Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
British philosopher Bertrand Russell was a courageous and distinguished opponent of the First World War. In his biography he wrote that most people now cannot imagine how much The Great War changed everything. Also in Germany working class Socialism did seem on the brink of triumph.
It was betrayed there and in many other " advanced " capitalist nations by brainless, toxic nationalism. German " socialists " voted to slaughter French and English working people. Then Wilsonian blather helped to settle the conflict. To their credit Lenin's Bolsheviks exposed the secrets of the war.
These fatuous and bloody PHRASES like " freedom " and " sovereign nations " and " democracy " are still heard today to arouse homicidal emotions in the masses- yes, anything but CLASS war.
Like lemmings in the USA today most" liberal " ( Democrat ? ) journalists -as if in trance - talk with sanctimonious indignation about Russian sabotage of OUR " democracy ". A nuclear holocaust to avenge " Corrupt Hillary " ?
Is this lunacy contagious ? I can't find any working class person losing sleep over Vladimir Putin spoiling the chances of Hawk Hillary to be president of the United states.
And it insults even those working class " deplorables " in the Rust Belt states to suggest that they needed Putin's guidance to reject Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
Will we still hear the " Russia collusion " mantra in the fall ? It is worthy of Franz Kafka's cult classic " The Trial "
"Greater Boston Writers Resist/Writers Persist will bring together a dozen local writers at the Boston Public Library on Saturday, June 23. They'll read from their work, "talk about the importance of self-expression, writing about politicized issues and how the political remains deeply personal," and participate in a Q&A with the audience. "
Do these professional writers imagine that before Trump they were working and earning a living in the Golden Age of Free Speech ?
This is self-delusion. The state of FREE SPEECH in the mainstream newspapers , on college and university campuses - dominated by so called LIBERALS - is a national disgrace.
Like lemmings they subscribe to the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism hysteria.
They are languishing with a longing for TRUE DEMOCRACY under Hillary Clinton ?
Innocent patriotism is just a human emotion easy enough to understand. Any person in ANY nation state can love his/her country for all too human reasons that have nothing to do with sociopathic emotions. You can love the natural beauty, the rich culture, the various talents and joie d 'vivre of the people , the pleasing diversity of ethnic groups, the GENIUS of this or that country.
Mother Nature invented natural beauty and diversity millions of years ago. WE THE PEOPLE of every country ALL come from an OLD FAMILY - the monkeys . So there is no excuse for humanity to be IMPRISONED in mutually hostile NATION STATES forever. If so many different ethnic groups can get along -or must get along - in the USA - then so can the hundreds of narcissistic nation states in this world come together.
In my vision of the global socialism of the future no PASSPORTS will be necessary to move about the planet. A PLANNED WORLD ECONOMY - guided by the most advanced computer technology- will make certain that human dignity is everywhere protected. Presently life is a nightmare of misery for half the human beings on the planet.
An enlightened human race will remember the insane worship of the FREE MARKET as just an existential nightmare that lasted way too long.
UTOPIAN ? But just imagine thinking that a monkey can evolve into YOU - homo sapiens ! It's a miracle .
Time for the greatest JAIL BREAK in human history. Abolish the nation state !
Thanks for your insights. But you completely misconstrue my " politics " . I was talking about the revolutionary INSPIRATION of Malcolm X- his amazing political evolution in the last year of his life.
I am very much in tune with the position of the SEC on " pseudo-leftists " and DNC based " identity politics ". And everything else !
If I had any magic advice to offer the World Socialist Web Site, I would happily offer it. I do think a MASS MOVEMENT will discover the resources and the leadership for the working class offered here. Any errors are corrected by positive or negative feedback from irrepressible working people.
Lenin knew how to LISTEN to the people. That is evident here in almost every published article. I recall the American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon saying that the working class party must never smother the spirit of INDEPENDENT thinking. Nothing revolutionary about political sheep.
