Communists
Posted at 2:47pm on Jul. 7, 2008 When the socialists break off from the communists, good things *can* happen
By Jeff Emanuel
In India they have, anyway. Legislators in the nation's socialist Samajwadi Party have broken away from their communist brethren and given Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the support he needs to implement the U.S.-Indian nuclear trade agreement without risking a forced early election, which the communists in government had been threatening to trigger if the nuclear deal was agreed to.
PM Singh said he would complete a nuclear inspection agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency as soon as possible.
"The nuclear deal is in the interest of the nation," said Samajwadi Party senior leader Amar Singh. "We should have come out in support of the deal a year ago."
A further positive aspect of this deal? "The communist opposition has become far less important now that the Samajwadi Party has backed the deal," says the NTI's Global Security Newswire.
Posted at 2:08pm on Jun. 24, 2008 Obama Gets The Communists
By California Yankee
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
It's one thing when Obama, the Democrats' standard bearer to be, is identified as the most liberal senator. It is something else, something quite extreme, when Obama is recognized as the darling of the Communist Party USA.
That's right, Joelle Fishman -- chair of the Communist Party USA Political Action Commission and the Connecticut Communist Party -- backs Obama.
Perhaps it is no surprise. After all, except for public financing of campaigns, Obama's positions are very similar to those of the Communist Party USA:
Among the points in the party's "Immediate Program" are a $12/hour minimum wage; for all workers, universal health care, and opposition to privatization of Social Security; economic measures such as increased taxes on "the rich and corporations," strong regulation of the financial industry, "regulation and public ownership of utilities," and increased federal aid to cities and states; opposition to the Iraq War and other military interventions; opposition to free trade treaties such as NAFTA; nuclear disarmament and a reduced military budget; various civil rights provisions; campaign finance reform including public financing of campaigns; and election law reform, including Instant Runoff Voting
This may not be a shock to the few who bother to do appropriate due diligence on Obama. Nevertheless, it is too much out of the mainstream -- too much progressivism liberalism socialism -- for me.
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