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I saw this as related to previous discussion that the idea of “socialism” is again being brought into popular discourse, akin to Sanders and AOC bringing the concept, no matter how inaccurate, back into the political discourse in America.
I was merely acknowledging that we are entering a time, a short window of opportunity, perhaps, where there is an increasing receptive audience for socialist ideas.
It is for those German socialists to resurrect the revolutionary tradition rather than just radical ideas of Luxemburg and Liebknecht and Kautsky (on a good day) which, may now have an atmosphere where their ideas might resonate.
Where these absent socialists are is the real question we should all be asking ourselves.
In Israel they specifically apply the description Israeli-Arab to differentiate from the “proper” Israelis i.e. the Jewish section.
Israeli-Arab is a term chosen purposefully to avoid describing them as Palestinian Israelis (albeit there are a small number of non-Palestinians such as Bedouin and Druze)
I have always tried to say Israeli government on the blog but occasionally saying Israel and its adjective Israeli does slip through as it relates to the political state. But i’ll try to be more precise in future
As South African, however he should be more circumspect in his language. During apartheid we can say South Africa and it is recognized as meaning the white supremist government, however when we said South Africans is meant all the people.
I’m not at all sure that he is being anti-Semitic, just careless, maybe
But what UBI proposal? There are so many different versions.
And can we determine in advance the unintended consequences? …oops, that is a contradiction in terms…
Ellen Brown once again advocating state-owned banking as a economic panacea.
Democrats Can Have Their Progressive Policies and Pay for Them Too
“…The government can generate the money it needs simply by creating it on the books of its own banks…money simply created with computer keystrokes…”
Sounds familiar but she is discussing central banks which do have the power to create money. However, she argues that the supposed inflationary effects have been avoided…sort of by some variation of QE policies
“…Japan’s M2 money supply has not even doubled in 20 years, while the U.S. money supply has grown by 300%; and Japan’s inflation rate remains stubbornly below the Bank of Japan’s 2% target. Abe’s stimulus programs have not driven up prices. In fact, deflation remains a greater concern than inflation in Japan, despite unprecedented debt monetization by its central bank…the Bank of Japan’s unprecedented program of monetary easing had provided easy credit for corporate restructuring without generating inflation….”
Of course, i’m lost when it comes to any deeper analysis of her arguments
“Apartheid Israel perpetuates statutory discrimination through the very definition by the law as a Jewish state; by doing so it renders non-Jews as second-class citizens, alternately as foreigners in the land of their birth…as long as Israel and Israelis are not punished and don’t pay for the occupation, for the crimes, don’t expect any change. It will not come from within Israel…” – Zwelivelile Mandela, an MP of the ruling African National Congress, Nelson Mandela’s grandson.
Human rights activist Issa Amro, who is based in Hebron, said “Don’t be afraid of ‘anti-Semitism’ because the message of this conference should be that criticising Israeli human rights violations is not anti-Semitism,”
Harris gets the recent publicity but Warren gets the donations and has the better campaign machine
https://apnews.com/491a0d9b86184aac87fe8a2b16972a71
“…Elizabeth Warren raised $19.1 million in the second quarter, her campaign said Monday, cementing her status in the top tier of Democratic presidential contenders and surpassing Bernie Sanders…The campaign’s $19.1 million came from more than 384,000 contributors giving more than 683,000 donations.”
But the big money is still on the pro-Establishment candidates
Pete Buttigieg, nearly $25 million, and Joe Biden, $21.5 million since his candidacy began in late April.
Harris, trails with $12 million second quarter fundraising
Is the dream team going to be President Warren, Vice-President Sanders?
Where’s that William Hill betting shop for the odds, darn closed down…Ladbrokes?
Aren’t we the ultimate binaries . Capitalism or Socialism 😆
But in the context of the contemporary left politics, it is more the sexuality/gender issue being referred to, rather than the either/or situations
I just read a progressive website article that claims MeRa 25’s 3.4% was “far exceeding expectations” and a “strong performance” despite that its vote was less than the Greek Solution and the Communist Party.
Clutching at left-wing straws.
No, I don’t think they do learn. They set themselves up for failure, often as a self-fulfilling prediction
Jonathan Cook’s latest article
“…There is a plot against Corbyn to stop him getting anywhere near power. It is a very obvious one…”
“…But even if all that is true, polls suggest a significant number of ordinary Jews think there is a problem with anti-semitism in Labour. How can we dismiss or denigrate their views? Well, if only one view of Labour and anti-semitism is being aired in the media, it is almost certain that a majority of Jews will end up believing the truth of a supposed “Corbyn threat”. Jews are no different from the rest of us. No smoke without fire, they’ll say…”
The Global Green New Deal – 2009
https://www.cbd.int/development/doc/UNEP-global-green-new-deal.pdf
Ignored and neglected
Similar fate for the AOC plan?
More appropriate example are the UN’s seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, the follow up to its Millennium Goals. The global groundwork has been done, the reporting and monitoring process is in place, the targets determined and what resources are required broadly calculated. It is the re-defining of the targets and the resource allocation being the main issue for any socialist society, to shorten the target time for completion of the targets.
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
These are not similar to the Soviet/Stalinist era 5-year plans which I think was in the forefront of Robin’s mind, an enterprise’s short-, medium- and long-term business plans within a command economy.
The Democratic Party leadership continues to isolate its dissenters and dissidents
Britain’s ambassador in the United States has described President Donald Trump and his administration as “inept” and “uniquely dysfunctional” Ambassador Kim Darroch, one of Britain’s most experienced diplomats, said Trump’s presidency could “crash and burn” and “end in disgrace”
“We don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept,” Darroch wrote
He wrote that the “vicious infighting and chaos” inside the White House – widely reported in the US but dismissed by Trump as “fake news” – was “mostly true”.
Darroch criticized foreign policy on Iran as “incoherent” and “chaotic. He said the president’s assertion that he called off retaliatory missile strikes against the Iranian regime after a US drone was shot down because it risked killing 150 Iranians “doesn’t stand up”. “It’s more likely that he was never fully on board and that he was worried about how this apparent reversal of his 2016 campaign promises would look come 2020,”Hopefully, the WSP (India) submits other pertinent and stimulating articles and picks up interest from the website’s many Indian readers.
As one comrade frequently says, patience and perseverance can piss a hole through any stone
“Lie down with the dogs and you get fleas. What do you mean with this expression?”
If one associate with nasty people, you will acquire their faults
Being in the Democrat Party, AOC will find herself more and more entrapped by it, sucked deeper into the machinations of it.
