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<blockquote data-quote="22LR" data-source="post: 571685" data-attributes="member: 24005"><p>True to an extent. Hoffa sharpened his organizing teeth in the IWW - which fights for the same things as me. Social security, public education, overtime, vacations, retirement, work saftey, etc., were all demands raised by and fought for by revolutionaries. Proletarian revolutionaries have no interests separate from those of our class. </p><p></p><p>But "socialism" and "communism" have become meaningless in the US. The words are used and abused to the point of no return. Part of that is because the words were used by some of the great criminals of history. But that's not totally it. A lot of it has to do with great propaganda work on the part of the capitalists in the US. After all, the biggest crimes in history were carried out under the rubric of "freedom and democracy." </p><p></p><p>"We often react to party labels rather than to the actual proposals which are put before us. This was demonstrated very clearly in a study in which farmers and workers in the United States were interviewed with respect to their voting intentions, their party preferences, and their approval or disapproval of various lines of action. They were found to disapprove of Socialist and Communist parties and candidates, and yet approve of the measures proposed by these parties rather more than those proposed by their more conservative opponents. When it is a question of election, therefore, these people would have voted against the measures which they actually favoured because of their stereotyped view of Socialism." -H.J. Eysenck, Uses and Abuses of Psychology, page 249</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not that it matters much but George Orwell was against the "Communist" Parties that existed in places like the USSR, not the idea of communism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="22LR, post: 571685, member: 24005"] True to an extent. Hoffa sharpened his organizing teeth in the IWW - which fights for the same things as me. Social security, public education, overtime, vacations, retirement, work saftey, etc., were all demands raised by and fought for by revolutionaries. Proletarian revolutionaries have no interests separate from those of our class. But "socialism" and "communism" have become meaningless in the US. The words are used and abused to the point of no return. Part of that is because the words were used by some of the great criminals of history. But that's not totally it. A lot of it has to do with great propaganda work on the part of the capitalists in the US. After all, the biggest crimes in history were carried out under the rubric of "freedom and democracy." "We often react to party labels rather than to the actual proposals which are put before us. This was demonstrated very clearly in a study in which farmers and workers in the United States were interviewed with respect to their voting intentions, their party preferences, and their approval or disapproval of various lines of action. They were found to disapprove of Socialist and Communist parties and candidates, and yet approve of the measures proposed by these parties rather more than those proposed by their more conservative opponents. When it is a question of election, therefore, these people would have voted against the measures which they actually favoured because of their stereotyped view of Socialism." -H.J. Eysenck, Uses and Abuses of Psychology, page 249 Not that it matters much but George Orwell was against the "Communist" Parties that existed in places like the USSR, not the idea of communism. [/QUOTE]
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