A Potpourri of Liberal Treachery, JesuNazi Atrocities, Relevant Book Reviews and Small but Promising Triumphs

WE KNOW IN OUR HEARTS CAPITALISM IS DEATH AND REVOLUTION IS SURVIVAL, and now Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams have written a book entitled Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation to articulate this emotional truth so many of us feel but for many reasons find it difficult to verbalize. In response, Ron Jacobs has penned one of the most compellingly provocative book reviews  I have ever read anywhere on any subject.

SEPARATELY BUT IN OBVIOUS SYNCHRONICITY WITH MAGDOFF AND WILLIAMS, author Chris Wright cites Peter Kropotkin to argue that the looming apocalypse proves communism is the only true morality. 

PREDICTABLY, WITH SUCH IDEOLOGY BECOMING COMMONPLACE, a smug coterie of corporate and academic aristocrats  are now enough terrified by the prospect of proletarian vengeance, they have launched what is thus far the most breathtakingly deceptive scheme I have yet encountered to co-opt the revolution and thereby perpetuate not just Capitalism but their own medieval authority within it.

To do so, they've followed the Democratic (sic) Party's practice of hybridizing progressive-sounding rhetoric with irredeemably bourgeois conceptualizations of New Age individualism – think “the audacity of hope” and “change we can believe in.” 

Thus, like the Democrats, they deftly conceal their underlying tyrannical intent. But unlike the Democrats, these perpetrators of oppression have refined their messaging to an intellectual and emotional counter-revolutionary toxicity that in its seductiveness may have no counterpart in human history.

Disclosure: as the editor-in-chief of Art Direction magazine c. 1984-1986, I was often called upon to pass judgment on advertising and public relations campaigns – and this campaign is by far the most diabolically effective such effort I have ever encountered. Josef Goebbels would be not just proud but ecstatic. Which is probably why the usually ideologically savvy editors of PopularResistance.org were duped into publishing it.  (Scroll down to the comment thread for absolute proof – in the perpetrators' own words – of their counter-revolutionary intent.)

A SIMILAR ALBEIT LESS SOPHISTICATED COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY DECEPTION is evident in the aristocratic sponsorship of the fight to preserve the small presence of transsexual people in the Imperial war machine.“

 
MEANWHILE, HATEMONGERS AND COUNTRY COPS TEAM UP...

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Germany Confirms It: Trump "Far Worse Than Expected"

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FROM CIVILIZATION'S PERSPECTIVE, TRUMP'S MALEVOLENT BARBARISM is “far worse than expected.” The linked der Spiegel report confirms, in a generalized sense, much of what I predicted immediately after the Ruling Class oh-so-deftly manipulated the Trump/Pence Regime into the White House.

WHICH ADMITS THE NEED FOR AN ANTI-USIAN INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE: though the der Spiegel report does not say it outright, it implicitly raises the prospect of an all-Europe, eventually global alliance of civilized peoples and nations to fight against the JesuNazi savagery that now threatens not only the survival of our species, but the survival of Earth as anything more than a bug planet. Such an alliance would most assuredly provide one of the four prerequisites to successful revolution –  that is, the support of a major foreign power (scroll down to “History shows us...”). But not so fast with the false hopes: can anything stop the JesuNazis' scheme to nuke the whole world – which they believe is necessary  to bring their Sadomasochistic Savior and Messiah of Malignancy back to Earth?

TEACHABLE MOMENTS WITHIN THE TRUMP-PENCE TYRANNIES: the one most important lesson being hammered into our (allegedly) conscious minds by the Trump/Pence Regime – not just by its own unapologetic tyranny, but by the breathtaking betrayal increasingly evident in how the Democratic (sic) Party's ever-more-obvious Big Lie of opposition  put the JesuNazis in the White House – is that We the People no longer have any friends at all amongst those who govern on behalf of Capitalism. Just as – precisely because our Capitalist overlords no longer hide the fact they consider us the enemy – so must We the People learn to consider all Capitalist governance the enemy. Indeed our survival depends on it. The sooner we recognize the ugly truth that one-party Capitalist despotism lurks behind the Big Lie of the USian two-party system, the sooner we will be able to replace it with real (i.e., socialist) democracy.

BUT EVEN THOSE WHO KNOW BETTER CLING DESPERATELY, and often with compelling eloquence,  to the Big Lie of USia as the land of “liberty and justice for all.” Such fools hold to the ludicrous notion...

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