If you believe that the info on Goodman is irrelevant then what’s the point of your request?

DB

And, of all those who post here, where do you get your special priviledge to use italics?

Curious minds are asking.

If they wld propagate-defend COSA NOSTRA [OUR CAUSE: ALL OF THE PEOPLE ONT HIS PLANET] that wld be welcome.

COSA MIA CANNOT WIN , IN INFINITY OF TIME, AGAINST COSA NOSTRA! tnx

But i avoid to use this symbol because to most people the symbol does not stand for events i just enumerated! So, by using it i wld just aid and abet fascists who wld explain it differently but giving it a fascist slant!
Or i cld use it, but list all of its traits; even positive if any there are. However at this time i can’t com up with that many positive carachtecteristics for it.
Mind u, no ism is totally wrong-bad. Even nazism had some redeeming features.

No, no, Donski, not that one! {u do write like rashian} Is it beacause ur english is ur 5th language? tnx
PS, i am buying a plot of land in Novaya Zemya and in a place called Novo Selo [tillers' village].

The fundamental unit of meaning in capitalist and economic thought is the object , that is, capitalism relies on the creation of a consumer culture, a large segment of the population that is not producing most of what it is consuming. Since capitalism, like mercantilism, is fundamentally based on distributing goods—moving goods from one place to another—consumers have no social relation to the people who produce the goods they consume. In non-capitalist societies, such as tribal societies, people have real social relations to the producers of the goods they consume. But when people no longer have social relations with others who make the objects they consume, that means that the only relation they have is with the object itself. So part of capitalism as a way of thinking is that people become “consumers,” that is, they define themselves by the objects they purchase rather than the objects they produce.
Richard Hooker

Modern socialism originated in the late 18th-century intellectual and working class political movement that criticised the effects of industrialisation and private ownership on society. Utopian socialists such as Robert Owen (1771–1858), tried to found self-sustaining communes by secession from a capitalist society. Henri de Saint Simon (1760–1825), who coined the term socialisme, advocated technocracy and industrial planning.[8] Saint-Simon, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx advocated the creation of a society that allows for the widespread application of modern technology to rationalise economic activity by eliminating the anarchy of capitalist production.[9][10] They argued that this would allow for economic output (or surplus value) and power to be distributed based on the amount of work expended in production. Wiki

A few times Glenn Beck showed pictures of Russia and rather bleak houses state housing and it sure seems to me that under Capitalism to care on forget housing bit sleeping ubder a bridge or tents comes to mind. Socialism sounds better and now with known knowledge let’s see everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler a few of course will not like this idea but it does appear not about like or want but need. It’s a tuff one. So far how is this playing out;

“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!”

Oh the games people play now
Ev’ry night and ev’ry day now
Never meaning what they say, yeah
Never saying what they mean.

The Coffee shop this day in 2020 was full mid summer in New York City El Nino had made a come back again and the temperature this day was hot and the people already knew how to dress light and travel fast. Some of the people were only 10 years old when it happened in the year 2012 a rather large CME from our Sun and let’s just say cell phones were not what they used to be. When it started nobody really knew but a new way of thinking had started most of the people in the coffee shop were members of a new party in the greatest nation on Earth called the 2020 party that started just after the big light in old 2012. Through out the City the government had placed noise generators called by some peace makers and some had other names for them. The talk this morning was about the Capitalists yes they were still around who do you think built the noise generators and most in the coffee shop were talking about the day’s activates for the day ahead to change the hearts and minds of the Capitalists at least the ones who still lived in the city as a few of the Capitalists had moved to secure locations outside the city. Some word did get out about the workings of these secure locations and a person named Glenn Beck it was told was the new preacher at these secure locations and everyone there it was told had a copy of the constitution and a new book written by Beck with a snake on the front cover. It was said some infighting from the Capitalists but the truth still hard to get. Well as the activates for the day ahead were being planed one of those peace makers pulled up in front of the old coffee shop along with these dark very dark trucks and these men in black entered the coffee shop and the man in front with these agent Smith glasses yelled papers do you have your papers? It was already known this was going to happen and most had there papers an old man siting in the corner with his own glasses he found many years ago in a dumpster that kind of gave him a new look at the World was asked for his papers. Well the old man said but a few words kiss my ass. He was put into one of those dark truck’s for reeducation I guess and they all headed to find other members of the 2020 party. This isn’t the first time the men in black had come to the coffee shop and the planning went on. A little get together this day had been planned for Wall Street and the media outlets the official word still for the Capitalists. Somebody put on an old tune and then someone said let the games began.

Oh the games people play now
Ev’ry night and ev’ry day now
Never meaning what they say, yeah
Never saying what they mean.

People walking up to you
Singing glory hallelujah
Then thy try to sock it to you, oh
In the name of the Lord

The hypocrisy from the Left is astonishing. Clearly there needs to be more investigation of who funds the Left. Amy Goodman herself receives $1,000,000.00/year in salary which puts her more in line with corporate CEO’s than it does activists making her criticism of them disingenuous.

The Left is very much funded by former corporate executives and wealthy families via the foundation schemes. In fact Goodman did a short spot where she express her concerns of the impact of the Madoff swindle on donations. Why would Goodman display such concerns about receiving money from the kinds of rich people who lost money with Madoff? It was an exclusive club for rich Zionists. Somehow the “Fairness And In Reporting (FAIR)” crowd miss that but then they get their money from the same tainted sources.

Liberal academics and experts who claim workers are “irrational” are, themselves, practitioners of highly selective criticisms – pointing to (shrinking) state social benefits while ignoring the unjust, inequitable tax system and the biased behavior of the judicial, law enforcement, legislative and regulatory system.

Isn’t interesting that many people are now being ensnared by the debt enforcement system and there is very little Liberal-Left outcry. There is no such civil disobedience being organized to repudiate and offers to protect people from these usury vultures. There has been very little Liberal-Left analysis of the entire financial system especially the role of the Fed and usary. Isn’t housing a human right? So why is housing treated like a commodity.

What about the “Family Law” system that orders people out of their homes and the State make NO provisions. The Left is mum here because to challenge such practices would not be “PC” feminism. The whole “Family Law” system effects working class people daily and the Liberal-Left’s positions apparently is supportive of the state’s practices. Which leaves a HUGE vacuum for the Right to fill.

The fact is that Liberal academics have used Keynesianism as a way to avoid Marxist critiques of the Capitalist system. The Liberals belief that they can moderate the system Capitalism and focus primarily on social identity issues and has clearly failed due to their own hubris and elitism.

As Liberalism buckled under the weight of its own contradictions it was easy for the Right to critique it. The Liberals clearly refused to offer a Marxist alternative and thus the intellectual vacuum. The “Left” also offered no alternative being enamored with a pro-Zionist intellectual who too praised Adam Smith while avoiding Marx. Liberals also refused to acknowledge the day-to-day struggles of working people — especially the white working class. Thus leading to further resentments and division among the entire working class while at the same time the “Left” pretended to be concerned with the plight of people of color. This crisis has reveal the corrupted role of the Left as GATEKEEPERS.

Clearly there need to be new alignments around revolutionary and radical working class ideas and a complete rejection of limousine Liberalism and the gatekeepers of the faux-Left.

lichen remarks are emblematic of the “Left” response to the Tea Party movement. However the Tea Party movement was a response to the bank bailout to the tune of $12 TRILLON. That amounts to $40,000.00/citizen!

Clearly what’s missing is a “Tea Party” response on the Left but the Left has been CORRUPTED by the Chomskyites who fear that such a working class movement would raise “unconfortable” issues.

A working class movement is clearly what is needed and in the absense of a left-wing alternative and analysis the Tea Party can be easily swayed by the Sarah Palins, and Glen Becks. It would be a shame to see this energy get corrupted but we already witnessed a similar corruption by the “Left” during the anti-War movement of ’03 – ’04.

There is clearly a need for a resurgance in Marxist theory to provide a basis for revolutionary thinking amonst the working class.

American exceptionalism is a myth say it isn’t so.

But yes, pump up the american exceptionalism by insisting we don’t need to take that step, we are advanced enough to immediately go beyond it into right-wing corporatist anarchism where economic inequality would be cemented in place for ever, and the environment destroyed beyond belief. Let’s have no taxes, no public roads, libraries, schools, universities, or security.

Even the so-called liberal media has a nationwide blackout on the far-reaching devastation of deregulated utility monopolies. Since people think that “there’s all this help out there”, they think that anyone who dies from freezing to death in the winter, or in a residential fire caused by unsafe alternative heating methods, or heat stroke in the summer, all as a direct result of unaffordable utility bills and state policies that permit price-gouging, somehow these unfortunate people were “too stupid” to go apply for help….from the very same agencies that always run out of money, or whose administrators decide from their lofty positions of class privilege which of the poor are “deserving” and which are not.

The result: 80% of those who are eligible and in desperate need of help are turned away. But nobody is talking about those who are turned away. Nobody is talking about the few who do get help that is grossly inadequate to prevent having their life-sustaining utilities shut off.

As of December of 2009, over 5.7 million US households have had their utilities cut off because they can’t afford their bills because the rates are too high and people don’t have jobs that pay a living wage. Nobody is talking about the long-term unemployed destitute people who are victims of age discrimination and a real — not imagined — lack of enough jobs to go around for everyone who needs, wants and deserves one. To hear neocons and neolibs tell it, this is all by accident: An imperialism without imperialists. Class warfare is not an accident. And neither is classism.

Even the so-called liberal media has a nationwide blackout on the far-reaching devastation of deregulated utility monopolies. Since people think that “there’s all this help out there”, they think that anyone who dies from freezing to death in the winter, or in a residential fire caused by unsafe alternative heating methods, or heat stroke in the summer, all as a direct result of unaffordable utility bills and state policies that permit price-gouging, somehow these unfortunate people were “too stupid” to go apply for help….from the very same agencies that always run out of money, or whose administrators decide from their lofty positions of class privilege which of the poor are “deserving” and which are not.

The result: 80% of those who are eligible and in desperate need of help are turned away. But nobody is talking about those who are turned away. Nobody is talking about the few who do get help that is grossly inadequate to prevent having their life-sustaining utilities shut off.

As of December of 2009, over 5.7 million US households have had their utilities cut off because they can’t afford their bills because the rates are too high and people don’t have jobs that pay a living wage. Nobody is talking about the long-term unemployed destitute people who are victims of age discrimination and a real — not imagined — lack of enough jobs to go around for everyone who needs, wants and deserves one. To hear neocons and neolibs tell it, this is all by accident: An imperialism without imperialists. Class warfare is not an accident. And neither is classism.

The attempt by liberals and progressives to discredit this popular revolt against the state, by pointing to the corporate financing and right wing manipulation behind the anti-statist movement is doomed to failure, because it fails to deal with the profound injustices experienced by working people today in their daily dealings with a state, largely administered by liberal corporate-militarists. The absence of an anti-statist left has opened the door for the rise of a mass based ‘New Right’.”

Very good point. The zionists co-opted and destroyed the left in america to remove all opposition to the control of fascist capitalism. The zionists hid their complicity in this manipulation and did their job so well, that the working class no longer has any real left to turn to in america, outside of very small scale, independent instances, that most are neither aware of or have access to. The zionist/stealth fascist co-optation has been that complete. The betrayal has also turned many off the left because they see the duplicity these fake progressives operate with. So many turn to right-wing pundits who are mouthing what the progressives used to promise. But these right-wingers are also zionist fronts….

To turn things around, dezionification is the first step. Otherwise, they will continue to sabotage all attempts to change and we’ll stay in the same place or worse.

What kind of fool believes in the power of the state to liberate anyone? Everywhere and in all times, the State has been the primary instrument of death, tyranny, and oppression. It’s the state, and nowadays, its bastard offspring, the hyper-efficient micro-state we call the corporation, that has been murdering the planet, polluting the oceans, killing nature and turning life itself into a commodity to be bought, sold, and thrown away. All states, all corporations, are in the end hijacked by psychopaths or made to operate by competitive pressures under a psychopathic ideology, invariably mutated into vehicles of exploitation by elites.

States, under psychopaths, are dealers in death, destroyers of cities, and killers of men.

Once we see the criminality and inherent sociopathy of the State, we can put aside the blatantly false left-right paradigm, which is nothing but an ideological Chinese finger-trap designed to cripple opposition and deflect criticism of the status quo upon those very few who are trying to change it.

This is the most insidious feature of the right-left delusion. I have met, I am sure all of you have met, good, honest, hard-working people, passionate people, who care about their country, who care about their community. They care about their world and about making it a better place. But they didn’t get all the way out of the maze. They are stuck in some dead end – an Obama bumper sticker, or the NRA, or Libertarianism, or some other trap that pulls them back in to the suicidal fratricide of the two-party dictatorship.

Who is really running this Western capitalist global empire? You really think it’s right-wing radio ranters? Is it really powerless professorial liberal clowns? Maybe the Tea Party? How about insufferable mouth-shitters in the Establishment press?

No. It is the ultra-elite billionaires whose puppets man the corporations, the governments, and the media matrix. These are the criminals that have their jackboot heels upon the throat of the Earth.

The author believes, “A ‘new left’ will emerge from civil society when it recognizes the pernicious exploitative role of the state, and is capable of dealing with the powerful ties between liberalism-militarism-corporate ‘welfarism’.”

Nothing of the sort will occur. There will be no civil society left after the thugs ram through their agenda of debt slavery, depopulation, and war for profit. Their agenda is psychopathic. It is not organized, it is just a system that is out of control, and every sociopath on the planet is hitching their star to the domination machine for short-term gain.

Wars and economic disasters almost inevitably lead to tyranny and dictatorship, not Renaissances and the flowering of the human spirit. The inevitable result of this descent into folly is war, fascism, collapse and barbarism.

I don’t know what’s next. But it’s not this anemic academic fantasy of the status quo.