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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Republican, Democratic and Socialist Parties.

imagine89
This is my statement concering the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, and the party of which I am a member, the Socialist Party.

I would like to start this off with a quotation of one of my greatest heroes. These few lines were written over 100 years ago and are still relevant today and there I could not write a better introduction for this blog, so I will quote a few lines from one of my heros before I begin my writings:

"The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

With either of those parties in power one thing is always certain and that is that the capitalist class is in the saddle and the working class under the saddle.

Under the administration of both these parties the means of production are private property, production is carried forward for capitalist profit purely, markets are glutted and industry paralyzed, workingmen become tramps and criminals while injunctions, soldiers and riot guns are brought into action to preserve “law and order” in the chaotic carnival of capitalistic anarchy.

Deny it as may the cunning capitalists who are clear-sighted enough to perceive it, or ignore it as may the torpid workers who are too blind and unthinking to see it, the struggle in which we are engaged today is a class struggle, and as the toiling millions come to see and understand it and rally to the political standard of their class, they will drive all capitalist parties of whatever name into the same party, and the class struggle will then be so clearly revealed that the hosts of labor will find their true place in the conflict and strike the united and decisive blow that will destroy slavery and achieve their full and final emancipation.

In this struggle the workingmen and women and children are represented by the Socialist party and it is my privilege to address you in the name of that revolutionary and uncompromising party of the working class." -Eugene V. Debs, 'The Socialist Party and the Working Class' (1904)


Let us first consider the Republican Party. The Republican Party is capitalist to the core. The Republican Party has no use for workers except to exploit them, or to pretend to be their ally in hopes of gaining the working peoples' vote. Then, once they assume power, they will break up strikes, halt the growth of wages, push the tax burden further onto the working class and make it easier for the wealthiest to evade taxes and send jobs to distant lands where there are few or no labor laws or human rights. The Republican Party is the enemy of the working people. Why would the average person support the Republican Party? The Republican Party does nothing but masquerade as the party of the folks while it does everything it can to crush the interest of those same regular joe's they pander to during election time. It boggles the mind that a party can run openly on a platform of corporatism, tax breaks for the wealthiest and the set back of the progress of the working class and still manage to gain the votes of the working people.

Now, let us consider the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party, unlike the Republican Party, does not tend to openly campaign on corporatism. The Democratic Party sells itself as the progressive party and the working man's party. I will give credit where credit is do. Many Democrats are progressives and do work for the interests of the working class. Howevere, most of this party is made up of centrist and conservatives who are capitalist to the core. The Democrats are able to gain a large base by running campaigns with progressive stances on the issues and by throwing bones to the working class. But they don't hestate to compromise with the Republicans, and they are surley not the opponents if capitalism. Some Democrats are for the working people, but the party is general supports the same anti-labor policies as the Republicans. How can working people be fooled into voting for the Democratic Party? The Democrats had their day as the regular peoples' party, but what have they done recently? They've joined the Republican Party is pandering to the wealthiest, bailing out big corporations and killing true health care reform. It's tiem to stop being fooled by the Democrats.

And now, let us consider the Socialist Party. The Socialists hate to hide their beliefs. We are firmly opposed to the capitalist system and we seek to end the wage-slavery that is its mechanism and the poverty that is its by-product. The Socialist Party is not ambiguous about its stances on the issues. We take the progressive stance on all issues. We build our platform around the interests of the working class. We do not work against the interest of the working people, and we do not compromise with the capitalists. The Socialist Party is the only party of and for the people.

In closing, the Republicans and the Democrats have become so simmilar in their desire to oppose the interests of the working class and to incessantly appease the capitalist class that there is now way to tell them apart, and no need to. The Republican and Democratic Parties are not parties for the people. They speak for the few and oppose the interests of the many. The Socialist Party, on the other hand, is always for progress and is always for the working people.

I would like to end this writing with one more quote from our comrad, Eugene Debs.


"Every sympathizer with labor, every friend of justice, every lover of humanity should support the Socialist party as the only party that is organized to abolish industrial slavery, the prolific source of the giant evils that afflict the people. ...The overthrow of capitalism is the object of the Socialist party. It will not fuse with any other party and it would rather die than compromise."
-Eugene V. Debs, 'The Socialist Party and the Working Class' (1904).


Yours for the revolution,
Imagine89


posted by imagine89 at 1:44 PM

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No. That was an opinion. Plenty of people disagree with you, I being one of them. You can't prove to me that spreading the wealth around is not beneficial, therefore, it is an opinon. Facts are things that can be proven. I don't know where people get off claiming an opinion is fact, or claiming that facts are opinions but it seems to be what conseravtives like to do. "My idology is a fact but evolution is an opinion." No. It's the other way around.


posted by imagine89 on 09/09/2009 @ 6:52 PM

Why should Stevie Wonder be taxed more than a sighted person who happens to be poor. If its not a person disability to acheive, then it must be that persons inability to acheive. Rewarding people that do not take advantage of their health and well being, but instead rely on the government to sustain their existence for long periods of time are parasites. Double digit unemployment exists in many socialist countries, because the system perpetuates the class struggle through generations.


posted by thewiz on 09/09/2009 @ 4:09 PM

Don't ask Imagine to deal with facts. That may be more then he can handle.


posted by erock on 09/09/2009 @ 4:08 PM

It's not just opinion. It is a statement of fact based on the Constitution, the writings of its primary authors and basic underpinnings of English Common Law.


posted by mduminiak on 09/09/2009 @ 4:05 PM

Opinion noted.


posted by imagine89 on 09/09/2009 @ 3:59 PM

When I spread my wealth around, it's good for a lot of people - but that is my choice. It should not be forced on me. I should not have my standard of living lowered by force. I should not have the wages I worked to earn be taken from me by force. If I choose to give from my wealth to others and spread it around, that is my choice.


posted by mduminiak on 09/09/2009 @ 3:54 PM

"When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." That pretty much sums it up.


posted by imagine89 on 09/09/2009 @ 3:46 PM

Taxes to support functions of government that were delegated to it by the People in their State Conventions in adopting the Constitution are perfectly acceptable. It is the taxes levied for the purpose of taking from some to give to others that are wrong and such taxes are the heart of socialist intervention. Our government is based upon the principle that people have inherent rights and that they institute government with limited delegated powers. That our system has been corrupted is not evidence of a bad system, but evidence of bad people who abused it and evidence why we need to undo the wrongs in order to get back to the people being in control.


posted by mduminiak on 09/09/2009 @ 2:09 PM

The government already takes money from you without asking. It's called taxes, and Ronald Reagan raised them 6 times. Don't pretend taxation is something the socialists came up with. And firther, our government does not derive its power from the people. The government derives its power from big business who finances campaigns, lobbies and extorts whatever they wish from the system.


posted by imagine89 on 09/09/2009 @ 1:59 PM

Any party that seeks to use the power of government to do a thing that would be illegal for a person to do is a bad party. If I stopped you on the street, took your wallet and helped myself to $20 to buy beer, I would be a criminal. If I had a friend stop you on the street, take your wallet and then take out $2 for himself and $20 for me to buy beer, I and my accomplice would be criminals. If I have my government agent take from your wallet $2 for itself and $20 for me to buy beer - socialists call that justified. I still call it criminal. --------- Our government derives it power from the people. It cannot have any power that the people did not grant to it. The people cannot grant to the government a power which they, themselves, never had. It was never a right of the people to take for themselves unearned the earned wealth of someone else. Therefore, they never were able to grant their government agent such a right. The government, when it acts in such a manner, is simply criminal.


posted by mduminiak on 09/09/2009 @ 1:55 PM

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