Speaking of Sir #TrumpVirus and his aversion to reality, decency, or coherence...
Amid the bad news for #democracy and #mindful #civilization with #respect for #law and human decency, some #justice.
Ironic,maybe even #Karma... The alternate-ego / 'mind' behind Lord Stablegenius' oxymoronic platform #Truth ... Remember him?
Just.... Uggh! Bye bye what's left of #democracy and hello monarchy/dictatorship partnered with Supremely Corrupt #justice :((
The ruling makes a distinction between official conduct of a president and the actions of a private citizen. A dissent from the liberal wing laments a vast expansion of presidential power.
Sparing y'all from going to Xitter... and monetizing it by clicks. A wee bit of #truth from my daily rounds of Sunday "good trouble".
#TrumpVIrus vs #sanity and #democracy - #PlayingWithMatches among the not-so- #cognitive ly well-endowed, fueled by #media
in the #french #elections, you can choose between #racial #antisemitism and #antizionist #antisemitism, is that #democracy?
Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor. It is this truth, which forms a most essential part of Marx’s teaching, that Kautsky the “Marxist” has failed to understand. On this—the fundamental issue—Kautsky offers “delights” for the bourgeoisie instead of a scientific criticism of those conditions which make every bourgeois democracy a democracy for the rich.
Let us first remind the most learned Mr. Kautsky of the theoretical propositions of Marx and Engels which that pedant has so disgracefully “forgotten” (to please the bourgeoisie), and then explain the matter as popularly as possible.
Not only the ancient and feudal, but also
“the modern representative state is an instrument of exploitation of wage-labour by capital” (Engels, in his work on the state).[The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State]
“As, therefore, the state is only a transitional institution which is used in the struggle, in the revolution, to hold down one’s adversaries by force, it is sheer nonsense to talk of a ’free people’s state’; so long as the proletariat still needs the state, it does not need it in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the state as such ceases to exist” (Engels, in his letter to Bebel, March 28, 1875).
“In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy” (Engels, Introduction toThe Civil War in France by Marx).
Universal suffrage is
“the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state”. (Engels, in his work on the state).
Mr. Kautsky very tediously chews over the cud in the first part of this proposition, which is acceptable to the bourgeoisie. But the second part, which we have italicised and which is not acceptable to the bourgeoisie, the renegade Kautsky passes over in silence!)
“The Commune was to be a working, not a parliamentary, body, executive and legislative at the same time. . . . Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to represent and suppress (ver- und zertreten) the people in Parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people, constituted in Communes, as individual suffrage serves every other employer in the search for workers, foremen and accountants for his business” (Marx, in his work on the Paris Commune, The Civil War in France).
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
Bourgeois And Proletarian Democracy
V. I. Lenin
— html: [marxists.org] or [marx2mao]
— pdf: [foreignlanguages.press]
#marx #engels #lenin #kautsky #renegade #prrk #democracy #class #1918 ">
#US #politics #democracy #deepState
Thing we know:
The insiders knew Biden was like this.
They didn’t have to agree to any debate at all. They certainly didn’t have to propose and show up for the earliest debate in history.
So they humiliated Biden deliberately, but only after the primary voters get no say, yet early enough pre-Convention for the insiders to pick his successor before the fall campaign.
This has been the plan for a long, long time.
This is yet another proof that united people can't be defeated, no matter how much money the US and the fascist coalition of governments in south America tries.
Congratulations to people of #Bolivia to stop the #Military #Coup attempt the extremists on ShiTwitter and other right wing social media were celebrating in advance.
Other members include Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) from Hungary, an irredentist party which claims #Hungary's pre-Trianon borders, the Monarchist-Libertarian, Konfederacja from #Poland, Se Acabó la Fiesta from #Spain, NIKH from #Greece and Hnutie Republika from #Slovakia.
#Fascists all over #Europe creating a united front against our #democracy, while stupid liberals and centrist suck up to them and pushing for a disastrous military conflict with #Russia.
Anyone who still hasn't understood why Trump is not a suitable president after one phase of Trump's administration will probably never understand. Personally, I rarely have enough crayons with me to explain why Trump is a bad president.
#USA #election #vote #president #whitehouse #government #democracy #politics #future
Progressive politics, which is committed to social #justice and the preservation of our livelihood, must necessarily redistribute #wealth and restructure our #economy, which should actually be possible for the majority because it serves the majority, but the concrete actions always get in the way of the #profit interests of some very powerful actors, who have therefore been involved since the beginning of #humanity itself and with the help of their lobbyists: Liberal or right-wing parties, media corporations, social #media platforms, think tanks, #lobby associations and #astroturf movements - front against these policies and in this fight do not shy away from stirring up racist, sexist and social-darvinist resentment in order to lead voters down wrong paths that harm the general public but protect the profit interests of the few.
#democracy #vote #politics #corruption #problem #criticism #fail #future #finance #capitalism #money #quote #wisdom #knowledge #conspiracy #racism #sexism
https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/112656728648580263 democratsabroad@mastodon.social - Check out #JohnOliver on #Project2025, which is not a joke. We wish it were.
Then ... #register to #vote from anywhere on planet #Earth at VoteFromAbroad.Org !
https://youtu.be/gYwqpx6lp_s?si=FivlgOq46Y9DeLjq
@uspolitics @politicalscience @DemocracyMattersALot @DefendDemocracy #Democracy @GottaLaff @Nonilex #2024Election #USPolitics #Politics #Humor #BidenHarris2024
The Western #system won the #ColdWar and this gave rise to a certain sense of superiority among the victors that this system will now prevail #worldwide. Instead of democracies, however, autocracies have prevailed. #Capitalism also works quite well in #China. When it comes to condemning the Russian war of aggression, important states prefer to remain neutral. Bitterly poor Africans can see the Western lifestyle in advertising and would like to live it, but this does not necessarily have to be in a #democracy for them. A democracy brings people like Trump to power and there are irreconcilable differences on important issues such as climate change. It doesn't matter whether you believe in climate change - nature conservation should be a worthwhile goal for everyone. Ultimately, it's not about #climate change, but about the society we want to live in. The desire to at least live in a peaceful world after the Second World #War has not been fulfilled. #Humanity has also failed to distribute #wealth fairly, which is the reason for many of today's conflicts. We are heading towards a new very dark age and we cannot prevent it because we have created an economic system that rewards short-term profits at the expense of the #environment. Since we don't begrudge these profits to others, we can only join in and destroy our own habitat, democracy and #future.
#politics #democracy #collapse
Brace for impact...
https://unherd.com/2024/06/emmanuel-macron-destroyer-of-worlds/
Small reminder needed though--before the US, there was France. The US picked up where France left off.
♲ Ms. Que Banh - 2024-06-16 23:26:23 GMT
#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.
My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.
We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.
My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Canto near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.
Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.
Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.
The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.
Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.
Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.
The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.
Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.
You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.
Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.
At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.
Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.
I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.
Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.
The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.
Free Palestine!
