Part One: USA Communist Party Loves Obama!
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Not quite, but one view of it.
Sam Webb is the National Chair of the USA Community Party and he loves Obama. Is this reason enough to dislike the president?
The new conditions of struggle are possible only – and I want to emphasize only – because we elected President Obama and a Congress with pronounced progressive and center currents.
Yes, socialism is our objective and, according to recent public opinion polls, it is increasingly attractive to the American people.
That socialism isn’t on the people’s action agenda, however, doesn’t mean that we should zip our lips. Quite the contrary! We should talk it up and bring our modern, deeply democratic Twenty-First-Century vision of U.S. socialism into coalitions and mass movements. And with the use of the Internet we can reach an exponentially bigger audience than we could in the past.
Propaganda and agitation by themselves won’t bring people to the threshold of socialism. They need their own experience in struggle for their essential (what is essential is variable and expands over time) needs.
The Communist Party has never succeeded anywhere it has tried unless it is accompanied by an army, plenty of guns, and many executioners. This guy is a complete rube if he thinks his organization will have any success in America. Just as the Left accused G.W. Bush of using fear to ram though things like the Patriot Act (which has kept America safe and democratically passed from bill into law) so many of those same people are trading on the fear of capitalism to pass their agenda.
Do two wrongs make a right in their mind?
One thing that is most disturbing is this statement:
And reality strongly suggests that our main task is to bring the weight of the working class and other democratic forces to bear on the reform process with the aim of deepening its anti-corporate content and direction.
Comrade, do you have your waiting-in-line shoes yet?
Yes, it is those evil corporations that have allowed Americans mobility, access to wealth, a high standard of living that most people in the world can only dream of, and other terrible things like grocery stores filled with food and drugs stores filled with medicine.
Mr. Webb seems to address this concern when he says:
Another observation that I want to make is that because of McCarthyism, the Cold War, and the long economic expansion following WW II, the Left has been on the edges of politics for more than a half century. During this time, our ability to impact on broader political processes in the country has been narrowly circumscribed – nothing like the 1930s, nothing like the Left in many other countries.
And why would that be, exactly? Is it because capitalism, hard work, and sound leadership exposed their ideology as nothing more than an irregularity and because the “advanced” Europeans used government spending to mend their peoples after WWII and never quite retreated from this approach because the United States kept them safe from the Soviet Union allowing them to spend on social programs, not on defense.
Perhaps the name “USA Communist Party” carries more weight in people’s minds than it actually does in reality, but I thought this topic sheds light on how the Left is trying to use the recession as their perfect storm to ram through all sorts of strange laws and taxes. They have a very small window in which to operate, as I believe Mr. Webb has acknowledged, and they seem to see Barack Obama as their meal ticket:
Unless the Left – and I include communists – sheds this mentality, it will miss a unique opportunity to grow and leave a distinct imprint on our country’s direction.
Stephen Gordon writes a little more on this subject in his column on the Examiner.com adding:
Generally, the Communist Party spends a lot of time criticizing Democrats running for and holding public office for not being socialistic enough. This appears to have changed since President Obama was elected.
This story is Part One of a series – Control the Process, Control the Results – Read Part Two on Wednesday
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6:49 AM
sorry H. This is cheap school propaganda, scare mongering info. Perfectly manipulated as well; ‘The Europeans are allowed’ to have their social policies under the umbrella of the mighty USA protection…..are you kidding me?
Europeans simple don’t fall into the pitfall of these platitudes of the so called ‘real leadership, real government, real warfare’ bully talk. Even my nephew know that the American dream is a dream and he is a well know model (Joeri de Wit), while so many people are not educated, not insured, sick and not treated, uninformed, can barely speak their own language (sorry for all my English grammar fauls, I’m Dutch and my second language is Latin.), and lack of social responsibility. He, we don’t live in the McCartey time anymore and the Patrit act is as shamefull as the invasion of Iraq!
You really lack any understanding of how Europeans politics (so divided as there are more than 50 official European languages)and economics works.
Let me give you one example: Sweden went into recession in the early nineties. The government did a bailout and bought all the Swedish banks, made them healthy again and sold them on the private market…
Swedish are among the healthies people on earth, most happy, most free, and GPD one of the highest in the world. So for the Netherlands. So for Denmark, France etc.
Or do you mean with ‘Europe’ is the UK?
I expected more from you H.!
Kindest
hans
.-= Hans´s last blog ..Human rights in Turkey, Uyghur and more =-.
9:13 AM
Sorry Hans, Europe is a paper tiger and spent/spends little on defense because the US protects them (hint: they spend it on social programs).
http://harrisonprice.com/2009/02/21/axis-of-our-allies/
And for being so “happy” they sure have high suicide rates:
http://fathersforlife.org/images/who_suicide_rates.gif
A Finlander is about 50% more likely to kill themselves than an American for example, and France, Sweden, Germany and Denmark have higher suicide rates than the US does.
No rambling responses please.
7:38 PM
Yes Harrison, Europeans wants to spend less on defense since it makes no sense to have 100.000 nukes if 100 are enough to destroy the planet. The US defense industry loves to spend your tax money, not ours!
Happines: there are many researchs done: this one will do well
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5224306.stm
this one is accurate:
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/explore/global/
and with this one all is covered:
http://www.denmark.dk/en/servicemenu/News/FocusDenmark-Magazine/The-Happiest-People-In-The-World.htm
kindest
hans
.-= Hans´s last blog ..The Amsterdam Taliban =-.
7:42 PM
Hans Europeans don’t have to spend as much on defense because the U.S. keeps you safe (and has since the end of WW2).
11:55 AM
I think that the USA needs to stop protecting Europe as well. I think they have the resources to protect themselves. I don’t know if the USA is scared to let Europe advance its own military since if they were allowed to go all out I do believe it could match the power of the USA.. and we all saw what happens when Germany is allowed to keep a strong military so I’m torn on this one.
.-= Alexander Davis´s last blog ..No Bush was the ATM In Chief!! =-.
12:32 PM
They have had the resources for decades but instead they plow it into social spending which has made many of their economies inefficient. And after WWI Germany was forbidden from having virtually any military. It was the cowardly actions of the Europeans (French come to mind) that allowed Hitler to openly re-arm.
2:09 PM
I know, But ya know those events had to open at one point in time SO that the world could learn… I mean imagine now what would happen with all the technology in military and such how bad the same scenario would’ve turned out.
.-= Alexander Davis´s last blog ..No Bush was the ATM In Chief!! =-.
5:52 PM
Socialism is not the same thing as communism. There is nothing wrong with wanting health care for the poor and greedy corporations to be responsible. That is not communism, it’s a reasonable goal.
6:22 PM
Funny how all the Socialist countries are trying to abandon their “noble” goals. Maybe because it doesn’t work.
And let’s not forget that “greedy” corporations allow us to have plenty of food, housing, high standards of living, and access to every type of consumer product or service known to man.