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Giving up the Pretense on Socialism

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 30th, 2010 at 08:39 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Tabitha has already hit this, but I want to come back to one point.

I am referring to the insipid bit of bra burning in the pages of the New York Times lamenting the rise of Sarah Palin. There is one key bit of it worth noting:

[The left has] done nothing to stop a[ ] … socialist-bashing Tea Party enthusiast

Got that? They are angry that Sarah Palin and the tea party bashes socialism.

Remember just a few months ago when every leftist in America screamed whenever anyone on the right accused Obama and the Democrats of being socialists? You’d think we’d just called them something profane other than describing who they actually are.

Now, here we have two lefty feminists convinced one of Sarah Palin’s worst traits is that she bashes socialism. Voters delivered themselves into the hands of San Francisco Democrats without realizing it and are now desperately trying to extricate themselves.

Meanwhile, the socialists finally feel comfortable enough to call themselves that. How much longer before they start bashing tea partiers for bashing communism?

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  • bk

    All you need to do is check out the CPUSA’s “Program”. You’d be hard-pressed to find things not said by Democrats every day on the House or Senate floor, and except for a word here or there you’d swear you were reading the Democratic Party platform.

    Here is the outline:
    1. Introduction
    2. Capitalism, Exploitation, and Oppression
      1. Capitalism in the Era of Monopoly and Imperialism
      2. Internationalization of Economic Life, Transnationals, and Capitalist Globalization
      3. the World Balance of Forces
      4. Present Features of Capitalism
    3. The Working Class, Class Struggle, Democratic Struggle, and Forces for Progress
      1. The Working Class and Trade Union Movement
      2. Democratic Struggle and its Relation to Class Struggle
      3. Special Oppression and Exploitation
      4. Multiracial, Multinational Unity for Full Equality and Against Racism — Core Forces for Progress
      5. Additional Social Forces for Progress
    4. Unity Against the Ultra-Right
      1. The Ultra-Right
      2. The More Realistic Trend
      3. Defeating the Ultra-Right
    5. Building the Anti-Monopoly Coalition
      1. An Anti-Monopoly Program
      2. A Labor-led People’s Party
      3. The Left in the Anti-Monopoly Coalition
      4. The Immediate Transition to Working People’s Power
    6. Bill of Rights Socialism in the U.S.A.
    7. The Role of the Communist Party
    8. Summary

  • throwback59

    to the left is an honorable, positive philosphy, something to strive for. Glad to see they’ve finally “come out of the closet,” so to speak.

  • mark1957

    “Socialist-bashing” will become a hate crime. After all, they are the speech police, out to silence any and all dissent by any means possible.

  • NotSoBlueStater

    … I’m not a socialist, but I agree with the authors that Palin spends a lot of time bashing people she perceives to be socialists. It’s sort of like saying that calling JFK anti-communist makes you a communist.

  • Section9

    “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.”

    -Pauline Kael, Theater Critic for The New Yorker, in a speech before the Modern Languages Association in 1972, from which the famous “No One I knew voted for Nixon” quote was derived.

    ——————

    It should surprise no one that the Left is angry at Palin for attacking socialism. In the circles that these writers travel, socialism is thought of as the preferred model for organizing society. Women like these writers hate Palin; she is thought of as a grasping climber.

    We live in a time that is quite similar to the period prior to the French Revolution, only our country does Jacksonian popular revolt, not mobs in the streets led by Madame Defarge. It is an irony of history that the Left has become obsessed with the trappings of power and justified it all by its insistence that they are the surfers on the wave of the future, when in fact they are little more than stooges for their faction of the Ruling Class.

    As Jay Cost has pointed out time and again, our Constitution leaves quite clear who actually rules in this country. The time will come for a reassertion of popular authority. The politician who gets that first will be the most successful in our time.

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  • swami7774

    …the veil slips.