Posted on 08/08/2007 10:13:03 PM PDT by cricket
excerpt from 'FAQ'
What is the Communist Party?
The Communist Party USA is an organization of revolutionaries working to bring about social change in a conscious, progressive direction. We understand the connection between working for democratic reforms and improvements in living standards today, and building a movement large enough and united enough to create revolutionary change and socialism in the future.
We are a legal political party, which runs candidates, publishes a weekly newspaper and a monthly magazine. We organize contingents in most major demonstrations, support workers’ struggles for decent wages and working conditions, and participate in many other ways in the political life of our country.
We base ourselves on Marxism-Leninism, on the accumulated experience of our Party since our founding in 1919. Our view of the needs of our working class as a whole, and on our vision of Socialism USA is based on those experiences.
We are rooted in our country’s revolutionary history and our many struggles for full equality and democracy. We call for "Bill of Rights" socialism, guaranteeing full individual freedoms, except the "freedom" to exploit or oppress others.
Our Party is a consistent fighter for the unity of our multiracial, multinational, male-female, young and old working class. Our unity must cross all lines of religion, region, and origin. It must encompass immigrants, both legal and undocumented, the unemployed and homeless. We fight to unite people on welfare, workers in all industries and of all income levels, workers in every region of the country. The fight to build the broadest possible unity is our main contribution to today’s struggles.
Though still very small, we are a tenacious Party with a long, proud history. Our history is steeled in struggles for peace, civil rights, union organizing, social justice, and democracy. Our over eighty years of struggle has taught us hard lessons about how to organize for change, about what works and what doesn’t, about the essential needs for unity, for collectivity, for basing ourselves in reality, for never substituting our wishes for a sober estimate of where the working class and people of our country are at.
Our strategy is to build the broadest possible anti-monopoly coalition. And work for progressive and democratic change, organize and give workers a sense of their own power, and work with millions who will learn the necessity of more fundamental change in the process of struggle.
Our work is geared to winning the working class and all oppressed people to understand the need to replace capitalism with socialism. Our work is to replace the exploitative and undemocratic economic system of capitalism with a socialist society that places people’s needs ahead of corporate greed.
We say: People and Nature Before Profits!
Excerpted from COPUSA:
It is true socialism will nationalize or socialize all large-scale production, property and real estate. But socialism does not abolish ALL privately-owned business. It does not require nationalization of those small businesses owned by people who work for themselves and do not hire others to make a profit. Personal property - private homes, automobiles, etc., - will remain just that, personal property.
In highly mechanized U.S. agriculture there will still be a place for the family farmer. But the farm family will be relieved of the pressure of agribusiness monopolies.
There will be rapid abolition of racism and national oppression. Socialism will bring complete equality for all racially and nationally oppressed. There will be no compromise with racism, for there will no longer exist a capitalist class which profits from it. Racism, national oppression, anti-Semitism, sexism, anti-immigrant discrimination and all forms of prejudice and bigotry will be banned by law, with strict measures of enforcement.
Affirmative action will be expanded immediately to undo and make up for hundreds of years of the ravages of racism. Full equality will be one of the main priorities of the new society.
War propaganda will be outlawed.
Communism, as we see it, is a more advanced stage that comes after socialism. . .
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NEVER FORGET
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Communists have NO Sense of Humor =
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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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NEVER FORGET
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Ask John Conyers!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862056/posts
Communism, as we see it, is a more advanced stage that comes after socialism. . .
Yeah, that worked so damn well for the USSR.
Capitalism is very undemocratic and unpatriotic. (. . .)
Similarly, the ideas promulgated about revolutionaries are at best a distortion, at worst outright, intentional lies. Not everyone who believes these distortions is an enemy, including the ideologues of the system—many are sincere people misled by the barrage of propaganda we are all subjected to. (bottom line and why these Dens bristle/whine at being called 'unpatriotic'. . .):
Revolution is of necessity a most democratic act.
Yes, our socialist/marxist Demrats ARE patriotic. . .particularly when they want to save our soldiers. . .from themselves. . .or when these Dems are acting by all means and measure; 'against' America; for these are just 'little' revolutionary decisions they make every day.
Hey it worked wonders for Coobahs low power rice cooker industry! Only took 40 some odd years too.
And why not? Conyers IS the man. . .for all Michigan Muslims and Democrat 'progressives'. And the Communist Party/USA loves him. He earns many 'revolutionary kudos'.
'NEVER FORGET'. . .fear in time, too many, will not know what to remember.
Start comparing older CP planks to that of DP and we can see their agreement.
Based on his record of membership in, and support for various communist front organizations, either of the CPUSA or the KGB (World Peace Council), Conyers is a “red”. Whether he is/was a member of the CPUSA lies in the files of the FBI. (He also has supported the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party, SWP, and the Stalinist Workers World Party, WWP, besides the RCP, Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party. The man has been busy).
There is a possibility that his father, John Conyers Sr, was a CP member or sympathizer since he was a major figure in the AFL-CIO during the 30’s thru 50’s. A key UAW VP, Mortimer Reimer, was a Soviet COMINTERN agent, based on files found in the Soviet archives by John Haynes and Harvey Klehrs (See: “Labor Studies”, Fall, 1995).
Conyers record has been published in the old newsletters “The Pink Sheet on the Left” and its successor, “The American Sentinel”, as well as in Human Events weekly, Frontpagemagazine, and in FRer posts.
There is a great photo of him at a KGB front operation right here in Wash. D.C. as well as at one overseas.
Sen. Carl Levin, then head of the Detroit City Council, 1975, is also in a photo with the top KGB agent of influence in the World Peace Council, Romesh Chandra, then a head of the CP of India.
Just love them Democrats - “progressives” all.
CPUSA= Democratic Party USA...no difference as far as I can see, especially with them wanting to be described as “progressive” rather than the “liberal” label of old.
They even lie to themselves.
Ping.
They still say we have elected 58 communists to Congress:
“Our work is geared to winning the working class and all oppressed people to understand the need to replace capitalism with socialism...”
Socialism has become the opiate of the masses.
I can tell you this, them little stars make mighty fine aiming points.
For everything you ever wanted to know about “progressives” and how they are just a derivation by another name of old fashioned Commies, read COMMIES by Ronald Radosh, and RADICAL SON, by David Horowitz.
Hillary and others have co-opted the Progressive title as an alternative for liberal.
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