABLE ) whom I once held in my arms as an infant. It does make you think !

The insights of ordinary human beings on the challenges of LIFE are every bit as wise as those of our celebrity moral geniuses . And they are ever bit as sensitive about the MEANING OF LIFE . I see 50 year old woman ( still charming, if no longer ADORABLE ) whom I once held in my arms as infants. It does make you think ! [ What are some things you realize as you get older? QUORA.COM What are some things you realize as you get older? James Harper's answer: 1. Most of your lifelong friends are made afte ... ]

The LEFT should at least agree that ZIONISM is incompatible with socialist internationalism

@Laura Brown I have been an independent democratic socialist all my life witnessing too many " Marxist sectarian " vanguard party " organizations disintegrate. On this LEFT there was a lack of respect for the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. Also there was and still is an obnoxious disrespect for the world's good and decent CHRISTIANS. At times these oh-so-radical " Marxists " seemed to be in alliance with the arrogant , snotty, and often PRO-IMPERIALIST and PRO-CAPITALIST New Atheists ( former Trotskyist Christopher Hitchens, for example. Hitchens even boasted about being very much PRO-ZIONIST as he was Islamophobic. I believe the American writer Gore Vidal despised him. The LEFT should at least agree that ZIONISM is incompatible with socialist internationalism and that democratic socialists who do observe that ZIONIST Jews routinely censor public opinion in the United States- are not " Catholic fascists " . And Elon Musk - the FREE SPEECH champion - who a while back had a friendly meeting with the corrupt leader of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. Musk was so impressed with Israel as a" high tech " ( as in nuclear weapons ? ) country. I Don't think Elon Musk will start a FREE SPEECH explosion on social media. As Karl Marx said many years ago : " The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class " . International May Day Rally: socialism or barbarism YOUTUBE.COM International May Day Rally: socialism or barbarism The International Marxist Tendency is holding an online May Day rally, with comrades and supporters taking part from all over the world! Join us, as an inter...

Perhaps COMMUNIST China will applaud as Russia goes SOVIET once again ?

Ordinary working class people don't plan wars and don't start wars . But they can end them . American imperialism foolishly thinks that it can fire up a very stressed out working class- barely coping with COVID-19 tyranny and INFLATION - with stale Wilsonian blather . Once again " MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY " ? And the American ruling class selects as its great war time leader corrupt , stupid, increasingly senile, " Sleepy Joe " Biden . And Biden as leader of the FREE WORLD which includes barbaric Saudi Arabia , APARTHEID Israel , and have you had a whiff of " OUR democracy " lately ? How many working class Ukrainians were longing for a dangerous and foolish alliance with effete , moribund , rotting NATO ? How does POST-COMMUNIST Russia fail to live up to the high moral standards of our CIA, Pentagon War Crimes Machine, our TWO PARTY SYSTEM ? How is our American plutocracy so much more " democratic " and " NICE " than the Russian oligarchy ? Perhaps CZAR Putin will be replaced by Lenin II and second Bolshevik Revolution ? After all, what has CAPITALISM done to make life better for the Russian people ? Perhaps COMMUNIST China will applaud as Russia goes SOVIET again ? What a formidable alliance of two world nuclear powers ! By the way , what has CAPITALISM done for the American working class lately ? Should we give Bernie a chance ? Russia bombs Kyiv during U.N. leader's visit YOUTUBE.COM Russia bombs Kyiv during U.N. leader's visit Russia sent a strong message by bombing Ukraine's capital city while U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was there for a visit. New York Times foreign co...

Was young Brown graduate, Sen. Tiara Mack, D- Providence, corrupted by quack ZIONIST Jew " science " ?

"Sen. Tiara Mack, D-Providence, is the primary sponsor of a bill to amend Rhode Island's sex education curriculum. (WJAR) " WIKI BIO : [Born in 1993, Tiara Mack was raised in Georgia and South Carolina. Mack's mother worked as a teacher and her family struggled financially.[2] In 2012 Mack moved to Providence to attend Brown University; she graduated from the school in 2016 with a BA in public health.[3] While attending Brown University, Mack played in the university's womens Rugby Union team.[4]] How many young minds has ILLIBERAL LIBERAL Brown University corrupted ? And corrupted by what more and more seems like quack ZIONIST Jew " science " ? ZIONIST Jew " science " is making ground breaking discoveries every day : In " Critical Race Theory ", for example. ZIONIST Jew " science " mentored the first Black woman on the Supreme Court although she could not say if she was MALE or FEMALE. You need a degree in biology-preferably from Brown or Harvard- nowadays in WOKE-ville to determine this. Also WOKE sociology - ZIONIST Jew WOKE sociology - has determined that " Critical Race Theory " does not apply to APARTHEID Israel although the United Nations condemned ZIONISM as a form of racism decades ago. ZIONIST Jew political strategists in the USA have discovered that nuclear World War III with Russia is winnable . And a SOVEREIGN Ukraine -as a second APARTHEID Israel ( leave all those CHRISTIAN Ukrainians in Poland ! ) is worth this HOLOCAUST . ZIONIST Jew newspaper editors everywhere have discovered that anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism. So if you say anything not flattering about ZIONISM and ZIONIST Jews they will censor you or even ban you from COMMENT privilege or from social media. But there is still hope for the previously censored and banned.. ZIONIST Jew Elon Musk- the richest guy in the world- is the new champion of FREE SPEECH in social media. In a private meeting with corrupt Israeli prime minister Netanyahu a while back Musk told the war criminal that he is much impressed with " high tech Israel ". Given a measure of FREE SPEECH what will the Palestinians have to say about Elon Musk and " high tech " Israel ( more accurate killer drones ? ) ?] [In the 2020 Rhode Island Senate elections, Mack challenged incumbent state senator Harold Metts in the Democratic primary.[5] Metts had a pro-life record and was opposed to the LGBTQ movement, and Mack's campaign proved effective at winning over younger, more socially liberal voters.[6] Mack defeated Metts, winning with 60% of the vote.[2] Opposing sides debate controversial sex education bill in Rhode Island TURNTO10.COM

British scientist J.D. Bernal in " Science in History " explained the significance of " exploitation " in the capitalist system

The less than one percent of the population of capitalist America ( " OUR democracy " ) who own nearly as much wealth as the rest of the population combined are simply not infinitely more talented and hard working than the rest of the population. Any sociologist who really thinks like a scientist will appreciate the Marxist concept of " exploitation ". British scientist J.D. Bernal in " Science in History " explained it quite well: [" Marx thus demonstrated that capitalism ,far from being a system of natural justice as the classical economists maintained, was one of extortion imposed by arbitrary force. It was the central concept of EXPLOITATION ,which the economists had hidden from themselves , that was to give the explosive force to Marx's teaching ". .... " It was not that workers and peasants had not felt exploited for centuries, it was rather that now they could understand the mechanism through which the exploitation was carried on ". " The implications of Marxism were so repugnant to the ruling bourgeoisie of the time that it is not surprising that for another fifty years all over the world , and until today in a large part of it , they were ignored and rejected by the official exponents of social science . "] ( Bernal's book was first published in Great Britain 1954 ) The Wealth Of Elon Musk's Family YOUTUBE.COM The Wealth Of Elon Musk's Family How Wealthy is Elon Musk's Family | The Wealth Of Elon Musk's FamilyIn today's video we look at The Wealth Of Elon Musk's Family... Luxury Worldwide,billiona...

What are the police all about ? Consult Marx's " Communist Manifesto "

Socialists answered this question way back in 1848: " What are the police all about ? " They serve the capitalist ruling class as pit-bull guardians of PRIVATE PROPERTY and bourgeois LAW & ORDER . Was not Marx right about everything - like the collapse of the capitalist system - in his world famous " Communist Manifesto " ? Does some college professor out there have a more scientific , scholarly view of the role of the police ? Of course , if he or she agreed with me here, he or she might be selling apples in Kennedy Plaza next week . Police investigating officer-involved shooting in Woonsocket YOUTUBE.COM Police investigating officer-involved shooting in Woonsocket

When friend, URI math teacher, Bill Briden, and I discussed Bishop Berkeley 's Calculus conundrum of " the ghosts of departed quantities "

Last time I talked mathematics with friend Bill Briden, then teaching at URI , it was about Bishop Berkeley 's puzzle over Calculus as dealing with " the ghosts of departed quantities " : Image result for Bishop Berkeley on calculus , ghosts of departed quantities [“The ghosts of departed quantities” is a phrase that both haunts and amuses students of the history of calculus. It was conceived by Bishop George Berkeley of the Church of England (1685-1753) in his attack on the logical foundations of Newton's calculus in a pamphlet entitled The Analyst (1734).Aug 3, 2015 ] On some nonautonomous difference equations of the Max type Author: William James Briden Publication: Dissertations and Master's Theses (Campus Access) On some nonautonomous difference equations of the Max type DIGITALCOMMONS.URI.EDU On some nonautonomous difference equations of the Max type We obtain conditions of boundedness, periodicity and eventual periodicity for several nonautonomous difference equations of the Max type.

Where was my friend Bill Briden in 1971 53 Wesleyan Ave., Providence, Rhode Island ! A stately old gray house recognized by J.Edgar Hoover ?

YEARBOOK_1971 by URI Libraries - Issuuhttps://issuu.com › uri_libraries › docs › yearbook_1971 Jul 24, 2013 — Briden, William J, 53 Wesleyan Ave,, Providence, R.I.. Bate, Thomas R. 367 Hopkins Hill Rd,. Coventry R.I.. Wakefield, R.I.. Beagan,. Seniamin ...

The Wealth Of Elon Musk's Family

Of course , the coming democratic socialist revolution in the United States will seize all the wealth of the plutocrat families . Like the Russian Bolsheviks did in 1917 ! The Wealth Of Elon Musk's Family

I love Karl Marx more than I do the greedy, arrogant , exploiting , war mongering American ruling class . And I don't admire people who slobber over THE RICH . Of course , the coming democratic socialist revolution in the United States will seize all the wealth of the plutocrat families . Like the Russian Bolsheviks did in 1917 ! The Wealth Of Elon Musk's Family YOUTUBE.COM The Wealth Of Elon Musk's Family How Wealthy is Elon Musk's Family | The Wealth Of Elon Musk's Fa

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You can be sure that any individual put on some official " Disinformation Governance Board " is well rooted in DEEP STATE of the American plutocracy

[Conservatives on social media slammed the Biden administration after it was announced that a 'Disinformation Governance Board' is being established to combat ‘disinformation’ in the 2022 midterms. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified Wednesday that a "Disinformation Governance Board" had recently been created, days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased Twitter, to combat online disinformation and will be led by Undersecretary for Policy Rob Silvers co-chair with principal deputy general counsel Jennifer Gaskill. ] You can be sure that any individual put on some official " Disinformation Governance Board " is well rooted in DEEP STATE of the American plutocracy . Most often he or she will find himself or herself in agreement with the New York Times editorial board , not at odds with ZIONIST Jew control of the FAKE NEWS media in the United States. #FoxNews Critics slam timing of Biden's 'ministry of truth' to police internet for 'disinformation' FOXNEWS.COM Critics slam timing of Biden's 'ministry of truth' to police internet for 'disinformation' Conservatives on social media slammed the Biden administration after it was announced that a 'Disinformation Governance Board' is being established to combat ‘disinformation’ in the 2022 midterms. 0 Comments

Codex Amiatinus, the oldest complete Latin Bible

The Jesus Christ of the Gospels is so unlike any famous PERSONALITY in history

I learned just enough Latin in two years high school to follow the parallel Latin -English text . Reading through " Book of Revelation " and " Gospel of Saint Matthew " in recent nights the words " This man was truly the son of God ! " tend to shatter innate cynicism ( a fabrication ? mass hysteria ? a crowd pleasing genius of magic ? ) The Jesus Christ revealed in these Gospels is just so unlike any famous PERSONALITY in history . At times HE seems a pure moral force. He divided history into BC and AD just as that reported earthquake split in half the Jewish temple. And even dead saints walked the Earth ? And touching final words : " I will be with you until the end of time ! " Codex Amiatinus, the oldest complete Latin Bible YOUTUBE.COM Codex Amiatinus, the oldest complete Latin Bible Codex Amiatinus, before 716, Wearmouth-Jarrow, c. 505 x 340 mm

The view from Russia

Pravda English Russian intelligence: Poland plans to take control over a part of Ukraine Subscribe to Pravda.Ru Telegram channel, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, RSS! Author`s name: Petr Ernilin. News. 16:05. .4 hours ago Pravda English 'People are tired': Ukrainian refugees paralyse Berlin Subscribe to Pravda. ... News. 16:05. Two US mercenaries suffer severe injuries in artillery shelling ... Copyright © 1999-2022, «PRAVDA. .4 hours ago Pravda English Ukraine loses Kherson region once and for all Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the new military-civilian administration for the Kherson region, said that the move to switch into Russian... .1 hour ago Pravda English Moscow responds to Ukraine's statements about offensive against Russia Subscribe to Pravda.Ru Telegram channel, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, RSS! Author`s name: Editorial Team, Editor: Dmitry Sudakov. News. .4 hours ago Pravda English Georgia and Moldova to be next hot spots - British Foreign Office Subscribe to Pravda. ... News. 16:55. Ukrainian commander reports low qualification of British soldiers ... Copyright © 1999-2022, «PRAVDA. .1 hour ago Pravda English Expert explains how Russia can stop weapon supplies to Ukraine Subscribe to Pravda.Ru Telegram channel, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, RSS! News ... Copyright © 1999-2022, «PRAVDA.Ru».

Some background on Elon Musk. From the Jerusalem Post :

Some background on Elon Musk. From the Jerusalem Post : " His first name may resemble the Hebrew name Ilan, but that’s the extent of Musk’s personal Jewishness. " The Post is worried that Elon Musk's professed zeal for FREE SPEECH will intensify perceived anti-Semitism . I would say as an independent democratic socialist that TRUTH is not anti-Semitic. The generic LEFT has lost its respect -a long time ago -for the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization.

GOP rep, critics tangle over bill on how RI teachers discuss race, sex

Providence School Teachers Are Mostly Shallow Union Groupies

As a longtime democratic socialist I am definitely not into union bashing . But how can an honest person collect a substantial salary for deplorable , outrageous FAILURE ? These Providence School teachers are mostly union groupies with very shallow understanding of the deep , deep problems of the public school system not just in Providence , Rhode Island but in all of CAPITALIST America. Their personal political views rarely go beyond " progressive " Democrats themselves submissive to militant WOKE colleagues far removed mentally from traditional Christianity. Who are THEY to teach the kids INDEPENDENT thinking skills ? [ Providence teachers demand end to state takeover of district YOUTUBE.COM Providence teachers demand end to state takeover of district]

Will CHAMPION OF FREE SPEECH Elon Musk CENSOR my anti-war comments ?

It really does seem that a bunch or uncritical thinking , belligerent ZIONIST Jews in the United States, in the Ukraine are instigating nuclear World War III with Russia. How much FREE SPEECH will this champion of " FREE SPEECH " in social media , Elon Musk , allow a growing anti-war movement in the United States not on board with the " progressive " Democrats years long promotion of their HATE RUSSIA , New McCarthyism agenda ? Will WOKE values win ANY war ? Elon Musk: "With THIS We Will Turn The Tables For Ukraine!" YOUTUBE.COM Elon Musk: "With THIS We Will Turn The Tables For Ukraine!"

Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial and the collapse of the #MeToo movement David Walsh article on the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE

Excellent article today in the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE by David Walsh : [ "Heard also suggested in the clip that the reason no one would believe Depp was because he was a “man.” “You can tell people it was a fair fight … see what the jury and judge think,” she said. This is quite critical, and devastating. The #MeToo witch-hunt, which has destroyed dozens of careers and even lives, has advanced the claim that the woman accuser must always be believed, even in the absence… See more The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial, #MeToo and Hollywood tragedy WSWS.ORG The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial, #MeToo and Hollywood tragedy The trial has dealt a sharp blow to the #MeToo campaign and the self-serving mythologies with which it has attempted to surround relations between the sexes.

" The Importance of Living " by Lin Yutang - I was inspired by this book many years ago

I was inspired by this book many years ago . I learned that Lin Yutang evolved into a Christian later in life ( perhaps traumatized by world events ) but still there is no little wisdom in his earlier free spirited PAGAN outlook . Imagine a culture where people are proud of OLD AGE , the older the better ! Image: The importance of living: Lin, Yutang: Books: Amazon.com GOOGLE.COM Image: The importance of living: Lin, Yutang: Books: Amazon.com Found on Google from www.amazon.com

Allan Fung , Rhode Island Republican candidate for Congress , is probably right about being able to attract both Rhode Island's Donald Trump supporters and disappointed Joe Biden voters.

I live in the Knightsville section of Cranston, Rhode Island. The former mayor , Republican Allan Fung, a Chinese American . My brother, Michael , tells me that he remembers when young Allan Fung worked in the family's Chinese restaurant. Alan graduated from the esteemed Classical High School in Providence. Although a registered Democrat - actually an independent democratic socialist - I had no problem voting for Fung a couple of times in the past for the very simple reason that nobody in the neighborhood had anything bad to say about him ( or was I seduced by a Fung Spaghetti Dinner at Randall Manor ? ). Allan Fung is probably right about being able to attract both Rhode Island's Donald Trump supporters and disappointed Joe Biden voters. I never get too ideological about LOCAL politics . Too many family and friends " connected " in Little Rhody . Also the Democratic Party in Rhode Island has NO effective competition - even ON THE RIGHT that would be therapeutic. STALINISM is not a good model for state and city government in beautiful ( it can be ! ) Rhode Island. People with COMMON SENSE here need an anti-dote to daffy WOKE agendas. Take it from this FAR LEFTIST ! Fung can succeed just by being himself. Old Chinese wisdom from author Lin Yutang's book : " The Importance of Living ". VIDEO NOW: Former Cranston Mayor Fung kicks off congressional campaign YOUTUBE.COM VIDEO NOW: Former Cranston Mayor Fung kicks off congressional campaign Former Cranston Mayor Allan Fung officially kicked off his campaign Congress on Tuesday, April 26.Stay in the know with WPRI 12 News. Local news, weather, sp...

From the Jerusalem Post - some background on Elon Musk : " His first name may resemble the Hebrew name Ilan, but that’s the extent of Musk’s personal Jewishness.

[What we know about Musk and what he could do His first name may resemble the Hebrew name Ilan, but that’s the extent of Musk’s personal Jewishness. He was raised in South Africa, where he attended an Anglican Sunday school, and moved to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-1990s. From there, he began working in Silicon Valley, amassing wealth and influence as he developed a series of pioneering technology companies. He is the founder and CEO of Tesla, the electric car company, and of SpaceX, which is developing a range of spacecraft and other space travel tech. He has a net worth of over $240 billion and has at various times been crowned the wealthiest person on earth.]

Scenes from Peggy Noonan's book, " Life , Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness " , would make a captivating Hollywood movie.

Scenes from Peggy Noonan's book, " Life , Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness " , would make a captivating Hollywood movie. Popular family entertainment or when she describes Washington- New York Babylon high society, R-rated with hints of " The Exorcist " or " Great Gatsby ". Can the good Irish-Catholic girl be unsoiled by all this ? As I just finished reading the whole book, that put me in early Clinton Era time warp ( a " Peggy Sue Got Married eerie feeling ) , I know what I am talking about . Scenes of a younger, satanic Donald Trump and a younger, devilish Bill Clinton in " Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" could revive the Catholic Church's " CONDEMNED MOVIES " list . I am an independent democratic socialist amused by Noonan's upper class conservative Catholicism that misses the old Pre-Vatican II gravitas and mystique. Peggy Noonan is a very interesting writer and decent human being. Onstage at the Reagan Library with Peggy Noonan YOUTUBE.COM Onstage at the Reagan Library with Peggy Noonan The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute is proud to anno

Past readers of his Providence Journal columns must hope that Bob Kerr has kept a post-2014 personal diary . If it were published I would certainly buy it .

Past readers of his Providence Journal columns must hope that Bob Kerr has kept a post-2014 personal diary . If it were published I would certainly buy it . Image: Edward Fitzpatrick: A salute as Clemency Coach departs GOOGLE.COM Image: Edward Fitzpatrick: A salute as Clemency Coach departs

" if there is hope it lies in the proles ! " Many years after his assassination in Mexico 1940 Leon Trotsky remains an unsullied revolutionary character

Many years after his assassination in Mexico 1940 Leon Trotsky remains an unsullied revolutionary character. None of his voluminous writing suggest that he ever had a personal agenda apart from world socialist revolution. Even his Jewish background did not influence his thinking about toxic " petty bourgeois " patriotism and crackpot imperialist nation states . He would probably have a very negative -but balanced -view of Zionism today . If he was condemned by middle class moralists as the " Red Army Butcher ", he could defend himself by explaining the morality of a little something called the INTERNATIONAL CLASS STRUGGLE. Trotsky also wrote extensively on the errors of " individual terrorism " . Read his essays " Their Morals and Ours " and " Against Individual Terrorism ". Trotsky's " The Revolution Betrayed " is must reading for any politically literate socialist . It does seem to this INDEPENDENT democratic socialist that Marxist theory entered a long period of pathetic stagnation after Leon Trotsky's death. Just about ALL of the Marxist vanguard parties still around have degenerated into grotesque personality cults- actually a force for LEFT totalitarianism. Self-confident parties are not afraid of democratic debate , of the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. Still one agrees with George Orwell's character in " 1984 " : Winston Smith enters this THOUGHT CRIME into his not so secret diary : " IF THERE IS HOPE IT LIES IN THE PROLES ! " Image: In Defense of Marxism by Trotsky, Leon - 1981 GOOGLE.COM Image: In Defense of Marxism by Trotsky, Leon - 1981 Found on Google from www.biblio.com

Fwd: Providence , Rhode Island Mayor Elorza's Crying Meltdown in Public

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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 at 13:23
Subject: Providence , Rhode Island Mayor Elorza's Crying Meltdown in Public
To: Gregg, Katherine <kgregg@providencejournal.com>

I can understand the reported breakdown ( April 26 ? ) of Providence Mayor Elorza . Above all Providence , Rhode Island is a victim of its own mass poverty . No way can the Providence Public Schools be resurrected from the black hole of neighborhood destitution. It is NOT racism. It is the cruel reality of decaying capitalism. It is naive to think that some political genius , some crafty politician with an overblown ego - a LARGE personality - can magically fix things. Come back , Buddy ? Most people- whatever their social status - sincerely love their children. But what chance do even relatively privileged kids - like the Mayor's beloved son - have for happiness in a rapidly decaying civilization ? Mayor Elorza's WOKE Democratic Party is now actively planning nuclear World War III . It has promoted the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism for years now. If they only KNEW , even the kids would cry about their bleak future. And the present obnoxious NEW WOKE ORDER . Did Harvard University envision all this ?

Ron Ruggieri, 75 Mathewson St., Cranston , Rhode Island ( 401-580-7432 )

We democratic socialists are not cheer leaders for any toxic patriotism or for any aggressive imperialist nation-state.

PRAYING FOR A RUSSIAN VICTORY 🙏❤❤❤ You would be surprised how many ordinary working class Americans do not tear up over the Ukrainian flag. We democratic socialists are not cheer leaders for any toxic patriotism or for any aggressive imperialist nation-state. Russia Cuts Off Gas Supplies To Poland And Bulgaria YOUTUBE.COM Russia Cuts Off Gas Supplies To Poland And Bulgaria Eastern Europe is feeling the economic fallout from the war in Ukraine as Russia shuts off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after both countries refused t...

How does Putin's POST COMMUNIST Russia offend American imperialism and the rest of the so called FREE WORLD ?

No surprise here . The NATO alliance is determined to strangle Russia . How does Putin's POST COMUNIST Russia offend American imperialism and the rest of the so called FREE WORLD (which includes barbaric Saudi Arabia and APARTHEID Israel to which Ukraine President Zelensky is a loyal son ) ? The Russian oligarchy does not live up to the high moral standards of our plutocracy or rather " OUR democracy " ? The high moral standards of our CIA, Pentagon War Crimes Machine , DEEP STATE, HOMELAND SECURITY ? Do the maniacs of the Eisenhower feared military industrial complex think they can win nuclear World War III against Russia ? Depraved Pentagon war psychologists think they can sell Wilsonian blather - " make the world safe for democracy " - that was FALSE way back in 1917 ? All those foolishly " patriotic " cant words like FREE WORLD , SOVEREIGN nations ! Have you had a whiff of " OUR democracy " lately ? As a democratic socialist - not a war mongering " progressive " Democrat - I oppose NATO smothering of Russia. Perhaps Czar Putin will be replaced by Lenin II . After all, what has CAPITALISM done to improve the lives of the Russian people ? In fact , what has capitalism done to improve the lives of working class Americans and middle class Americans now in free fall panic ? I doubt very much if ordinary working class Ukrainians were longing for a dangerous and foolish alliance with effete , moribund , and rotting NATO . I doubt if the FAKE NEWS media in the USA will get ordinary Americans - not connected to ruling class agendas -all fired up over a forever SOVEREIGN Ukraine . PEACE ! [Russia Cuts Off Gas Supplies To Poland And Bulgaria YOUTUBE.COM Russia Cuts Off Gas Supplies To Poland And Bulgaria Eastern Europe is feeling the economic fallout from the war in Ukraine as Russia shuts off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after both countries refused t...]

"China calls out US war crimes "

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Peter Camejo 1969 : " How to Make a Revolution in the United States "

How it's done

Now, how does the ruling class do it? Here, you've got some 30,000 people running a society of 200 million and most of the people in the society don't even know it. In the past, ruling classes were proud of their role. They would walk around with feathers in their hats, or big robes and things, and when they went down the street, people would say: "Hey, there goes one of our ruling class." Nowadays, they don't do that. Now, they can slip on the campus where you are, and somebody in the ruling class could walk right by, and you wouldn't even know it. They dress just like you. They're incognito.

Rockefeller would never come to your campus and say: "Hi, how're you doing? Are you studying hard, getting your degrees so you can come to work for me and make me richer?" No, they don't do that. They go around saying that there aren't classes in America, that everybody's middle-class, only that some are a little more middle-class than others. In other words, they are ashamed of their own existence. They have to hide it. And there are good reasons for that. One of their problems, of course, is that they're so small. Why, there are more than 30,000 people on just one or two campuses.

Now, how do they maintain their rule? To find this out you can try an experiment. Get all dressed up, put on a jacket and tie, and walk into some corporation and say: "Hello, I'm a sociologist, I'm here to do a study. Could I just walk around and talk to people?" And then you walk up to somebody and say: "Who's your supervisor?" And he'll point to someplace, and you find someone with a little name plate, and it's a supervisor. And you ask him: "Who's your supervisor?" And he'll point to a different place, and you walk in and there'll be a rug. And you say to him: "Who's your supervisor?" And he'll point to a different floor, and you'll find it gets harder and harder to get in the doors. There's more and more secretaries, and phones, and the rug gets thicker and thicker. Eventually you have to make appointments. And then you hit the sound barrier. Here is where you switch from the people who carry out decisions to people who make the decisions. And that's your local ruling class.

The structure

By the way, if you test out any institution in our society, you'll find they are structured in the same way. A pyramid from the top going down. That's the way all institutions are structured in this democratic country. This goes for government, for the political parties, the army, the churches, the universities, for every basic institution. And when you get to the very top of these structures, to the most powerful people, you will invariably find people who own big property.

Now, how do they keep the structure going? It's a very subtle thing. In the United States, we have freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and other democratic rights. So, say you go to your job one day and test it. Wear a big button that says, "Vote Socialist". And watch how fast you get promoted. Watch how you are treated. Formally you have the right to have any political view you want. But, the truth is that in all these institutions there is a very worked out, institutionalised way of going up. And on the way up, you sell your individuality, you commit yourself to the values of the system.

And you learn very fast that in return for full commitment to the system — for personal discipline, for showing up every morning wearing the right clothes, keeping your hair short, and the rest — in return, you get privileges. It's done on the basis of privileges. That is what holds the society together.

When was the last time you heard someone say: "Capitalism's a great society"? When did you hear anyone say: "Just think what our 30,000 ruling class has done for us. We should give them our full support." They never say that. They don't try to build up an ideological support for capitalism in the sense of telling you the full truth.

All the institutions under capitalism are ideological institutions in the sense that all of them maintain and demand support for the system. So it should be no surprise to you that the higher you go in a corporation, the higher you go in the university structure, the higher you go in the army, the people get more and more reactionary. They get more and more consciously pro the system; they are more and more for whatever crimes the system has to commit. They simply wouldn't be there if they weren't. This is why you can never capture the existing apparatus and use it for making a basic change.

Peter Camejo, 1969

How to make a revolution in the United States

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Source : Speech at an educational conference of the US Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance, May 3, 1969, printed in abridged form in The Militant, May 30, 1969
Transcription and mark-up : by Steve Painter

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Revolutionary socialists have been accused for many years of wanting to overthrow the US government by force and violence. When they accuse us of this, what they are really trying to do is to imply that we want to abolish capitalism with a minority, that we want to force the will of the minority on the majority. The opposite is the truth. We believe we can win a majority of the people in this country to support a change in the system. It will be necessary to make a revolution precisely because the ruling powers will not peacefully accept a majority rule which wants a basic change.

How can a revolution involving a majority of the people actually take place in the United States? This is the question I want to discuss today.

First of all, you have to have clear in your mind the meaning of the word "revolution". Many people have a stereotyped picture of what a revolution is like. They say a revolution is when people come with guns, when they surround a fortress or take over a city. What they do is they confuse revolution with insurrection. Insurrection is just one stage of revolution. Revolution is a lot more. It's a long process.

In a certain way you can make a parallel between revolution and pregnancy. In the very early stages of pregnancy, if just on empirical evidence you ask whether or not someone is pregnant, the answer will be no. However, with the use of science you can determine whether the person is pregnant very early. Later on it becomes evident for everybody to see.

The same thing is true of social revolution. In the early stages most people don't see it. You always begin on the assumption that in every society that needs a revolution, the majority of the people don't think it's possible. This is most certainly true for the period in American history we are in right now. We're in the early stages of the third American revolution. I say the third revolution because we've had two others — the revolution of 1776 and the civil war.

Leon Trotsky - 90 years of the Communist Manifesto

Leon Trotsky Ninety Years of the Communist Manifesto (October 1937) Written: October 30, 1937 First Published: In Afrikaans in South Africa for the first edition of the The Communist Manifesto in that language. First published in English in The New International [New York], Vol. IV No. 2, February 1938, pp. 53–55, 63. This version from Fourth International [New York], Vol. IX No. 1, January–February 1948, pp. 28–31. Transcription/HTML Markup: David Walters. Copyleft: Leon Trotsky Internet Archive (www.marxists.org) 2003. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. It is hard to believe that the centennial of the Manifesto of the Communist Party is only ten years away! This pamphlet, displaying greater genius than any other in world literature, astounds us even today by its freshness. Its most important sections appear to have been written yesterday. Assuredly, the young authors (Marx was twenty-nine, Engels twenty-seven) were able to look further into the future than anyone before them, and perhaps than anyone since them. As early as their joint preface to the edition of 1872, Marx and Engels declared that despite the fact that certain secondary passages in the Manifesto were antiquated, they felt that they no longer had any right to alter the original text inasmuch as the Manifesto had already become a historical document, during the intervening period of twenty-five years. Sixty-five additional years have elapsed since that time. Isolated passages in the Manifesto have receded still further into the past. We shall try to establish succinctly in this preface both those ideas in the Manifesto which retain their full force today and those which require important alteration or amplification. 1. The materialist conception of history, discovered by Marx only a short while before and applied with consummate skill in the Manifesto, has completely withstood the test of events and the blows of hostile criticism. It constitutes today one of the most precious instruments of human thought. All other interpretations of the historical process have lost all scientific meaning. We can state with certainty that it is impossible in our time to be not only a revolutionary militant but even a literate observer in politics without assimilating the materialist interpretation of history. 2. The first chapter of the Manifesto opens with the following words: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” This postulate, the most important conclusion drawn from the materialist interpretation of history, immediately became an issue in the class struggle. Especially venomous attacks were directed by reactionary hypocrites, liberal doctrinaires, and idealistic democrats against the theory which substituted the struggle of material interests for “common welfare,” “national unity,” and “eternal moral truths” as the driving force of history. They were later joined by recruits from the ranks of the labor movement itself, by the so-called revisionists, i.e., the proponents of reviewing (“revising”) Marxism in the spirit of class collaboration and class conciliation. Finally, in our own time, the same path has been followed in practice by the contemptible epigones of the Communist International (the “Stalinists”): the policy of the so-called People’s Front flows wholly from the denial of the laws of the class struggle. Meanwhile, it is precisely the epoch of imperialism, bringing all social contradictions to the point of highest tension, which gives to the Communist Manifesto its supreme theoretical triumph. 3. The anatomy of capitalism, as a specific stage in the economic development of society, was given by Marx in its finished form in Capital (1867). But even in the Communist Manifesto the main lines of the future analysis are firmly sketched: the payment for labor power as equivalent to the cost of its reproduction; the appropriation of surplus value by the capitalists; competition as the basic law of social relations; the ruination of intermediate classes, i.e., the urban petty bourgeoisie and the peasantry; the concentration of wealth in the hands of an ever-diminishing number of property owners, at the one pole, and the numerical growth of the proletariat, at the other; the preparation of the material and political preconditions for the socialist regime. 4. The proposition in the Manifesto concerning the tendency of capitalism to lower the living standards of the workers, and even to transform them into paupers, had been subjected to a heavy barrage. Parsons, professors, ministers, journalists, Social Democratic theoreticians, and trade union leaders came to the front against the so-called “theory of impoverishment.” They invariably discovered signs of growing prosperity among the toilers, palming off the labor aristocracy as the proletariat, or taking a fleeting tendency as permanent. Meanwhile, even the development of the mightiest capitalism in the world, namely, US capitalism, has transformed millions of workers into paupers who are maintained at the expense of federal, municipal, or private charity. 5. As against the Manifesto, which depicted commercial and industrial crises as a series of ever more extensive catastrophes, the revisionists vowed that the national and international development of trusts would assure control over the market, and lead gradually to the abolition of crises. The close of the last century and the beginning of the present one were in reality marked by a development of capitalism so tempestuous as to make crises seem only “accidental” stoppages. But this epoch has gone beyond return. In the last analysis, truth proved to be on Marx’s side in this question as well. 6. “The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” This succinct formula, which the leaders of the Social Democracy looked upon as a journalistic paradox, contains in fact the only scientific theory of the state. The democracy fashioned by the bourgeoisie is not, as both Bernstein and Kautsky thought, an empty sack which one can undisturbedly fill with any kind of class content. Bourgeois democracy can serve only the bourgeoisie. A government of the “People’s Front,” whether headed by Blum or Chautemps, Caballero or Negrin, is only “a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” Whenever this “committee” manages affairs poorly, the bourgeoisie dismisses it with a boot. 7. “Every class struggle is a political struggle.” “The organization of the proletariat as a class [is] consequently its organization into a political party.” Trade unionists, on the one hand, and anarchosyndicalists, on the other, have long shied away – and even now try to shy away – from the understanding of these historical laws. “Pure” trade unionism has now been dealt a crushing blow in its chief refuge: the United States. Anarchosyndicalism has suffered an irreparable defeat in its last stronghold – Spain. Here too the Manifesto proved correct. 8. The proletariat cannot conquer power within the legal framework established by the bourgeoisie. “Communists openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.” Reformism sought to explain this postulate of the Manifesto on the grounds of the immaturity of the movement at that time, and the inadequate development of democracy. The fate of Italian, German, and a great number of other “democracies” proves that “immaturity” is the distinguishing trait of the ideas of the reformists themselves. 9. For the socialist transformation of society, the working class must concentrate in its hands such power as can smash each and every political obstacle barring the road to the new system. “The proletariat organized as the ruling class” – this is the dictatorship. At the same time it is the only true proletarian democracy. Its scope and depth depend upon concrete historical conditions. The greater the number of states that take the path of the socialist revolution, the freer and more flexible forms will the dictatorship assume, the broader and more deepgoing will be workers’ democracy. 10. The international development of capitalism has predetermined the international character of the proletarian revolution. “United action, of the leading civilized countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.” The subsequent development of capitalism has so closely knit all sections of our planet, both “civilized” and “uncivilized,” that the problem of the socialist revolution has completely and decisively assumed a world character. The Soviet bureaucracy attempted to liquidate the Manifesto with respect to this fundamental question. The Bonapartist degeneration of the Soviet state is an overwhelming illustration of the falseness of the theory of socialism in one country. 11. “When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character.” In other words: the state withers away. Society remains, freed from the straitjacket. This is nothing else but socialism. The converse theorem: the monstrous growth of state coercion in the USSR is eloquent testimony that society is moving away from socialism. 12. “The workingmen have no fatherland.” These words of the Manifesto have more than once been evaluated by philistines as an agitational quip. As a matter of fact they provided the proletariat with the sole conceivable directive in the question of the capitalist “fatherland.” The violation of this directive by the Second International brought about not only four years of devastation in Europe, but the present stagnation of world culture. In view of the impending new war, for which the betrayal of the Third International has paved the way, the Manifesto remains even now the most reliable counselor on the question of the capitalist “fatherland.” Thus, we see that the joint and rather brief production of two Young authors continues to give irreplaceable directives upon the most important and burning questions of the struggle for emancipation. What other book could even distantly be compared with the Communist Manifesto? But this does not imply that after ninety years of unprecedented development of productive forces and vast social struggles, the Manifesto needs neither corrections nor additions. Revolutionary thought has nothing in common with idol-worship. Programs and prognoses are tested and corrected in the light of experience, which is the supreme criterion of human reason. The Manifesto, too, requires corrections and additions. However, as is evidenced by historical experience itself, these corrections and additions can be successfully made only by proceeding in accord with the method lodged in the foundation of the Manifesto itself. We shall try to indicate this in several most important instances. 1. Marx taught that no social system departs from the arena of history before exhausting its creative potentialities. The Manifesto excoriates capitalism for retarding the development of the productive forces. During that period, however, as well as in the following decades, this retardation was only relative in nature. Had it been possible in the second half of the nineteenth century to organize economy on socialist beginnings, its tempos of growth would have been immeasurably greater. But this theoretically irrefutable postulate does not invalidate the fact that the productive forces kept expanding on a world scale right up to the world war. Only in the last twenty years, despite the most modern conquests of science and technology, has the epoch of out-and-out stagnation and even decline of world economy begun. Mankind is beginning to expend its accumulated capital, while the next war threatens to destroy the very foundations of civilization for many years to come. The authors of the Manifesto thought that capitalism would be scrapped long prior to the time when from a relatively reactionary regime it would turn into an absolutely reactionary regime. This transformation took final shape only before the eyes of the present generation, and changed our epoch into the epoch of wars, revolutions, and fascism. 2. The error of Marx and Engels in regard to the historical dates flowed, on the one hand, from an underestimation of future possibilities latent in capitalism, and, on the other, an overestimation of the revolutionary maturity of the proletariat. The revolution of 1848 did not turn into a socialist revolution as the Manifesto had calculated, but opened up to Germany the possibility of a vast future capitalist ascension. The Paris Commune proved that the proletariat, without having a tempered revolutionary party at its head, cannot wrest power from the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the prolonged period of capitalist prosperity that ensued brought about not the education of the revolutionary vanguard, but rather the bourgeois degeneration of the labor aristocracy, which became in turn the chief brake on the proletarian revolution. In the nature of things, the authors of the Manifesto could not possibly have foreseen this “dialectic.” 3. For the Manifesto, capitalism was – the kingdom of free competition. While referring to the growing concentration of capital, the Manifesto did not draw the necessary conclusion in regard to monopoly, which has become the dominant capitalist form in our epoch and the most important precondition for socialist economy. Only afterwards, in Capital, did Marx establish the tendency toward the transformation of free competition into monopoly. It was Lenin who gave a scientific characterization of monopoly capitalism in his Imperialism. 4. Basing themselves on the example of “industrial revolution” in England, the authors of the Manifesto pictured far too unilaterally the process of liquidation of the intermediate classes, as a wholesale proletarianization of crafts, petty trades, and peasantry. In point of fact, the elemental forces of competition have far from completed this simultaneously progressive and barbarous work. Capitalism has ruined the petty bourgeoisie at a much faster rate than it has proletarianized it. Furthermore, the bourgeois state has long directed its conscious policy toward the artificial maintenance of petty-bourgeois strata. At the opposite pole, the growth of technology and the rationalization of largescale industry engenders chronic unemployment and obstructs the proletarianization of the petty bourgeoisie. Concurrently, the development of capitalism has accelerated in the extreme the growth of legions of technicians, administrators, commercial employees, in short, the so-called “new middle class.” In consequence, the intermediate classes, to whose disappearance the Manifesto so categorically refers, comprise even in a country as highly industrialized as Germany about half of the population. However, the artificial preservation of antiquated petty-bourgeois strata in no way mitigates the social contradictions, but, on the contrary, invests them with a special malignancy, and together with the permanent army of the unemployed constitutes the most malevolent expression of the decay of capitalism. 5. Calculated for a revolutionary epoch the Manifesto contains (end of Chapter II) ten demands, corresponding to the period of direct transition from capitalism to socialism. In their preface of 1872, Marx and Engels declared these demands to be in part antiquated, and, in any case, only of secondary importance. The reformists seized upon this evaluation to interpret it in the sense that transitional revolutionary demands had forever ceded their place to the Social Democratic “minimum program,” which, as is well known, does not transcend the limits of bourgeois democracy. As a matter of fact, the authors of the Manifesto indicated quite precisely the main correction of their transitional program, namely, “the working class cannot simply lay hold of the readymade state machinery and wield it for its own purposes.” In other words, the correction was directed against the fetishism of bourgeois democracy. Marx later counterposed to the capitalist state, the state of the type of the Commune. This “type” subsequently assumed the much more graphic shape of soviets. There cannot be a revolutionary program today without soviets and without workers’ control. As for the rest, the ten demands of the Manifesto, which appeared “archaic” in an epoch of peaceful parliamentary activity, have today regained completely their true significance. The Social Democratic “minimum program,” on the other hand, has become hopelessly antiquated. 6. Basing its expectation that “the German bourgeois revolution ... will be but a prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution,” the Manifesto cites the much more advanced conditions of European civilization as compared with what existed in England in the seventeenth century and in France in the eighteenth century, and the far greater development of the proletariat. The error in this prognosis was not only in the date. The revolution of 1848 revealed within a few months that precisely under more advanced conditions, none of the bourgeois classes is capable of bringing the revolution to its termination: the big and middle bourgeoisie is far too closely linked with the landowners, and fettered by the fear of the masses; the petty bourgeoisie is far too divided and in its top leadership far too dependent on the big bourgeoisie. As evidenced by the entire subsequent course of development in Europe and Asia, the bourgeois revolution, taken by itself, can no more in general be consummated. A complete purge of feudal rubbish from society is conceivable only on the condition that the proletariat, freed from the influence of bourgeois parties, can take its stand at the head of the peasantry and establish its revolutionary dictatorship. By this token, the bourgeois revolution becomes interlaced with the first stage of the socialist revolution, subsequently to dissolve in the latter. The national revolution therewith becomes a link of the world revolution. The transformation of the economic foundation and of all social relations assumes a permanent (uninterrupted) character. For revolutionary parties in backward countries of Asia, Latin America, and Africa, a clear understanding of the organic connection between the democratic revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat – and thereby, the international socialist revolution – is a life-and-death question. 7. While depicting how capitalism draws into its vortex backward and barbarous countries, the Manifesto contains no reference to the struggle of colonial and semicolonial countries for independence. To the extent that Marx and Engels considered the social revolution “in the leading civilized countries at least,” to be a matter of the next few years, the colonial question was resolved automatically for them, not in consequence of an independent movement of oppressed nationalities but in consequence of the victory of the proletariat in the metropolitan centers of capitalism. The questions of revolutionary strategy in colonial and semicolonial countries are therefore not touched upon at all by the Manifesto. Yet these questions demand an independent solution. For example, it is quite self-evident that while the “national fatherland” has become the most baneful historical brake in advanced capitalist countries, it still remains a relatively progressive factor in backward countries compelled to struggle for an independent existence. “The Communists,” declares the Manifesto, “everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.” The movement of the colored races against their imperialist oppressors is one of the most important and powerful movements against the existing order and therefore calls for the complete, unconditional, and unlimited support on the part of the proletariat of the white race. The credit for developing revolutionary strategy for oppressed nationalities belongs primarily to Lenin. 8. The most antiquated section of the Manifesto – with respect not to method but to material – is the criticism of “socialist” literature for the first part of the nineteenth century (Chapter III) and the definition of the position of the Communists in relation to various opposition parties (Chapter IV). The movements and parties listed in the Manifesto were so drastically swept away either by the revolution of 1848 or by the ensuing counterrevolution that one must look up even their names in a historical dictionary. However, in this section, too, the Manifesto is perhaps closer to us now than it was to the previous generation. In the epoch of the flowering of the Second International, when Marxism seemed to exert an undivided sway, the ideas of pre-Marxist socialism could have been considered as having receded decisively into the past. Things are otherwise today. The decomposition of the Social Democracy and the Communist International at every step engenders monstrous ideological relapses. Senile thought seems to have become infantile. In search of all-saving formulas the prophets in the epoch of decline discover anew doctrines long since buried by scientific socialism. As touches the question of opposition parties, it is in this domain that the elapsed decades have introduced the most deepgoing changes, not only in the sense that the old parties have long been brushed aside by new ones, but also in the sense that the very character of parties and their mutual relations have radically changed in the conditions of the imperialist epoch. The Manifesto must therefore be amplified with the most important documents of the first four congresses of the Communist International, the essential literature of Bolshevism, and the decisions of the conferences of the Fourth International. We have already remarked above that according to Marx no social order departs from the scene without first exhausting the potentialities latent in it. However, even an antiquated social order does not cede its place to a new order without resistance. A change in social regimes presupposes the harshest form of the class struggle, i.e., revolution. If the proletariat, for one reason or another, proves incapable of overthrowing with an audacious blow the outlived bourgeois order, then finance capital in the struggle to maintain its unstable rule can do nothing but turn the petty bourgeoisie ruined and demoralized by it into the pogrom army of fascism. The bourgeois degeneration of the Social Democracy and the fascist degeneration of the petty bourgeoisie are interlinked as cause and effect. At the present time, the Third International far more wantonly than the Second performs in all countries the work of deceiving and demoralizing the toilers. By massacring the vanguard of the Spanish proletariat, the unbridled hirelings of Moscow not only pave the way for fascism but execute a goodly share of its labors. The protracted crisis of the international revolution, which is turning more and more into a crisis of human culture, is reducible in its essentials to the crisis of revolutionary leadership. As the heir to the great tradition, of which the Manifesto of the Communist Party forms the most precious link, the Fourth International is educating new cadres for the solution of old tasks. Theory is generalized reality. In an honest attitude to revolutionary theory is expressed the impassioned urge to reconstruct the social reality. That in the southern part of the Dark Continent our cothinkers were the first to translate the Manifesto into the Afrikaans language is another graphic illustration of the fact that Marxist thought lives today only under the banner of the Fourth International. To it belongs the future. When the centennial of the Communist Manifesto is celebrated, the Fourth International will have become the decisive revolutionary force on our planet. return

The FOR PROFIT health care system in the United States is making residence in almost any nursing home in Rhode Island a nightmare for senior citizens with NO EXIT prospects

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What does Elon Musk's Twitter buyout mean for free speech? 8,587 viewsApr 26, 2022 178 DISLIKE SHARE DOWNLOAD SAVE CNBC Television 2.04M subscribers Venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss what Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter means for the social media platform and free speech. 215 Comments Ron Ruggieri FREE SPEECH in the USA -that is the issue ? just what is our quarrel with POST-COMMUNIST Russia ? It does not rise to the high ethical standards of " OUR democracy " where a definite plutocracy controls the main stream news media , and even the social media ? A definite plutocracy both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. How is our plutocracy better for the world than Russia's oligarchy ? Have YOU had a whiff of " OUR democracy " lately ? Do you like what you smell ? For decades now the " liberal " , " progressive " , now WOKE Democratic Party has shown contempt -more than conservative Republicans - for the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization . Perhaps Elon Musk might check quite unintentionally ZIONIST Jew control of the mainstream news media in the United States. They do much censorship on You Tube too . Watch this comment quickly disappear !

Perhaps Elon Musk might check quite unintentionally ZIONIST Jew control of the mainstream news media in the United State

FREE SPEECH in the USA -that is the issue ? just what is our quarrel with POST-COMMUNIST Russia ? It does not rise to the high ethical standards of " OUR democracy " where a definite plutocracy controls the mainstream news media , and even the social media ? A definite plutocracy both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. How is our plutocracy better for the world than Russia's oligarchy ?

Have YOU had a whiff of " OUR democracy " lately ? Do you like what you smell ?

For decades now the " liberal " , " progressive " , now WOKE Democratic Party has shown contempt -more than conservative Republicans - for the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization .

Perhaps Elon Musk might check quite unintentionally ZIONIST Jew control of the mainstream news media in the United States. They do much censorship on You Tube too . Watch this comment quickly disappear !

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What does Elon Musk's Twitter buyout mean for free speech?

Venture capitalist Kevin O'Leary and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss what Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter ...

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