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| 2003-12-16 |
| Heavily Edited - LOOKING FOR A PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT FOR THAT LEFTY on your list? Try shopping at the Communist Party USA online. On its âShop âtill Capitalism Drops!â website you can find âCommie Bearâ for that red diaper baby.... only $17.99. In this convergence between a right-moving Communist Party USA and a left-moving Democratic Party, the once-dreaded CPUSA has become retro kitsch, the stuff of nostalgia and Andy Warhol art imitators. wasnât it always? As David Horowitz has observed, the once-ideologically-mighty CPUSA that used to dominate âprogressiveâ politics is today âonly a constituent part of the wholeâ Leftist mechanism for seizing power and confiscating private property in America. The same could be said for the Democratic Party. Wasnât the communist party motto always: steal from others and give to me? Or was I just born too late? The Democratic Party in the U.S. scouts for potential candidates with enough wealth to pay for their own campaigns â and perhaps a bit more. We may not yet have the best government money can buy, but in this regard the Democratic Party has led the way in selling our government to the highest bidders, foreign and domestic. Call it âU.S. Capitol Capitalismâ or âDonkey Kong.â I have a bit of a different take on this, than the article. I see this as a sign that the foreign funding for those wishing to undermine the USA is drying up, and they are now forced to sell themselves... or go hungry. I bet weâll see even more of this now that Sadaam has fallen and more light is shed on the anti-american money networks. |
| Posted by:B |
| #4 selling teddy bears and retro kitsch is a fitting end to the CPUSA Now baby... that's cold. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-16 6:38:28 PM |
| #3 I'd love to believe that Communism and Marxism are dead, but at the celebrations over Saddam in Baghdad on Sunday, I saw way too many men waving red flags with the hammer and sicle. But your premise is sound: everyone knows that a world movement needs American dollars above all. Libhawk, Hill lost the hairdresser when she was no longer Co-President and she won't need one now or in 2008. She will be politically dead by next November tops. What she needs is an orange jumpsuit. And Hitlery, who wrote her Master's thesis on Marxism, is not a centrist. She is the largest (both literally and figuratively) proponent of the Socialist Nanny Police State that the US had or has. |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-16 2:54:20 PM |
| #2 I think that selling teddy bears and retro kitsch is a fitting end to the CPUSA. In fact, it would be funny if a gazillion million people hadn't died. |
| Posted by: anon 2003-12-16 2:21:11 PM |
| #1 peshawar - and totally inaccurate at that 1. The CPUSA was never the only part on the left - there were trotskyites, Norman Thomas Socialists (some fiercely anti-communist), Henry Wallace Progressives who wandered in and out of the Dem party, not to mention anti-communist labor liberals - Truman-Humphrey-Jackson-Moynihan-Dubinksy-Meany-Kirkland-Rustin 2. Dems moving left - well in '92 they moved right - at most Dean is leading back - but thats being resisted (go, Joe, go!) and at most is likely to lead to a flameout in '04 and a return to the center in '08 (hillary, keep your hairdresser) 3. There are of course still parties to the left of the Dems aside from CPUSA, the most prominent being the Greens (see above thread) I wonder how many members of democratic underground actually voted Dem in '04, rather than for Nader. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-12-16 1:25:20 PM |