Nationalize the Energy Corporations

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity have a problem with BIG GOVERNMENT but are oddly silent about the evils of BIG BUSINESS. But only BIG GOVERNMENT can protect small business and ordinary working-middle class people from this monstrous energy company greed. And despite Gordon Geko of "Wall Street" movie fame, greed is NOT good.

Vital life resources like gas and oil and electricity should not be anybody's private wealth. We socialists say NATIONALIZE ALL ENERGY CORPORATIONS. The guilty Robber Barons disappear from public view. But like the Cheshire Cat leave only a smirky smile behind.

( Comment on Cranston Herald editorial, "Who's the Cheshire Cat?", Dec.30 : on the shocking National Grid rate increase request of 24 percent for the next six months.)

Israeli "kibbutz" hints at new socialist family

These horror stories of children being snuffed out or stunted by idiotic, incompetent or just criminally insane parents should make us focus on the inadequacy, the cruel isolation of the nuclear family. This fragile "unit of society" is very much in need of "social engineering."

As a democratic socialist I find a hint of the solution in the Israeli "kibbutz"- a sort of extended family as well as an economic unit. Child abuse, for example, would become almost impossible when there are multiple mothers and fathers caring for and watching over ALL the communal children. Children will no longer be seen as some one couple's PRIVATE PROPERTY and responsibility.

To be sure, there will be no economic privilege– only shared wealth- in this socialist community. The present bourgeois family system is to blame for much mental illness.

Read Engel's "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State."

Link to book review

As Hillary Clinton said : "It takes a village to raise a child."

    

( Comment on article in Houston Chronicle: "Sentencing for man who kept 4 sons in filthy home", Dec.30, 2014 )

All you need to know about R.I. Center for Freedom and Prosperity

Gene, you not infrequently have for guests at your radio station representatives of the R.I. Center for Freedom and Prosperity.

How many of your listeners know what a sinister, far-right group this is? Just a hint: A 2012 internet ad, the Center's invitation to "all free enterprise loving citizens" to leave their brains at home and watch the Ayn Rand inspired movie Atlas Shrugged II, showing at the Lincoln Cinema World on Friday, October 12. The ad tells the hordes of Ayn Rand fans that free Atlas Shrugged II bonus items will be handed out, including an XXL-T-SHIRT.

The Holy Book of the Ayn Rand atheist cult is "The Virtue of Selfishness." The godless cult, of course, worships Money & Capitalism-with crackpot Ayn Rand as their high priestess.

Submitted to: Gene@630wpro.com

Ron from Cranston ( Italo-American- Catholic- Knightsville )

Progress on all fronts: WATCHING AMERICA

As a citizen of the United States  I am appalled by the CIA torture scandal. The guilty here must face an international war crimes tribunal. But the main stream world news media does almost nothing to explain the roots of terrorism. 

Is anti-U.S. terrorism like the Ebola virus-highly contagious and mysterious in its origins? Do sane individuals in these Middle Eastern countries just wake up one morning with a fanatical desire to fly jetliners into tall buildings in New York City?

Both China and Russia have forgotten the cause of mass misery for several centuries now: the unchecked rule of the rich.

In America, oddly enough, any mention of SOCIALISM usually comes from right-wing sources. Long after the collapse of the Soviet Union they still hate and fear the very idea of a socialist society.

What can be more ludicrous than to believe that terrorists are motivated by some insane hatred of American Freedom and Democracy?

Our now Republican Senate and our now Republican House are the real voice of the common people of America? The use of torture in American military prisons speaks of a lack of faith in the stability of the American Way of Life.

Did the threat of torture by the old Catholic Inquisition finally establish the TRUTH of Aristotle's physics and the ERROR of the free thinker Galileo?

But there is PROGRESS even in the world of metaphysics. Today the Catholic Church completely accepts the findings of modern science. And just recently Pope Francis said that the Church has no problem with Charles Darwin or Stephen Hawkins, with Evolution or the Big Bang.

Some day in the near future the world of politics will have no problem with SOCIALISM and Karl Marx's CLASS STRUGGLE view of history.

(Comment on article in "The People's Daily", China , Dec.12, 2014 by Chuan Qin)