I read the recommended WSWS article on the anti war/peace demonstration. I found it to be biased emphasizing the negative and deemphasizing the positive aspects of the demonstration. I heard the speeches of Chris Hedges and Dennis Kucinich and found both to be excellent. In addition other media sources that I have used have not mentioned any of the negative elements the WSWS article discusses.
Yes, as noted before, we totally diverge on the pink-brown thing anbd going on stage with neofascists including the LaRouchse spouse who is angry at the Treaty of Versailles. LOL. There's no give on my position regarding that. Hopefully we can just agree to disagree, remembering the SNL character Stuart Smalley's line: "And that's okay."
Paul I've read you since Obama, and I wrote out a highly critical comment here. But instead I'd rather ask, are you open to learning about Bitcoin from a leftist perspective? I promise Bitcoin has no real world connection to right wing ideology any more than the internet itself does. In fact it's about the most left wing (that is pro-labor, anti-classist) technology imaginable and I can easily explain why, as well as answer any questions you surely would have about it if interested. (And yes I'm aware this sounds like a delusional Mormon knocking at your door but that dynamic is bizarrely part of the whole thing.)
Like the abortion funding movement, 3rd parties including RCP must take over small towns! The Panthers tried Oakland which proved too big, bigger than Ferndale Michigan or urban suburbs completely surrounded by Detroit. Somerville Massachusetts might also be too big, and too expensive to move in, but these Detroit Enclaves are cheap!
The war on abortion is WORLD wide and must be fought TOWN BY TOWN by every MAYOR on EARTH from JERUSALEM to DERRY to RANGOON to ANTELOPE OREGON! NONE of whom are giving free abortions the municipal funding priority it needs and deserves, exceeding local cops and schools combined.
City abortion funding saves city school tax, so much so that cities can then fund country abortions as well, all without answering to country voters.
In this way, my guess is that 10 cities can cover the USA and 25 can cover the world.
Ignore state and national borders, the fight for free abortion is all about every MAYOR on EARTH, which may well involve the World Council of Mayors unless they are too tied to NATO as the seem to be German based, though Germany does have abortion rights and funding, though I don't know how much of it is municipal.
I honestly believe that if enough if us stand up the Empire crumbles. Mad respect for Latin American revolutionaries. I’m hoping to try it or even accomplish it without violence. Yes, I apologize. I certainly have not read all of you articles, Substack had so many! lol. I’m new to Substack at the suggestion of a friend. I find the Biden left to be closet fascists who will once again give rise to the boldest of fascists.
Abortion is the carrot the Dems need to dangle before an election. To codify it would defeat the purpose. This is gridlock of Right/Left politics.
We disagree about the rally. I firmly see our government as Merchants of Death around the globe at taxpayer and America’s soul expense.
Only outrage in an “unholy alliance” (Lindsay Graham) has a shot at ending it.
Coming together as Americans. Nothing more, nothing less. Anything says their job of dividing us is complete and we are truly looking at 1984. I don’t like a lot of people, groups, org’s.....I just hate the cost of war more.
Bear in mind also I'm not relying in today's essay on anything from the Dems. What;s needed on this this very important issue (which needs to be understood in the context of the broader Republi-fascist agenda) is a Latin American-style Green wave social movement from the bottom to shut shit down.
With what people? We are completely divided. The poor white workers are Trump supporters for the most part and poor blacks are Biden supporters. The Left is finding itself post Bernie and it’s a battle of egos in many cases.
Your statement on poor white workers is just empirically false....and so is the one on poor Blacks. Lol. Come on, man! With people who care about humanity and the rights and lives of half the species! Thayt's who. And with people who have dropped the crippling pessimism and fatalism that is so prevalent among so many today. I was in really impressive actions around this issue after the Dobbs decision was leaked last May? Was it enough? No, obviously not at all.
Revolutionaries only have to win once. It's like Rosa Luxembourg is reputed t have said: you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose ...you win! And each loss should be a learning experience. Look, for the Republi-fascists, 1-6-21 is a training exercise, a learnng experience. Those assholes aren't giving up.
No need to apologize. I’m only trying to understand how you will build something like a revolution. I believe it to be factual to say it takes all kinds. In Latin America it is usually the indigenous poor and working class, along with souls like ours with more privilege. It’s my opinion that our nation has long been divided to suit corporate and elite ends. They’re succeeding and I’m not happy. That’s all. I appreciate you, you writing and many of your stances. In peace,
and no you don't as someone with the revolutionary Marxist politics like mine (my ongoing series on the Lame Left shows why I don't identitfy as left anymore) share a stage with fascists and white supremacists and far right so-called libertarians and the like. No need to at all. And you know when you lie down withfascists dogs you get fascist fleas.
The notion of having an antiwar movement with the likes of Lindsay Graham and the Right is about as absurd an idea as the mind is capable of. And many on the right who are against war with neofascist white Christian nationalist Russia are all for war with China.
I read the recommended WSWS article on the anti war/peace demonstration. I found it to be biased emphasizing the negative and deemphasizing the positive aspects of the demonstration. I heard the speeches of Chris Hedges and Dennis Kucinich and found both to be excellent. In addition other media sources that I have used have not mentioned any of the negative elements the WSWS article discusses.
Yes, as noted before, we totally diverge on the pink-brown thing anbd going on stage with neofascists including the LaRouchse spouse who is angry at the Treaty of Versailles. LOL. There's no give on my position regarding that. Hopefully we can just agree to disagree, remembering the SNL character Stuart Smalley's line: "And that's okay."
I agree to disagree and that is okay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrFO702T7Sg
Paul I've read you since Obama, and I wrote out a highly critical comment here. But instead I'd rather ask, are you open to learning about Bitcoin from a leftist perspective? I promise Bitcoin has no real world connection to right wing ideology any more than the internet itself does. In fact it's about the most left wing (that is pro-labor, anti-classist) technology imaginable and I can easily explain why, as well as answer any questions you surely would have about it if interested. (And yes I'm aware this sounds like a delusional Mormon knocking at your door but that dynamic is bizarrely part of the whole thing.)
Like the abortion funding movement, 3rd parties including RCP must take over small towns! The Panthers tried Oakland which proved too big, bigger than Ferndale Michigan or urban suburbs completely surrounded by Detroit. Somerville Massachusetts might also be too big, and too expensive to move in, but these Detroit Enclaves are cheap!
Hamtramck and Highland Park, MI. small, cheap urban suburbs.
The war on abortion is WORLD wide and must be fought TOWN BY TOWN by every MAYOR on EARTH from JERUSALEM to DERRY to RANGOON to ANTELOPE OREGON! NONE of whom are giving free abortions the municipal funding priority it needs and deserves, exceeding local cops and schools combined.
City abortion funding saves city school tax, so much so that cities can then fund country abortions as well, all without answering to country voters.
In this way, my guess is that 10 cities can cover the USA and 25 can cover the world.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4992336894196490
Ignore state and national borders, the fight for free abortion is all about every MAYOR on EARTH, which may well involve the World Council of Mayors unless they are too tied to NATO as the seem to be German based, though Germany does have abortion rights and funding, though I don't know how much of it is municipal.
Comrades, I hope. The goal is the same though the means may vary.
I honestly believe that if enough if us stand up the Empire crumbles. Mad respect for Latin American revolutionaries. I’m hoping to try it or even accomplish it without violence. Yes, I apologize. I certainly have not read all of you articles, Substack had so many! lol. I’m new to Substack at the suggestion of a friend. I find the Biden left to be closet fascists who will once again give rise to the boldest of fascists.
Abortion is the carrot the Dems need to dangle before an election. To codify it would defeat the purpose. This is gridlock of Right/Left politics.
We disagree about the rally. I firmly see our government as Merchants of Death around the globe at taxpayer and America’s soul expense.
Only outrage in an “unholy alliance” (Lindsay Graham) has a shot at ending it.
Coming together as Americans. Nothing more, nothing less. Anything says their job of dividing us is complete and we are truly looking at 1984. I don’t like a lot of people, groups, org’s.....I just hate the cost of war more.
Bear in mind also I'm not relying in today's essay on anything from the Dems. What;s needed on this this very important issue (which needs to be understood in the context of the broader Republi-fascist agenda) is a Latin American-style Green wave social movement from the bottom to shut shit down.
With what people? We are completely divided. The poor white workers are Trump supporters for the most part and poor blacks are Biden supporters. The Left is finding itself post Bernie and it’s a battle of egos in many cases.
Your statement on poor white workers is just empirically false....and so is the one on poor Blacks. Lol. Come on, man! With people who care about humanity and the rights and lives of half the species! Thayt's who. And with people who have dropped the crippling pessimism and fatalism that is so prevalent among so many today. I was in really impressive actions around this issue after the Dobbs decision was leaked last May? Was it enough? No, obviously not at all.
Revolutionaries only have to win once. It's like Rosa Luxembourg is reputed t have said: you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose ...you win! And each loss should be a learning experience. Look, for the Republi-fascists, 1-6-21 is a training exercise, a learnng experience. Those assholes aren't giving up.
And, no, you don't ally with them for God's sake --- the fascist far right. That is not a small difference on the path to the same goal. Sorry.
No need to apologize. I’m only trying to understand how you will build something like a revolution. I believe it to be factual to say it takes all kinds. In Latin America it is usually the indigenous poor and working class, along with souls like ours with more privilege. It’s my opinion that our nation has long been divided to suit corporate and elite ends. They’re succeeding and I’m not happy. That’s all. I appreciate you, you writing and many of your stances. In peace,
I can handle disagreement but your second para seems to suggest that I don't see the US Empire in much the same terms. Please review this: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/02/22/world-will-not-mourn-decline-us-hegemony
and no you don't as someone with the revolutionary Marxist politics like mine (my ongoing series on the Lame Left shows why I don't identitfy as left anymore) share a stage with fascists and white supremacists and far right so-called libertarians and the like. No need to at all. And you know when you lie down withfascists dogs you get fascist fleas.
The notion of having an antiwar movement with the likes of Lindsay Graham and the Right is about as absurd an idea as the mind is capable of. And many on the right who are against war with neofascist white Christian nationalist Russia are all for war with China.