Is there a Difference?: Platforms of the Communist Party and the Democratic Party

Various ^ | August 11, 2003 | nwrep

[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?

[nwrep]

Ping

[Chad Fairbanks]

Have they BECOME the communist party? Hello? Where you been? ;0)

[thoughtomator]

Yes. This is news?

[nwrep]

They should just call themselves Communists. That way atleast the media will stop feigning objectivity and come out and openly campaign for them.

[nwrep]

Not to you and me, but some people are likely to be surprised at the coincidence. Never stop teaching, as Rush says. :-)

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, they would, but "Communism" is soooo last century - they've ummm "Progressed"

[Kudsman]

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."

[eyespysomething]

Shocking.

Good job putting this out there so easy to see.
This needs to be passed around.

[Kudsman]

No pun (wedge) intended. ;-P

[conservogirl]

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.

[Eva]

Hillary admitted to being a Progressive, in book interview in Atlanta that was posted here. I bookmarked the thread for future reference.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Progressive is merely a sneaky way of saying "Socialist" or "Communist" - they can be used interchangably

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

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.

[Eva]

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.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Exactly - but, not just benign, but also arrogant "We are forward thinkers, YOU are backwards neaderthals..."

[Chad Fairbanks]

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..

[ladyinred]

Looks just like the rats and the libertarians to me! Opps!

[u-89]

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?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

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.