Most of us have hear the phrase Paper Tiger before. for those who haven't, it a term used to describe someone or something which seems powerful and threading but in reality is powerless when challenged.
This best describes most reactionary ideas, all bark no bite, but for this journal entry the ones I want to talk about are the anti-feminists who inhabit much of the internet these days.
Right wingers have taken this motif up with gusto and sadly so have many people on the left.
To my mind, anti-feminism started out largely as part of the far right, when I used to argue with supporter of the BNP (British National Party) many of them attacked women's rights (along with LGBT and worker rights) as part of some giant communist conspiracy to bring down western civilisation. Somehow the ideas of people who could hardly spell their own name has spread far and wide and now has become almost mainstream.
In my personal experience is the wonderful comment sections of youtube. Two example of this are:
One: Sandra Fluke's Congressional testimony [link] . Fluke made a soiled case for why health care providers should cover birth control. scroll through the comment section of this video and you'll see that most of it is people calling her a slut or a dumb bitch.
Two: More or less any Video The Young Turks where a women commit a crime against a man: Much the comment section will be flooded with people claiming that feminists support what the woman did with nothing to back up what their saying.
I know people will say you can't take what people say on the internet seriously, but I do. Much like when someone is drunk, a person doesn't care what other think of what they say online by of the anonymity this environment gives them means they say what they really feel about something.

In many ways it's not that different  to the backlash to the civil rights movement The organization Restore Our Alienated Rights was a textbook example. it  claimed that it was fighting  "vanishing rights of white citizens" when in reality it was a racial segregationist group which sort to tear down the gains of the Civil Rights movement.
MRA Ideology work in very much the same way as ROAR did, they claim to be the victim of a man hating system that feminists have set up, while in reality they simply attack the gains of women's rights over the last hundred years  because they fear losing privileges granted them by a long history of patriarchy.

Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.

Well I thought I may as well throw my hat into the ring on this subject.
Since The Sandy Hook Massacre the issue of firearms has once again taken center stage with some hoping it would help led to stricter gun laws.
Sorry for my cynical view but I doubt much will change, the reactions to Columbine and Virginia Tech weren't much different.
But this isn't the main point of this post, My main point is problem I have with NRA idiots.

I personally don't mind the ownership of firearm but I also think there should be strong regulation in reguards to them ie; training in use and
storage, type of firearm a person can own etc.

Having said that I have to say that I cannot find it in me to agree with the US gun rights lobby, they have proven themselves dogmaticlly unwilling to agree to any firearm regulation no matter it's form, or even to the idea that Ameirca has a prolem when it comes to guns.  They make the 'Free Tibet' movement look reasonably.
I've had the misfortune to argue with gun nuts on a number of occasion and they refuse to listen to any point, I once pointed out in the year 1973 at the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland there were around 250 murders in Belfast while in Detroit in the same year there were over 700 murders. The guy's response was to brush this off and say that Detroit hads a higher population than Belfast, so the fact that there was a three way hit and run guerrilla war in Northern Ireland at the time means nothing to these people.
Along with this they ignore the fact that most people aren't shot by criminals, most people are shot by family members or friends during domestic incidents or most criminals who use guns steal them from the homes of people who buy them legally.
They also bring up that Switzerland has a high level of gun ownership but low crime, while this mostly true, they overlook the fact that Switzerland has conscription so people have military training, psychological evaluations etc

I may or many not add to this later for now leave your opinion in the comment section.

Hey guys sorry I haven't written one of these for a while, Truth is I've have a lot going on at Uni and I forgot about but that's not the point of this entry.
We have all heard of the Romani people although you may know them better as Gypsies.
They have travelled Europe for centuries and their whole history they have subject to discrimination and mistreatment, for the sake of simplicity I shall talk only about Gypsies in Europe.

Now many ethnic groups in Europe have suffered discrimination (Slavs, Jews, Irish etc) But since world war two such prejudices have become socially unacceptable, yet for the Romani people who were also subject to genocide by the Nazis and their collaborators this has not been the case.
Just to give you a few examples In 2008 to young Roma girls (Cristina and Violetta Djeordsevic)  drowned while swimming at a beach in Naples and when the bodies were brought to shore many people on the beach  seemed unconcerned  that two young girls had just died. Along with this Romani camps were attacked local residents in Italy around the same time.
In 2009 right wing extremists fire bombed a house were a number of Romani lived injuring three people including a 3 year old girl who suffered 80% burns to her body.
Again in 2009 in Northern Ireland 115 Romani people, including women and children, were forced to seek refuge in a local church after their homes were attacked
In 2010 the French government began expelling thousands of Roma from the country.
In 2002 the British Conservative MP Andrew MacKay called gypsies "scum" and "do not deserve the same human rights as my decent constituents" and this man was in Parliament until 2010.

Yet when I or someone brings up the mistreatment and hatred towards the Romani we have the same argument thrown at us where gypsies are stereotyped as thieves, con artists and street urchins. Now undeniably there are criminals who are Romani, but it down right wrong to smear all Roma for this.  
If some was to say the same thing about Blacks or Asians they would shouted down as racist and rightly so.

The Tintin comic The Castafiore Emerald may give you a good idea of how Gypsies are viewed and treated in Europe by many people. Captain Haddock tells a group of Romani they can stay on his estate after he finds out the police would not allow them to stay anywhere but a rubbish dump, after the move on his estate, the police tell him that they'll give him nothing but trouble and his butler Nestor objects strongly to their being on Haddocks property and later almost everyone blames them for the disappears of an emerald  (it is later found out the emerald was stolen by a magpie)

So I put it to you reader why are the Romani people hated so?

As the national elections for the United States will be happing in  a few weeks I thought I should write down my view on the last 4 years
Looking back it's weird to thing how much hope I had back in 2008 when hearing of Barack Obama had been elected president of the United States, many I shouldn't have, but after 8 years of  Bush and company can we be blamed for thinking things would be change, within a year for me, all my hopes were crushed after able healthcare act. A bill which was little more then then a rehash of a Republican Bill from the 1990s and after this things only got worse, he stepped up the war in Aghanistan and increased drone strikes across the middle east, his economic plan turned out to be 'do what every the Republicans  want' along with this he cracked down hard on Immigrates who only crime was to do the same most Americans had done for hundreds of years before.

While Obama and the Democratic Party set about selling out it voting base, the GOP along with Fox News and the Astroturf Tea Party Movement, started a massive campaign of smears, fear-mongering and misinformation against Obama claiming the man was everything from a radical Christian Muslim Nazi, to a atheistic Communist Socialist Kenyan.
In short the Right wing chose that they would rather have the country crash and let millions suffer so they could say they were right
The reason for the title is that I feel the US has become a second Weimar Republic, it has fallen into a economic pit from which it cannot hope the climb out, the government can't do anything that  is come under attack from forces that have the means to take power and want to tear apart the country in the name of saving it all that was missing was a American Rotfrontkämpferbund (Occupy isn't one).
If thing don't change radically within the next few years America will go the same way as Weimar Germany and we all know what happed there.

In this journal entry I want to talk about something that feel strongly about. Like most people I when to a state run school for my education, it was there I learned most of the skills I would need for when I when out into the world, next to my parents, the teacher I had for those years played the most important roll in my life. They helped me over come the problems I had because of my asperger syndrome
Everyone owes a great deal to their teachers, yet again and again I see teacher being attacked by the media, government officials, members of the public etc.
Everytime I see some one say that teachers are bad because they are paid through taxes I die a little inside, what you have no problem with your taxes being used to pay for wars that have killed millions and cost trillions, you have no problem with taxes being used to bail out banks but if your taxes are being used to pay someone doing something useful like educate people you throw your toy out the pram.
Another thing people attack teachers on is that they have more holidays. While it's true that teacher have holidays, because the childern are on holiday. But even during this time they have to mark papers and plan classes for next term with a whole host of other things.
And one more thing, teachers had to deal with childern who have problem in their home life, my mum had a kid in her class who had lost both his parents to drugs  this and other things in his life had left him a difficult person to teach to say the lest and this was just one person, there arte thousands of others just like him out there who have no one to turn to other then their teacher.

I know there is more to write on this subject but I'm not up to, leave your opinions belowe.

From the Morning Star: [link]


A new dimension of the story of Mitt Romney's Bain Capital connections has now emerged, namely the possible link between Bain and violent ultra-right-wing political circles in Latin America.

In the early 1980s when Romney spun off Bain Capital from its parent company Bain and Company he was told that he had to find new people to put up the initial capital.

So he made a connection with some members of the elite "14 families" that have historically run El Salvador, many of whom were living in Miami at that time because of the civil war raging in their homeland.

Early contributors of a total of $9 million to Bain's start-up were members of the de Sola, Poma, Duenas and Salaverria families.

The facilitator for this link-up seems to have been Panama-born banker Frank Kardonski, who died earlier this year.

Romney later claimed that he was nervous about dealing with some of these people for fear that the money they would put into Bain Capital might be tainted by drug-trafficking or human rights violations.

So he had them vetted as individuals - he says - but did not check out their relatives. But for Latin American oligarchs, everything is "family business."

These Salvadoran families were involved in coffee and cotton production and other enterprises, and had kept control of the country through dictatorial governments.

In 1979 the dictator of the moment, Carlos Humberto Romero, was overthrown and replaced by a progressive military-civilian "junta," which tried to initiate land reform and the nationalisation of the banking and coffee industries. This greatly threatened the interests of the oligarchy, which responded violently.

During this period and subsequently, also, the Salvadoran oligarchs were interested in diversifying their investments, so the Bain opportunity was in line with their priorities.

They have continued to invest in Bain.

The money was channelled through shell companies and banks in Panama. This was in the early 1980s, when Panama was run by strongman Manuel Noriega, and when the Panamanian banking system was notorious for its secrecy and therefore its use for money laundering by drug-traffickers and other criminals, including the CIA.

Another Bain investor was corrupt press lord Robert Maxwell, who had ties to both the CIA and the Israeli Mossad, and after whose suspicious death by drowning was discovered to have been looting his employees' pension fund.

Another British financier who put up initial money for Bain Capital was Sir Jack Lyons, who later was convicted of unrelated corrupt practices.

Many of the Salvadoran families who pitched in for Bain Capital's start-up were contributors to the ferociously right-wing political party Arena (National Republican Alliance).

Arena's leading light was a former military officer, Roberto D'Aubuisson, who is considered to have been the godfather of the death squads in El Salvador.

D'Aubuisson is known to have ordered the 1980 assassination of the Archbishop of San Salvador Oscar Romero because the prelate had been denouncing military violence against the Salvadoran people.

Seventy-five thousand people were killed in the Salvadoran civil war, the vast majority by the death squads and the military. The Reagan administration gave full support to all this violence, which, in the "Contra wars," eventually enveloped Nicaragua and Honduras too.

The networks of reactionary forces that were brought together by the activities of the Salvadoran elites, often working with the CIA and criminal elements, continue to be a destabilising element all over the western hemisphere.

The Salvadoran ultra-right was involved in efforts to start a terrorism campaign in Cuba in the late 1990s. Several bombs were set off in Havana, one of them killing an Italian tourist.

The networks which link central and south American reactionaries with right-wing politicians in the United States have their fingerprints on the coups in Honduras and Paraguay, and are deeply involved in efforts to destabilise the progressive governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Their activities are integrated with those of the right-wing Cuban exile elite in south Florida and elsewhere.

Many progressives have been disappointed by the Obama administration's Latin America policy.

The Cuba blockade is still on, and money continues to be poured into the "drug wars" in Colombia and Mexico. The Clinton State Department connived at legitimising the results of the 2009 coup in Honduras.

However, a victory for Romney and his Republicans in November would greatly worsen the situation.

It would mean that the kind of right-wing extremists who helped Romney establish Bain Capital in the 1980s and whom he still calls his friends would be partners in setting US policy toward the entire region.

Also: [link]

This this something I've been turning over in my mind for sometime. Ever since I became poiltical, I have been attacked for my ideology, it isn't something unexpected, communism calls for the radical overthrow of the existing social order, that is going scare people, yet for as long as I can remember the ideology that is attacked more then any other is American Liberalism.

Now most of you know I'm no fan of liberalism, I've never been one and have highly critical of it, but at lest when I criticize it I do so for what it is and what stands for, Most of the attacks I see against liberalism aren't over what the ideology stands for or what it's supporter do, but rather a bizarre mix of half fiction and conspiracy theories, that liberalism is a radical left ideology, that wants America to fail. In all my time I have never heard a liberal support far left policies or wish America to fail, they will criticize American foreign and domestic policy from time to time, but they are never anti-American in what they say.
You read many youtube comments on TYT video and you'll tones of the sort of thing I'm talking about [link] .
Here on DeviantArt, users like conservatoons doesn't really stand for conservatism, but rather just bashes liberalism, you could play a drinking game with the number of times he uses the word liberal on his profile alone, same with many other right wing users, opposition to liberalism is no longer simply part of their ideology but their defining characteristic.

Now you may be saying at this point "But Party9999999 you criticize other ideology all the time, why shouldn't other be allowed to do the same?" for starters I'm not saying that people shouldn't criticize the ideology of other, far from it, but  criticism must have valid point. second while it is true I am critical of other ideologies, my art is most of the time pro-communism, rather then simply attacking capitalism.

Moving on, I see most of this demonisation stemming  from the Pundits and listeners of Conservative talk radio, people like Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage have spend almost every hour of their air time to decring liberalism, if any liberal came close to what Limbaugh or Savage have said and done, they would have forced off the air by their own side within a few hours.

But I want to ask your thounghts on this leave a comment below, thanks for reading

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
This is one of Abraham Lincoln's most used quotes, while it is true, it is almost somewhat meaningless.
What do I mean by this, I'm saying that you don't need to fool all the people all of the time, you just need to fool enough people for as long as needed.
Two Issue at this time bring up my point in time, Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee and Scott Walker's victory in the Wisconsin recall election, while you'd think there is little to connect these two events, I want to point out they both come from the same thing

Seeing I as I live in the United Kingdom I start with the diamond jubilee.
Elizabeth Windsor came to the throne in 1952 at the age of 27 and if nothing changes in the next few years she will remain so until her death, she was never elected by popular vote or appointed by parliament to this post, yet she has leadership over 16 countries more than any other person in world, while she is a constitutional monarch the fact remains the only reason she's is the head of state is because she was born into the house of Windsor.
Yet despite being undemocratic and outdated around 80 percent of country support this form of leadership, When I post my unflattering anti monarchy poster to facebook [link] many of my friends came at me saying how the monarchy is good for the country and they were needed for revenue.
For starters we don't need royals living here for people to visit, France rid itself of the monarch and many more people visit the Palace of Versailles then Buckingham Palace, largely down to the fact you can't see much more then the outside of the palace of most of the year.
As for it being good for the country, in what way, the royal family are a beacon of morality, prince Charles's extramarital affair, prince Philip's racism,
I know Britain needs to do more then get rid of the monarchy to deal with its problems but becoming a republic would be a step in the right direction.
I'll also throw this in for you: [link]

Moving on to the Wisconsin recall, as most of you have hear by now Scott Walker won the recall with 53 percent of the vote.
Why is this? His anti trade union policies became clear over a year ago he is on tape saying that his stripping public workers of their collective bargaining wouldn't save the state any money [link] he is on tape saying he would willing sending in thugs to beat up protesters [link] he is also on tape saying he'll crush public unions so he can go after private sector unions as well for the rich and powerful [link] and he also fucked up royalty the first time he tried to bust unions when he was  Milwaukee County executive [link]
Yet still most peopled still voted for him, this has set off the right wing on the internet with their comments of  "Yah!!! America won, Libatard hippies lost!!!!" I wrote about this before in other Journal entries [link] I still have a problem getting my head round what has driven so many to fight against their own interests, while much of it could be put down to  Tea Party ideology of gummint bad, gummint bad, Reagan smash! There must be more than just that to it.
(if you have anything to add to this leave a comment below)
There are also these two videos on my the youtuber 24EvelJustin24 who makes a lot of good points [link]
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This Reactionary Populism is crippling human progress and we must find away to combat it.

We stand for active ideological struggle because it is the weapon for ensuring unity within the Party and the revolutionary organizations in the interest of our fight. Every Communist and revolutionary should take up this weapon.

But liberalism rejects ideological struggle and stands for unprincipled peace, thus giving rise to a decadent, Philistine attitude and bringing about political degeneration in certain units and individuals in the Party and the revolutionary organizations.

Liberalism manifests itself in various ways.

To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.

To indulge in irresponsible criticism in private instead of actively putting forward one's suggestions to the organization. To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards. To show no regard at all for the principles of collective life but to follow one's own inclination. This is a second type.

To let things drift if they do not affect one personally; to say as little as possible while knowing perfectly well what is wrong, to be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame. This is a third type.

Not to obey orders but to give pride of place to one's own opinions. To demand special consideration from the organization but to reject its discipline. This is a fourth type.

To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly. This is a fifth type.

To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear counter-revolutionary remarks without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type.

To be among the masses and fail to conduct propaganda and agitation or speak at meetings or conduct investigations and inquiries among them, and instead to be indifferent to them and show no concern for their well-being, forgetting that one is a Communist and behaving as if one were an ordinary non-Communist. This is a seventh type.

To see someone harming the interests of the masses and yet not feel indignant, or dissuade or stop him or reason with him, but to allow him to continue. This is an eighth type.

To work half-heartedly without a definite plan or direction; to work perfunctorily and muddle along--"So long as one remains a monk, one goes on tolling the bell." This is a ninth type.

To regard oneself as having rendered great service to the revolution, to pride oneself on being a veteran, to disdain minor assignments while being quite unequal to major tasks, to be slipshod in work and slack in study. This is a tenth type.

To be aware of one's own mistakes and yet make no attempt to correct them, taking a liberal attitude towards oneself. This is an eleventh type.

We could name more. But these eleven are the principal types.

They are all manifestations of liberalism.

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.

Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational liberalism.

People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well--they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.

Liberalism is a manifestation of opportunism and conflicts fundamentally with Marxism. It is negative and objectively has the effect of helping the enemy; that is why the enemy welcomes its preservation in our midst. Such being its nature, there should be no place for it in the ranks of the revolution.

We must use Marxism, which is positive in spirit, to overcome liberalism, which is negative. A Communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a Communist.

All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.

Ok members of deviantart, I asking you to put forward your criticisms of me and my artwork

From [link]

The headquarters of "Tareeq Al-Shaab" (People's Path), the central organ of the Iraqi Communist Party, was raided and ransacked by the security forces late evening on Monday 26th March 2012 under a flimsy pretext.

A big armed force of the "federal police" entered the building, on Abu Nawas Street in central Baghdad, and conducted a search operation which it claimed was part of security measures in preparation for the Arab Summit. But it soon became clear that their real target was remnants of an old weapon, actually a piece of junk on the roof of the high building, left behind from the time of the previous regime. Having discovered this "dangerous weapon", they arrested 12 employees who were in charge of security at the headquarters of the newspaper. Afterwards, another police force entered the building and ransacked offices of party leaders. Detained employees were held by the police overnight and were only released, the next day, after being forced to sign so-called "pledges" whilst blindfolded!

The Iraqi Communist Party has strongly condemned this blatant attack targeting its daily newspaper, "Tareeq Al-Shaab", which has come on the eve of the 78th anniversary of the party's foundation (31st March). It has demanded an immediate halt to these repressive practices, annulling the infamous "pledges", and bringing to justice those responsible for this vicious attack on free and democratic press.
These measures will not prevent "Tareeq Al-Shaab" from defending the fundamental rights of the Iraqi people and workers, and fighting for a free and democratic Iraq.

One of the classic attacks used by anti-communists is to call us communists or leftists in general useful idiots.
According to Wikipedia (yes, yes you can chew me out later) "useful idiot is a pejorative term used to describe people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they do not understand, who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause."
For starters, their use of this term is just stupid, who would we be used by? The Soviet Union was broken up 20 years ago, China has no interest in supporting world communism and Cuba doesn't have the means too.
But that's not the point of this Journal point is as the title said is to point out who the real useful idiots are.

The real useful idiots to the Communist Movement are the supporters of laissez faire capitalism, the Mises cult, Ayn Rand Followers , Anarcho-capitalists etc, while ecomonic models like Keynesian economics or Social Democracy, are designed to protect capitalism from it's own self destructive tendencies and pacify the class struggle, stateless capitalists unleash all the worse elements of capitalism upon the world and create an environment ripe for revolution.
With nothing to protect them from excesses of capitalism, the working class would see how little the ruling class care about them and their families and as we've seen throughout history the more downtrodden a people the more likely they become revolutionary.

The stateless capitalists can talk all they like about how much they care about the individual, but the fact is they only care if the individual is a member of the ruling class(making the clam that they worked hard, while failing to see that without the workers they would have nothing).if a person is poor they dismiss  them as lazy, they don't see the workers as an individual but rather a faceless mass that be treaded as they see fit.
So that's the end of this post, please comment.

Malcolm X once said there were two kinds of slaves, the field negroes and house negroes, the house negro would live in the in the attic or the basement of the plantation owner's house, they would get better food and clothes then the blacks who worked the fields because of this they would be very defensive of their master and property and go against helping their fellow slaves.

In the field of economics we see a mentality almost the same as this, were people ranging from small business owners to members of working class will defend the capitalist system, they claim it has done nothing but good for them and that all their economic and social woes are because of the evil government overtaxing and overregulation (despite both being at an all time low). The tea party movement is a text book example of this, the tea partiers actively rooted against their own self-interest such as affordable health care and regulation of the financial industry and would instead attack Barack Obama and his Adminstration as a Communist, Socialist, Fascist, Nazi, radical christian, atheist, muslim..
Another example is the We are the 53 percent meme, where conservative tried to make the claim that members of Occupy Wall Street didn't pay tax, aside from being misleading (53% number refers only to federal income tax. The same people still pay: federal FICA payroll tax, state income tax, state and local property tax, state and local sales tax, excise and "sin" taxes, and other registration fees, user fees, tolls, and personal property taxes, depending on their location) but it was also in the words of this Forbes Article [link] "Heartbreaking" when someone believe working working 12 hours a day, six days a week while suffering from cancer is the "American dream" you know there is something wrong.

Of couse all this helped along by our good friends in the capitalist media like Glenn Beck saying "They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you...they're Marxist radicals...these guys are worse than Robespierre from the French Revolution...they'll kill everybody."
Never mind that America is looking more and more like pre revolutionary France by the week, what many fail to see is that much of the Occupy Movement is still entrenched in the idea that capitalism can fixed, while not as bad as the false consciousness that grips the tea party OWS is no were near as radical as the French revolutionaries of 1789, if anything their closer to the liberal Kadets or the right wing of the SRs. then again American politics have been moved so far to the right, everything looks radically left to them.

Until people can break free of the false consciousness, we won't be able to free ourselves of capitalism.

Well anyway that's the end of this, thanks for reading

Most of us have heard of Ron Paul in one way or another, First off I'd like to say, I respect Ron Paul, he one of the few politicians in the United States with any integrity,
However I'm not going to go into the man's  politics or economics, or even the man himself, I'm writing about his supporters, and trust me there are a lot of them here on the internet, From what I've seen if anyone criticizes Ron Paul, this supporters swarm and attack them, this happens almost everytime someone does it, Maoist Rebel News lost his main channel because of it and The Young Turks come under heavy fire if they say something bad about him.
To give you an example of this, TYT did a story about a number articles in Ron Paul newsletter (the Ron Paul Freedom Report I think it's called) from a while ago, which expressed a lot of racist views and were printed under his name, however it has been clamed this articles were ghost written.
This shows ever one of two things,
One: Ron Paul is a racist
Two: or that he is rather careless
Rather then face facts, they made excuses for him and said TYT was being payed to say it, even though TYT had shown support for Paul before.

Anyway that all for now.

Video about Ron Paul's Newsletters
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TheAmazingAtheist's video the Cult of Ron Paul
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I been thinking a lot lately (oh dear) and come to a realisation that we miss things that we wouldn't normality think we would.
I save time I've got it down to three, George Bush The Soviet Union and World War Two

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It may seem odd but sometimes I do miss Dubya. Yes the man was total idiot who sent us into two unjust war and crashed the economy, but with the attitude of many in the current Republican Party especially those like Michele Bachmann, these days he looks almost  sane.
Anothing thing is that Obama in many ways has been worse then Bush, while we expected Bush to do wha he did, we had some hope that Obama would change things even just a little and in the end he has just expanded on Bush's imperialist policies.

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For the Soviet Union I'm not going to talk about why us communists miss it but rather why I believe many conservative miss the USSR more then we do.
Hear me out during the days of the cold war the Soviet Union was a worthy adversary for the western powers, with  dismantling of the Union their is not one really for them to face off against, countries like Iran or the DPRK are really not a threat to the powers-that-be no matter how much the media try to make them out to be.

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My last subject World War Two is something most people have some nostalgia for, yes it was a horrific conflict were terrblie people did terrible things, but it was one of the few times in our history that so much of the world was united in a common goal, the destruction of fascism, we all had a purpose and out cause was just, I'm not saying it was a good thing, but it'sthe way many people feel.

So until next time, merry christmas and a happy new year

Normally I wouldn't write about my family, but I can across something the other day which I think I should talk about.

My Grandfather (from my mum's side) past away a few years ago and soon after, learned that he worked at a railway depot and he had been involved in rescue effects following a train crash. My grandfather had always been good at telling stories and I learned a lot from him but this was something he never told me about.

After a little asking around and some research I found out the crash had taken place at Hither Green, a train had come off the line at 70 mph, two of the carriages Ploughed into the girders of the St Mildred's Road railway bridge, most of the carriages were over turned and had there sides torn off, in all 49 people were killed and another 78 were injured making it the sixth worst rail disaster, all because of a broken rail.
What role my Grandfather played in the rescue effects I don't know but he was badly affected by what he saw there and had to leave the job at the depot soon after, he never talked about it as far as I can tell to me or any of my cousins.

so their have it a small piece family history

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This is something I thinking about for a while, if we overthrow the bourgeois economic system, how are we to expunge bourgeois culture in order to build a new society.
The answer is a cultural revolution that would follow the first revolution, win which we can re-educate the people to a new way of thinking, before people attack me on the grounds that this is social engineering, I'll point out all societies have social engineering, it nothing new or controversial.
One of the main thinks that must be removed from the new society is nationalism, if we let it remain with the collective mind of the people it will poison our society from within.
We must also remove sexism from society so women and men will have equal footing in all fields of society, one way we can do this is to have more women in government, also day care centers for childern will help and also better deal for maternity leve for men.
We must also instill a greater political, social economic consciousness in the people so they better understand the old society and why we broke with it.
We must also abolish racism and then the very concept of race, not it the liberal way of promoting diversity, but by show that under the skin we are one people.
I'll now like to hear what you think we could do for a Cultural Revolution.

Unless you've been under a rock for the last few weeks, you will have heard about the occupy protests which have sprung up around the world now, many have shown their showen their support for the movement and others have tried to dismiss it.
Those of you who know me, know I designed posters for Occupy wall long before it started and have high hopes for these protests, but I as watch events unfold I can't help but  wonder how this revolution will end, my fear is that the movement will lost steam from it's lack of a coherent poltical program,broad anti capitalism will only go so far before you have offer alternatives.
without a coherent political message and program we only achieve a lot of noise with very overall structural change, it was the same with the revolutions of 1848.
Contrast this with the october revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik Party had a clear poltical program which people could get behind.
But I want to know what you think, so tell me what your take on the Occupy Movement?

I was visiting my Grandma the other week and we when out to get some shopping, while we were doing this I had a look at the newspapers in WH Smiths and saw on the front page of The Independent was story about Iran, I read the first few lines of the story in which Tony Blair said that he supported regime change in Iran, you'd think a man lost all his credibility supporting 'regime change' in Iraq would learn to keep his mouth shut about said subject, but no!
The sad thing is that Blair isn't the only one beating the drum for a war with Iran, the Bush/Cheney government was looking for a reason to attack Iran even before the Iraq war and recently the Obama administration has been looking to build permanent military bases in Iraq on the Iranian border.
Let me make one thing clear I do not support the Islamic government of Iran, never have never will, but the Iranian people must be the ones to overthrow it, not some western backed invasion, aside from my anti imperialist views on this matter, a military attack on Iran would be doomed to fail from the start, the Iraq war turned into a massive cluster fuck (and I don't use that term lightly) A war with Iran would be much worse, for the purposes of this journal entry I'll compare an attack on Iran to the war on Iraq.
For starters the Iranian Army is in much better shape than the Iraqi army was, with the Army there is are a number of political organisations both pro and anti government that will resist an invasion along with this the country's population is much larger then Iraq's and country is very mountainous in areas an attack would lead to thousands of casualties on both sides.
Anyone with knowledge of military strategy and history can tell you this, yet our so called leaders keep saying that Iran is a threat that needs to be dealt with, they point to Iran working with Nuclear technologies, clamming that Iran is building nuclear weapons even thought the uranium being used by Iran isn't of the quality needed for nuclear weapons, the irony to countries like the United States, Britain and Israel saying Iran can't have nuclear weapons is they  have enough nuclear weapons to wipe out most life on this planet I forget how many times.

So that's the end of my meaningless rant, hope you enjoyed it.