Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Dump the TWO PARTY SYSTEM !

     Cannot the mainstream news media perceive the coming catastrophe of the TWO PARTY SYSTEM in the United States ?  The main theme of the 2016 presidential election was  a " mad as hell and can't take it anymore " rage at the MACHINE , at the establishment in which the plutocracy , the ONE PERCENT,effectively controls both major political parties , the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

           Indeed Election 2020 may bring on a status quo shattering  constitutional crisis.    The REAL division of American capitalist society  is along economic CLASS lines.

                 Oddly enough  Republicans see the specter of " socialism " in the Democratic Party - a party that has just nominated a pillar of the ESTABLISHMENT Joe Biden.  On tell tale  ( for democratic socialists ) foreign policy the voice of the Democratic Party sounds eerily like the right wing voice of the John Birch Society in the Cold War days. It promotes the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism , promotes false war mongering patriotism while President Trump and the Republicans promote a new " Yellow Peril ".  Nuclear war will be harder to " manage " than the Corona Virus pandemic!

                The TWO PARTY SYSTEM just now cannot contain or mediate the CLASS conflicts in the United States. Nor the racial , ethnic and " culture war " conflicts.

               WE THE PEOPLE desperately need a major anti-capitalist labor party in the United States .  Perhaps an institutionalized THREE PARTY SYSTEM can prevent bloody chaos or  right wing AND left wing forms of totalitarianism.

                  To be sure , some  American Hitler or American Stalin is waiting in the wings .  By the end of the fall we could look like Cairo, Egypt in 2011.

  Tucker Carlson :

[“As if we needed more evidence that this is actually a class war masquerading as a race conflict,” he said. “That's exactly what it is designed to [do]: crush America's middle class. And it's working.”]


[Tucker Carlson: Kenosha riots prove urban unrest is 'class war masquerading as a race conflict' ]

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Very phony " socialist " Bernie Sanders



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  Can any politically literate democratic socialist anywhere on the planet take Democrat Bernie Sanders seriously as a leader of some SOCIALIST movement  ?  Yesterday at the surreal Democratic National Convention Sanders said that the future of " OUR democracy " and the future of " OUR economy " was at stake in the 2020 election .
                 A  Lenin or a Trotsky - Karl Marx and Engels themselves - could only speak scathingly of BOURGEOIS democracy and CAPITALIST economy as it has existed since the Industrial Revolution.
                      Even American socialist Eugene V. Debs ridiculed our plutocracy controlled TWO PARTY SYSTEM more than a century ago . Read his  " Canton Speech " where he condemned both the First World War and Democratic Party of Woodrow Wilson .
        " Black Lives Matter " activists have much to learn from old socialist classics : " The Communist Manifesto " , " The State and Revolution " ( Lenin ) , " The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State "( Engels ).  They should read or re-read " The Autobiography of Malcolm X ".
              How can they possibly end racism within the economic structure of capitalism ?   Both  Black Muslim Malcolm X and civil rights leader Martin Luther King made a connection between racism and capitalism , between racism and American imperialism . No surprise that they were both assassinated.
        My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker "  .
      For more than four years the Democratic Party - a disgrace for any principled SOCIALIST- has promoted the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism ( while Trump and the Republicans promote a new " Yellow Peril ").
      Recall Malcolm X 's friend ( then Cassius Clay ) said back in 1965 opposing the military draft and the criminal Vietnam War : " No Vietcong ever called me [ N-Word ] .
            Learning a little history will much enlighten rather muddle -headed  " Black Lives Matter " activists today .   What is still very progressive in the USA are public libraries. READ !
 
  

Monday, August 17, 2020

Must reading for " Black Lives Matter " activists





       The young black activists who  are a collective voice for the " Black Lives Matter " movement lack the political sophistication and political literacy of the older generation of  50s-60s black civil rights activists. 

  If they just studied the speeches of Malcolm X , read his  " Autobiography " , they will see with what cynicism Malcolm X regarded our still decrepit TWO PARTY SYSTEM . Malcolm X had no use for " liberal " Democrats .  He made a connection between racism and capitalism, between racism and American imperialism .

 My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a bloodsucker ". And his close friend back then, the  champion  Black Muslim boxer" Cassius Clay " said ,opposing the criminal Vietnam War and the draft : " No Vietcong ever called me [ N-word ] " 

                The " Black Lives Matter " activists - white and black - would find  Marx's " Communist Manifesto " and Vladimir Lenin's " State and Revolution " very instructive : police brutality  is institutionalized in the capitalist STATE . 

  The plutocracy controls the TWO PARTY SYSTEM.  The Democrats and Republicans support capitalism and militarism.   Striking white workers are just as readily gunned down as " disorderly " blacks. The American prison system, the " American Gulag ", is a nightmare for prisoners of all races and ethnic groups

    And the FBI is implicated in the assassination of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King ( who in 1968 was leaning toward socialism , supporting striking garbage workers,  and opposing the Vietnam War ) .
              But the Democrats are more phony !   Without a viable anti-capitalist third party in the USA it is wiser  for working class Americans in the 2020 election to stay home   and NOT vote !


 

Friday, August 14, 2020

Why would RULING CLASS people demonize President Donald Trump ?




18 hours ago - US news | The Guardian ...]

           I just listened to a dramatization  of the " Forward " of Michael Cohen 's " bombshell " book at 630 WPRO  exposing the TRUTH about plutocrat Trump - as seen through the eyes of his lying lawyer soul-mate.

        The so called far-left of the Democratic Party does not offer a spark of SOCIALIST analysis in explaining the peculiar mind and politics of the president of the United States.   Theirs is a devil theory all the way .  The ONLY serious problem with  " OUR democracy " is THE DONALD , the shocking victor in  the 2016 presid

               The phony Democrats don't talk about the evil American plutocracy, rotten capitalism and lunatic militarism.   All the Democratic Party leaders contrast THEIR sterling political virtues as opposed to Trump's wickedness and corruption.

                  They fear that President Trump too well represents the American plutocracy which even the " far-Left " of the Democratic Party serves.   Official corruption needs a better mask !
                    Most of Ivy League Academia now fawns over senile Joe Biden. To be sure, the American ruling class has fostered the most docile and subservient intellectual class in modern history.  In COLLUSION with the mainstream news media the Democratic Party has fostered the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism. Imagine nuclear holocaust without any despicable HATE !

                     The root of all social evil is NOT President Donald Trump . It is decaying capitalism and moribund American imperialism.

                        Find ONE " far-Left " Democrat who will boldly declare : " I 'm for SOCIALISM ".

    We need a third party that does truly represent the American ruling class. Like the British Labor Party but much bolder .