thoughts from podunk

Leave a twig for the birds to perch on... don't let the capitalists do your thinking for you... if you are in the neighborhood, stop on in; the coffee is always hot and the cookie jar is full... looking forward to the day when the real decisions in America are made by working class families gathered around the kitchen table... new postings daily...Yours in the struggle...Alan L. Maki

Thursday, March 4, 2021

About words and definitions

Politicians have invented a lot of new definitions for old words lately: A “concentration camp” holding children is now a “facility.” “Ca...

Has anything changed?

Trump helped defend the Saudi sheiks from being charged with murder and now Biden is doing the same thing. Trump recognized Guaido as pres...

Who speaks for the working class?

One thing that really gets me is when these well-heeled muddle-headed upper middle class intellectuals who have never worked a day in their ...

A fundamental question ignored

The Rasmussen polling agency recently asked people this question: “Who’s setting the agenda in Washington, DC these days – President Bid...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott concocts a deadly brew

Some of us may die as a result of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s thoroughly reactionary and outright stupid announced corona virus policies bu...

Biden's Wall Street agenda determines his foreign and domestic policy and neither is favorable to the working class.

For all intents and purposes, the majority of the American people are seeing no opposition to Biden’s Wall Street imperialist war agenda whi...

We need an anti-imperialist movement

This is a pretty good article by Glen Greenwald but he misses the important point that the Saudis own the largest oil refinery (Aramco) in T...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

words of advice

Real working class leaders have always provided this good advice: Be strong together. Together defend your health, your livelihoods, ...

Let's build a movement

The Democratic Party hacks try to hoodwink us into thinking, and accepting, their version of what they expect us to consider to be “movement...

The liberal lament...

Where are the solutions? Solutions to the problems created by capitalism will only come from the real left... Socialists and Communists.

Supreme Inequality

Our Social Justice Book Club at the Lake Travis Community Public Library will be discussing this book this month... “Supreme Inequality”...

Debt is poverty

“Medical poverty,” “student debt poverty,” “home mortgage poverty,” “credit card poverty.” Go to the grocery store and pay for your food w...

More lies about China from a Washington imperialist think-tank which specializes in promulgating the ideas that feed the war machine

The Atlantic Council, a reactionary Wall Street imperialist think-tank, just released an anonymously authored long belligerent anti-Communi...

Why is the role of the Bush political dynasty missing from all the analysis about how Biden got elected?

The real not so secret secret that is not mentioned in this article is how the Bush family worked behind the scenes to manipulate all of the...

Lies and big lies make for a dishonest government

I was listening to the radio and heard some talking heads talking about how Trump elevated the art of the lie to new levels posing a threa...

Bill Gates... climate change hypocrite

Bill Gates wrote a book about climate change but this billionaire doesn’t view socialism as a solution nor does he view peace and disarmamen...

On movements

We heard this bit about how movements are needed before. But the movements required to push these Democrats to make good on their promises...

The day United States Senator Lyndon B. Johnson opportunistically joined the red-baiting and what the result meant for us

150 years of capitalist industrialization and rape of Mother Nature caused global warming and climate change. I doubt a bunch of greedy p...

Texas... the problem is bigger than climate change

One of the most pertinent comments I have read on the situation in Texas: 🇺🇸 Freedom from government regulations. Libertarian paradise....

Socialism and the "ownership" question

The discussion about socialism needs to take place now, not later. This becomes more relevant by the day as we go from crises to crises whi...

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Bailout workers, not Wall Street.

I’m a retired member of Unite-HERE Local 17 in Minneapolis. I am a long-time rank-and-file working class activist involved in the struggle...

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About Me

Alan Maki: United States; I have been involved in the peace, labor, civil rights, and environmental movements for over 30 years, and I am a socialist. I would encourage everyone to get involved in promoting the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which came into existence on December 10, 1948; we should strive to use the yearly anniversary of this document to popularize it. We need to struggle to create a more progressive, socially just society where all working people receive real living wages and have a voice at work, and in their communities. I have worked with casino workers across Minnesota who are trying to organize a union. I have worked with people in northern Minnesota struggling to save the Big Bog, the primary freshwater aquifer--- this bog is being mined for peat. In my spare time during the spring and fall you can find me fly fishing on the Dark River, a pristine designated trout stream;in the winter ice fishing on Lake-of-the-Woods. I look forward to hearing from you. Nothing human is alien to me.

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