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Do I know you? Are you in Orlando or St Petersburg? I attended some
meetings sponsored by CPUSA years ago in both places and knew quite a few
of the members. I joined but there was a problem because I owned a book
store at the time and was told by a local head of the club that the
pornography would have to go. I disagreed. Under the circumstances, I
needed the income from porn to support carrying lesbian and gay literature
and radical left material which did not sell well at all but I could not
afford to keep ordering them unless I had some way to pay for all of it
and that is what magazines like Hustler and others did pay for. It was
also a time when combinations and major corporations were getting into the
book discount business and they were killing us. Eventually I did go out
of business because of the competition from the chains.
My membership in the CP lasted one day (g). Then the CP fell apart during
that period after the fall of the Soviet Union and the Committee of
Correspondance became attractive for many former members. The CofCC is no
more. The CP has since changed any of its ideas and rules and is not
nearly as stringent and many of my friends were involved. I support them
and always voted for Gus Hall (g). But I'm not exactly a vanguardist. My
start was with DSA where I was a charter member. I was also involved with
Hashomer Hatzair.
Anyway, I just thought I might know you? And I do believe as you do that
the only hope is some form of socialism. Marx led the way and pointed out
the flaws in capitalism. There have been setbacks and human nature tends
to be greedy but that may be more nurture than nature and cultural memes
can be altered. I'm all for it.
Thanks for your very good comments.
After the military takeover of the CIA (it is happening now) and Bush's
cancellation of elections in 2008 (there will be a national emergency
before November) there will be many more calling for a revolution but I
fear they will be prepared for it and are preparing for it now. I'm
getting too old for all this.
In Solidarity,
Hank Roth
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Jay Massey wrote:
>
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> I agree in some ways and not in others. I must say that the solution
> has been already provided if mankind has the willpower to make it
> happen. That is a United Mankind under a Marxist System.
>
> A clear reading of Marx, Engles and Lenin provide us with many insites
> to the nature of humanity and the problems incountered by it.
> Primarily is the Captialist method of production and consumption.
>
> Now before you gasp "Marxist rubbish" and turn away deafly, let me
> point out some very spacific ways that the captialist method of
> production/consumption (because production and consumption are really
> two sides of the same coin) hinders progress in the economic, political,
> cultural/social, and eviromental fields.
>
> First Economic. Captialism has produced very rich nations (US, Canada,
> Austraila, New Zealand, UK and EU) and very poor ones. Why? The wealth
> that was built in North America, Austrailia/NZ, UK and EU are products
> of the overt imperial past, slavery and colonialism. In other words the
> European/Western world stole the wealth of the Non-Western Afro-Asian
> world. Indeed it increases poverty in the home countries of captialism
> the Euro-American world by extracting greater and greater portions of
> wealth (which is derived by human labor) for less and less wages in real
> terms. This is the main foundation of the
> Political/cutural/social/enviromental problems of the world.
>
> In the United States in particular Big Oil and have prevented the use
> of Biofule such as B100 which is basicly filtered waste frying oil used
> in a disel engine. The interesting thing is that when the disel engine
> was first invented the fule that was used was vegitable oil, and that
> was in 1900! John D. Rockefeller most certainly couldnt have farmers
> growing all the fule that we would ever need--it would cut into his oil
> profits as electric lighting was replacing oil lamps at the time
> so....naturally the result of captialists working with other capitalists
> for their own greed we became dependant on gasoline...which is less
> effecent then "traditional" disel, which is again less effecent than the
> Biofule disel engine. In otherwords a select class of people on the
> basis of greed decided to ruin the enviroment for their own bank
> accounts.
>
> In the Political and cultural fields the addiction to petroleum has
> resulted in very rich Arabs that would like nothing better than to
> destroy the west, a prime example of this is the multibillionare Osama
> Bin-Ladin.
>
> Just some food for thought
>
>
>
> DOES AMERICA NEED A REVOLUTION? OF COURSE IT DOES, HOW ELSE WILL THE
> PROLETARIAT RID ITSELF OF THE CAPITALIST PARASITE CLASS.
>
> J. V. MASSEY
> CPUSA-FL
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