good to see some smart ideas being thrown in the mix. I'm an international student going to Macalester College - the liberal heartbed of the midwest!! it';s still pretty pathetic.. the only truly liberal kids i know here are a bulgarian, an indian and a swede... most of the american liberals have little undertsanding of the world, absolutely no pragmatic belief system, a confused economic basis and quite honestly - it's all just part of being a cool kid who gets some ass. there beliefs are skin deep and it's quite pathetic.
i know precisely 2 intelligent american kids here - after having spoken to close to 500.. it's quite shocking.
i don't mean to rant on the lack of intelligence in this country, but on the day that bush has been elected, it's hard not to.
i'm not someone with deep roots in socialism. as a teenager i was one for the free market.. for the utopian vision that is free market neo-classical economics.. as i've entered my 20s.. i've been taken over by a certain pragmatic socialist, anti-fetishism kind of belief system. i can see how pathetic capitalist society is. i can also however see solutions, but it seems to me.. that the ultimate solutions that is communism necessitates a single vision state, which is only possible if as trotsky said there is an attempt at world/global communism. i don't think the one country model can succeed, really. it also seems that as marx said, once the the ownership of private property is abolished, the state must wither away - for otherwise, as in stalinist russia - it just becomes a new means of oppression. if the class of officials grows too big or too powerful, true communism cannot come about. it's a better system - but how can it be brought about? thats the real question. maybe after more of these pointless battles and a nuke.. we'll realize, one world with true equality is the way to go.. no borders, no boundaries, no private property.. just one world..
> The question as to remedy, however, still remains. Were we
> in Europe, where the populace tends to the more pro-active
> and educated, there might exist the chance for the masses
> to arise and, either through the electoral process or
> direct conflict, evoke a viable break from capitalism.
> However, we are discussing the U.S., where the frail hope
> of acheiving the financial liquidity that makes the norm so
> stark, i.e. the exception that proves the rule, keeps the
> worker chained to his post, reaching for a brass-plated
> ring dangled just out of reach.
>
> I believe the first step towards justice for the American
> worker is to let other nations for the time being take care
> of their own; while I remain in favor of a global
> community, we cannot possibly justify continued hardships
> for our own citizens while we strive to improve the lot for
> those who will eventually be filling those outsourced
> positions. Call it whatever you will--'keeping the world
> safe for democracy,' 'fighting the war on terror,'
> 'liberating the oppressed.' It still comes down to
> old-fashioned imperialism.
>
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