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Is there a Difference?: Platforms of the Communist Party and the Democratic Party
Various ^ | August 11, 2003 | nwrep

Posted on 08/11/2003 8:24:07 PM PDT by nwrep

Platform of the Communist Party USA

Communist Party Immediate Program for the Crisis

It is shameful and unacceptable that any child should live in poverty, and that anyone should go hungry, homeless, without medicine, or without a living wage in our nation of such great wealth.

Meet the Needs of Working, Unemployed and Farm Families
- Raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour.
-Unemployment insurance for all workers.
- Moratorium on farm foreclosures
- Labor law reform to remove barriers to workers who want to join a union.
- No privatization of Social Security. Increase benefits.
- Universal prescription drug coverage administered by Medicare. Universal health care system.
- Restore social safety net. Welfare reform that includes job training, supports and living wages.
- Full funding for equal, quality, bi-lingual public education. No vouchers.

Make Corporate Giants Pay
- Repeal tax cuts to the rich and corporations.
- Close corporate tax loopholes.
- Restitution to workers' pensions.
- Strong regulation of financial industry.
- Regulation and public ownership of utilities
- Prosecute corporate polluters. Public works program to clean our air, water and land
- Aid to cities and states. Federally funded infrastructure repair and social service programs

Foreign Policy for Peace and Justice
- No to war with Iraq - End military interventions
- Repeal Fast Track and NAFTA, stop Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA). No secrecy.
- Save Salt II Agreements, reject Star Wars and Nuclear Posture Review
-Abolish nuclear weapons
- End military interventions.
- Cut military budget and fund human needs.

Defend Democracy and Civil Rights
- End racial profiling.
- Repeal the death penalty.
- Enforce civil rights laws and affirmative action.
- Repeal USA Patriot Act.
- Legalization and protection of immigrant>rights.
- Public financing of elections. Overall election law reform including Instant Runoff Voting.
- Youth and student bill of rights. Guarantee youth's right to earn,learn and live.

Is any of the above different from what the vast majority of Democratic candidates are proposing? Has the Democratic party become the communist party?


TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: communists; communistsubversion; democrats; dncplatform; electionpresident; electionuscongress; philosophytime
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1 posted on 08/11/2003 8:24:08 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: *Election President; *Election US Congress; *Communist Subversion; Green; *Philosophy Time
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2 posted on 08/11/2003 8:25:47 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep
Have they BECOME the communist party? Hello? Where you been? ;0)
3 posted on 08/11/2003 8:26:00 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
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To: nwrep
Yes. This is news?
4 posted on 08/11/2003 8:27:10 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Are we conservatives, or are we Republicans?)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
They should just call themselves Communists. That way atleast the media will stop feigning objectivity and come out and openly campaign for them.
5 posted on 08/11/2003 8:29:06 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: thoughtomator
Not to you and me, but some people are likely to be surprised at the coincidence. Never stop teaching, as Rush says. :-)
6 posted on 08/11/2003 8:30:04 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep
Well, they would, but "Communism" is soooo last century - they've ummm "Progressed"
7 posted on 08/11/2003 8:30:23 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
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To: nwrep
The only thing that seems to be missing is "advance the cause of homosexuality as being normal and acceptable to use as wedge in the continued assault on Christianity and Judaism."
8 posted on 08/11/2003 8:34:53 PM PDT by Kudsman
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To: nwrep
Shocking.

Good job putting this out there so easy to see.
This needs to be passed around.
9 posted on 08/11/2003 8:36:40 PM PDT by eyespysomething (You've a loose screw. Can I tighten that for you?)
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No pun (wedge) intended. ;-P
10 posted on 08/11/2003 8:36:41 PM PDT by Kudsman
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To: nwrep
Democrats have been promoting and aiding the implementation of the Communist Manifesto for decades now.

I think most Democrats are so morally and intellectually confused that they don't realize they have become an accessory to plan to destroy the free United States of America. Others believe in the Communist ideals, but are not honest enough with themselves to admit it.





11 posted on 08/11/2003 8:38:23 PM PDT by conservogirl
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Hillary admitted to being a Progressive, in book interview in Atlanta that was posted here. I bookmarked the thread for future reference.
12 posted on 08/11/2003 8:40:31 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva
Progressive is merely a sneaky way of saying "Socialist" or "Communist" - they can be used interchangably
13 posted on 08/11/2003 8:42:13 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Exactly. And it's such a benign, almost positive sounding word. I mean, who wants to be against "progress"? It's the "hat" that hides the "horns", imo.
14 posted on 08/11/2003 8:44:23 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (I call him "Mel". He calls me "Security".)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
The Progressive Caucus is a fully supported subsidiary of the DSA, that's why I bookmarked the thread. Hillary thinks that she is going to get away with running as a centrist as compared to Dean et alias, but we can't let her get away with it.
15 posted on 08/11/2003 8:44:47 PM PDT by Eva
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Exactly - but, not just benign, but also arrogant "We are forward thinkers, YOU are backwards neaderthals..."
16 posted on 08/11/2003 8:45:43 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
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To: Eva
I don't plan to let her get away with it - in Hillary's case, when she calls herself a "Progressive", she is using it as a substitute for "Marxism" - Hillary is a Marxist..
17 posted on 08/11/2003 8:46:38 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
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To: nwrep
Looks just like the rats and the libertarians to me! Opps!
18 posted on 08/11/2003 8:47:26 PM PDT by ladyinred (The left have blood on their hands.)
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To: nwrep
Is there a Difference? Yes the communists are more honest than Democrats.

If Dems are communists what does that make Republicans who help Dems achieve their goals? Useful idiots or fifth columnists?

19 posted on 08/11/2003 8:47:30 PM PDT by u-89
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Well, this is part of the reason they scare me. It's like in a horror movie when the pretty blonde takes off the mask and reveals she really looks like Iron Maiden's mascot. : )

Honestly - they know how to frame themselves. We are more WYSIWYG, but they cloak their true nature in words like that, and how they've hijacked the word "peace". They're not peaceful at all - in fact, they're dangerous (I'll just use the Teamsters heavy-handedness as one example, and the terrorist enviro-nazis as another)...but ask Joe Average which party he identifies with that word.
20 posted on 08/11/2003 8:51:12 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (I call him "Mel". He calls me "Security".)
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