What you say Paul is so true. We can all wish your descriptions of things as too dark. But if your fully conscious, it's not. Our choice must be a socialist revolution. I live in LONDON ONTARIO CANADA. Our most "socialistic" party in Ontario the NDP is hardly socialistic. A member of parliament was just booted out of the NDP for texting that the bombing of Gaza must stop there must be a ceasefire. For just texting that she was censored by all of parliament. Trudeau our "Liberal" P.M. did not support the recent UN vote for a truce.
Canadians love to pretend that we are less complicit and more innocent than impearlistic America but we are not. We are but a subsidiary of American Multinationals. An American corporation manufactures military equipment right here in London Ontario. Sad but true.
A beautiful, sensible essay, Paul, an eloquent stab at pointing mankind in the right direction. As the Zen master might say, transcend dualism by embracing all the contradictions in life as part of the mysterious mind of the universe, thus recognizing that here is no duality, only oneness. Let go of the false choices presented in the dualistic world of capitalist exploitation in the quest for power and profit and instead establish what's necessary for the benefit of all beings. In other words, the banner for the coming revolution must be the ecological view and the challenge is to adjust our mechanisms of perception so they reflect a larger purpose for humans living in harmony with the vast diversity of the phenomenal world, a new reality "requiring a human personality capable of primacy over its biological needs and technological pressures, and able to draw freely on the compost from many cultures," as Mumford stated the case. Continuing to mindlessly tread the destructive path as defined by imperialist bourgeois capitalism will only lead to a very unhappy destiny. Viva La Revolution!
I think I can share some concepts that may better clarify the relationship between minorities and social class. 1st. Minorities are groups who possess less wealth and power the the majority. That is caused because their range of opportunities is narrower than that of the majority; furthermore, that range is at the lower end of the wage range. 2nd. Minorities can be categorized as physically, culturally, behaviorally and/or economically defined as such by the majority. 3rd. Minority-based politics is status-based politics. In other words, politically active members of a minority group want a better deal. They want the same opportunities to enter the lucrative professions and they also want equal status recognition when they do. 4th. It is this status competition in which most of the world’s politics is stuck (National status competition is included.) 5th. Social class struggle is intertwined with minority status competition, but it is more fundamental. Why? Because the struggle over who owns the means of production and distribution is not a struggle to improve the status of a minority group within the confines of imperialist-capitalism; instead, it’s a struggle to free ourselves from those confines by obliterating the system, itself.
Yes, the pretenders are the worst of enemies. I always said that Trump was more honest than Obama.
Trump made it clear he did not give a shit about anyone but himself. Obama spoke of hope and change and further engrained the policies of Bush. Paul's Emperor's New Clothes could not have been a better title for his book on Obama. Obama was the antithesis of Martin Luther King and Bernie Sanders. In the book I am writing I say that Bernie was carrying on in the way of Martin. Martin would never have said Black lives matter-singularly-but ALL Lives Matter-Martin went out of his way to say that all of his policies were equally good for blacks, whites, indigenous. Identity politics was beneath him-inclusivity was his thrust. Bernie, I argue was the closest we have come to a leader like King-in North America since King. The DNC killed a campaign that would have made a difference. Let's hope the movement of Bernie-AOC and alike has grown since 2020. Demographics favor that. Let's hope Cornel West is making gains...that those protesting the Israeli-Biden genocide will actually vote for West.
Still trying to finish David Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass. Am on page 750 someting. Also for laughs reading Cassidy Hutchinson, Enough, the basic gist of which is "cut it out with all that fascism you bad boys! Don;t make Cassidy come up here again!"
What you say Paul is so true. We can all wish your descriptions of things as too dark. But if your fully conscious, it's not. Our choice must be a socialist revolution. I live in LONDON ONTARIO CANADA. Our most "socialistic" party in Ontario the NDP is hardly socialistic. A member of parliament was just booted out of the NDP for texting that the bombing of Gaza must stop there must be a ceasefire. For just texting that she was censored by all of parliament. Trudeau our "Liberal" P.M. did not support the recent UN vote for a truce.
Canadians love to pretend that we are less complicit and more innocent than impearlistic America but we are not. We are but a subsidiary of American Multinationals. An American corporation manufactures military equipment right here in London Ontario. Sad but true.
Here's a title for a book someone ought to write: The L:eft Against Revolution.
A beautiful, sensible essay, Paul, an eloquent stab at pointing mankind in the right direction. As the Zen master might say, transcend dualism by embracing all the contradictions in life as part of the mysterious mind of the universe, thus recognizing that here is no duality, only oneness. Let go of the false choices presented in the dualistic world of capitalist exploitation in the quest for power and profit and instead establish what's necessary for the benefit of all beings. In other words, the banner for the coming revolution must be the ecological view and the challenge is to adjust our mechanisms of perception so they reflect a larger purpose for humans living in harmony with the vast diversity of the phenomenal world, a new reality "requiring a human personality capable of primacy over its biological needs and technological pressures, and able to draw freely on the compost from many cultures," as Mumford stated the case. Continuing to mindlessly tread the destructive path as defined by imperialist bourgeois capitalism will only lead to a very unhappy destiny. Viva La Revolution!
I think I can share some concepts that may better clarify the relationship between minorities and social class. 1st. Minorities are groups who possess less wealth and power the the majority. That is caused because their range of opportunities is narrower than that of the majority; furthermore, that range is at the lower end of the wage range. 2nd. Minorities can be categorized as physically, culturally, behaviorally and/or economically defined as such by the majority. 3rd. Minority-based politics is status-based politics. In other words, politically active members of a minority group want a better deal. They want the same opportunities to enter the lucrative professions and they also want equal status recognition when they do. 4th. It is this status competition in which most of the world’s politics is stuck (National status competition is included.) 5th. Social class struggle is intertwined with minority status competition, but it is more fundamental. Why? Because the struggle over who owns the means of production and distribution is not a struggle to improve the status of a minority group within the confines of imperialist-capitalism; instead, it’s a struggle to free ourselves from those confines by obliterating the system, itself.
Yes, the pretenders are the worst of enemies. I always said that Trump was more honest than Obama.
Trump made it clear he did not give a shit about anyone but himself. Obama spoke of hope and change and further engrained the policies of Bush. Paul's Emperor's New Clothes could not have been a better title for his book on Obama. Obama was the antithesis of Martin Luther King and Bernie Sanders. In the book I am writing I say that Bernie was carrying on in the way of Martin. Martin would never have said Black lives matter-singularly-but ALL Lives Matter-Martin went out of his way to say that all of his policies were equally good for blacks, whites, indigenous. Identity politics was beneath him-inclusivity was his thrust. Bernie, I argue was the closest we have come to a leader like King-in North America since King. The DNC killed a campaign that would have made a difference. Let's hope the movement of Bernie-AOC and alike has grown since 2020. Demographics favor that. Let's hope Cornel West is making gains...that those protesting the Israeli-Biden genocide will actually vote for West.
After I listen to the earlier post, this is my reading for the evening. How about you?
Still trying to finish David Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass. Am on page 750 someting. Also for laughs reading Cassidy Hutchinson, Enough, the basic gist of which is "cut it out with all that fascism you bad boys! Don;t make Cassidy come up here again!"