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 .
Here in Rhode Island I have never seen so many visibly distressed and disturbed young and middle aged individuals - evidently burnt out on drugs and alcohol . A dollar begged does not even get them a cup of coffee -just a cheap lottery ticket.
Beyond the narrowly focused abortion debate there is clearly no RIGHT TO LIFE in capitalist America.
Outside a Dunkin Donuts in Cranston I see regularly now a red eyed, blotchy complexion, ghastly white male seemingly in need of immediate medical attention . Seeing him again on a RIPTA bus that passes near the notorious Harrington Hall homeless shelter , I wonder if he has a contagious disease. Does anybody " official " notice ? Anybody " official " care ? Then I spot a dead rat in the street.
How can such wrecks of humanity not be thinking of suicide ?
Unless there is an EQUALITY revolution in the not too distant future humanity is in danger of dividing into separate SPECIES . To be sure , nothing DARWINIAN forbids it .
But I have also observed how a few months of compassionate care, nourishing food, clean rooms , medical attention, a recovered PURPOSE in life -call it the Mother Teresa Effect - can work wonders on these " People of the Abyss " ( a Jack London book title ) .
How could the human race have survived a million years if PURE SELFISHNESS was always just " human nature " ?
There is not a hint of " democratic socialism " in vandalizing old monuments . The South grieved for its dead sons just as mothers do in ALL civil wars.
I fail to see how the fanatics of political correctness -with no RESPECT for decency or American history ( as it was, not the mythology ) - will become the prevailing political force in the United States. They TURN OFF " Middle America " .
MICROSOFT here is involved in MACRO-LYING about any elaborate Russian sabotage operations directed at what our ruling class controlled news media calls " OUR democracy ".
Working class Americans know the truth about their own lives . They know just WHO sabotages " democracy " in America - not CAPITALIST Russia, not Vladimir Putin. In the presidential election of 2016 Hillary Clinton and the DNC won the prize for sabotaging " democracy " here.
Why- oh-why should sophisticated Russian " intelligence " prefer the right face ( Republican ) or the left face ( Democrat ) of the American plutocracy ?
Unless WE THE PEOPLE junk the U.S WAR MACHINE the faceless automatons of the shadow government will get us into one endless stupid war after another -until finally the war to end all wars - nuclear World War III .
Revive the peace movement ! Just say NO to the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism.
DON'T VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRATS ! Better stay home on election day.
"This means that, on average, a CEOs earns in a single day almost as much as the average worker makes in an entire year. "
With a little bit of imagination there are ways to update the Marxist labor theory of value - an under-used socialist " propaganda " tool.
We socialists question and challenge the moral legitimacy of so called " legitimate " wealth . What can one individual DO or THINK in the course of a working day that justifies these obscene differences in income ? To be sure , there will be no million dollar state lottery winners under democratic socialism.
Why should a football player make more than a brilliant scientist or professional scholar ? Medical science measures WORK - even brain work- in CALORIES . Why are not very rich people burning up with fever if they truly WORKED for a living like the rest of us ?
Perhaps in the enlightened socialist future a clinical thermometer will determine weekly pay checks !
