Posted on 08/20/2012 4:20:42 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Former Amalgamated Transit Union local 689 president Mike Golash, now an “Occupy” movement organizer, was caught on tape Sunday revealing his political goals: overthrowing capitalism in the United States and instituting a communist government.
“Progressive labor is a revolutionary communist organization,” Golash said during an Occupy DC “People’s Assembly” on August 19.
“Its objective,” he added, “is to make revolution in the United States, overthrow the capitalist system and build communism.”
Golash said he and his comrades are “trying to learn something from the historical revolutions of the past: the Russian revolution, the Chinese revolution, the revolutions in Cuba and Eastern Europe.”
“What can we learn from them so we can build a more successful movement to transform capitalist society?”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Living proof of the old maxim, “the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits”
Socialist/communist revolutions always end in the deaths of thousands or millions. The socialist monsters of the 20th century, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot and all the rest have the blood of millions on their hands.
That is the advantage when facing sophisticated theoretical ideologues without a hard grasp of human reality.
Fish, barrel, musketry.
2000 - David Horowitz: .........."As a student of the left, Jamie Glazov, has observed in an article about the middle-class defenders of recently captured Seventies terrorist Kathy Soliah: "if you can successfully camouflage your own pathology and hatred with a concern for the 'poor' and the 'downtrodden,' then there will always be a 'progressive' milieu to support and defend you."* Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bernadine Dohrn, Sylvia Baraldini, Rubin Carter, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rigoberta Menchu and innumerable others have all discovered this principle in the course of their criminal careers.
There is a superficial sense, of course, in which we were civil rights and peace activists—and that is certainly the way I would have described myself at the time, particularly if I were speaking to a non-left audience. It is certainly the way Mrs. Clinton and my former comrades in the left refer to themselves and their pasts in similar contexts today.
But they are lying. (And when they defend racial preferences now—a principle they denounced as "racist" then—even they must know it).
The first truth about leftist missionaries, about believing progressives, is that they are liars. But they are not liars in the ordinary way, which is to say by choice. They are liars by necessity—often without even realizing that they are. Because they also lie to themselves. It is the political lie that gives their cause its life.
Why, for example, if you were one of them, would you tell the truth? If you were serious about your role in humanity's vanguard, if you had the knowledge (which others did not), that you were certain would lead them to a better world, why would you tell them a truth that they could not "understand" and that would hold them back?
If others could understand your truth, you would not think of yourself as a "vanguard." You would no longer inhabit the morally charmed world of an elite, whose members alone can see the light and whose mission is to lead the unenlightened towards it. If everybody could see the promised horizon and knew the path to reach it, the future would already have happened and there would be no need for the vanguard of the saints.
That is both the ethical core and psychological heart of what it means to be a part of the left. That is where the gratification comes from. To see yourself as a social redeemer. To feel anointed. In other words: To be progressive is itself the most satisfying narcissism.
That is why it is of little concern to them that their socialist schemes have run aground, burying millions of human beings in their wake. That is why they don't care that their panaceas have caused more human suffering than all the injustices they have ever challenged. That is why they never learn from their "mistakes." That is why the continuance of Them is more important than any truth.
If you were active in the so-called "peace" movement or in the radical wing of the civil rights causes, why would you tell the truth? Why would you tell people that no, you weren't really a "peace activist," except in the sense that you were against America's war. Why would you draw attention to the fact that while you called yourselves "peace activists," you didn't oppose the Communists' war, and were gratified when America's enemies won?
What you were really against was not war at all, but American "imperialism" and American capitalism. What you truly hated was America's democracy, which you knew to be a "sham" because it was controlled by money in the end. That's why you wanted to "Bring the Troops Home," as your slogan said. Because if America's troops came home, America would lose and the Communists would win. And the progressive future would be one step closer."........... More at source
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Because Communism has worked so well everywhere it has been tried. ;)
I have studied about communism. I know lots of people who lived under communism. So this guy wants to enslave me, my children, and grandchildren? He’ll die trying.
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He may speed the process of tossing all unions onto the asheap of history. Communism and progressiveism are SO OVER that even China Russia and Cuba know it.
This is why I wrote *Surviving Civil War II”. Progressives have been waging this war for most of a century.
http://www.futurnamics.com/civilwar.php
and an old Useful Idiot in progressive rot since the 60’s at Columbia. Best I can say is that Mother’s have mistakes and Father’s wonder why they didn’t play poker instead.
Communism is atheistic so there needs to be a ‘god’ willing to step forward and run the whole show. The list of volunteers for the position is a long one.
In the old days our ancestors tarred and feathered these people.
Now they become elected officials.
The problem is most people under 30 perhaps don’t have any understanding why communism is dangerous.After all, they hear their teachers and professors criticized capitalism but not communism. Most people under 40 might have understood once, but may forget now. Hence, only middle age and seniors understand the significance of this guy’s statement.
And when anyone remotely hints that Obama’s policies are Socialism, the MSM gets hysterical about how unfair and untrue it is. They doth protest too much. This guy is saying exactly what Obama and his minions want. Communism in all but name. Overthrow of Capitalism. They hate the free market — these union goons and Obama.
And what ever happened to the good old days when union workers hated Communism as much as any conservative? When I was a kid, you had George Meany and Lane Kirkland who, for all their other faults, hated Communism and fought against it. They realized that unions needed Capitalism.
When I finally began to grow up and honestly study my "beliefs" this is exactly what I learned about myself. It wasn't pretty. Looking in the mirror was hard and painful. I realized that I cast my first vote for president for George McGovern because it made me feel self-righteous and smug. Another key for me- my entire family was Republican- (even some Goldwater Republicans) and my greatest concern at that time was showing them the selfish error they were making. Little did I understand that I was the selfish one! Ahhhh...the irony.
Maturing is never easy. Growing up as a baby-boomer was hard because little was required of us. But grow up I did- eventually. I look back with shame at my vote for McGovern- yet like other libs who woke up- my current convictions are not based on fantasy, but on clarity.
” Treason?
Openly calling for the overthrow of our government? Naw, that’s “patriotism” according to Hillary.”
Nope!
Saul Alinsky called it “change”, so as to not upset the masses.
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