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Dave Buccola on Feb 13, 2011, 3:30 pm When one is attempting to explain our very anti-democratic electoral college to someone from outside the US, there is usually a strong desire to explain it away, to claim it is a safeguard on Democracy. We are told it is to protect minorities. As DJ said in an earlier comment thread: “The very premise of [...] Tags: democracy, electoral college, property rights, voting | Category: recession, Socialism | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Bob Morris on Feb 2, 2011, 5:30 am Harry’s Place lampoons the bizarre tendency of current day revolutionary socialist groups to use their party newspaper as a primary means of organizing. A standard method for recruitment, one that has remained unchanged since prior to the Russian Revolution in 1917, is that of publishing a newspaper and selling it. The acceptance for the need [...] Category: Socialism | Comments are closed Dave Buccola on Jan 23, 2011, 2:45 pm It’s a bit ironic that the purveyor of “Freedom and Democracy” around the world incarcerates more people per capita than any nation on the planet. The staggering growth of the prison industrial complex over the past thirty years is mind boggling, and yet there is still no serious movement challenging this draconian method of [...] Tags: jails, New York City, prison, prison industrial complex | Category: recession, Socialism | Comments are closed Dave Buccola on Jan 17, 2011, 12:08 pm The folks at Brecht Forum are paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a special screening of two classic documentaries: At the River I stand and The Negro Protests. If you want to remember Dr. King for the revolutionary he was click here for more details. It’s a crime for people to [...] Bob Morris on Jan 4, 2011, 5:30 am Harry’s Place riffs on Bob From Brockley’s list of influential left ideas, focusing on the five bad ideas. I found these two points to be of particular interest. The belief that one’s enemy’s enemy is one’s friend A senior member of PSL once told me in apparent complete seriousness that Mugabe of Zimbabwe should be [...] Ross Levin on Oct 28, 2010, 5:30 am Every so often, you’ll read a book or an opinion piece or something else that is revelatory. It changes your outlook on some aspect of the world. Today, I read such a piece, concerning the erosion of liberal power in this country over the past 30 years and its effect. If you’re reading this, [...] Bob Morris on Oct 14, 2010, 11:16 am (My latest from CAIVN, reprinted in its entirety) Some third parties prefer to work outside the electoral system, focusing on organizing, direct action, and working towards fundamental changes in society. They would perhaps agree with Emma Goldman’s famous / notorious statement, “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” This can include organizations focused [...] Bob Morris on Sep 16, 2010, 3:10 pm Marc Cooper You can perfume this anyway you like but what we are seeing is a second-drawer emulation of the Chinese model: the formal introduction of an expanded capitalist market(and all the class differences that come with it) unaccompanied by any democratization of the political system. In other words, the worst of both [...] Dave Buccola on Sep 14, 2010, 9:56 am Michael Gerson of the Washington Post attempts to rewrite history: Since the days of Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, radicals have talked of the “propaganda of the deed” — the use of dramatic, usually violent, acts to inspire the masses and topple the existing order. The method — targeting symbolic landmarks to create powerful images — [...] Bob Morris on Sep 13, 2010, 3:52 pm “We have to end forever the notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working,” Raul Castro said. One-fifth of the work force will lose their state jobs and attempt to work in the private sector. The economic dislocations will be huge and severe. The socialist left has [...] |  Get Polizeros by emailIndependent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues CategoriesArchives | ||||
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