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A Meeting of Two Liberal Sacred Cows
Obama Meets Theocratic Ex-Dictator On the 18th of February President Obama met with the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, at the White House. The tradition of meetings between U.S. presidents and the Dalai Lama goes back to George H.W. Bush. Perhaps ironically, these meetings have always been discreet and lukewarm so as not to upset…
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Can Tax Cuts or More Spending Break the Capitalist Cycle?
“Boom and Bust” In 2008, America and the world entered into another recession, a financial crisis, or as some would call it a bust. It has been noted by economists for over a century now that the capitalist economy has a tendency to enter into cycles of growth and decline, boom and bust. This most…
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“Revolutionary Spirit” Press Release
Revolutionary Spirit : Theoretical Journal of the American Party of Labor For Immediate Release.28-02-2010 Revolutionary Spirit online URL: http://revolutionaryspiritapl.blogspot.com/ The Central Committee of the American Party of Labor has approved the publishing of an in-depth journal of political, economic and social analysis as well as theoretical works. This journal is to be known as Revolutionary…
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A Message to American Social-Democrats
What is Social-Democracy? A “social-democrat” or “democratic socialist” is a person who seeks a supposed “third way” between capitalism and socialism, or else someone who wishes to establish socialism through peaceful means. We use terms like “socialism” loosely in this case, since most of the time what is advocated is not socialism at all, but…
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Celebrating the Manifesto
On this day in the year 1848, the Communist Manifesto was published. The book shook the society of the bourgeoisie to its very foundations and raised the consciousness of proletarians across the world. Karl Marx and Frederich Engels exposed the flaws of the capitalism as a system and also exposed that the class system is…
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Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part IV of VI: Hunger & Holocaust – Glenn Beck on Stalin Glenn Beck begins his segment on Joseph Stalin by calling the Ukrainian famine in the Soviet Union a genocide. He states: “Most know that the horrors of the Holocaust resulted in the deaths of approximately six million Jews. But what many don’t know…
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Who Shot JFK? Who Cares?
Conspiracy Theories One of the certainties encountered by any person involved in the realm of political participation for any amount of time is that they will inevitably hear at least a few conspiracy theories. As a phenomenon, conspiracy politics have become more and more in vogue in the United States and elsewhere, and were given…
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Imperialists Seek War with Iran
Years of Warmongering In recent weeks, the United States has undertaken a series of measures to once again reaffirm its hostile and antagonistic policies towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. Earlier in January, the US Senate approved further sanctions against Tehran, and in February, the United States deployed scores of offensive ballistic missiles to its…
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Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part III of VI: How Beck Turned Marx Into A Common Racist Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg cite examples of Marx’s supposed “anti-Semitism” in connection with Hitler. What Goldberg is referring to are Marx’s words on the economic status of the Jews of Germany. Marx’s calls to “purge the Jewish spirit” meant to remove the…
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Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part II of VI: Whitewashing Genocide: How “Leftist” Nazi Germany Gets a Pass Glenn Beck, continuing the introduction to his program, claims that “progressives” are seeking to distort the history of Stalin, Mao, Che, etc. in their efforts to incite some unclear revolution against the people of America. Che and Mao (the latter to a…
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