Sam Webb
Posted on 09/20/2011 6:52:12 AM PDT by combat_boots
Communist Party USA National Chair Sam Webb has laid out six key points he believes the US left must take up in order to emerge victorious in the battle for America’s future.
Sam Webb
Since Ronald Reagan was elected president more than three decades ago, right-wing extremists gathered in the Republican Party have been attempting to restructure the role and functions of government to the advantage of the top layers of the capitalist class.
One of their main aims has been to dismantle the bundle of social programs and rights (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and voting, civil, disability, women’s and labor rights, and much more) that were legislated over the past eight decades. These progressive breakthroughs are anathema to them. Instead of triumphs, the right wing sees them as sorry episodes in American history….
What will it take to save these core components of our social compact? The same thing that it took to win them – sustained mass struggle of a broad-based labor-led multiracial movement. Without such a movement it is hard to see how these social protections will be maintained – not to mention improved upon.
Yes, in the White House and Congress there are supporters of social entitlements and rights (and that too is necessary for a winning struggle) but it’s not sufficient. They don’t have the social power to stand up to a right-wing-driven offensive that includes nearly every section of the capitalist class. That social power resides with the masses of people who put elected officials into office.
In these circumstances, the left and progressive community has a crucial role. Here’s what it can, and must, do:
1) Bring to light the linkages between capitalism’s inner dynamics, the capitalist economic crisis and the current onslaught on people’s living standards and rights. In particular, remind everyone that unregulated “free enterprise” that got us into this mess won’t get us out, and that’s where the need for a proactive, pro-people government comes into the picture.
2) Make the case that job creation is the nation’s immediate and overarching priority. In fact, austerity measures at this moment are harmful for working people, for the economy and for our fiscal health in the long term. Indeed, chipping away core social programs would be a dagger to the heart of working people, especially people of color, and exactly the wrong medicine for an economy that limps along due to lack of consumer spending.
3) Put together a strategy that singles out the main obstacle to positive change – right-wing extremism – as well as the main social groups that have to be assembled to preserve America’s social compact and expand it.
4) Elevate the struggle against racism – an ideological and social practice that feeds the corporate bottom line, interweaves with the political project of the far right, and gravely weakens the struggle to defend past gains and win future victories. Qualitative turns in a progressive and radical direction are organically bound up with growing anti-racist thinking and action on the part of white people, especially white workers.
5) Find the forms to unite the broadest possible movement in defense of these programs and rights. Narrow approaches that bypass allies, even temporary ones, set radical against more immediate demands, and minimize the danger from right-wing extremism, are of no help. The task is not to propose the most radical solutions to every problem, but, in the first place, to organize struggles around the demands that millions are ready to fight on.
6) Connect every struggle against the right to the coming national elections.
Not for a long time has the left and progressive community been so badly needed to play its historic role. Let’s do it.
Stripping away the Commspeak, Sam Webb’s message is clear.
Free enterprise, rather than the socialism which actually caused them, must be blamed for America’s economic problems. This lie must then be used to rally and unite all who stand to lose income or jobs in the short term, if government programs are cut. government jobs programs, which will be controlled and robbed blind by the communists and their allies, must be put forward as the best way out of the “jobs crisis.”
Fighting “racism” must be a priority. This actually means promoting racism. Blacks must used exploited as a voting bloc for the Democrats, “empowered” to demand ever more from Federal and state governments and used to intimidate and harass the left’s opposition.
All who fight for rational and responsible government, confined and restored to its limited Constitutional roles, must be demonized and smeared as “right wing” and “extreme.”
This war will be fought on the streets of America, by a handful of communists and tens thousands of their dupes.
More importantly though, this will be a propaganda war. And that is where the left, trained in the black arts of smearing and demonizing their enemy, and with a largely complicit media, has an advantage.
If you think US left rhetoric has been pretty harsh lately, you ain’t seen nothing yet!
Never mind the spectacular failure that was the Soviet Union under Communism
With these comments in mind, and considering the extensive demonization that has already taken place against the Tea Party and Conservatives, what do you think these people will do next Summer when it becomes crystal clear and undeniable that Premier Hussein is not only going to lose the Election in November, but that he is going to lose it big?
Things are getting vicious now, and we’re still over a year away from the election and even longer until Hussein is finally extracted from the White House. It could be a long hot summer next year when the people this article is written for finally realize that the gravy train ain’t going to run after all and their favorite minority (P)resident is on the way out.
it was "OVER-REGULATED" Free Enterprise that got us into the mess. Keynesian economics, that always "controls through central planning" got us here. It will be the deregulation and rolling back of laws that will open the markets up to being "Free" from interference.
Translation: Make race an issue in every way possible. Play the race card on all topics whether it is relevant or not.---
By fueling racism and making it an issue, the left can continue to drive a wedge between our citizens. With nothing to vote for, they need to give their base something that they can think they are voting against.
Hussein is doing a bang up job of following webbs advice. Was he on the guest list at the white hut often?
This is today’s DEMOCRAT party...
He lays it out pretty neatly how the communist have been gaining their foothold in the door to the dertuction of America.
It's quite informative and connects the dots all the way to Obama.
It's a bit long (one hour) but totally worth it!
With these comments in mind, and considering the extensive demonization that has already taken place against the Tea Party and Conservatives, what do you think these people will do next Summer when it becomes crystal clear and undeniable that Premier Hussein is not only going to lose the Election in November, but that he is going to lose it big?
But from our side I’d recommend staying wary of who or what replaces Comrade Obamsky. Most on our side have already fallen into the “anything is better” trap. That’s how we got here today. The history of communism is that it is not very often VOTED out of power.
It’s all part of the “dialectical process”, comrade.
Three steps forward, two steps back, but always the march to communism.
There’s not a hair’s breadth distance between these assertions and what we hear out of democRats today.
Scratch a rat, see a communist.
I second your post - everyone should see that.
Someone posted a link to the whole thing, but I didn’t get that saved. I bought 2 DVDs for distribution.
I had the opportunity to see it this weekend.....scared me silly!
Certainly explains why we don't know anything about Obama! ((((shudder))))
ping for reference
FUBO GTFO! 488 Days until Noon Jan 20, 2013
Exactly. The Democrat party died in 2008. If not before. Some of it was just on life support under an assumed name.
True story: I looked over the websites just after 0bama was elected. OfA actually had the title “Organizing for Amerika.” With a ‘K’ in the logo or title. I think Bill Burton was the pic on the page, but I don’t remember now.
By: AJ for NoisyRoom
Contributor: Toddy Littman
Section 376 of Obama’s tax and spend “jobs” bill ends state sovereignty, turns our Republic into a dictatorship and destroys the foundation upon which our country was built. The fundamental transformation of America is almost complete.
Read the bill. (Emphasis added)
“SEC. 376. FEDERAL AND STATE IMMUNITY.
(a) Abrogation of State Immunity- A State shall not be immune under the 11th Amendment to the Constitution from a suit brought in a Federal court of competent jurisdiction for a violation of this Act.
(b) Waiver of State Immunity-
(1) IN GENERAL-
(A) WAIVER- A State’s receipt or use of Federal financial assistance for any program or activity of a State shall constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity, under the 11th Amendment to the Constitution or otherwise, to a suit brought by an employee or applicant for employment of that program or activity under this Act for a remedy authorized under Section 375(c) of this Act.
(B) DEFINITION- In this paragraph, the term `program or activity’ has the meaning given the term in section 606 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d-4a).”
Here is the link to 42 USC 2000d-4a which defines “program or activity”:
“For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “program or activity” and the term “program” mean all of the operations of—
(1)
(A) a department, agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of a State or of a local government; or(B) the entity of such State or local government that distributes such assistance and each such department or agency (and each other State or local government entity) to which the assistance is extended, in the case of assistance to a State or local government;”
Also…
“any part of which is extended Federal financial assistance.”
The above is stated as an extension of the actual citation of the general section itself.
More from Section 376 (emphasis added):
“(2) EFFECTIVE DATE- With respect to a particular program or activity, paragraph (1) applies to conduct occurring on or after the day, after the date of enactment of this Act, on which a State first receives or uses Federal financial assistance for that program or activity.”
Wake up Governors!! Wake up America!! Tell Congress about Section 376 and why they must not pass this bill.
Obama’s tax and spend “jobs” bill is a stealth move to end state sovereignty and transform what made our nation the greatest country the world has ever known. If Obama’s bill passes, kiss freedom goodbye and say hello to tyranny.
Same circus, different clowns.
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