Obviously, but socialized medicine would prevent many unnecessary deaths caused by capitalist greed.
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"If you wish to bake a pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Carl Sagan
"Reactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and its vanguard but also lower the general ideological level of the movement and throw political thinking back to stages long since passed through. In these conditions the task of the vanguard is above all not to let itself be carried along by the backward flow: it must swim against the current. If an unfavourable relation of forces prevents it from holding political positions it has won, it must at least retain its ideological positions, because in them is expressed the dearly paid experience of the past. Fools will consider this policy "sectarian." Actually it is the only means of preparing for a new tremendous surge forward with the coming historical tide." Leon Trotsky. "Stalinism vs Bolshevism" (August 1937)
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(Photo: AP 10,000 Supporters of military coup demonstrate in front of the National Assembly in Niamey, 20 Feb 2010)
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Mamadou Tandja Dictatorship Overthrown, U.S., French, & UK Imperialist Hands off Niger! By Steven Argue On February 18th the dictatorship of Mamadou Tandja was overthrown in Niger in a military coup. The new government is calling itself the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy (CSRD) and is headed by Salou Djibocalls. He has promised to "make Niger ... read more  (Photo: Honduras Laboral: Mass march against the coup and the repression unleashed by the dictatorship.) Honduras: Sweep Away the Coup Plotters, Generals and Capitalists – Fight for a Workers and Peasants Government! For Revolutionary Workers Struggle Against Coups in Central America Yankee Imperialism, Hands Off! www.internationalist.org/centr...0.html The following article, translated from El Internacionalista, is based on a presentation at an Augus... read more 
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-Steven Argue Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" www.youtube.com/watch MALCOLM X: The Ku Klux Klan are Cowards www.youtube.com/watch 
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The truth of what happened in the Summit YOUNG people, more than anybody, are interested in the future. Until very recently, there was discussion as to the kind of society in which we might live. Today the discussion is about whether human society will survive. These are not dramatic sentences. One has to get used to real facts. The last thing that human beings can lose is hope. With the truth in their hands, men and women of all ages, especially young people, hav... read more  Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is. Let us first consider the question from the point of view of scientific knowledge. It might appear that there are no essential methodological differences between astronomy and economics: scientists i... read more
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Re: Kucinich Says He'll Vote for Health Care Bill
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Obviously, but socialized medicine would prevent many unnecessary deaths caused by capitalist greed.
Re: Kucinich Says He'll Vote for Health Care Bill
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Helping a few, and not all, uninsured people get into a system that is essentially broken hardly can be considered a substantial reform. People will continue to die as a result of capitalist healthcare in America and leading Democrats will co... read more discussion post on Wed, March 17, 2010 - 3:30 PM
Re: Steven/Communist theory
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Exio, putting aside the problems with your economic plan for a minute, do you realize that any sort of plan that cuts into capitalist profit so deeply would require the overthrow of the existing governmental system of the dictatorship of the cap... read more discussion post on Wed, March 17, 2010 - 3:24 PM
Re: Kucinich Says He'll Vote for Health Care Bill
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"In particular considering the lack of any real reform going all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt." This bill won't change that. discussion post on Wed, March 17, 2010 - 3:16 PM
FBI Execution Style Murder of Detroit Man
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Feds’ Detroit “Terror” Kill (Letter) www.icl-fi.org/english/wv...etroit.html Dear Workers Vanguard, The so-called War on Terror took a sinister turn in the Detroit area on October 28, 2009 with the execution style killi... read more discussion post on Wed, March 17, 2010 - 1:34 PM
New Years DIY Parade Under Attack
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The DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION, Ryan Coonerty, Emily Bernard, and the SCPD are out to punish all music and alternative culture on Pacific Ave. This is the latest example. The DIY went off without a hitch this year. No crimes were associated with it... read more discussion post on Wed, March 17, 2010 - 1:01 PM
Union Busting Attack on Rhode Island Teachers
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Labor: Fight Union Busting Attack on Rhode Island Teachers! www.icl-fi.org/english/wv...achers.html Central Falls, Rhode Island’s poorest city, has become the center of a national war against the teachers unions. When the Rhode ... read more discussion post on Wed, March 17, 2010 - 12:48 PM
Obama’s Bloody Afghanistan Offensive
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Reformists Beg Imperialist Warmakers for Peace
Obama’s Bloody Afghanistan Offensive U.S. Out of Afghanistan, Iraq! Hands Off Pakistan, Iran! www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/index.html Having announced late last year that he was ra... read more discussion post on Wed, March 17, 2010 - 12:38 PM
Re: U.S. Imperialism: Enemy of Women’s Rights
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"I have a BA degree in history, so don't tell me something that is incorrect." OK, I'll remain silent when you spout propaganda without knowing what the fuck you are talking about. Not! There was nothing democratic about the pro-war, anti-p... read more discussion post on Tue, March 16, 2010 - 10:59 PM
Re: Neoliberalism Needs Death Squads in Colombia
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In another thread, Orange strangely complained, "The murdering death squads in Colombia are not government death squads." Yet the fact that they are is a well established fact. discussion post on Tue, March 16, 2010 - 10:54 PM
Re: Now It’s Official: U.S. Backs Coup Regime
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"The murdering death squads in Colombia are not government death squads." Yes they are. That fact is well established. discussion post on Tue, March 16, 2010 - 10:50 PM
Re: Homophobic School Board Cancels Prom
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Um...yes. discussion post on Tue, March 16, 2010 - 10:45 PM
George Carlin - Conspiracy Theorists
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George Carlin - Conspiracy Theorists www.youtube.com/watch discussion post on Tue, March 16, 2010 - 10:37 PM
Re: European Anarchist Has to Cancel Trip to the U.S.
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I just checked out Kuhn's website and Kuhn gives a much better explanation of events than the article above. It does appear that events may be going forward, partly through web-conferencing at some venues and partly through alternate speakers a... read more discussion post on Mon, March 15, 2010 - 11:25 AM
Re: European Anarchist Has to Cancel Trip to the U.S.
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Djiin says, "He is not a US citizen Steven. I think he is making a reasonable judgment call all things considered." Since when did anarchists care what side of a border someone is born when it comes to the U.S. government guarding the borde... read more discussion post on Mon, March 15, 2010 - 10:56 AM
Re: Steven/Communist theory
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Exio says his dollar is his vote. Maybe it is. Maybe he is in that extremely small and exclusive club, a club where almost all of the rest of us are excluded: www.youtube.com/watch I doubt it, but maybe he is. discussion post on Mon, March 15, 2010 - 8:44 AM
Lockdown U.? No Police State at Hunter College!
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Lockdown U.? No Police State at Hunter College! www.internationalist.org/hunte...3.html MARCH 9 – Last Thursday, March 4, hundreds of Hunter students walked out to protest tuition hikes and budget cuts that are par... read more discussion post on Mon, March 15, 2010 - 8:29 AM
Re: Now It’s Official: U.S. Backs Coup Regime
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"Erik is one of those non-readers of Marx who gets him mixed up with Lenin, whom he confuses with Trotsky whom he can't tell apart from Stalin whom he thinks is Mao because he looks like Castro who was in turn the identical twin of Pol Pot. His ... read more discussion post on Sun, March 14, 2010 - 11:14 PM
Re: Homophobic School Board Cancels Prom
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From Erik’s absurd and insane article, "Osama Bin Laden has several of Trotsky's characteristics. According to students of Arabic, he commands his native language with vibrant fluency, giving a thrilling sense of its historic depth; he can lead ... read more discussion post on Sun, March 14, 2010 - 11:06 PM
Re: Homophobic School Board Cancels Prom
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I think cDub was referring to the United States as being the uncivilized ones in the comparison. According to the United Nations Development Program Cuba ranks second in the world with 99.8% literacy, tying with two countries, and the Unite... read more discussion post on Sun, March 14, 2010 - 9:58 PM
Re: This is why China is out competing the United States
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Actually, what I said is correct. Background, The Political History of P'eng Shu'tse and his fight with Mao and Stalin In 1911 the feudal Qing dynasty fell. It had been destroyed by years of humiliating imperialist subjugation as well as... read more discussion post on Sun, March 14, 2010 - 9:31 PM
Re: Homophobic School Board Cancels Prom
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Erik claims, "Stalinism is the natural progression of your "movement" or hadn't you noticed?" Absolutely false. There is only one socialist revolution that was not led by Stalinists. That was the Russian Revolution. And that was far from a... read more discussion post on Sun, March 14, 2010 - 8:20 PM
Re: 3-headed babies in Fallujah!
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As I've already pointed out, the link between Gulf War Syndrome and DU has gone far beyond simple speculation. It is a good scientific theory backed by good evidence. Almost everything else raised on the issue has simply been speculation. I c... read more discussion post on Sun, March 14, 2010 - 8:03 PM
Re: Steven/Communist theory
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Part of the point I was making with how its pointless to criticize the working class was what do you think is the most successful approach: 1. Going to people and criticizing them for what they don't know or 2. Going to them and trying to... read more discussion post on Sun, March 14, 2010 - 12:51 PM
Re: Homophobic School Board Cancels Prom
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Erik says, “Remember, if you sleep with dogs, you get fleas.” Yet the rest of his post has absolutely nothing to do with anyone I’ve ever been associated with in any way what-so-ever. Thanks Erik, what you posted agrees 100% with what I ... read more discussion post on Sun, March 14, 2010 - 12:34 PM
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