No party has a patent on socialism or the blessing of HISTORY

" The freedom of expression can only be defended through a break with the establishment parties and the building of a working-class movement for socialism. "

I agree with your recent comment on the WSWS . But this web site and the " progressive " Left in general are themselves more and more contemptuous of the FREE SPEECH, FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization.

After being smeared by an SEP zealot as the " resident Catholic , anti-Semite , fascist " I was banned more than a year ago from the World Socialist Web Site . It was coldly silent when I asked them to substantiate the smear. They do remind me of the notorious Church of Scientology and their brainwashed legion of " Clears ".

It is quite hypocritical for their permanent GREAT LEADER David North- their Great Oz- to lecture the New York Times about the FREE SPEECH values dear to all progressives, of course.

I AM an independent democratic socialist. " THE MASSES " will never discover these sectarian Marxist parties each one imagining itself THE VANGUARD of a coming socialist revolution.

Since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 HISTORY has made a mockery of all self-appointed socialist vanguard parties.

No party has a patent on SOCIALISM or the blessing of HISTORY . With the highest morals of common humanity we all still grope in the dark .

" Never Again " Aaron Regunberg is not showing all his cards

As a young PRIVILEGED American citizen - already with a pass to the inner circle of the CORRUPT Rhode Island Democrat Party establishment - Aaron Regunberg - true to the capitalist Culture of Narcissism - wants to pass himself off a young " progressive " idealist teary eyed over the plight of illegal immigrants . But young Regunberg is not showing all his cards .

That " Never Again " slogan was taken from the notorious Rabbi Meir Kahane's right wing thug group known as the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ). What is Aaron Regunberg's position on Zionism once condemned by the United Nations as a form of RACISM ?
Right here in Rhode Island was Regunberg in 2016 a follower of Bernie Sanders or of Governor Gina Raimondo ? Does he go along with HATE RUSSIA , New McCarthyism so well voiced recently by " Hawk Hillary " Clinton ?
Does he support the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT rights of conservative Republicans and " deplorable " working class Americans fond of wearing MAGA hats ? Does he wink at Anti-Fa tactics like pouring red paint on Christopher Columbus statues and other lawless provocations ?
The ILLIBERAL LIBERALS of Regunberg's Democrat Party can be just as nasty HATERS as any group on the Right. Of course, they need Harvard Law School graduates - experts at legal gibberish sophistry .

Speaking ON THE LEFT : " President Trump THE lesser evil in 2020 "

The " New McCarthyism " was evident to this INDEPENDENT democratic socialist back in June of 2016 . The very first victim of the DNC based New McCarthyism was the very popular Bernie Sanders . I was a critical supporter of Bernie and voted for him in " OUR democracy " in the Rhode Island Democratic Primary in April . Bernie WON but that did not matter to top Democrats here.
At the National Convention Bernie Sanders supporters were smeared as having a " propensity for violence " . At one point I hoped Bernie Sanders would call for the formation of an independent third party - clearly Hillary Clinton's - and the ESTABLISHMENT PLUTOCRACY 's -worst nightmare.
I see the threat of FASCISM in the USA today coming more from the Neo-Democrat Left and its storm troop Anti-Fa than from any coalition of conservative Republicans wearing MAGA hats . Smearing President Donald Trump as " Hitler" and describing every day of his administration as a " constitutional crisis " is a mockery of principled liberalism - which a generation ago still respected the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. In no way is Trump Hitler !
The New McCarthyist Democrats and their pit bull Anti-Fa goons are indeed making the populist nationalist Donald Trump THE lesser evil in the 2020 election in the United States.
If THEY finally respect the Constitution of the United States ( which makes Trump's presidency LEGITIMATE ) ,we can avoid violence and chaos in an ugly political civil war . Without real Law & Order there can be no JUSTICE for anybody - not even for the various pet victims of DNC based " identity politics ".

Hillary Clinton and the New McCarthyism

" Creation , Evolution , Catholicism " by Thomas L. McFadden

I just a read an interesting , intellectually respectable review of this book titled " Creation, Evolution, and Catholicism " by Thomas L. McFadden in Catholic Family News ( December 2017 ) . It does seem to me that HUBRIS describes the spiritual state of modern science. Dennis Q. McInerny writes in his review : " In many instances they [ believing Catholics ] " are dealing with passionate TRUE BELIEVERS of the type memorably described by Eric Hoffer " . On the political Left these TRUE BELIEVERS have an impulse to join sectarian Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist parties, also infallible , all -knowing , and also very wrong headed , and worse containing the seeds of totalitarianism . Could the human institution of modern science find a more obnoxious voice than celebrity astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson ? He publicly ridicules the Catholic Holy Eucharist ancient ritual then suggests with other secular high priests of the BIG BANG that we gasp in a wonder at a COMPREHENSIBLE universe that emerged out of quantum foam nothingness . More and more as useful as it is in practical everyday life SCIENCE is becoming another god that failed. The " finding God " instinct in normal human beings will always be very strong . Unlike Carl Sagan in " Cosmos " we are not over-impressed with WHAT HYDROGEN ATOMS CAN DO after billion of years of godless evolution ( they can annihilate whole cities ! ) . On this profound need for God read the great Russian writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky .