Or does it? The child health bill has been said that it would be vetoed by the Prez. Why? Well, it will cost $60 billion and he has said that it was too expensive and would bust the budget. First of all, what budget? I think that Bush's little military incursion has already busted the budget. Too expensive? $60 billion to save about 6 million children, but $200 billion to occupy a country, I can see why that would be unacceptable. NOT!
Am I the only person that sees a bit of bullsh*t being spread? Are the American so AFRAID of the word "socialized" that they would allow the government to turn its back on millions of children? Marketing, is the answer you are looking for. Just like the WOT the government is selling FEAR! And guess what? The people will fall for it hook, line and f*cking sinker!
I am embarrassed that my country and its people are that lazy, stupid, indifferent, and about thousand other derogatory adjectives. They are so AFRAID of their own shadow that they allow the mistreatment of American citizens in the name of patriotism. THAT IS JUST F*CKING SICK! They are DISGUSTING!
Yeah! I said it---I meant it--now BITE ME!
CHUQ
Showing posts with label Analysis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Analysis. Show all posts
30 September 2007
27 September 2007
UAW Strike Update
The strike ended yesterday, but what did the Union and its members win? IMO, not too damn much. They will transfer retirement funds to the Union for their control, it will be in control of tens of billion of dollars.
The Union agreed to : employees will not get pay raises but rather lump sum bonuses at year's end. New GM employees will come to work with a big cut in starting pay.
GM agrees to possibly keep jobs in the US.
There is the major points of the deal. Now I ask where in this settlement did the members and employees win? This is why the Unions are failing. They are not working in the interest of the worker, it is always about economics, never about the worker and his needs. The only concession they got from the automaker was a transfer of funds and a promise to "maybe" protect American jobs.
Now the Union will move on to Chrysler and Ford, will the workers and the Union cave on these negotiations? The worker is not being adequately represented in good faith, only what is good, financially for the Union and its staff of cronies. In short, the worker will ALWAYS lose in these negotiations.
CHUQ
The Union agreed to : employees will not get pay raises but rather lump sum bonuses at year's end. New GM employees will come to work with a big cut in starting pay.
GM agrees to possibly keep jobs in the US.
There is the major points of the deal. Now I ask where in this settlement did the members and employees win? This is why the Unions are failing. They are not working in the interest of the worker, it is always about economics, never about the worker and his needs. The only concession they got from the automaker was a transfer of funds and a promise to "maybe" protect American jobs.
Now the Union will move on to Chrysler and Ford, will the workers and the Union cave on these negotiations? The worker is not being adequately represented in good faith, only what is good, financially for the Union and its staff of cronies. In short, the worker will ALWAYS lose in these negotiations.
CHUQ
17 September 2007
A Critique Of Marxism
I found this while surfing and I liked it and wanted to pass it on.
by Karl Korsch
1. It no longer makes sense to ask to what extent the teaching of Marx and Engels is, today, theoretically acceptable and practically applicable.
2. Today, all attempts to re-establish the Marxist doctrine as a whole in its original function as a theory of the working classes social revolution are reactionary utopias.
3. Though basically ambiguous, there are, however, important aspects of Marxian teaching which in their changing function and applying to different locations have until today retained their effectiveness. Also, the impetus generated by the praxis of the old Marxist labor movement has been presently incorporated into the practical struggles of peoples -and classes.
4. The first step in re-establishing a revolutionary theory and practice consists in breaking with that Marxism which claims to monopolize revolutionary initiative as well as theoretical and practical direction.
5. Marx is today only one among the numerous precursors, founders and developers of the socialist movement of the working class. No less important are the so-called Utopian Socialists from Thomas More to the present. No less important are the great rivals of Marx, such as Blanqui, and his sworn enemies, such as Proudhon and Bakunin. No less important, in the final result, are the more recent developments such as German revisionism, French syndicalism, and Russian Bolshevism.
6. The following points are particularly critical for Marxism: (a) its dependence on the underdeveloped economic and political conditions in Germany and all the other countries of central and eastern Europe where it was to have political relevance; (b) its unconditional adherence to the political forms of the bourgeois revolution; (c) the unconditional acceptance of the advanced economic conditions of England as a model for the future development of all countries and as objective preconditions for the transition to socialism; to which one should add; (d) the consequences of its repeated desperate and contradictory attempts to break out of these conditions.
7. The results of these conditions are: (a) the overestimation of the state as the decisive instrument of social revolution; (b) the mystical identification of the development of the capitalist economy with the social revolution of the working class; (c) the subsequent ambiguous development of this first form of the Marxian theory of revolution by the artificial grafting onto it of a theory of the communist revolution in two phases; this theory, directed on the one hand against Blanqui, and on the other against Bakunin, whisks away from the present movement the real emancipation of the working class and puts it back into the indefinite future.
8. This is the point for insertion of the Leninist or Bolshevik development; and it is in this new form that Marxism has been transferred to Russia and Asia. Thereby Marxism has been changed; from a revolutionary theory it has become an ideology. This ideology could be and has been used for a variety of different goals.
9. It is from this viewpoint that one comes to judge in a critical spirit the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and 1928, and it is from this viewpoint that one must determine the functions fulfilled by Marxism today in Asia and on a world scale.
10. The control of the workers over the production of their own lives win not come from their occupying the positions, on the international and world markets, abandoned by the self-destroying and so-called free competition of the monopolistic owners of the means of production. This control can only result from a planned intervention by all the classes today excluded from it into a production which today is already tending in every way to be regulated in a monopolistic and planned fashion.
A Reflection
For years I have been a Left activist and in that time I have watched just about every Left leaning organization self-destruct. From outside antagonisms and internal bullsh*t to just stupid positions. I was very active in the 70's, 80's and early 90's, but I saw it as a useless endeavor because no one seemed to be serious about change. well, change within the organization, but nothing about society as a whole. I tried this party, this organization, so on......and each time it came down to some juvenile crap about who did what to whom and he said, she said, I had no time for such petty bullsh*t. So I decide to bow out of the Left's trek for a better society. I was in the IWW and my attempts to unionize a company cost 14 people their jobs. That also was devastating to me and was another reason I wanted to take some time out.
After of years of trying to avoid anything political, I could not stand it any more and returned to the struggle. I joined a small Leftist organization with the hopes and dreams that they were serious about working for change, after about a year and half, the crap started with the organization. This group wants power, this group has power and they butt heads on this way of doing something or that way of talking or........IT IS BULLSHIT!
I am still part of this organization and they are trying to get the sh*t under control. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and will wait and see what is actually accomplished before I make my decsion to move on or not. To say that I am disappointed would be an understatement.
I was hoping that the Left had learned its lesson in the last hundred years of the same petty bullsh*t; I was WRONG! The "real" Left will NEVER be a force in American society or politics. How can they convince the people that they have a better way when they cannot agree on what word to use. They are all SILLY and PATHETIC! There are times when I am embarrassed at being part of the juvenile bullsh*t.
Will there ever be a time when the Left has its act together so that the peoplke can have a stable alternative to the crappy life capitalism has given them? Not as long as personalities dominate!
So it is written, so it is!
CHUQ
17 Sept 2007
After of years of trying to avoid anything political, I could not stand it any more and returned to the struggle. I joined a small Leftist organization with the hopes and dreams that they were serious about working for change, after about a year and half, the crap started with the organization. This group wants power, this group has power and they butt heads on this way of doing something or that way of talking or........IT IS BULLSHIT!
I am still part of this organization and they are trying to get the sh*t under control. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and will wait and see what is actually accomplished before I make my decsion to move on or not. To say that I am disappointed would be an understatement.
I was hoping that the Left had learned its lesson in the last hundred years of the same petty bullsh*t; I was WRONG! The "real" Left will NEVER be a force in American society or politics. How can they convince the people that they have a better way when they cannot agree on what word to use. They are all SILLY and PATHETIC! There are times when I am embarrassed at being part of the juvenile bullsh*t.
Will there ever be a time when the Left has its act together so that the peoplke can have a stable alternative to the crappy life capitalism has given them? Not as long as personalities dominate!
So it is written, so it is!
CHUQ
17 Sept 2007
15 September 2007
Blue Collar Intellectual
A title that was given to me by the National Secretary of the Socialist Party-USA, after I was invited to give a paper to the Marxist Scholars Conference in Louisville back in the late 80's. The paper was titled, "the Shortcomings in The Theory Of Nonviolence".
That title along with the title of agitator were I must coveted titles. I was proud of the titles and still am, but they are not much help when trying to educate the people. Most times I am perceived as a contrarian, someone who just wants to be negative. OK, but what is there to be positive about? My concerns are always for the majority of the people; I could care less about individual bullshit. If a society cannot concern itself with the betterment of the people as a whole, then that society needs to be replace and replaced as quickly as possible.
CHUQ
That title along with the title of agitator were I must coveted titles. I was proud of the titles and still am, but they are not much help when trying to educate the people. Most times I am perceived as a contrarian, someone who just wants to be negative. OK, but what is there to be positive about? My concerns are always for the majority of the people; I could care less about individual bullshit. If a society cannot concern itself with the betterment of the people as a whole, then that society needs to be replace and replaced as quickly as possible.
CHUQ
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