A thin line between Young Communist League and the democrat dogma?

[WriterDom]

Budget cuts, unemployment, economic crisis, and racism are the best we can expect from capitalism, the system of corporate rule based on the drive for maximum profits. As the saying goes, "It doesn't get much better than this." So long as capitalism exists, that's our future. The Young Communist League is fighting for a different future. We are dedicated to ending the corporate rule and to fighting for a decent life for all youth. We are dedicated to building Socialism,USA--a system where big business is publicly owned and the economy is geared toward making life better for people; a system with a peaceful foreign policy, free education, where racism and sexism are outlawed, and where our environment is protected.

 

[WriterDom]

Still want more answers? To understand what capitalism is, step back and take a good look at America. Right now, right here in America, we are living in the belly of the world's nastiest capitalist nation. Here in America, the capitalist has serious power.

Now, who is the capitalist? The dictionary says: "Capitalist; 1. an investor of capital in business; especially, one having a major interest in an important enterprise. 2. any person of great wealth." What they don't say is that the capitalist owns and controls the banks, the factories, the fields and the markets. They control the politicians, the T.V., the radio and press. They use the cops to protect their private property. They use the army to protect their operations around the world. Remember the war for oil in the middle east and that joke excuse they used to start it?

In short, in a capitalist society like ours, the capitalists have the power, and they use this power to make bumping bankroll, major money, pumping profits; all for them, none for us.

By contrast, what do the rest of us have? Capitalist society has given the rest of us the freedom to choose between work or starvation. Working people, we who work for a living, we who can't live off the labor of others, must go to work for the bosses if they we are to live. We don't own the factories or the stores or the fields or the offices, so we have to sell our time to the capitalists. They buy our time to work for them and then they own the product of our labor. They pay us as little as they can get away with, but all the value we create on the job becomes the property of the capitalist. That is where his profit comes from. Profit is the extra wealth created by workers which is then turned into capital by the boss

 

[WriterDom]

Young people today are facing severe economic and social challenges. Youth are subject to criminalization, discrimination in housing and hiring as well as racism, sexism and homophobia in their schools and workplaces. All the while the basic democratic rights of young people have been whittled away. On campuses and in the schools, the right to organize and distribute materials freely is under attack.

One of the main ways that capitalism threatens the future of young people today is with schemes to privatize public colleges, universities, schools and pre-K programs. These efforts, be they in the form of vouchers, private management or corporate contracts are a threat to our most critical democratic institutions and they are robbing young people of their rights.

The privatization is at its core an ideological fight. Corporations and politicians base their privatization drives on the idea that "business knows best," the idea that government is inefficient and unaccountable. The fight against privatization is on the other hand a fight for public ownership of a key social productive industry

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Okay, okay,

I see the democratic dogma, but where is the communist stuff?

 

[registered "^^"]

hmmmmmmmm

very idealistic, but there will always be jealousy,greed and racism. human traits. look around the world, you need not look far to see countries where people are fighting over relgion, skin color, eye color and many other petty useless reasons. man has not evovled that far from the apes. and the planet will be destroyed by pollution, long before he gets any wiser.

 

[unusuallyconfused]

Well, this is still the land of opportunity and I am living proof of that. I have embraced it. I was raised by the most ignorant and wicked white trash around yet I was able to rise above it. It can be done. I think this country has problems, but the land of opportunity is ours to claim.

 

[registered "^^"]

born in the usa

they did one thing right unusuallyconfused, they produced an intelligent offspring.

 

[unusuallyconfused]

Re: born in the usa

they did one thing right unusuallyconfused, they produced an intelligent offspring.

Thank you, as I blush, but actually I was adopted. Long story. (Thank God their seed didn't take root in me!)

 

[registered "^^"]

Re: born in the usa

they did one thing right unusuallyconfused, they produced an intelligent offspring.

retracted. lol

 

[registered "^^"]

lmao

but your still intelligent

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Nothing wrong with being white trash.

You can take your home anywhere. I prefer working-class blue-collar democrats when refering to my similar upbringing. I like to think I rose above that, but many here dispute that, and for the 100th time, I will brag about my adopted daughter who is 2, and using the mouse to learn Spanish and Chinese.

 

[riff]

huh?

What has this to do with anything?

 

[Andra_Jenny]

You talkin' to me?
You must be talkin to me, 'cause I don't see anyone else around,

If you are, just making connections to what people said at various points, just to let them know that I may be insane, but I am human.

Besides I sufferred a high-ankle sprain in training and now I have to stay still, which I absolutely cannot do without going bonkers, sorry, redundant, so I decided to make my fellow Literoticans suffer too .

 

[troy]

WriterDom

....I knew it! That's why so many people from around the world are clamoring to become citizens of Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam.

Communism is awesome.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Now you're getting the hang of it Troy!

Yours doesn't have a rightward bend to it by any chance?

 

[Andra_Jenny]

PS, Troy

I ignore Kid Rock1 threads.

 

[WriterDom]

Many of the major attacks today against working people, particularly working youth, are sharpened with racism. Prisons are a big business in the U.S. today and a source of cheap labor. They are built rather than schools, based on the idea that youth of color are "throw-away" people, unworthy of education. Immigrant children are turned away from hospitals and schools, based on the idea that people who work the land and are from a different country don't deserve basic human rights. And, most recently, the hard-won affirmative action mandates, which are the main guards against institutional racism, are being gutted. With their loss, young people of color will have no protection against racism keeping them from college or a good job. But oppressed people are fighting back. Youth in particular are taking to the streets to fight against racism.

Latino, African American, American Indian, Asian American and white youth are uniting to fight for a better world.

The Young Communist League (YCL) is a part of that fight. The YCL brings the message of unity and the weapon of organization to every place where racism attempts to divide young people from each other. Every fight against racist policies and hate crimes is an important blow to the system of racism.

 

[unusuallyconfused]

The YCL sounds like an organization that is committed to one line of thinking, meaning that it more than likely dosn't try to encourage individuals thinking for themselves. THe communists first line of attack would be after the youth, because every power structure knows the way to change the way society feels is to go after the youth, therefore shaping a new way of thinking and a new generation to shape the ideas into a more common, accepted way of thinking.

Not everyone is capable of greatness in making money. Many can not lead others. Everyone, I believe, has some talent, but simply put, could not be in charge of others. In fact, I have met very few that could actually be a good leader, manager, capitolist. So if many could not ever be capable of being a capitolist and enjoy putting in their 40 hours and working for someone else, does that make them "less" of a person? Of course not.

I will never, ever be for communism because it denounces free thought and allows government to make choices individuals could and should make for themselves. I want my children to be free to choose the life they will lead.

I know we have racial problems. We have all kinds of problems in this country. Yet I see Colin Powell and other prominent black individuals creating and making their way in this world. It is not perfect, but the alternative is much less perfect.

 

[troy]

UnusuallyConfused

I will never, ever be for communism because it denounces free thought......



Silly girl!

They don't denounce free thought. They just kill you for speaking out.

 

[unusuallyconfused]

Re: UnusuallyConfused

I will never, ever be for communism because it denounces free thought......



Silly girl!

They don't denounce free thought. They just kill you for speaking out.

Yes, there is that too!