-Caveat Lector-
"Fabianism is the British equivalent of German state-socialism."
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The rapist in our WH is supported by the advocates of state-Socialism:
unions bosses,
femmes,
90 percent of the ignorant blacks,
and other people of color,
retirees, all colors,
homosexuals; practically 100 percent of these,
welfare recipients,
corporate porkers; recipients of subsidies,
jews; to protect the stream of foreign aid
to Israel,
the corrupt public school unions,
dupes in the media; broadcast, TV, and print,
government employees,
wimps; Fathers who were once Noble seduced by
the power-hungry Mother and together raised their
dysfunctional offspring which has caused 'all'
the night-marish social problems for which the
Socialists (Liberals) now suck the blood
of the relative moral middle class
to attempt to fix the problem.
(who did I leave out?)
Just remember that it is the taxes of the
working class which go to pay
for the benefits/subsidies of the parasites.
This is the coalition that we
constitutionals are up against.
In the past these groups consistently voted
for the Democratic 'wing' of
The Peoples National Socialist Democratic Republican Party.
Today, some, or portions, will nest under the Republican 'wing'.
Makes no difference where they nest, because
both wings belong to the same bird of prey.
Bard
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Socialism's crisis today is a crisis in the MEANING of socialism. For
the first time in the history of the world, very likely a majority of
its people label themselves
"socialist" in one sense or another; but there has never been a time
when the label was less informative. The nearest thing to a common
content of the various
"socialisms" is a negative: anti-capitalism. On the positive side, the
range of conflicting and incompatible ideas that call themselves
socialist is wider than the spread of
ideas within the bourgeois world.
Even anti-capitalism holds less and less as a common factor. In one part
of the spectrum, a number of social democratic parties have virtually
eliminated any
specifically socialist demands from their programs, promising to
maintain private enterprise wherever possible. The most prominent
example is the German
social-democracy. ("As an idea, a philosophy, and a social movement,
socialism in Germany is no longer represented by a political party,"
sums up D.A. Chalmers'
recent book THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF GERMANY.) These parties have
defined socialism out of existence, but the tendency which they have
formalized is that of the ENTIRE reformist social democracy. In what
sense are these parties still "socialist"?
In another part of the world picture, there are the Communist states,
whose claim to being "socialist" is based on a negative: the abolition
of the capitalist
private-profit system, and the fact that the class which rules does not
consist of private owners of property. On the positive side, however,
the socio-economic
system which has replaced capitalism there would not be recognizable to
Karl Marx. The state owns the means of production -- but who "owns" the
state? Certainly
not the mass of workers, who are exploited, unfree, and alienated from
all levers of social and political control. A new class rules, the
bureaucratic bosses; it rules
over a collectivist system -- a bureaucratic collectivism. Unless
statification is mechanically equated with "socialism," in what sense
are these societies "socialist"?
These two self-styled socialisms are very different, but they have more
in common than they think. The social democracy has typically dreamed of
"socializing"
capitalism from above. Its principle has always been that increased
state intervention in society and economy is PER SE socialistic. It
bears a fatal family resemblance
to the Stalinist conception of imposing something called socialism from
the top down, and of equating statification with socialism. Both have
their roots in the
ambiguous history of the socialist idea.
Back to the roots: the following pages propose to investigate the
meaning of socialism historically, in a new way. There have always been
different "kinds of
socialism," and they have customarily been divided into reformist or
revolutionary, peaceful or violent, democratic or authoritarian, etc.
These divisions exist, but the
underlying division is something else. Throughout the history of
socialist movements and ideas, the fundamental divide is between
SOCIALISM-FROM-ABOVE
and SOCIALISM-FROM-BELOW.
What unites the many different forms of Socialism-from-Above is the
conception that socialism (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) must be
HANDED DOWN to the
grateful masses in one form or another, by a ruling elite which is not
subject to their control in fact. The heart of Socialism-from-Below is
its view that socialism can
be realized only through the self-emancipation of activized masses in
motion, reaching out for freedom with their own hands, mobilized "from
below" in a struggle to
take charge of their own destiny, as actors (not merely subjects) on the
stage of history. "The emancipation of the working classes must be
conquered by the working
classes themselves": this is the first sentence in the Rules written for
the First International by Marx, and this is the First Principle of his
lifework.
It is the conception of Socialism-from-Above which accounts for the
acceptance of Communist dictatorship as a form of "socialism." It is the
conception of
Socialism-from-Above which concentrates social-democratic attention on
the parliamentary superstructure of society and on the manipulation of
the "commanding
heights" of the economy, and which makes them hostile to mass action
from below. It is Socialism-from-Above which is the dominant tradition
in the development of
socialism.
Please note that it is not peculiar to socialism. On the contrary, the
yearning for emancipation-from-above is the all-pervading principle
through centuries of class
society and political oppression. It is the permanent promise held out
by every ruling power to keep the people looking upward for protection,
instead of to
themselves for liberation from the need for protection. The people
looked to kings to right the injustices done by lords, to messiahs to
overthrow the tyranny of kings.
Instead of the bold way of mass action from below, it is always safer
and more prudent to find the "good" ruler who will Do the People Good.
The pattern of
emancipation-from-above goes all the way back in the history of
civilization, and had to show up in socialism too. But it is only in the
framework of the modern
socialist movement that liberation from below could become even a
realistic aspiration; within socialism it has come to the fore, but only
by fits and starts. The history
of socialism can be read as a continual but largely unsuccessful effort
to free itself from the old tradition, the tradition of
emancipation-from-above.
In the conviction that the current crisis of socialism is intelligible
only in terms of this Great Divide in the socialist tradition, we turn
to a few examples of the two souls
of socialism.
FOR MORE,
go to: http://www.web.net/~newsoc/documents/Draper.html
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