DEFINITELY No Communists In Wisconsin!
A union activist emailed me a few days ago to challenge my coverage of the Madison Wisconsin labor protests.
The anonymous comrade admitted that there might have been a few socialists in evidence, but there were definitely no communists.
Well here’s a photo from today’s Peoples World that tells a different story.
On the far left is Mark Froemke, a member of the Communist Party USA National Board and a big player in North Dakota and Minnesota labor circles and Democratic Party/Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party politics.
Next to him is Scott Marshall, Chicago based Communist Party USA Labor Commission chair – the party’s top labor union organizer of organizers.
All five comrades in the picture come from Steelworkers Organization of Active retirees, an old Communist Party front group.
Just all drove to up to Madison to be sociable, no doubt.
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In my opinion, socialist is a polite term for communist.
“so·cial·ism /ˈsoʊʃəˌlɪzəm/ Show Spelled
[soh-shuh-liz-uhm] Show IPA
–noun
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles. ”
“The consistent anarchist … should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat…. Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a “vanguard” party, or a State bureaucracy. “~ Noam Chomsky
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