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Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

greg wood — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:29:23 -0000

Anthony..
The CPUSA is an organization of commited working people who are actively attempting to advocate for socialism within the boundaries of REALITY. The basic framework of a socialist system already exists in this great country, If you are in a car wreck, the ambulance takes you to a hospital and you are treated, If you become disabled, you will eventually recieve SSI and Medicare. It is organizations such as the cpusa that attempt to ensure that the dispensation of these programs is considered a RIGHT of citizens, and not as an intolerable imposition on the 50% of the federal budget co-opted by the Pentagon. As to it not being "revolutionary" enough, tell that to the late Gus Hall who did almost a decade in Leavenworth for opposing something as blatantly unconstitutional as the Smith Act (which was it not overturned would have been used to imprison yourself) Talk of revolution does socialism no good. It is childish and non-productive. What we need is not berets and posters of Che, but an organized effort to correct rudeness and dismissiveness against persons who by virtue of misfortune find themselves in the unenviable position of needing to apply for social benefits in most of the country. It can be a frustrating demeaning and unproductive process much of the time. Socialism can be discribed as simply as using a portion of the enormous wealth of our nation, to aid citizens who are in need. The Republican types who will eventually pocket the vast majority of this "bailout" money, on top of what they stole and scammed over the last eight years while federal law enforcement and regulators were firmly directed to "look the other way", have with great expertise convinced the vast majority of people that to starve quietly is somehow noble, and to give them the majority of the wealth of the nation, divine. It took as vast a collapse as what is occuring to wake up some of to the dispossessed to the fact that it was THEM who were being scammed while being distracted by the waving flags. While every fat cat CEO of every mismanaged industry that refused to admit errors in Judgement as glaring as storage lots full of huge SUV's while there is a yearlong wait for a "SmartCar", refuse aid to forclosed homeowners with charges of "Socialism". It was H.L. Mencken who said "The American public know what it wants; and it deserves to get it , good and hard!' It is organizations like the CPUSA that seek to soften that blow by warning the working public about what is and has been done to them. There really IS nothing more that can be done

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Anthony — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:07:59 -0000

Kostas,

The situation here in America is very good. All that we need is an effective organization of the working class and, when the time is right, a vanguard to lead the way to authentic change (revolution.)

Unfortunately, organizations such as the CPUSA are more focused on playing within the Bourgeoisie game and election process than establishing an effective organization paving the way for Socialism. It is a shame that such a historical organization has given way under the Capitalist pressure and has become yet another cog in the wheel of the system.

How is the Communist Party in your country? Have they caved, or are they still authentically Communist?

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

kostas bazakas — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:13:12 -0000

Ok anthony i agree objectonal conditions are good but what about the revolutionar subject (working class)? Is situation in USA good enough? Is there a strong movement there. (Sorry for my english i am a member of the communist part from Greece)

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Besoshvili — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:35:29 -0000

It's rather unfortunate that Barack Obama is getting portrayed as some sort of radical who is going to usher in a new era of change. Even if he wanted, the political infrastructure of the United States is inherently conservative that anything he wanted to do outside the status quo would have no chance of making it through either the Legislature or Supreme Court.

Let's be honest with ourselves. Barack Obama will make some slight changes, most of which will only reflect the reality of current political developments domestically and abroad. In the end, he's still an agent of global capitalism.

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

el cundero padre de obama — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:29:49 -0000

as far as i know obama had not visited the soldiers in Irak if he did was for 3 seconds.
when he went to germany he did not even visit the wounded soldiers because the media was not going to be at the hospital.
tell me does he knows the national anthem of usa?, because he is known not to respect it.
now i see that you changed your names to progresists, like castro, chavez, russia , nicaragua, progresion to poverty, slavery and destruction
oh you talk about MCcain doing personal attacks, what about obama offending an old ill lady NANCY REAGAN WIDOW OF ONE OF THE GREATEST PRESIDENTS OF USA, when he claimed that she used to speak to dead people, he does not even know history, HILLARY Clinton was the one speaking to deceased presidents wives while in the white house
Apresident of this nation that does not know how many states USA has, he claims visited 57, he missed geography classes for sure.
YOU TALK ABOUT RACISM UP TO NOW OBAMA IS BETRAYING HIS OWN, NOR HE HELPED HIS ILLEGAL ALIEN AUNT IN BOSTON, NOR HE HELPS HIS BROTHER IN MISSERY IN KENYA.
BY THE WAY WHY HIS COUSIN TO WHOM HE HELPED A LOT DURING KENYAS RIOTS ,NAMED HIS SON FIDEL CASTRO ODINGA.
YOU mention the oppresin of USA against Mexicans, what about what they do against cubans escaping tyrant Castro when they send them back to be killed or thrown in Castro's jails to be tortured.
Why you do not ask about all the political prissoners that Castro has, like DR Elias Bisset physician in prisson for asking for the respect of human rights,pacifically is that what you communists go for, why are you so afraid of people that ask for human rights., i wonder.

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

MARCUS WENT THROUGH COMMUNISM — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:19:12 -0000

WENT THROUGH COMMUNISM, WAS FORCED BY A BIG COMMUNIST BLACK GUY AT THE FIELDS BEEN 12 YEARS OLD TO PICK UP TRASH FOR 12 HOURS FOR FREE, I WAS THREATENED THAT IF NOT DONE COULD NOT STUDY, ALSO WAS SEPARATED FROM MY FAMILY BY THE CUBAN GOVERMENT AND NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE CUBA WHEN 17 YEARS OLD BECAUSE THE COMMUNIST GOV DID NOT WANTED.,,,,,,, COMMUNISTS SOCIETIES OWN EVERY BODY AND EVERYTHING IN EXISTANCE, THE ONLY RICH PEOPLE IN THEIR SOCIETIES ARE THE TYRANTS IN POWER, LIKE CASTRO (ASSASIN # 1), CHAVEZ,PUTTIN, AND POSSIBLY OBAMA, THEY START BY CONTROLING THE MEDIA, TV, RELIGION, FOOD, CLOTHING ,ACTIVITIES, SPORTS, AND THE WHOLE LIFE OF THE CITIZENS, THEY RIDICULIZE, INTIMIDATE,DISSAPEAR OR KILL ANY ONE THAT DOES NOT FOLLOW THEM, BUT THE WORSE IS THAT THEY DESTROY THE WHOLE SOCIETY, PRINCIPLES, BELIEVES, DIVIDE THE FAMILIES BRAINWASHING CHILDREN AND ANY ONE AROUND,NEVER FORGET WHEN WE AS CATHOLICS WERE RIDICULIZED IN SCHOOLS BY THEIR RABILYSICKDOGS, AND HOW MANY TIMES WE WERE TOLD THAT OUR FAMILIES DID NOT EXIST IF THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IN ASSASIN CASTRO, NEITHER I FORGET HOW ASSASIN 3 CHE GUEVARA BEEN AN ARGENTINIAN KILLED THOUSANDS OF CUBANS WITHOUT GIVING THEM A DAY IN COURT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES, SAYING SAVE MONEY WE WILL INVESTIGATE LATER AFTER DEATH, THANK GOD CASTRO SENT CHE GUEVARA TO HIS DEATH AND ABANDONED HIM IN BOLIVIA, SAME WHEN CASTRO KILLED CAMILO CIENFUEGOS, BUT WORSE WHEN THEY KILLED SO MANY CUBANS TRYING TO LEAVE CUBA,INCLUDING THE LAST 22 CHILDREN KILLED ON THE CUBAN TUG BOAT TRYING TO ESCAPE CUBA, OR THE 3 BLACK YOUNG GUYS FIRESQUADED BY CASTRO FOR TRYING TO ALSO ESCAPE CUBA AND NO DAY IN COURT FOR THEIR DEFENSE.
AND GUYS THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT FOR USA, YOU MR TARNER WITH A JEWISH LOOKING NAME, YOU BETTER EXPERIENCE COMMUNISM IN YOUR FLESH AND TAKE YOUR FAMILY WITH YOU TO ENJOY, BEFORE TRYING TO PUT THIS COUNTRY THROUGH THAT MISSERY ,OBSERVE WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO USSR, RUMANIA, HUNGARY, YUGOESLAVIA, CHEKOESLOVAKIA, CUBA, VENEZUELA, CUBA AND ALL COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, AND BESIDES YOU WILL NOT HAVE ANY ONE TO BLAME FOR YOUR INCOMPETENCES.

KIDS IN UNIVERSITIES READING THESE NOTES DO NOT BELIEVE COMMUNISTS THEY LIE TO YOU, PROMISE PARADISE THEN THEY KILL YOU TO SEND YOU TO HELL, BELIEVE ME I SAW THIS MOVIE BEFORE.

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

BILL THE ANTICOMMUNIST — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:13:09 -0000

CLASSICAL OF ALL OF YOU,WHEN I SEE YOUR RIDICULOUS SPEACHES, I LOOK AT MY 11 YEARS OLD SON AND I SAY TO MYSELF NEVER HE WILL GO THROUGH COMMUNISM, I EXPENDED MY FIRST 27 YEARS OF MY LIFE IN COMMUNIST CUBA, I SAW MANY OF MY KIDS FRIENDS FROM SCHOOL GOING TO PRISSON, BEEN FORCED TO GO TO MILITARY SERVICES, MANY DIED IN AFRICA FIGHTING AGAINST WHO KNOWS WHOM, HUNGRINESS IN A COUNTRY THAT WAS A PARADISE, ALL OUR FAMILY GOT SEPARATED, COMMUNISM CONFISCATED FROM US EVERY THING THAT MY FAMILY OBTAINED WORKING VERY HARD, I REMEMBER BEEN STOPPED BY LOS MILICIANOS "MILITIA" TO CONFISCATE FROM ME AND MY FRIENDS FROM SECONDARY SCHOOLS OUR RADIOS IF WE HAD BEATLES ,ROLLING STONES TAPES AND NOW CASTRO HONORS JOHN LENNON, I CAN NOT FORGET MY FRIENDS 13=15 YEARS OLD THAT DIED TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM CUBA, AND THEIR BOATS BEEN BOMBARDED WITH SAND BAGS SO WHEN FOUND THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE, OR WHEN BEEN 11 YEARS OLD TAKEN TO THE FIELDS AT SANDINO,PINAR DEL RIO, BEEM BITTEN BY THOSANDS OF MOSQUITOES AND MY FAMILY PROHIBITED TO VISIT TILL THE WEEK ENDS,AND HAVING TO DRINK MILK WITH TAD POLES BECAUSE THE WATER TO PREPARE THE MILK WAS TAKEN FROM A RESERVOIR OF WATER, AND THEY TOOK US SO FAR FROM THE FAMILIES SO THEY COULD NOT VISIT,OR ALL THE INTIMIDATION DONE ALL THE TIME AGAINST US ,AS THAT IF WE DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE FIELDS THEY WILL SEND US TO THE MILITARY SERVICES, ICAN GO ON AND ON FOR EVER I HAD SWORN NEVER AGAIN BUT MORE AND VERY RADICALLY IMPORTANT MY KIDS WILL NEVER GO THROUGH THIS TORTURES, IT IS FUNNY HOW ALL OF YOU LITERARY COMMUNISTS DEFEND SOMETHING THAT HAD SEEN IN REALITY WHAT IT IS, AND HOW YOU HAVE DESTROY ALL THE PLACES THAT YOU TOUCH, YOU ARE SATANIC, LEARN THE VERSES OF SATANISM OF K. MARX THAT HAD DISSAPEAR FROM THE LITERATURE, SEE ALINSKYS RULES FOR RADICALS BOOK DEDICATED TO LUCIFER, I PROMISE AGAIN IN FRONT OF GOD NOR ME NOR MY KIDS WILL EVER ENDURE COMMUNISM AGAIN AND FOR SURE NOT ONE OF YOU AROUND US. I HOPE YOUR GOD FALL INTO YOURSELFE AND ALL YOUR FAMILIES FOREVER , YOUR GOD IS SATANIC LUCIFER

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Rock — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:05:19 -0000

HOORAH and i've spent the last 6 or 7 years making sure we fight there instead of here. I'm broke (poor maybe) but that's the US. i don't hate the guy in a brand new BMW.....maybe wish i would have gone to school.....but somehow he earned it [and I protected it]. BTW "America" is three continents, not a country.

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Rock — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:56:40 -0000

Are you a fucking idiot??

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

John Temple — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:43:43 -0000

Do the majority of American communist party members live in communes? Just curious. If not, why not????? IT IS A FREE COUNTRY!!!! Also, just a question for all of your members to ponder (not to be answered). When dreaming of the "workers paradise to come", do you see yourself as a "happy carpenter working away" or do you picture yourself as a member of a planning committee? ( . . . pisses you off that I know the answer to that one doesn't it) I am willing to bet that only about .01 % of your members grew up on a farm.

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Radical Right — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:40:19 -0000

Bravo the Communist Chicago Machine that is hell bent on getting democrats elected through un-Godly tactics. Obama's selection of Rahm Isreal Emanuel as the White House Chief of Staff has proven his intentions to further destroy this country. Rahm is short for Rahamim, he was named after a Lehi paramilitary group combatant who was killed in a conflict. He is a first generation Jew from a family who fled from Isreal. His real name is Rhamim Isreal Auerbach. His dad changed their last name to his brother's first name after his brother Emanuel Auerbach was killed in a skirmish with the Arabs. Read about Rahm Emanuel in wikipedia. The Arab nations and the Palenstine are vehemently "pissed" over this selection. Only 62 million out of 300 milliion in this country wanted Obama as president and they don't care about, but to have a Jew from a Jewish militant family in the second most powerful position in the Executive Office of the White House..... America beware. Hope you don't expect us RED Blooded, God Loving, God Fearing American's to come to the aid. I look forward to the future as I watch Russia send a missile to Baltic Islands, take their countries back, continue to fly into our air space in Alaska. Oh, did I mention that the Mexican army is also crossing our borders on a regular basis. Oh well, why not add the Arab nations to our"fan club." Signed, the Radical Right!

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Ale Hannah — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:41:48 -0000

I am so excited that we will have a President who cares that we will all be equal. No rich or poor...we will all be the same! Wow!

How can I get a hold of Oprah and/or Buffet so they can spread their wealth to us poor people out here?

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Colin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:26:01 -0000

WOW.... I stumbled across this site. The reason that the government should stay out of MYwallet is that it is MINE; and I have certain inalienable rights including: life, liberty and the pursuit of hapiness. The inequality that money brings is brought upon yourselves. If you don't want to make it you don't get the things that it brings. I have pulled myself up by my own boot straps to ACCOMPOLISH something. Those who can't are transparently whining about their own shortcomings. Other than that , great site....

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Dina — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:07:52 -0000

If communism is so wonderful, then the world's communist nations would be the ones where people are the happiest and have the opportunity to achieve their dreams through hard work. Interestingly, it is the world's free-market countries where people even at the bottom live a better quality life than people living in communist countries. Why do you think we have such a big illegal immigration problem here in the U.S. ? It is because people want what our free-market economy (such that it is, even with liberal meddling) has to offer - a better opportunity for a better life. Where are the long lines and waiting lists to get into communist countries?

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Hussein — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:30:46 -0000

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Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Anthony — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:17:50 -0000

Humans aren't "designed," but conditioned to their environment and social conditions. This environment and social system is prone to change, and those who can't accept change or think that this capitalist system we find ourselves in is eternal and ever perpetuating are the ones who are "looking through rose colored glasses." A few hundred years ago, you would have been giving the same lecture regarding the status of feudalism and how capitalism would never work.

The issue of selfishness or egoism as you've postulated doesn't quite hold: no one has ever said that society will leap from capitalist, self-centered exploitation to a Communist utopia. As I have mentioned several times previously and as you've failed to comprehend (wilful ignorance), an intermediate Socialist phase is required to eliminate the factor of scarcity within society. No longer would industry produce for the purpose of private profit, but rather to meet the needs of society, and industry and the economic heights being held in common by the people, any "profit" that will accrue will be distributed among the workers and into society at large via social programs. Marx postulated that this Socialist phase will take hold in a highly industrialized nation with a strong history of capitalism, making the United States a perfect candidate for social change.

You may not agree with it, and you may not like it, but it is only a matter of time before Socialism takes hold here in the United States. The mechanism for its arrival is being built even as we speak, and it will eventually be the cure to the disease that the Bourgeoisie has become.

But I don't expect you to understand this; the best argument you can make is to call other people names, which only shows the limited nature of your comprehension.

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

True American — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:49:13 -0000

you are one fucked up individual looking at the world through rose colored glasses!! Will you ever admit it.... human beings are designed to take care of themselves first, them others later. That's why Communism will NEVER work!! Idiot.

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True American — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:42:06 -0000

This just proves my theory on Obama.... he is a Communist!!! I am NOT!! I've watched too many young Americans die fighting the Communists. What's wrong with this country? Why have you abandoned the Founding Father's principles?? Would you rather take control of your own destiny or hand it over to the very few who " know better how we should run our lives" ?? All you Communist deserve one another.... MOVE TO CHINA, NORTH KOREA, VIETNAM, CUBA!! LEAVE MY COUNTRY ALONE!!!

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

ellen — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:08:44 -0000

Our Lady of Fatima Pray for Us My God I believe, I adore I hope and I love Thee. Hail Christ the KIng

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Richard Tucker — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:29:36 -0000

If the American Communist Party is going to endorse Barak Obama they should do it openly and honestly. To hide the endorsement within an article is cowardly.
What we are proud of we do not hide. The endorsement should be front page and public.
To be considered credible the endorsement of the Part must be publid, quit hiding!

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Adam — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:21:10 -0000

Robert...

Do you understand the full economic severity of the financial crisis? If those financial institutions in the U.S. were to go bankrupt, there might not be a working class anymore! A huge percentage of middle-class people would be thrown out in the street as they would lose their mortgages. Obama has no choice but to support this bill... for it is meant to prevent irreversable damage to economies around the world!

Also, remember that a large portion of this crisis was created by the irresponsibility of the working class by embracing sub-prime mortgages. It is something that should have been monitored and regulated by the federal government, but was not. That is why Bush free enterprise notions failed.

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

Denise — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:29:35 -0000

What a Great Read!!!

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Robert — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:57:54 -0000

Obama has now thrown in his lot with McCain, Bush, and Paulson to bail out the bankers and Wall Street gangsters, in the biggest robbery of the working class in U.S. history.

Lesser of two evils? I dunno, it's getting harder to make that argument about Obama with every passing day...

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

David Charles — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:59:54 -0000

Restoration of a level of sanity to US foreign and domestic policy connotes that such a degree of relationships ever existed. I disagree and assme that era of sanity referred to was Carter and Clinton period where US policies were not in the interest of the oppresed particularly in Central and Latin America, Palistine, Africa. Look a the wars which disintegrated Yugoslavia and the continued bombing and murder of innocent people in Iraq through the major part of the nineties. For those simple reasons I prefer the words 'create a reasonable and internationally acceptable foreign and domestic policy

Re: Reflections On Obama's Tour

creed — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:43:09 -0000

Uh, McCarthy was right, look up what he said.