Friday, November 30, 2007

Ancient social concepts finally publicly accepted by Democratic party

Leading Democrats: “Expropriate the Expropriators”by Paul Street November 14, 2007
"Tired of defending their business-friendly and state-capitalist policy proposals against Republicans’ insistent description of them as weapons of radical Leftist “class warfare,” the leading Democratic candidates for the United States presidency have taken a surprising new turn. “Let’s Get Real."

“Listen,” Hillary Clinton told a stunned collection of reporters yesterday in Des Moines, Iowa. “If the Republicans and the right wing noise-machine are going to just constantly call us socialists, let’s show them what the word means. And let’s quit running from who we actually are. I’ve been doing it for too long. It’s time to say what we really think. No more hiding behind reformist bourgeois labels and agendas. Listen up Fox News, because you’re going to love this. We’re Marxist-Lenninists, and we always have been. Deal with it.”

“You know, it’s like my mother used to say,” Clinton added: “be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.”

Wearing a red bandana and a Che Guevera T-Shirt autographed by Hugo Chavez, Clinton introduced her “fellow-travelers on the road to American and world socialism.” Her new “comrades” and fellow Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama (sporting a new black beret and dashiki), John Edwards (wearing a vintage Soviet Red Army jacket purchased from a Russian clothier), Bill Richardson (dressed as Fidel Castro and sporting a Cuban cigar), Joe Biden, and Chris Dodd joined her on the stage of a high school auditorium to unveil a new 10-point plan “to overthrow private ownership in the means of production and distribution” and to establish “workers’ control.”

Eschewing the “limited goal” of “socialism in one country,” Obama proclaimed his determination to link the “new American revolution” with “revolutionary proletarian forces and cadres around the planet” to “overthrow the world capitalist system within the next 20 years.”
“I’m a realist,” Obama said. “Let’s get real about solving poverty, inequality, and environmental collapse and putting meaning back into democracy at home and abroad. Let’s admit a basic truth: none of these problems are going to be fixed – none of these things are going to happen under capitalism.” "

Click on the title to read the full article by Paul Street @Slept on.com

This is an amazing article, one of the best single pieces of news Ive heard recently, and I highly recommend that you read it and familiarize yourself with its content and authors FOOOR REAL!!

Although I have my reservations about ALL of these politicians, their open talk about the heart of systemic corruption, their own implicit involvement, and the possibility of CHANGE gives me more hope than anything Ive heard from these people in a very loooong time!

This is not to say that I am a big believer in communist ideologies either but I do think that as far as healthcare and some internal government functions it provides the best template for moving away from the current virulent shameful models we now have in place for not taking care of sick people and giving pharmaceutical parasites record profits.

My point is not that we need to start calling one another comrade, but that these communists ideas are over a hundred years old and its about time somebody started to further examine and implement these ideas so we can move on to ideas from say THE 21st CENTURY MAYBE.
DF


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