Re: [Marxism] I am open to be proven wrong.

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bonnie Weinstein wrote:
> Dear Comrades,
> 
> The proof will be in the pudding after the primaries, when the elections get
> near. I swear I will hold off judgment until I see her program and see what
> she does. Does anyone know what the program is?

Program? You mean ideas? Like those found in "America's Road to 
Socialism"? I don't expect something like that, but that's okay. Just to 
see someone running on Green Party type program against two disgusting 
imperialist politicians would inspire most normal people.

> I hope someone comes along who has the power to organize people into real
> independent political action in solidarity with one another. In that light,
> that should be their campaign--to organize people into independent political
> action in the streets for what they want--to stop the war now; to bring the
> troops home now; to provide humanitarian needs to all now instead of
> bringing death and destruction to the whole planet for private profit and
> greed. 

But if you don't specifically call for socialism, you are a Menshevik 
traitor--no? Maybe we should raise the bar and demand an answer to the 
transformation problem.

> And that doesn't mean defending homeland security, or our borders or the
> right of the U.S. to have the most weapons of mass destruction and the most
> powerful military force in the world to carry out their domination and
> rule--it does not mean that--that is what we human beings have to disarm--to
> wrest from them--to take all this out of their hands--to finally free the
> Earth of them and their despotic terror once and for all.

Right. That's what people think of when they hear the name Cynthia 
McKinney--homeland security. She is to these draconian laws as Senator 
Henry Jackson was to Boeing, or Joe McCarthy was to hunting down reds. 
At least in the mind of some...




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