Reply #69: Another Amazing Essay, but also a Clarion Call to Action Now..

[radio4progressives]

Unless the oligarchy can be again overthrown as it was in 1932, such is the true and unavoidable future of the whole United States.


This essay not only deserves a thread of it's own, but needs to be published - and widely distributed in print and on line.

The New Deal was, of course, immediately recognized by the ruling class as a peaceful pathway to the kind of egalitarian economy envisioned by Marx -- “from each according to ability; to each according to need” -- and as such, simply because it demanded a sharing of wealth, it was fiercely opposed from the very beginning, first by the thwarted fascist coup of 1934, next by subversion, finally by the assassinations of the 1960s: President John Fitzgerald Kennedy , Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy. After a mere 36 years -- from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s blessed victory in 1932 to the resurgence of American fascism signaled by Richard Milhous Nixon’s election in 1968 -- the New Deal and all its implicit promise was dead.

this is the kernel of historical truth which needs to be applied to the current political context, in terms of party platform principles, positions & alliances and choosing which candidates who possess at least a modicum of understanding of these issues (like John Edwards) and who is committed to restoring the New Deal principles..

I'm not at all confident that the party is as committed as Edwards which may be a factor as to why the Democratic Party Leaders refused to challenge the 2004 stolen election results.