View on capitalism as the cause of economic down turn. Brief talk on history of communism and socialism and why it failed. Seems to support socialism
Third, it wasn’t because communist countries rejected markets that they failed. It was because they backed off of Marxist-Leninist principles, and conciliated with capitalism, that they collapsed.
Second, communism had not a moment’s rest from attempts by the capitalist countries to destroy it.
apitalism being too weak to block the rise of revolution meant that the revolution would have to take hold in a country where the working class was small and the industrial base — necessary to progress toward a communist society of plenty — was rudimentary at best
gainst the far right’s explanation that immigration is the cause of joblessness, the left could point out that insecurity is caused by the failure — indeed refusal — of capitalism to offer secure employment to all; that the solution is to transcend the capitalist system; and that where it has been transcended in the past, secure employment has been made available to all, along with guaranteed healthcare, security in old age, subsidised housing, free education, and a raft of other mass-oriented reforms
There is no freeloading in a socialist society. Work is an obligation
capitalism is the cause of your problems
Sweden, often celebrated as a social democratic paragon and held out as an attractive alternative to Marxist-Leninist-style socialism, has proved no less vulnerable to outbreaks of recession-induced xenophobia than bastions of neo-liberalism have
Attributing the demise of really-existing socialism to internal failings, and ignoring seven decades of efforts to exterminate the communist challenge — a practice of both the right and left — is a peculiar form of blindness.
Education reformers have long called for U.S. kids to log more time in the classroom so they can catch up with their peers elsewhere in the world, but resistance from leisure-loving teenagers isn't the only reason there is no mass movement to keep schoolchildren in their seats.
Such a change could cost cash-strapped state governments and local school districts billions of dollars, strip teachers of a time-honored perk of their profession, and irk officials in states that already bridle at federal intrusion into their traditional control over education.
Texas already forbids school from starting before the fourth Monday of August, a provision designed to save money on utility bills and increase business for tourist destinations and other summer attractions.
"Ultimately the states, not the federal government, should have the final word on this and other public school decisions," said Lucy Nashed, a spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry.
In Kansas, sporadic efforts by local districts to extend the school year at even a few schools have been met by parental resistance, said state education commissioner Diane DeBacker.
The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties.
They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.
They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to
shape and mould the proletarian movement.
We are for you. You should join us. We will help you become equals, but not into a better position.
1. In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different
countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of
the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.
2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of
the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always
and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on
ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or
that would-be universal reformer.
mean to abolish their symbol of status, but not divide it to the masses. Say that it is commonly held together.
Abolition of private property
We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the
right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour,
which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom,
activity and independence.
, that quantum
of the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the labourer
in bare existence as a labourer.
But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace
home education by social.
And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social
conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect,
of society, by means of schools, &c.?
Secular learning might be taught in schools, but values, beliefs, toleration are all taught in the home. The only way to have successful society without these being taught in the home is to teach them in the schools. Which they currently are not.
Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their
proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take
the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.
capitalism has begun a reduction of national barriers.
The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries
and nationality.
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another will
also be put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also
be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within
the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to
an end.
Appealing to the 3rd world countries of the globe. trying to make communism a good thing.
The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical
and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious
examination.
We don't have anything to refute these claims, so we'll say they aren't important. Further we don't believe in religion because it causes differences, we can't refute something we believe in or think should exist.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling
class.
. But the captains of industry
by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American
industrial society, have made the process so clear that
he who runs may read.
it seemed
not impossible that the outcome of free competition under
individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural
resources and processes by a limited group of men whose
vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries
that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial
life of the nation
Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
The Granger and the Populist were
prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy,
Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all
had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental
regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common
man
"the
State University and the public school system which it crowns
would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could
offer."
"general system of education ascending in
regular gradations from township schools to a State University,
wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all,"
expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of
pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian
democracy.
It is hardly too
much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled
progress in economic and social legislation and administration
lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
able to
think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice
or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
The learning of the few
is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the
expert.
That they may perform their work they must be left free, as
the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report
what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of
investigation, they seek new horizons.