New York Times | The Unexpected Afterlife of American Communism New York Times In short, American Communism was a movement that grew out of what the historian Robin D. G. Kelley, the author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, calls the most despised and dispossessed elements of American ... |
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Gerald Holland, Op-ed contributor 5:50 a.m. CT June 6, 2017
President Donald Trump has announced the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. USA TODAY
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Hail President Donald Trump for pulling out of the Paris climate change agreement.
In the first place, this "agreement" is a usurpation of the power of the presidency. The Constitution gives the president power to make treaties "provided two-thirds of the Senators concur." The Paris plan is a treaty or there ain't a cow in Texas. President Barrack Obama bypassed the Constitution's treaty mandate because he knew the Senate would reject the deal.
The same applies to Obama's undercover scheme that funds Iran's development of nuclear bombs.In both cases he ignored the Senate's constitutional authority.
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Unfortunately, Senate Republicans refused to exercise their responsibility and declare the flawed agreements to be treaties and vote on them as such.
The Paris climate deal (allegedly voluntarily) obligates the developed world, America, Canada, Europe, Australia, etc., to impoverish ourselves and send our prosperity to Third World countries. It would be the greatest income transfer in history.
As such, the Paris accord fulfills the ambition of Marxism-Leninism from its conception. Communism failed to make all humans equal, even as they murdered 100,000,000 trying to do so and collapsed as a viable political system.World-government climate change mandates are just the thing to achieve the goals of communism.
For all the hysteria based on the fact that climate always fluctuates, the real threat to humanity, Islamic terrorism, is ignored by the worshippers in the Climate Change Church.
The Copenhagen climate conference of 2009 collapsed after exposure of climate data fraud at East Anglia University. Nevertheless, Herman van Rompuy, the European Union head, said that with climate change agreements "2009 is the first year of global governance" and is "another step to global management."
"Voluntary" may apply to other nations, but for us it will be mandatory, in effect. Climate-change religionists are already circling like buzzards looking for opportunities to sue somebody, anybody, to force compliance with global government's wishes. Laurent Fabius, presiding at the conference, said the standards are "voluntary but legally binding." Voluntary?
Under the Paris agreement Obama foisted on America, China will do nothing to reduce carbon emissions before 2030, if then. It will continue to drastically expand its use of demonized coal to produce electricity for their people. India demands a bribe before they do anything and they plan to double their use of coal anyway.
According to National Public Radio, no climate-change denier, we are required to send at least $100 billion per year to underdeveloped countries.
NPR says this is a floor, not a maximum. It will ramp up over the years. According to standard operating procedure, this largesse will not get to the needy people. Instead It will fund their kleptocrat rulers' lavish lifestyles and their offshore bank accounts. Example: China, ruled by "all animals are equal" communists, proves Animal Farm'sadage, "but some are more equal than others." Some of the richest billionaires on earth are high echelon members of the Chinese communist party.
NPR says further: Even the target date for reduction of greenhouse gases is a big guess. It's somewhere around "mid-century." In the near future CO2 will rise. Eventually, but not soon, emissions will decline. Nations aren't expected to reduce emissions immediately. Zero emissions is the goal, but we would have to completely shut down every beneficial greenhouse gas technology, to (possibly) achieve that objective.
For all the lost jobs, lost prosperity, strangling regulations (including on cow belches and farts,etc.)the illusive improvement in global temperature is only about 1.5 degrees centigrade in 85 years. The politicians negotiating the deal decided that at 2-degree rise "plucked out of air" would be unrealistic, but they moved to 1.5 degrees, even more unrealistic.
For all the hysteria based on the fact that climate always fluctuates, the real threat to humanity, Islamic terrorism, is ignored by the worshippers in the Climate Change Church. Non-believer and heretics are to be figuratively gagged, tortured and burned at the stake to save our souls.
Gerald Holland lives in Springhill.
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California assemblyman Rob Bonta authored AB 22, which repeals part of a law allowing state employees to be fired for being members of the Communist Party. The Bay Area Democrat has withdrawn the bill, but his gambit provides a tutorial on the currently raging subject of foreign intervention in American elections.
The Communist Party USA was not just another American political party, like the Democratic, Green, Libertarian and Republican parties. The Communist Party was the creation of the Soviet Union, which established the Communist International, the Comintern, to manage its parties in other lands.
Ben Gitlow, twice the Communist Party candidate for vice-president, described the party as a militarized colonial service in the land they were colonizing for the USSR, the United States.
Millennials and such might wonder which Americans joined a Party like that and still managed to get a job in California government. Rob Bonta failed to name any, including the most prominent.
Few African Americans joined a party that represented an all-white foreign dictatorship, but that proved no impediment to Angela Davis. Long after prominent blacks like Richard Wright abandoned the CPUSA, as he explained in The God That Failed, Davis duly joined the Party. She then gained her first teaching job at UCLA, which she retained despite attempts to fire her.
Davis involvement in a courthouse gun battle made her a national figure, and in 1979 the Soviet Union awarded Davis the International Lenin Peace Prize. In 1980 and 1984, Angela Davis was the vice-presidential candidate of the Communist Party USA, on the bottom of the ticket under white Stalinist Gus Hall.
Serving as the candidate of communist Russia, a hostile totalitarian foreign power, did not prevent Angela Davis from becoming professor of the history of consciousness and feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In that post she was a state employee, but was never fired for her CPUSA membership and candidacy.
Another American, Bert Corona, joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and dropped out of USC to become a professional Party agitatorwhat would now be called an organizer. Corona had no college degree and was completely unqualified for a job at Cal State LA, which took affirmative action to hire him.
Corona left that job, but the violence-prone Stalinist was not fired for Communist Party membership. He went on to bilk state government out of millions of dollars.
As the record shows, even the most high-profile and violent Communist Party members can easily secure and retain high-paying jobs with the state of California. That has also been true of the federal government.
The curiosity is not that there were undoubtedly many Reds that made government their vocation, but that the entire Communist Party was not on the federal payroll. That is not some right-wing McCarthyite, but the late liberal Democrat Robert Vaughn, star of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., who at USC wrote his PhD thesis about Communists blacklisted by the movie industry.
Meanwhile, Mr. Bontas legislation was an attempt to rehabilitate Communists by portraying them as just like members of other political parties. They werent and arent.
Communists are prodigious haters who never accepted the U.S. Constitution nor any democratic institutions. They are members of a Party founded, directed and funded by a hostile foreign power. Communists are the sycophants of dictators like Fidel Castro and apologists of their totalitarian regimes.
Just so millennials know, communism still prevails in Cuba, China, Vietnam, and North Korea. That regimes Sado-Stalinist dictator Kim Jong-un hopes to strike the United States with a nuclear missile. So one might say that communism remains a threat to the peace, freedom and security of the United States.
Lloyd Billingsley is a Policy Fellow at the Independent Institute. He is the author of Barack em Up: A Literary Investigation, and Bill of Writes: Dispatches from the Political Correctness Battlefield.
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Communism is one of our top all-time lookups, and user comments suggest thats because it is often used in opaque ways. In some sources, communism is equated with socialism; in others, it is contrasted with democracy and capitalism. Part of this confusion stems from the fact that the word communism has been applied to varying political systems over time. When it was first used in English prose, communism referred to an economic and political theory that advocated the abolition of private property and the common sharing of all resources among a group of people, and it was often used interchangeably with the word socialism by 19th-century writers. The differences between communism and socialism are still debated, but generally English speakers used communism to refer to the political and economic ideologies that find their origin in Karl Marxs theory of revolutionary socialism, which advocates a proletariat overthrow of capitalist structures within a society, societal and communal ownership and governance of the means of production, and the eventual establishment of a classless society. The most well-known expression of Marxs theories is the 20th-century Bolshevism of the U.S.S.R., in which the state, through a single authoritarian party, controls a societys economy and social activities with the goal of realizing Marxs theories.
Communism is often contrasted with capitalism and democracy, though these can be false equivalencies depending on the usage. Capitalism refers to an economic theory in which a societys means of production are held by private individuals or organizations, not the government, and where prices, distribution of goods, and products are determined by a free market. It can be contrasted with the economic theories of communism, though the word communism is used of both political and economic theories. Democracy refers to a system of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised through a system of direct or indirect representation which is decided through periodic free elections. Democracy is contrasted with communism primarily because the 20th-century communism of the U.S.S.R. was characterized by an authoritarian government, whereas the democracy of the 20th-century U.S. was characterized by a representative government.
President Joko Widodo. Photo: Reuters / Darren Whiteside
President Joko Widodo wants to make it clear that he thinks communism is a threat to Indonesia and that hes ready to whoop any reds that dare to show their face in the archipelago. You just need to show him one.
The question is, where are they? Where? Jokowi asked on Saturday during a speech at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang, as quoted by Tribun. If you show them me to me, I will clobber them immediately because the law is clear.
Ever since 1965, when a supposed coup plot by the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) led to the assassination of four military generals, a power grab by the dictator Suharto and the death of an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 people in a bloody purge of everybody in and associated with the PKI, Indonesia has been haunted by the ghost of communism. Even today, military generals and politicians often speak about the dangers of communists infiltrating Indonesia.
The problem, of course, is that there isnt a single credible communist threat to Indonesia today. The PKI are long gone, communism in almost all of its forms are banned from the country (even t-shirt form!) and the only semi-communist superpower left, China, is close trading and business partners with Indonesia.
But after decades of being subjected to propaganda about the evils of communism under Suhartos New Order (such as forced viewings of the ridiculously inaccurate docudramaPengkhianatan G30S/PKI) Indonesian fears about the mostly failed ideology remain high and no politician, including President Jokowi, wants to be seen as being soft on commies.
Since he first decided to run for president, Jokowis political enemies have attempted to trick regular citizens into believing conspiracy theories and fake news on social media about how Jokowi was either a secret Christian and/or an agent of the Chinese attempting to protect a new PKI threat.
Jokowi said during his speech on Saturday that, while he usually couldnt be bothered to respond to those kinds of rumors, he wanted to finally take the opportunity to directly refute them.
When the PKI were disbanded, I was only three years old, he said. Addressing rumors that there were communist sympathizers in his family, he invited people to investigate his genealogical history as he had nothing to hide.
He reiterated once again that communist organizations were banned from Indonesia for being contrary to the countrys founding principles of Pancasila, and he would immediately disband any such organization in line with the constitution.
Last month, the government initiated the disbandment of the Indonesian chapter of Hizbut Tahrir, an Islamist organization with the goal of replacing all governments with an Islamic caliphate, with Jokowi citing the fact that the organizations goals were contrary to Pancasila and thus banned by the government.
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