And now they have a little socialist on the City Council who tells the machinists who will be fired to "take over" the building, and build something that is not "war machines."
You talkin’ about this?
http://mynorthwest.com/76/2398157/Buses-by-Boeing
Seattle deserves this gal. She’s not typical Socialist, she’s a Trotskyite. Check out this article;
Congratulations To Kshama Sawant: Who has just won election to the Seattle City Council.
Four-term Seattle City Councilman Richard Conlin conceded to Socialist challenger Kashama Sawant late Friday afternoon, after Sawant once again increased a lead that now stands at 1,640 votes.
In an interview, Conlin said he sensed the tide that would carry the “Socialist Alternative” candidate, an instructor at Seattle Central Community Council, to an upset victory.
Seattle has had similar politicians before, for instance, Anna Louise Strong. But not recently. (Openly, anyway.)
Our local news organizations have been calling her a “socialist”, which is true, but not very specific, since socialists come in many varieties. In contrast, Wikipedia is quite specific.
Sawant is a Marxist, a supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and a member of the Trotskyist political party Socialist Alternative, an affiliate of the Committee for a Workers’ International.[10][11]
Some people may need a refresher on Trotskyism.
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky identified as an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, and supported founding a vanguard party of the working-class. His politics differed sharply from those of Stalinism, as he opposed the idea of Socialism in One Country. Trotsky still supported proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working-class self-emancipation and mass democracy. He did not believe in the unaccountable bureaucracy developed under Stalin after Lenin’s death.
In short, a Trotskyite is not just a socialist, but one of those revolutionary socialists we usually call communists. They are, they would be quick to remind us, communists who believe that Trotsky should have been in charge in the Soviet Union, instead of Stalin.
(Sawant is also, thanks to her husband’s job at Microsoft, quite well off, perhaps even rich. In her financial statement, she gives Vivek Sawant’s income as greater than $100,000, the top category in the form. The value of their checking account, somewhere between $40,000 and $99,999, also suggests that the two are not living in poverty, or even among the working class.)
It is embarrassing, but I have to admit that I am charmed to see a Trotskyite — who I thought were almost all dead — elected to anything. It is like seeing a Know Nothing, or a supporter of free silver, win. Her ideas are, of course, crazy, but then so are many of the ideas held by others in Seattle’s government.
But I am not charmed to see that she has taught economics at a Jesuit institution, Seattle University, and a community college, Seattle Central Community College. Alex Berezow is right to wonder about this paradox.
Even more troublingly, how can somebody with her beliefs be allowed to teach an economics course? This would be analogous to allowing an AIDS denier to teach a medical microbiology course, a 9/11 truther to teach a foreign policy course, or a creationist to teach an evolution course.
Or allowing someone who thinks you can live on sun beams to teach nutrition.
She wouldn’t, of course, be the first left-wing activist who was supported by a job (or jobs) at a college or university. In fact, that is quite common in our colleges and universities. A few of these activists are decent teachers as well as activists, and a very few of them even produce something scholarly. But most of them are just activists, and typically quite intolerant activists, at that.
Cross posted at Sound Politics.
(You may be slightly reassured to learn that she does not appear to be teaching currently at either Seattle University or Seattle Central Community College.)
- 9:12 AM, 16 November 2013 http://www.soundpolitics.com/
“And now they have a little socialist on the City Council who tells the machinists who will be fired to “take over” the building, and build something that is not “war machines.””
They can make Twinkies. Hahahahahahaha....sometimes I crack yield up.
And she expects Boeing to just sit by and let the socialist mob take over. At this point in time she is clearly the instigator in calling for illegal mob action. If this takes place I think that Boeing lawyers would fry her one piece at a time in civil court. They would first make her use all of her personal resources to defend herself then continue to take her back to court with different angles and complete break her personally, politically, and financially. It would be fun to watch her publicly broken down and that big mouth be silenced.