The Communist Party USA has kicked off a national meeting in New York this weekend, with 140 delegates from all over the country. The discussions will focus on how to "defeat the right wing" in the upcoming election and how to plan for socialism in the United States.
Sam Webb, the party's chair, discussed these goals in his opening remarks. He stated that for the path to socialism, "Defeating right-wing extremism is seen as simply the first stage of the fight," as reported in People's World (PW), the official newspaper of CPUSA, but the delegates (after defeating the right wing), "intend to go much, much further." Webb says, "We hope to connect the struggle at the ballot box today with the struggle for socialism tomorrow."
One person to "defeat" is U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Florida, who has recently been highly criticized for his remarks at a town hall meeting, stating that there are 78-81 communists in the Democratic Party. Referencing West's comments, Communist Party vice-chairman Libero Della Piana said, "Is he saying that he would not support the democratic right of the people to elect communists to Congress if that was, in fact, what they wanted to do at some point in the future?" Nope, he was not saying that, he was saying that there are communists in the government posing as democrats.
Key Goal: According to the PW, "Assuming an eventual victory over the right wing, the Communists see workers and allies then being able to enter an "anti-corporate" stage of the struggle, where they expect the fight for a people's' agenda will bring the labor movement at odds with corporate/economic political power." In their plot against the values of the United States, socialism is the first step, but will not yet "supplant capitalism" rather, it "brings the socialist stage closer as tens of millions become convinced in the course of the struggle that capitalism doesn't work for them."
Once in the Socialist "stage", the focus will be a shift to communism. During this stage, there will be "a deepening of anti-racist consciousness and practice, the consolidation of the anti-corporate alliance, and the growth of the Communist Party and other left organizations."
Socialism is not just a good idea, according to Webb, but it is "imperative...to preserve peace and our planet, expand democracy, eliminate gross racial, gender, and other forms of inequality, and to provide a secure life for the billions living on this earth."
The tea party is a huge concern to the communists and it must be mocked, diminished, viewed as consisting of radicals, events under-reported, etc., as it is a movement that goes completely against their principles of ultimate complete control over the government, abolishing private property, focus on the collective instead of the individual, etc.
In essence, the Communist Party USA believes in the opposite of what our founding fathers did. To get to communism, the entire system has to break down, church and school teachings need to be nationalized to support the cause, the constitution needs to be dismissed as an "old, irrelevant, dusty" document, the reverence for the founders must decrease, traditions, religious and otherwise, need to change, history needs to reflect the bad instead of the good to demonize America and turn people against her.
Leon Trotsky on America becoming Communist
Leon Trotsky wrote an article, published in the March 23, 1935 in Liberty Magazine. His piece, while relatively short, gives rich insight into how the transition to socialism and ultimately to communism would occur in the United States.
In it, he talks about Franklin D. Roosevelt and the conservatives' unfounded fear that the president of that time was leading the nation toward socialism. He said, "In spite of the complaints of some of your arch-conservatives, Roosevelt is not preparing for a soviet transformation of the United States."
Trotsky wrote about how "American Soviets" would handle the "problem of eugenics" better than those in Nazi Germany. He wrote "Your unregenerate capitalists will, of course, find no place for themselves in the new setup." He suggested that the 1% (although Trotsky called them the 5-10%) would be shipped to an island somewhere. He said, "Even the intensity and devotion of religious sentiment in America will not prove an obstacle to the revolution" and speaks of the necessity of "crisis" in convincing people, "If one assumes the perspective of soviets in America, none of the psychological brakes will prove firm enough to retard the pressure of the social crisis."
He talks of the inevitability of violence during the "revolution", "The American temperament is energetic and violent, and it will insist on breaking a good many dishes and upsetting a good many apple carts before communism is firmly established."
Trotsky continues to say that that 5-10% at the top are the only ones who will be strong in resistance, "Everybody below this group is already economically prepared for communism." He says in their poverty, they "have nothing to lose". Except their souls, perhaps. Trotsky did not speak of souls, although he did tackle the "moralism" in America, which "weakens" our "rationalism". Trotsky said of our media, "Soviet America will have to find a new solution for the question of how the power of the press is to function in a socialist regime."
It seems as history repeats itself. The Communists believe that a financial crisis is the time when people are the most willing to submit themselves to socialism, as they are desperate. Americans should be vigilant, if they do not want, as Michelle Obama has stated, to change American history and traditions.
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Comments: 120
Too many naive folks just didn't listen. They only heard what they wanted to hear.....
America was established as a Republic to be governed by the Constitution based upon Godly Principles of Morality. By removing the Morality of God from the Schools and Government, you end up with a Socialist Communist Anti-God Nation! Duh! How's that working out for ya, folks?
Obama has ALWAYS surrounded himself with Marxists, Socialists, Radicals and Self-proclaiming Communist Czars. He supports Liberal Supreme Court Judges and other government people whom hate God, but support Abortions (Murder of babies), homosexuality, sex perverts, liars and thieves.. All that want nothing less than to totally destroy our Constitution. It is the Duty of every American Citizen to bring Our Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land back into Our Schools and Government!
“The world is a Dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ----Albert Einstein---
The left is about solving social problems like unemployment and the lack of affordable health care.
The right is about putting people in jail, increasing the wealth of those who already have too much and and it is about destroying the enrironment to make more money for the greedy SOB's who have managed to buy our lawmakers.
- Adolf Hitler
Who would be more likely to mug you on the street? a liberal
Who would be more likely to hold up a liquer store? a liberal
Who would be more likely to carjack you? a liberal
Who would be more likely to break into your home? a liberal
Who would be more likely to kill an unborn baby? a liberal
Who is more likely to be an atheist? a liberal
Who is more likely to be a satanist? a liberal
Who is more likely to be a murderer? a liberal
Who is more likely to hate God, religion, the US Constitution and Patriotism?
A LIBERAL
Yeah, how about that list? Right on!!
The left is solving unemployment? Gosh I wonder why unemployment has remained so high. Having the highest corporate income tax rate in the world does not help businesses grow or help unemployment, as is proved by our growing problem. (Have you seen the studies that show that many boomers have filed for disability or early retirement because they cannot find jobs?)
I love the way you quoted Trotsky, as if there is a Dem politician currently living who would agree with Trotsky's plans. It was odd that you quoted Trotsky about the fact that FDR had no interest in communism. FDR was a Democrat. Did you notice that you were undermining your own argument?
Presented as though it were a major groundswell on the left side of the political spectrum.
At least 70 members of Congress belong to the Democrat Socialist Party.
Socialism is the first step towards Communism.
Don't act stupid because you sound stupid.
"Don't act stupid because you sound stupid."
I've never seen anyone give such a self-identifying statement. Thanks for the laughs.
Is that what Allen (Nitwit) West told you? Or did you count them yourself... from the balcony.
Stupid AND gullible... REALLY bad combination.
How is the Tea Party "harmful"?
Who's stupid Chunky? Who's ignorant?
Perhaps those who do not see the similarities could call out the differences, the reason I put in Trotsky's piece is so the many "similarities" can be highlighted. Is there a doubt that Communists and Socialists are so excited about Occupy but loathe the Tea Party? Why is that?
All the leftist comrades went to commie summer camp and sang songs and learned their evil skills of deception.
Stalin liked Purges too. :)
Just a reminder, the Soviet Union assassinated Trotsky.
Also the first Communist cell, called a Soviet, was in St. Louis, Missouri.
Totalitarian governments are wrong and it does not matter if they are far right (Nazi) or far left (Communist.)
It's a Teapublican opium dream, but you write well.
Like minded.
Like Minded.
"CPUSA endorsed Obama in 2008 and CPUSA endorses Obama in 2012."
Your point? That's like comparing apples and road apples.
You're not thinking yet.
Did't recognize it? I'm not surprised.
OK, Communist Party USA: well, they're commies, endorse a candidate who they believe is the closest to their way of thinking...
Ahh, I see where your going with this now.
Thanks urban cowBOY.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You're asking Opie to use analysis far above pay grade.
No, Opie, you're wrong, but keep trying.
Then the sorrow, pain, and blood.
That's not exclusive to communism, but they're batting a thousand.
You're imagining things that have not only never happened, but are extremely unlikely to happen.
And again, you're not useful.
A term Republicans use for poor people who vote for them even though the Republican party hates poor people.
Farmer John voted for George Bush even though Bush gave a tax cut to the agribusiness behemoth down the street from John. John could not compete with the corporate behemoth and declared bankruptcy. Now John is a serf for the corporate overlords. George Bush calls these people useful idiots.
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A person who blindly follows the Corporate-run American Plutocracy and will fight for its preservation at the cost of the rest of his countrymen's wellbeing.
The Tea Party Member who supports cutting Medicare and Union Rights is a true useful idiot.
Nobody has ever heard of your story before. Where did you get that? Give me a link. It's a liberal, leftist site and you know it. That originated from the Democrats. They've gotten tired of hearing it so they created a story. The left is nothing but lying, cheating, thieving frauds.
I know that reading for comprehension isn't your strong suit: I got it from your link.
If democracy is guaranteed, rule of law upheld, the Constitution inviolate, no threat. IF. They're the other 1%. They can't sell this crap.
Yep, Ali, Fascism's the other side of that savage coin. No Argument. Government should be small, it's duties specific.
Sadly, the lure of this argument has been irresistible from the Roman Empire to the French and Bolshevik revolutions to Socialist Parties (D) and (R) in the USA today. All socialist countries follow the same miserable path. The U.S. doesn’t have to go down this path, but it seems determines to do so. When a government goes from being a protector of private property to a plunderer of it, it places itself on a course of chaos, economic ruin and its own ultimate self-destruction. Only a few wise and isolated voices warn that this baby dragon they have just hatched will grow up to be a fire-breathing monster. But not to fear, the wise voices are generally shouted down by the gentle politicians, who fiercely demonize protestors as selfish “whabbledygots†blocking the road to the perfect society. WELL WORTH READING, FOLKS- THREE STEPS TO SOCIALISM AND WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD
However, now that you mention it, it was all true anyway. I didn't have to make it up.
...per usual. ;)
His unemployment numbers, the crippling economy, the rising gas and food prices...
How's that working out for Europe lately? They're about to fold if you've been paying attention at all. And have you seen Greece lately?
Everything Obama's tried to do, according to the Dreams for his Father, have failed miserably.
*sigh*
;)
Hearing all the fear talk that both sides are imposing on the public makes me very glad to be Independent. Unfortunately, true Independent candidates stand almost no chance of being elected to the Presidency and only marginal chance of being elected to Congress. Something must change, but the alternatives put before us are none too attractive.
Where is the nationalization of anything, where are the redistributive public services? In fact, can you name a single policy platform plank that has a real socialist aspect to it? I can certainly think of none.
America is right now a corporatist state, with government power combined with and subsumed to corporate interests and influence. Corporatism is what Mussolini called fascism, and he was the father of the ideology. America may not, yet, have jackbooted soldiers marching in the street and death camps set up around the country, but it doesn't take a lot of imagination to see it happening in the future.
If you cannot see how far the US has drifted to the right, how truly extreme the Republican Tea Party is in its views, then you really need to start reading some foreign press. I suggest The Economist from Europe, which is a conservative magazine. But it is conservative in the way that some Americans once were, not the radical nonsense that passes for it today stateside.
But I don't mind the occasional MacAllen and Soda... ;)