Fox News wrote: Well the CPUSA & RCP are both voting Biden. ![]() "By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?" - Walter Rodney
Something about the revolutionary defense of liberal-democracy made sense in the era of world wars, after the first spawned a revolution to be crushed, made compost for fascist counter-revolution, and subsequent forced abdication of liberal institutions by a humiliated imperialist power. In particular, it made sense when we had a comintern directing something like the popular front tactic. Today, on the heels of liberal decay as we were heading into their unipolar, globalizing world, it looks more related to the left's lack of independence from liberalism. The logic in the article is the same kind we heard in the Bush era, and the idea that voting is part of a struggle and part of fighting fascism should raise eyebrows.
A vote for Biden isn't wrong but, as the article hints at, it's a democratic vote at root that needs to be connected to something greater. I guess it remains to be seen whether that actually happens. ![]()
Biden was born in 1942, Avakian in 1943, Trump in 1946. Amazing how old all these people are.
![]() "Bleh, i don't even know what i'm arguing for. What a stupid rant. Disregard what i wrote." - Loz "Every time is gyros time" - Stalinista
The current president of Laos turned 83 yesterday.
Now what is this…
Kirov wrote: They're of the Politburo-age ;-)
I remember thinking that the equivalent would be veterans of the 1860s US Civil War running to be President in 1920. But then I remembered that it actually happened and later. Von Hindenburg fought in the 1866 War with Austria and was President in 1934. Born 1847.
Kamran Heiss
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