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Topic: Thinking Politically

  • A Fascist Coup

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    fitzdon

    For the very first time, a state government – in Thuringia – was able to achieve rule with the support of the far, far right Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party whose leaders are in a continuous flirt with Nazi phrases, Nazi goals and Nazi methods. Every other party has sworn up and down never…

  • Transforming Culture

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    rsburke
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     “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” – Audre Lorde   So long as capitalism dominates, there is no escaping its unrelenting assault on rational and humane cultural values and practices, most prominently today in the form of the consumerism purveyed in every media by commercial advertising.    Even worse is the pervasive example…

  • Latin America: The Importance of Speaking without Uniforms

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    fitzdon

    Social media functions as a public meeting place that, beyond its tendency to sometimes enclose us in bubbles, allows us to sound out opinions on current events. Recently, for instance, we have been able to witness the demand that a certain part of the left close ranks with the government of Evo Morales regarding the…

  • The Imminent Threat of Trump and the Value of Progressive Third Parties

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    fitzdon

    As predictable as death and taxes is the quadrennial injunction from liberals for progressive third parties to cease and desist. Equally predictable is the admonition that this will be the most decisive presidential election in US history. Given the prospect of four more years of Trump, do they have a valid thesis or are they…

  • Evo Morales and the Rights of Mother Earth

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    fitzdon

    I lived in Bolivia for about 9 months in 1991, in a small town near Vinto. Vinto is the place where, a couple of week ago, a mob of thugs dragged the mayor, Patricia Arce, out of her office, cut all her hair off, drenched her in red paint and shoved her barefoot through the…

  • Democracy Is in Crisis. Karl Marx Can Help.

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    rsburke

    At a time when socialism is resurgent but fragile, Marx’s views on popular democracy deserve closer attention. How we choose to realize his insights is up to us.

  • Why the Green Party Isn’t the Problem

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    rsburke

    Let’s start off with the original sin of the Green Party. They cost Gore the election in Florida with their 97,000+ votes. With a margin of losing by 543 votes, surely of those 97,000 + at least 544 could have ‘seen the light’ and voted the way they were ‘suppose’ to vote. So do we…

  • Every State Is a Battleground

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    rsburke

    The Open Letter is a response to my article (The Green Party Is Not the Democrats’ Problem, December 25, 2019). The signers want the Green Party presidential campaign to adopt the “safe states strategy” of campaigning only in safe states where the outcome is a forgone conclusion. They want the Green Party to support the…

  • 7 Million Form A Human Chain Across Kerala To Protest Against CAA

    7 Million Form A Human Chain Across Kerala To Protest Against CAA

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    fitzdon

    A 620 km long human chain from the northern part of Kerala to the south was formed on Republic Day by the CPI(M) led Left Democratic Front, to register the protest against the ‘unconstitutional: Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). People from all walks of life including newly weds participated in the human chain. The organizers claimed…

  • What Really Happened to American Socialism?

    What Really Happened to American Socialism?

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    fitzdon
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    Despite the corporate hype, Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy are deeply rooted in the mainstream of our nation’s history.   The lie that they’re “foreign ideologies” starts with the fascist assault Woodrow Wilson waged against them during and after World War 1.     Their marginalization today by corporate Democrats and Trump Republicans is itself…