Posted on 02/09/2004 10:35:08 AM PST by Stingray
Representative [Bernie] Sanders delivered the following remarks at the National Conference on Media Reform held in Madison, WI.
"I had run for office in Vermont as a third party candidate and received 1 or 2 percent of the vote. And then, having been a little bit involved in media production, I decided to produce a video biography on the life of Eugene V. Debs, one of my heroes -- the great labor and socialist leader of the early part of the 20th century."
Here's a sampling of some of the writings of Sanders' self-professed "hero", Eugene V. Debs:
"Let me say at the very threshold of this discussion that the workers have but the one issue in this campaign, the overthrow of the capitalist system and the emancipation of the working class from wage-slavery."
THE CLASS STRUGGLE
"We are entering tonight upon a momentous campaign. The struggle for political supremacy is not between political parties merely, as appears upon the surface, but at bottom it is a life and death struggle between two hostile economic classes, the one the capitalist, and the other the working class."
THE HISTORIC STRUGGLE OF CLASSES
The call of the Socialist party is to the exploited class, the workers in all usefull trades and professions, all honest occupations, from the most menial service to the highest skill, to rally beneath their own standard and put an end to the last of the barbarous class struggles by conquering the capitalist government, taking possession of the means of production and making them the common property of all, abolishing wage-slavery and establishing the co-operative commonwealth."
CLOSING WORDS
"The overthrow of capitalism is the object of the Socialist party. It will not fuse with any other party and it would rather die than compromise."
Eugene V. Debs, Founder of the American Socialist Party Opening Speech Delivered as Candidate of the Socialist Party for the President at Indianapolis, Ind., September 1, 1904
Some hero, huh?
BTW, Sanders' congressional page lists all the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus here, http://bernie.house.gov/pc/ of which Kucinich is an officer.
More on Debs, the hero of Sanders and a number of other American Marxists here:
http://www.marxists.org/index.htm
More on that later, if I get the time.
Just thought you might enjoy this ever-so-brief tour through the mind of an American Marxist: Bernie Sanders.
Vermont has been taken over by ex-hippies from New York and Massachussetts. My husband graduated from the University of Vermont in '73, and at that time the hippies were living in communes all over the state and the native Vermonters couldn't wait to leave. There were more cows in the state than there were people and fewer jobs. The teaching and nursing professions were so over crowded that teachers were being paid less than 6,000 /yr and nurses made for a whole day what they made per hour in other states.
Tell us, How you really feel...then think, would you really want Algore as Pres./Chief Excut...esp. w/ the war on terrorism...on balance keep GWB.
In David Horowitz's book, Radical Son, he talks about an early movement, I think in the 50's-60's, to send lots of pinko's to Vermont and try to take over the state's politics. Then they would take on the rest of the country. Obviously, they had a bit of success.
Almost exactly like the current Libertarian project to do the same, but opposite, in New Hampshire. What is it called, the "Free State Project" I think?
New Hampshire and Vermont truely are twin states. Exact mirror images of each other, and that's only been true in the last 50 years. They make great case studies of the effects of socialisim vs. capitalisim.
that's true...What did Gen. Patton say about the French, "I rather have them in front of me, then behind...So I could watch them."
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