In the Words of Lenin

Posted on October 4, 2018 by walt313 2 Comments

Listen to the words of Vladimir Lenin and ask yourself, “Is this not happening in America today? Are these not the tactics of the so-called Democratic Party?”

 

The ballot box is the purview of the unintelligent masses. True political power lies in the Courts and if not there, then the streets.

 

To belittle the socialist ideology in any way, to turn aside from it in the slightest degree means to strengthen bourgeois ideology.

 

Our schoolteacher should be raised to a standard he has never achieved, and cannot achieve, in bourgeois society. This is a truism and requires no proof.

 

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

 

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

 

It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives.

 

We must display determination, endurance, firmness and unanimity. We must stop at nothing. Everybody and everything must be used to save the rule of the workers and peasants, to save communism.

 

Human child birth is an act which transforms the woman into an almost lifeless, bloodstained heap of flesh, tortured, tormented and driven frantic by pain.

 

It is the duty of the revolution to put an end to compromise, and to put an end to compromise means taking the path of socialist revolution.

 

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

 

Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker.

 

Our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks themselves share, and instill into the minds of the people, the false notion that universal suffrage “in the present-day state” is really capable of revealing the will of the majority of the working people and of securing its realization.

 

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism, ” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

 

Socialists must explain to the masses that they have no other road of salvation except the revolutionary overthrow of “their” governments, and that advantage must be taken of these governments’ embarrassments in the present war precisely for this purpose.

 

Convert the imperialist war into civil war.

 

We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary.

 

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created.

 

Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism.

Capital, created by the labor of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

 

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

 

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

 

Social-Democracy, however, wants, on the contrary, to develop the class struggle of the proletariat to the point where the latter will take the leading part in the popular Russian revolution, i.e., will lead this revolution to a the democratic-dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry.

 

Are we to build the Party on the basis of that already formed and welded core of Social-Democrats which brought about the Party Congress, for instance, and which should enlarge and multiply Party organizations of all kinds; or are we to content ourselves with the soothing phrase that all who help are Party members?

 

This struggle must be organized, according to “all the rules of the art”, by people who are professionally engaged in revolutionary activity. The fact that the masses are spontaneously being drawn into the movement does not make the organization of this struggle less necessary. On the contrary, it makes it more necessary.

 

The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.

 

Rebuttal of Attacks on Paul Ryan

Posted on August 17, 2012August 17, 2012 by walt313 Leave a comment

1. Paul Ryan did vote against the Lilly Ledbetter Bill.  Republicans opposed the first version of the bill citing flaws in the language which would

  • Allow businesses to continue to discriminate against women by stalling .
  • Allow women to file frivolous law suits.
  • Allow  the prosecution of  business executives who had nothing to do with past discriminatory policies that were no longer in place.

The law was a direct answer to the Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 550 U.S. 618 (2007), a U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that the statute of limitations for presenting an equal-pay lawsuit begins on the date that the employer makes the initial discriminatory wage decision, not at the date of the most recent paycheck, as a lower court had ruled.

The bill was reintroduced and passed with cloture. That is without debate.It passed with the loop holes in the law still there.

Read the factual history of Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

2. “If the unborn are live humans with unalienable rights, then they don’t automatically become something else just because of a pregnancy’s circumstances or the specific technique that endangers them. “- Paul Ryan.  He opposes the scare tactic used by the “Pro-Choice” lobby of “If you don’t kill your baby, you’ll die”.  The Pro Choice stance leaves only one choice, abortion. How ironic.  Ryan’s stance focuses on the Real Choice of Life OR Death of the unborn child. Women should have Real Choice on what they do with their own body.  Ryan’s position offers that. Even in the cases of rape and incest the mother to be should be informed on the ramifications of allowing the birth of her child, even if she doesn’t want to keep it.

3. Paul Ryan does oppose federal funding of  Planned Parenthood. Under Obamacare, religion based health care organization MUST provide abortion even in cases that violate religious doctrine. Is the Left in the pool or not. It’s wrong to have religion involved in government but government can dictate  what religions can or cannot do. Ryan’s  position supports the Constitutional Right to Freedom of Religion. In addition, defunding Planned Parenthood allows for the private sector to assume that role limiting government intrusion into private life and saving tax dollars to boot.

4. Democrats IMPLY that Ryan’s support of the “Personhood” definition would make abortion homicide and therefore illegal. Wow. Isn’t that parsing words?

“In philosophy, the word “person” may refer to various concepts. According to the “naturalist” epistemological tradition, from Descartes through Locke and Hume, the term may designate any human (or non-human) agent which: (1) possesses continuous consciousness over time; and (2) who is therefore capable of framing representations about the world, formulating plans and acting on them.[7]“

This allows fetuses to be determined as “Non-People”. It also allows certain machines (like Curiosity on Mars) be defined as “People”.

Conversely, it allows for humans who lack the ability to think rationally (by disability or age, both too young or too old) to be labeled “non-human” and be deposed of like an unwanted fetus. Once again, democrats are for something unless they’re against something. Ryan’s position is all or nothing. Either you’re human from conception until death or your not. Ryan sides with Life and Human Rights. By insisting that Human Life begins at conception he is affirming Human Rights. By the Left insisting that Life does not begin at conception, the door to Euthanasia is left wide open. Please refer to the Death Option in Obamacare. Yes it’s still in there.

5.  Ryan co sponsored the Sanctity of Life Act.

The Sanctity of Life Act would have defined human life and legal personhood (specifically, natural personhood) as beginning at conception,[7] [8] “without regard to race, sex, age, health, defect, or condition of dependency.”[9] By contrast, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 amended 1 U.S.C. § 8 to provide that legal personhood includes all Homo sapiens who are “born alive”.[10]

Section 2(b)(2) of the Sanctity of Life Act further would have recognized that each state has authority to protect the lives of unborn children residing in the jurisdiction of that state. [11] Such legislative declarations are nonbinding statements of policy and are used by federal courts in the context of determining the intent of the legislature in legal challenges.[12][13]

The Act does not exclude in vitro fertilization but protects the fetus produced in such manner. This does  prevents creation of disposable “people” for use in medical research.

SUMMARY

When you look at why Ryan has these positions you find a passion for Human Rights and Life. The attacks from the Left simplify and distort these positions in order to instill fear in the uninformed voting public.  They would rather Demonize rather than Debate.

Furthermore, I find it disturbing that Google search results present only the Leftist position on Ryan’s statements. While I hope this is because of the shrill response in the media opposing the Romney/Ryan ticket, I hope it’s not Google censuring it’s search results.

As the election nears we can be assured that the Left with continue attacks. Whether on tax returns or women’s rights. The tactic is clear. Demonize rather than debate because in a fair debate the Left would lose every time.