[Marxism] Re: Pearl Harbor, etc

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are conspiracies within the ruling class, but there main
conspiracies are against the working class.

When the U.S. Constitution was written, the North conspired with the
South to fold in its slave population (not citizens at the time) with
the overall population by allowing a slave to count as 3/5 of a person.
This meant that the South got to use its non-citizen slave population
for purpose of both Congressional Representation and for voting for the
President.

This is well-known notorious information, right? But it got worse under
the fascist system referred to as Jim Crow.

For under that system, former slaves and their descendants were almost
completely disenfranchised. No longer 3/5; for population purpose, they
were now treated as a whole person, but not allowed to vote. So they
went from 3/5 to 5/5, but still without legal political power.

The North had the power to regulate federal elections, but refused to
under both Democrat and Republican governments, including Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, who is treated as a virtual saint by most liberals
and the present Democratic Party.

The second conspiracy was to create an undemocratic upper chamber of
Congress.

For example, California, with 35, 500,000 citizens has 2 senators.
Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arkansas, Kansas,
Mississippi, Iowa, and Connecticut have 35,900,000 citizens and 44
senators. Yes, 2 versus 44. Now there's a true conspiracy.

A third conspiracy is the winner take all or "first across the line"
election result. If there were proportional representation, even small
parties would have some voice in political life. Properly used, they
could use that representation to leverage even more votes.

If we got rid of the Electoral College, that would open up political
life in the cities during presidential campaigns. Both major parties
would have to campaign for millions of votes. Smaller parties are also
in a better position to get their word out, through newspapers,
leaflets, radio time, meetings, etc., in cities than they are in, let
us say, Montana. Sooner, rather than later, the discussion would take a
more acute form, posing issues of class, racial and other minority
inequality and civic freedom.

A campaign for ending the Electoral College, proportional
representation, and abolishing the Senate would constitute a critique
of the past repression and of the present fraud that we have a civil
democracy in the United States. At the very least, it would lay the
groundwork for challenging the legitimacy of so-called democratic
institutions that determine our lives.


from Brian Shannon

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Article 1, Section 2
"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the
several States which may be included within this Union, according to
their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the
whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a
Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all
other Persons."
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