We
have had “The New Deal” with Franklin Roosevelt. Most Democrats and
Republicans opposed the New Deal reforms... it took huge coalitions led
by working people and their organizations militantly fighting to force this package of
reforms through Congress.
Then we had “The Great Society” with LBJ. Again, huge coalitions; this time of the working class and the racially and nationally oppressed people, forced Congress to implement reforms when Democrats and Republicans balked.
Now it’s time for “Socialism.”
Only a massive anti-monopoly/anti-imperialist movement led by a militant united working class can achieve socialism which is all about taking political and economic power out of the hands of the Wall Street exploiters who are the warmongering merchants of death and destruction keeping us on the path squandering the wealth worker’s create on militarism and wars instead of providing the kinds of socially useful and necessary universal social programs which will enable us to live in peace with the rest of the world in a society without poverty- in a society which provides us all with a decent high quality life with a good public education (pre-school through university), a National Public Health Care System based on the model of public education (publicly financed, publicly administered and publicly delivered), a National Public Child Care System, affordable housing and mass transit and real living wage jobs for all with the mines, mills, factories and the banking and energy complexes along with transportation coming under public ownership and democratic control.
We need our own working class based people’s party and a vast network of working class and community based socialist organizations in every workplace, neighborhood and community colleges and universities to win socialism which is working class power.
What you can do:
Start a socialist club where you live or where you work or go to school.
Begin a monthly book club taking up these issues. There are many good books to use like “Madam Secretary, Frances Perkins” by George Martin or a new book by Robert Caro, “Working.” These book clubs can be held in a home, church, library, union hall or community center or even at a picnic table in a public park.
Initiate public forums and round-table discussions around these questions.
Write a letter to the editor.
Circulate leaflets; ask relatives, friends, neighbors and fellow workers to sign petitions advocating for these universal social programs... don’t settle for the campaign gimmicks brought forward by the Democrats to hoodwink us out of our votes.
We must get people thinking beyond war and focused on peace. Put people to work solving the problems of people and society.
We need to get people thinking in terms of a National Public Health Care System not this phony Medicare for All which leaves the for-profit health Care System intact.
We need to get people to understand that the Minimum Wage must be based on the real and actual cost-of-living and legislatively tied to the changing cost-of-living factors and not some figure pulled out of a hat by opportunist politicians at election time- politicians who have no idea about the daily struggles of working people trying to make ends meet from pay check to pay check or worse yet, trying to live without a job, without a pay check.
We need to advance the idea that Social Security must become not a miserly monthly check but a real living income providing people a decent quality life in retirement and old age.
We must insist that there be a moratorium on all student debt collections while a solution to this problem is found and all student debt collections must immediately be taken out of the hands of the banks and private debt collectors who are acting like mobsters employed by loan sharks.
The defense of democracy is an important and integral part of the struggle for socialism. As such, Trump must be impeached and removed from office--- lie after lie, sanctions and tariffs instigating wars, an administration embroiled in corruption.
Democracy requires the full participation of working people in all decision making processes--- political and economic.
What happened to Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society"?
Forty-seven percent of the American people now tell the pollsters they are willing to consider voting for socialists for public office... these are your relatives, your friends, your neighbors and your fellow workers; these are the people we must bring into active struggle for socialism. Give these people something to think about by printing off these three articles on your printer and putting them in their hands for consideration... invite them for a discussion:
https://socialismtheoryandpractice.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-socialism-byalbert-einstein.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR2_VQ3KMBjRTNgzWZUqRE-qUhlf-OsdYF5F6Olq4zN64-yhnj17TQsu2nU
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/47/v47i04p154-161.pdf?fbclid=IwAR10WtUWnkboVmYQ7is5l3sm2uNppjXM-OqcBgGUlg7fUy4qktNgYjt5ZgI
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/climate-change-and-the-military-industrial-complex1?fbclid=IwAR1Mna2MojMxLCmqO1yp1E4W525-QNjLRZqv6z-_idt79YFehyCpz1zXsHM
Pass on the link to my blog where they will read things like this:
https://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/one-of-my-blog-posts-hits-all-time-high.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3S33wcNLBVhoTh9rkrJQmmU6slKHLOFlQfaTelpct263DCzf0ORzlJKdc
No one is going to build a movement for socialism for us; as working people we must do this together.
Each one of us is like a tiny little raindrop, we don't amount to much... but, let it pour!
Let's talk about the politics and economics of livelihood... the working class socialist politics of peace, equality and prosperity for all of us who create the great wealth of this country.
Capitalism is the system of exploitation, wars, racism and poverty through which the Wall Street bankers and employers get rich.
Socialism is a cooperative system based on peace, full equality and prosperity for all.
People before profits!
Then we had “The Great Society” with LBJ. Again, huge coalitions; this time of the working class and the racially and nationally oppressed people, forced Congress to implement reforms when Democrats and Republicans balked.
Now it’s time for “Socialism.”
Only a massive anti-monopoly/anti-imperialist movement led by a militant united working class can achieve socialism which is all about taking political and economic power out of the hands of the Wall Street exploiters who are the warmongering merchants of death and destruction keeping us on the path squandering the wealth worker’s create on militarism and wars instead of providing the kinds of socially useful and necessary universal social programs which will enable us to live in peace with the rest of the world in a society without poverty- in a society which provides us all with a decent high quality life with a good public education (pre-school through university), a National Public Health Care System based on the model of public education (publicly financed, publicly administered and publicly delivered), a National Public Child Care System, affordable housing and mass transit and real living wage jobs for all with the mines, mills, factories and the banking and energy complexes along with transportation coming under public ownership and democratic control.
We need our own working class based people’s party and a vast network of working class and community based socialist organizations in every workplace, neighborhood and community colleges and universities to win socialism which is working class power.
What you can do:
Start a socialist club where you live or where you work or go to school.
Begin a monthly book club taking up these issues. There are many good books to use like “Madam Secretary, Frances Perkins” by George Martin or a new book by Robert Caro, “Working.” These book clubs can be held in a home, church, library, union hall or community center or even at a picnic table in a public park.
Initiate public forums and round-table discussions around these questions.
Write a letter to the editor.
Circulate leaflets; ask relatives, friends, neighbors and fellow workers to sign petitions advocating for these universal social programs... don’t settle for the campaign gimmicks brought forward by the Democrats to hoodwink us out of our votes.
We must get people thinking beyond war and focused on peace. Put people to work solving the problems of people and society.
We need to get people thinking in terms of a National Public Health Care System not this phony Medicare for All which leaves the for-profit health Care System intact.
We need to get people to understand that the Minimum Wage must be based on the real and actual cost-of-living and legislatively tied to the changing cost-of-living factors and not some figure pulled out of a hat by opportunist politicians at election time- politicians who have no idea about the daily struggles of working people trying to make ends meet from pay check to pay check or worse yet, trying to live without a job, without a pay check.
We need to advance the idea that Social Security must become not a miserly monthly check but a real living income providing people a decent quality life in retirement and old age.
We must insist that there be a moratorium on all student debt collections while a solution to this problem is found and all student debt collections must immediately be taken out of the hands of the banks and private debt collectors who are acting like mobsters employed by loan sharks.
The defense of democracy is an important and integral part of the struggle for socialism. As such, Trump must be impeached and removed from office--- lie after lie, sanctions and tariffs instigating wars, an administration embroiled in corruption.
Democracy requires the full participation of working people in all decision making processes--- political and economic.
What happened to Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society"?
Forty-seven percent of the American people now tell the pollsters they are willing to consider voting for socialists for public office... these are your relatives, your friends, your neighbors and your fellow workers; these are the people we must bring into active struggle for socialism. Give these people something to think about by printing off these three articles on your printer and putting them in their hands for consideration... invite them for a discussion:
https://socialismtheoryandpractice.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-socialism-byalbert-einstein.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR2_VQ3KMBjRTNgzWZUqRE-qUhlf-OsdYF5F6Olq4zN64-yhnj17TQsu2nU
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/47/v47i04p154-161.pdf?fbclid=IwAR10WtUWnkboVmYQ7is5l3sm2uNppjXM-OqcBgGUlg7fUy4qktNgYjt5ZgI
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/climate-change-and-the-military-industrial-complex1?fbclid=IwAR1Mna2MojMxLCmqO1yp1E4W525-QNjLRZqv6z-_idt79YFehyCpz1zXsHM
Pass on the link to my blog where they will read things like this:
https://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/one-of-my-blog-posts-hits-all-time-high.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3S33wcNLBVhoTh9rkrJQmmU6slKHLOFlQfaTelpct263DCzf0ORzlJKdc
No one is going to build a movement for socialism for us; as working people we must do this together.
Each one of us is like a tiny little raindrop, we don't amount to much... but, let it pour!
Let's talk about the politics and economics of livelihood... the working class socialist politics of peace, equality and prosperity for all of us who create the great wealth of this country.
Capitalism is the system of exploitation, wars, racism and poverty through which the Wall Street bankers and employers get rich.
Socialism is a cooperative system based on peace, full equality and prosperity for all.
People before profits!
