With the overwhelming victory by Briton's Conservatives, and Donald
Trump looking to have his second term ticket stamped by the Corporate
Billionaires, Individual Freedom appears to now be listed as an
endangered species. Perhaps such fearful times will bring those Left
of Liberal to a place where we can talk about our similarities as well
as defining those issues we cannot compromise on. But whatever we
decide to do in order to gain control over Ruling Classes around the
globe, we must understand one absolute, which is that we cannot
compromise with the existing Ruling Class. We've been deceived too
many times into thinking we could all sit together and work out our
differences. Over and over again we seem to never learn the
impossibility of such efforts. If Progressives, Communists,
Socialists, Marxists and all other groups opposed to worshiping at the
feet of the Golden Calf, could unite on the broad platform that we all
oppose the Capitalist dominance, and refuse to compromise, we could
win true control. Then, without the constant threat of being attacked
by Greed, we could get down to the business of debating how best we
might design a broad government which would meet all people's needs.
And if we fail to take action, then we are aiding the coming of the End Times.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/13/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As you know, I listen to a lot of lefty podcasts. On many of them, I hear
socialists whose purpose for having a podcast or for being on it, is to
educate people about socialist theory, to show them how it applies to our
lives, to propagandize or organize. They never use the orthodox terms that
one would find in serious books on the subject like "class enemy" or
"ruling
class" or the terms for the classes as defined in Marxist theory. I suspect
that the reason is that the terms are offputting. The idea is to
communicate
with large masses of people. The idea is to convince people of certain
ideas
so they use the words that will be most useful to them., words that won't
turn people off. Also, I would think that if one wanted to build a mass
movement, one would want to be as inclusive as possible. You'd want as many
people as possible to feel welcome and valued. In order to do that, you
wouldn't criticize people who didn't accept every precept of your group.
You'd emphasize the beliefs that people had in common rather than
derogate
them for ideas that didn't conform to your's. So, in order to fight against
the current hyper capitalistic international power structure which is
killing our planet, you'd gather together people who were in favor of
everything from a social welfare state to those who want no state at all,
but small democratically organized economies and communities.
Miriam
