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History usually repeats itself, and if you have lived two lives, as I have done, you have a good chance of seeing that re-enactment with your own eyes. In 1978, I paid with two death sentences from my native Romania for helping her people rid themselves of their Marxist dictatorship, carefully disguised as socialism. Thirty years later I witnessed how the same Marxism, camouflaged as socialism, began infecting the shores of my adoptive country, the United States, which had just won a 44-year Cold War against Marxism and against its earthly incarnation, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
In a 2008 column titled “Big Political Shifts Are Underway,” Joelle Fishman, chairman of the Action Commission of the Communist Party USA, strongly endorsed the Democratic Party’s candidate for the White House, appealing to all working people in the United States to back Senator Barack Obama, in order to provide “a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right.”
That new alliance between the Democratic Party and the Communist Party was a first in the history of the United States, the world’s headquarters of democracy and free enterprise. In November 2008, over 65 million Americans who were unable to identify the stealth virus of Marxism that was infecting the Democratic Party voted to give this party the White House and both chambers of Congress.
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O'donnell sums it up, the left has never done anything for this country and its's Blue Dog DEMOCRATS that further the Marxist agenda. The minumum wage, the forty hour work week, labor laws, electricity, the Model T, sliced bread, railroads, were all done by Progressives, Republicans and CAPITALIST like Theordore Roosevelt and Henny Ford to INCREASE PROFITS and PRODUCTIVITY..
Originally posted by Kali74
You really need to stop with this paranoid foolishness.
Originally posted by Kali74
No one, not one socialist, not one communist defends or advocates for Statist Communism. Just like your average citizen advocates Capitalism but not Fascism even though Capitalism could lead to Fascism.
Contents of the Fascist Manifesto
Politically, the manifesto calls for:
Universal suffrage with a lowered voting age to 18 years, and voting and electoral office eligibility for all age 25 and more, including women;
Proportional representation on a regional basis;
Voting for women (which was opposed by most other European nations);
Representation at government level of newly created national councils by economic sector;
The abolition of the Italian Senate (at the time, the senate, as the upper house of parliament, was by process elected by the wealthier citizens, but were in reality direct appointments by the king. It has been described as a sort of extended council of the crown);
The formation of a national council of experts for labor, for industry, for transportation, for the public health, for communications, etc. Selections to be made of professionals or of tradesmen with legislative powers, and elected directly to a general commission with ministerial powers (this concept was rooted in corporatist ideology and derived in part from Catholic social doctrine).
In labour and social policy, the manifesto calls for:
The quick enactment of a law of the state that sanctions an eight-hour workday for all workers;
A minimum wage;
The participation of workers' representatives in the functions of industry commissions; ( Unions anybody?...)
To show the same confidence in the labor unions (that prove to be technically and morally worthy) as is given to industry executives or public servants;
Reorganisation of the railways and the transport sector;
Revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance;
Reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55.
In military affairs, the manifesto advocates:
Creation of a short-service national militia with specifically defensive responsibilities;
Armaments factories are to be nationalised;
A peaceful but competitive foreign policy.
In finance, the manifesto advocates:
A strong progressive tax on capital (envisaging a “partial expropriation” of concentrated wealth);
The seizure of all the possessions of the religious congregations and the abolition of all the bishoprics, which constitute an enormous liability on the Nation and on the privileges of the poor;
Revision of all contracts for military provisions;
The revision of all military contracts and the seizure of 85 percent of the profits therein.
The manifesto thus combined elements of contemporary democratic and progressive thought (franchise reform, labour reform, limited nationalisation, taxes on wealth and war profits) with corporatist emphasis on class collaboration (the idea of social classes existing side by side and collaborating for the sake of national interests; the opposite of the Marxist notion of class struggle).
Originally posted by Kali74
It is Fascism we need to be fearing right now. Obama is a Fascist not a Socialist, not a Communist. Name one thing Obama or any Democrat has done or proposed or advocated for in the last...ever, that is Socialist. Obamacare does not count because the Corporate Insurance and Pharmaceutical Companies are the ones that wanted it and the ones that benefit most from it.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Really?... and what are all the calls by the UN and socialist groups for a One World Government?...
Fascism is leftwing... Mussolini was ALWAYS a socialist, and that was all he knew... If you actually read the Fascist manifesto it screams of LEFTWING and not rightwing...
Let me AGAIN show you the truth that so many leftwingers want to avoid...
Directly from a LEFTWINGER source, wikipedia...
Democratising Global Governance:
The Challenges of the World Social Forum
by
Francesca Beausang
ABSTRACT
This paper sums up the debate that took place during the two round tables organized by UNESCO within the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (25/30 January 2001). It starts with a discussion of national processes, by examining democracy and then governance at the national level. It first states a case for a "joint" governance based on a combination of stakeholder theory, which is derived from corporate governance, and of UNESCO's priorities in the field of governance. As an example, the paper investigates how governance can deviate from democracy in the East Asian model. Subsequently, the global dimension of the debate on democracy and governance is examined, first by identification of the characteristics and agents of democracy in the global setting, and then by allusion to the difficulties of transposing governance to the global level.
Originally posted by drwizardphd
I think you're getting way too caught up in "left vs right". The fact that you refer to Wikipedia (an online encyclopaedia that relies entirely on user generated content and can be edited by anyone) a "leftwinger source" is not helping your case.
Climategate: the corruption of Wikipedia
If you want to know the truth about Climategate, definitely don't use Wikipedia. "Climatic Research Unit e-mail controversy", is its preferred, mealy-mouthed euphemism to describe the greatest scientific scandal of the modern age. Not that you'd ever guess it was a scandal from the accompanying article. It reads more like a damage-limitation press release put out by concerned friends and sympathisers of the lying, cheating, data-rigging scientists
Which funnily enough, is pretty much what it is. Even Wikipedia's own moderators acknowledge that the entry has been hijacked, as this commentary by an "uninvolved editor" makes clear.
Unfortunately, this naked bias and corruption has infected the supposedly neutral Wikipedia's entire coverage of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory. And much of this, as Lawrence Solomon reports in the National Post, is the work of one man, a Cambridge-based scientist and Green Party activist named William Connolley.
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Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
This is so all wannabe socialists/communists and even Democrats and Progressive Democrats can see that the warning that regular people have been giving them about this very same stealth take over by socialism/communism of the democratic party has been coming to reality and even former high ranking Communist officials who defected from the U.S.S.R. and even China have been warning about this for decades.
Originally posted by daskakik
Not sure I believe the article, but wouldn't "wannabe socialists/communists and even Democrats and Progressive Democrats" be for this? Wouldn't they be part of the stealth take over?
Also, most opposed to it consider 1913 the year when the commies took control, so this is hardly news for them.