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Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "The Civil Rights Movement" video.

@xena4894 This is nothing more than a personal story of Larry, Dad and a bashing of Obama. Absolutely nothing about the civil rights movement until you get to the questions and answers.
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@jg0943 Larry Elder and Candice Owens are examples for Black economic success. That however also aligns them with the capitalist superstructure. What many forget is just because a person is not an economic success that doesn't mean they have nothing to contribute. Both Nicola Tesla and Thomas Paine died in poverty.
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@winomaster Focusing on speech delivery and not content shows how politically shallow you are.
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Okay other than more propaganda and exhortations to work hard and read a book how will Republicans being in charge change that? The manufacturing jobs have been robotized, the white collar jobs have been computerized and WalMart can only hire so many people even their the cashers are being replaced with self checkouts.
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@edwardst-pierre1020 I think if you were expecting a talk about the civil rights movement you will be disappointed. Instead its a story of Larry and his Dad. An interesting story. Then again the conservative Barry Goldwater 1964 Candidate for President voted against the 1964 Civil Rights act in lock step with the Dixiecrats. Hillary Clinton at the time was a self described Goldwater Girl.
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@thomasemcdonald1 I figured you already made the case against the Republican half but yes I agree. I too hate the whole establishment (Capitalist System). http://www.pathfinderpress.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.134/.f
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If you think revolutions can be manufactured than you actually understand nothing about the class struggle.
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Vox Daze Redbaiter's Inc see a communist conspiracy behind any protest of capitalist injustice. LOL
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@s.marcus3669 During the Federal Desegregation order for the Boston Public Schools Boston was rocking something in a little cradle called racism.
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@aishamohammed9178 No I saw racial hatred in Boston when the Democratic Party lead the anti-bussing battle. The one where Joe Biden said everyone was against forced bussing. Everyone of Biddens friends that is. Those Black Students who boarded my bus for South Boston High said NO to Democratic Party racism. The racist burned buses in Louisville at the same time. They threatened to blow up the tunnels to East Boston. The had to be held back by hundreds of Boston cops in riot gear usually reserved for attacking student anti war protests.
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Have you ever heard of a Boss voluntarily forgoing the biggest profits possible for more production at a lower price and profit level?
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He can run for Senate from South Carolina and replace Mitch McConnell on his way to being a Republican President.
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At a one hundred to one ratio only the most racially bigoted would be scared.
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At a one hundred to one ratio only the most bigoted would be scared.
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@star_1_man214 Let's be frank here many middle class caucasians are afraid to walk into neighborhoods that are poor and working class and into all black shopping areas in the daytime nevermind at night. Naturally a large middle class caucasian crowd isn't going to be afraid of a single Black kid. It would be an admission of something they don't want to be tagged as.
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Vox Daze So your an advocate of racism among non whites? Sounds like identity politics to me.
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@edwardst-pierre1020 We need a socialist system that recognizes the development of all benefits all not an age 5 or 6 examination that determines your hierarchical social status for life.
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@winomaster The rich are no more financially independent than anyone else without a working class for them to exploit those federal reserve notes would only have a paper recycle value. You require us but we don't require you.
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@winomaster That's a nice stereotype did you get it from some old book directed at the 1960's hippies? To bad none of it is true about me. Keep telling yourself that the money is good and extolling the advantages of how many things you can buy with it. Survey said, "Trump would lose." To bad things are not as simple as the "Family Feud".
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@pffear Elder says follow me to the top of the pile and you be worth a whole lot of money.
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@rovers141 Ben Carson and Larry Elder are both known as Conservative Republicans. The "click bait" title of the video is "The Civil Rights Movement". The title should have been "Memories of racism Larry Elder and his Dad's personal experiences." Obviously funding is a problem because its based in property taxes within a school district. Its supposed to be equal in a school district with school choice and desegregation making that true. Outside of school districts its not. Otherwise you would not of had the absurdity of a homeless Black women in Connecticut being charged with theft for sending her children to a school district outside of the homeless shelter's district.
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@rovers141 "Improving public education starts with improving the economy in low income areas." Our party, the Socialist Workers Party says the way to combat low wages and unemployment is with a fighting union in one hand and a labor party independent of the bosses in the other. What do the boss parties say? More welfare and more taxes or less welfare and less taxes?
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No his vision is one where a colorless wealthy meritocracy rules do to living in wealthy neighborhoods and exercising supervisory power over all aspects of working class life.
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The welfare state is not the goal of the communist movement. A job for all who want to work is a goal of the communist movement.
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@sonofode902 Wrong with capitalism there is a job for all who can make a capitalist a profit. I'm not familiar with the Son of Ode economic system.
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@sonofode902 The natural workings of capitalism is to pay the lowest wages possible their by making the highest profits. So why pay a wage that can support a whole family when all you need is a single worker? He and others claim that the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage hurt working Black teenagers. The act also for the first time federally outlawed child industrial labor and the minimum wage generally didn't apply to farm labor plus the country was going through a recession. I'm not convinced that the minimum wage created Black teenage unemployment. Since these other factors may have played a role or even exceeded any effect of the minimum wage law.
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@sonofode902 Communism is a movement of a class on its way to power. It starts with facts then draws general conclusions and proceeds from there. God is not involve because no one can show the existence of god as a fact. Economic facts show where value comes from, who produces value and who appropriates value. Value is not a god that magically comes into existence. The origin of value lies in human labor as does profit and wages. In the modern world production takes place with a world division of labor and a social force called capital but privately owned and controlled by a few. Capitalism has a number of built in contradictions that drive its decline and entrance into depression and war. It can not escape those contradictions by any form of regulations insead only its complete overthrow and the reorganizations on a world socialist bases can halt it form destroying humanity itself.
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@sonofode902 Economic facts show where value comes from, who produces value and who appropriates value. Value is not a god that magically comes into existence. The origin of value lies in human labor as does profit and wages. In the modern world production takes place with a world division of labor and a social force called capital but privately owned and controlled by a few.
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@sonofode902 Your problem is you start without nothing. No zero than what good is a one? Sure one can exist without a zero until you need the idea of a zero. I am happy with an equal sign so why do I need a god? Historically God seems to be a man made idea to use when no one understands something. Are Canada, the USA or Mexico communist countries in your idea of what a communist country is? Seriously don't at least some people believe those countries are already under communist control or close to it? I was hoping for the return of ferry service between Cuba and the US so I could visit affordably.
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@sonofode902 Anti Stalinist communists have been defending free speech in the US since 1928 as a principle unlike the two capitalist Parties who only defend free speech for their own partisan purposes or not at all. Maybe you would like to sign on to a petition defending the rights of prisoners to receive a weekly newspaper called TheMilitant.com to read on there free time in Florida prisons or does your idea of free speech apply to you and your God only?
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@wolvenwood You going to find a downward trend of support for either party as this coronavirus crisis unfolds.
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Guy Fawkes-Day They gave the wrong title to the video. It should have been how Larry Elder's made good after the destruction of Jim Crow racism. Anyone remember who the Republicans put up for President in 1964? Conservative Barry Goldwater. The same Barry Goldwater who would vote against the 1964 civil rights act. Goldwater joined with the Dixiecrats hiding behind constitutional issues like states rights. Mr. Goldwater according to conservatives the Supreme court decides constitutional issues not Congress.
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I love listening to Malcolm X and I'm caucasian. So what's your point? You like listening to non violent civil disobedience promoters because they are no real threat to the capitalist system?
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@edwardst-pierre1020 "we now need to make the right decision to make it a better future." You can't make that decision as an individual because becoming a Larry Elder the corporate lawyer or Candice Owens the Wall streeter is an individual economic solution limited to a few. The number of those upper class jobs is limited if for no other reason than the division of labor. Candice Owens and Larry Elder can't build their own Buick's on the assembly line and still be part of the upper class. If your were to ask them if they could do that what could they say? A. You crazy! B. I've got an education! C. Are you stupid? D. Why should I? E. I decided not to?
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@edwardst-pierre1020 The fact that they have broken though those color lines breaks down white supremacy but it can't be a solution for the masses of Black people unless you believe in Black superiority and creation of a Black only ruling and upper class of a top 10% ruling over the caucasian majority.
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@irenetv1776 This is s personal story of Larry and his Dad almost nothing about the civil rights movement.
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@robertbeck8670 Actually I think this is a speech is for white conservatives who need confirmation that they too can sing "We shall overcome". The focus is all on me "Larry Elder."
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@thomasemcdonald1 LOL I like how he answered that question about MLK with his civil disobedience and Malcolm X with the Militants. "Of course King was right." Malcolm X hated the Democratic Party and phony white liberals. LMAO
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Work hard and you to can look down your nose at everyone else.
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Vox Daze Alex Jones has a interview for you to attend.
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JP McCray Your right about one thing I'm not a broken down oldster. The title of the video was the Civil Rights Movement. The correct title would have been, "Larry Elders dad and the personal rise of Larry Elders as a lawyer/talk radio host." At the very end we find out that the movement should have followed Booker T. Washington who had given up the struggle against segregation at a time when segregation was getting worse. A time when Republicans had abandon Blacks. Where Republican Supreme court nominees would vote for separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1898. His was to forget segregation and instead rely on self improvement and education alone.
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@wolvenwood Just another long standing idiotic claim about the Russian Revolution in 1917. You might as well claim that the American revolution was really promoted by George the third because the British would need an ally in WW1.
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@wolvenwood Nope Dem's controlled all of the governments in the South and all thoses state had segregation laws. That's how they got the derisive name Dixiecrats. A movement developed out of two party control. That's why it was called a movement. As the protests over segregation began the protesters began to lose their fear of the policeman's club and the jail. Others organized against KKK violence shooting back at the KKK night riders. The KKK itself was an arm of the Democratic Party.
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@wolvenwood I am 67 but you are definitely an oldster as your cynical politics revolve around the two parties and lies about the role they played. Malcolm X was certainly no Democrat or Republican. Cointelpro was a two party FBI secret police operation. to prevent the rise of a "Black Messiah" as FBI documents show.
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Vox Daze Sure anytime the workers struggle for a better life that results in a victory that's called "entitlement". Everytime the bosses get a bonus or bigger profits that called "well earned income."
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Vox Daze I guess you friend "Caldwell" was working with a pre civil war copy of the constitution.
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@star_1_man214 God in Hosea 13:16 KJV sets a very poor example.
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@star_1_man214 The problem with religion is it is as you say man made. Instead of starting with facts religion starts with God and then finds facts and miracles to make God with those particular facts found fit inside a religion. My point is to show that the Christian and Jewish God are no better than Islam based upon what is written. One needs to junk religion and start the way Karl Marx did with material facts and then proceeding to make general conclusions based upon those facts. If your general conclusions give the wrong answer because of new facts than you must go back and alter your general conclusions in some way. This is the way modern science proceeds.
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@star_1_man214 Like I said Marx put politics and economics on a materialist basis. That's why we start with facts instead of religious dogma like Christianity. You assume that Marxism Leninism is the same as Stalinism. Nothing can be further from the truth. You've listened to a few slanders and accepted them as truth. There was a whole communist left opposition in the Soviet Union to Stalin and the bureaucracy. When the Moscow Trials began in 1936 that was almost 20 years after the 1917 revolution. The defendants were all charged with Trotskyism and being agents of Hitler.
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@star_1_man214 You think that Marx had s single failed idea? LMAO Which one was it? LOL
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@star_1_man214 I thought you were the expert? Shouldn't you be telling me what's wrong? I don't have to show anyone that an idea is beneficial only true. Are Newton's laws of motion beneficial? Knowing what they are might be good for an artillery company but bad for those being shelled. Now if the artillery company shells approach the speed of light than Newton's laws break down and we need Einstein's relativity to get an accurate estimate as to where the shells will fall. Plus most of Marx's writings are available online at Marxists.org . It's not like they are only available in the musty area's of old university libraries and Party bookstores.
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@star_1_man214 Cuba and the early Soviet Union. Leadership as you point out is a problem. However the workings of capitalism preclude buying off all the leaders nor can capitalism out regulate greed. To answer the question can you do your job without a boss? Well I've worked night shift and yes less probably gets done with only one foreman compared to all the department foreman during the day? Part of that depends on what the job is. You don't want to be the guy blamed when any kind of production or continuous process shuts down. I don't know what your business was or why you needed to constantly chase after everyone? I've had jobs where I see my boss once a day. Taxi Driver, Telecom tech and others were they sit at their desk and come by to just check in on how the work is going. I had some where we started at 12 midnight and went home at 7 AM before he even came to work. He only lived a mile away and was always telling us to call him if we had a problem. We never called him because if we did have a problem it couldn't be solved until the next day anyway.
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Their are crisis that capitalism can't solve like world trade competition, the tendency towards monopoly, the shift from industrial investment to fictitious capital brought on by a tendence for the rate of return on investment in industrial capital to decline. The problem of a finite world with an end to cheap labor and resources. The inability of the workers to buy all that we can produce.
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@star_1_man214 The capitalist risks his money the driver risks his life on the job. What were the original ideas Bill Gates had besides those which enabled microsoft to go for big profits and drive competitors form the field. Tomorrow morning we could replace Windows with Linux and MS Office with Open office or with Google Chrome. We want control of the surplus value such that it can be used for us instead of against us.
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@star_1_man214 "Companies need to realize the benefits of good-will to customers and workers instead of only worshiping profit!" This is where we part ways because there is no material reason for that to happen other than for some short term reform meant to make capitalism look good. Once a reform is granted the next day the hammer and chisel of the capitalist system returns to take that away.
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@star_1_man214 Trump can only do what the Congress and the federal bureaucracy allow him to do. No more and no less. The same goes for Bernie Sanders or any leader riding on a white horse. To many American's believe that changing parties is somehow different than changing shoes. We believe that the single man at the top has the strictest control over those below. That our 'leaders' are 99% to 100% percent correct with the full backing of the people. While Mao or Stalin are 99% to 100% wrong and have nothing but mostly armed robots keeping them in power. Many believe we have successfully detached the engine of economics from the politics of the caboose.
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@star_1_man214 In past labor history Jimmy Hoffa went to the Republicans after dealing with the Kennedy brothers in the 1950's . John L. Lewis went to the Republican candidate after finding out FDR had bugged him. When Reagan broke the PATCO strike (a union that had supported Reagan) that sent most if not all of them to the Democrats.
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@star_1_man214 That's not totally true. Goldwater a Conservative Republican in 1964 ran against LBJ and as a Senator voted AGAINST the 1965 Civil Rights Act. Chief Justice Earl Warren formerly a liberal Republican was one of the first "Activist Judges". He presided over the dismantling of all the legal theories of Jim Crow. For this a campaign against him was waged by Dixiecrats, and conservatives of the John Birch Society demanding that Congress Impeach Earl Warren.
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@star_1_man214 "All unions, lobbyists, politicians that don't listen to the will of their constituents and judges that have no accountability should be deemed illegal!" So what does that mean? Who's going to make that decision? How are they going to do that? We gone for over 200 years without an official language so why do we need one now? We have our own newspaper TheMilitant.com and run candidates against the two parties.
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@star_1_man214 I don't know how many times I have to repeat that we are neither Democrats or Republican and both are parties of the ruling rich. Many bosses give to both parties that way they can't lose. Companies are run based upon profits not because they want to create happy workers or customers. Unions do work at that is where we begin along with a labor party independent of the two capitalist parties.
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@star_1_man214 If capitalism raises people out of poverty why do the bosses move to countries where then can pay lower wages? Their goal is to make the biggest profits possible not raising living standards. In England where capitalism began the working class was created by throwing poor peasants off the land with the enclosure laws and doing the same in Ireland so to create a people who owned nothing and traded the labor for food and life in the slums. The Irish emigrated to the slums of London and Manchester. All these extra peasants in Europe were turned into workers in the US and later Black sharecroppers were thrown off the land and moved North to the industrial cites in the North.
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@star_1_man214 You keep talking about how unions and socialism never works but in fact they do when the workers are in control of the unions. The Cuban people refuse to turn their country over to a bunch parasites at the New York banks. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was founded in the carpenters union hall. We don't care about a companies profits. We don't need sweatshops who can't make a profit. You'll find out that those Chinese and Mexican workers also fight back with the strike and protest. .
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@star_1_man214 The world is only so big and wherever they go the workers fight back for the same reason workers do the same thing here. We don't want or need to work for less because even as capitalism is in decline here the bosses can't use the full production capacity so why do they need more profits? They'll only invest in schemes which create financial bubbles which will deflate and produce more misery. In 1967 they were using 88% today its 77%
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@star_1_man214 The capitalist own the government and why would their own government bite the hand that feeds it? Sure you like to return to the days with no workmen comp, no social security, and no strikes that a judge couldn't rule illegal. The days of child labor and machine gunning down strikers in Ludlow, CO. The days when bosses could fire at will and pay in company script usable only at the company store instead of real money. You can forget about going back to the days when the capitalist robber barons could do whatever they please. Because the plutocrats are a very tiny minority of super wealthy that can hire big mouthpieces. When the workers put the fear of god in them they will retreat just like any other conscript army. .
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@star_1_man214 The capitalism of the late 19th century is not the same as the capitalism of the 21st. They write all theses regulations to keep greed under control and maintain incubancy. They'd much rather have government OSHA inspectors than union safety committees with the power to shut down unsafe conditions. They don't want you building cheaper diesel engines that emit lots of black smoke as a way to let the market decided the questions of air pollution. They'd rather have EPA than workers councils deciding questions about pollution and the environment. Capitalism always moves towards monopoly because of economies of scale, cut throat competition for markets, and investment capital moving in the direction of the biggest ROI at the lowest risk. . .
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@star_1_man214 You have no way to get to your capitalist utopia even if it were possible. We have the class struggle and facts from which we can draw conclusions good or bad and proceed from there. You're going to do what? Build a Libertarian Party of Ron Paul' Republican's? Promising once you get a majority of all these libertarians everything will then work out into nirvana? Forced employment by unions? What is that supposed to mean? On occasions unions hire a lawyer. They don't force lawyers to work and if anything they hire too many lawyers. They also hire staff and Business agents. Once again no one is forced to work for the union.
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@star_1_man214 I don't have the capital to experience both sides equally like the owners or professors. "It was very hard to get employees too work 40 hours!" I worked six years in a low paying no union retail job. I never took an unapproved day off. Before the great recession they couldn't get people to stay. After the great recession they came up with more and more nitpicking reasons to fire you. I quit twice and could have returned twice also. People come in and buy stuff they don't care nor can the do anything about how a company treats you. If they don't buy there then they buy at WalMart. Capitalism left to its own devices drives down wages. They use to issue very unpopular wage cuts. Now they use the Federal Reserve to 'manage" crisis and inflation takes the place of wage cuts.
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@star_1_man214 We don't need more people opening up lemonade stands or low wage construction companies and then demanding a cut in the minimum wage or overturning the Davis Bacon act so they can compete. The capitalist have been using less as less of their productive capacity so why do they need bigger profits? Are you going to stuff all those extra profits into a mattress? The only way working people can have any real say at work is by organizing into groups and then unions. The capitalist is interested in the bottom line only and next quarters projected profits. Their is always someone outside the door looking for a job. You need to convince the employed that the unemployed are not workers. That's the reasoning behind all the attacks on immigrants, welfare mothers, people of color and deplorable workers in general.
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@star_1_man214 We'd like to have a system with no taxes on the workers and all the taxes on the employers also. That's not going to happen anytime soon. If anything the tax burden shits towards the workers and away from the capitalists. The government says it has a massive debt. Well who has been lending that money to the government and is getting tax dollars to pay it off with interest? The same people who should be paying taxes. The richest people in the world. I don't know anyone who buys savings bonds never mind Treasury bills and Treasury bonds.
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@star_1_man214 You concern over how much union officials are paid and therefore dues is duly noted. Just one question though. When has Wall Street or the Wall Street Journal ever been concerned about a company over profiting at the workers expense?
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@star_1_man214 I'm going to end this for the same reason that this is not a video about the Civil Rights movement. Instead its a story about Larry and his dad's personal experiences with racism. I'm not interested in discussing your personal problems and your family.
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The Socialist Workers Party is the working class party. TheMilitant.com
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What about the more free countries?
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Why not hold the ruling capitalist class accountable for their shortcomings? Afterall capitalism is what is breaking up families.
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@mikelovetere4719 I tend to doubt you can write a law that taxes everyone but Democrats. Lots of people are registered Democrats so how do they escape taxes that the rest of us have to pay for the same reason?
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@mikelovetere4719 If Democrats are for the poor, isn't it in their best interests to keep us poor? What makes you think they are for the poor to begin with? The best anti poverty program is a union job at union wages.
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It's basically immoral to give the workers anything but a low wage while the Industrialists like GM and the Banks are to big to fail. Free money from the printing presses of the GPO via the Federal Reserve for junk bonds headed for the paper shredder. Obama needed a good name so it became Quantitative Easing.
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Dave Wesley My bet is if we put 100 dead brains of different people in front of you couldn't tell which came out of a white person and which came from a colored person. Even more so I'd bet you could tell the difference between an engineers brain and a school janitors either.
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The line will be short and overwhelming caucasian.
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@joecombs7468 I'm sure there are plenty of bourgeois professors publishing books with theories about why Marx was wrong. I have read at least some of Marx's and Engel's work beyond just the communist manifesto and read a number of writings of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution including Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Bukharin that produced the USSR.
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@joecombs7468 I thought his would be a talk about the civil rights movement. Not the personal experiences of Larry Elder, his father and Obama's democratic party. Believe it or not the Civil Rights movement was overwhelming made up of Black people not caucasians singing, "We shall overcome."
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@joecombs7468 Wouldn't you expect a talk given in Wichita, KS a city being overwhelming caucasian to draw an overwhelmingly caucasian audience unless he was talking about something specifically concerning Black people like the history of the civil rights movement. Hillsdale, MI is in a Northern rural area far from any city and that's obviously why the audience is overwhelming caucasian. The idea that he is a caucasian choice for a Black civil rights leader is not necessarily born out because the area is 95% caucasian and he got so many insults from a Cleveland audience.
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@joecombs7468 "I do not judge people by the color of their skin but the content of their character." Should I also assume you are a supporter of the Ghandi and MLK non violent approach or do you want to come right out and say so.
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"Also I have been to Russia and spent a good part of my life on the line fighting the communist/Marxist/socialist system." And should I assume you did that by being an Lt in Vietnam or Korea?
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Assuming I assumed right from my two earlier assumptions you reserved violence for stamping out communism while having reserved a pledge of nonviolence for capitalist oppression.
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@joecombs7468 Obama and Trump are your capitalist politicians. We said goodbye to Bernie Sanders when he said, "Hello Democratic Party." What is exactly free about a market enforced by police and military violence. I might just as well say Christianity is about Peace before mounting a horse for service in the Crusades. Why are you low balling Hitler and not counting Soviet troops and citizens killed in his columb for WW2?
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@joecombs7468 Also before the end of the Vietnam war the more killed and the higher the kill ratio meant victory was to be had. If you were just fighting an ideology and not a possible a superior means of production. Wouldn't you be empaising your humanity with democratic propaganda and not your destruction of whole countries? Did the DRV or DPRK ever use heavy bomber during the wars? What kind of Democrat like Syngman Rhee orders the carpet bombing of all of his country that he doesn't control. Same in Vietnam "We had to destroy it in order to save it." and when Kennedy didn't get the Diem brothers to do what he wanted then the order for a military "Coup De Eta" came down. It isn't that communism never works its that the capitalists can't afford to allow it to work. Cuba is even a better example no dirty trick is to monstrous for use against their government. Everything from assassination plots to sending in Alabama national guard bombers with Cuban markings and blowing up a Cuba civilian airliner up by CIA agents given a free hand and then shelter in Miami.
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If Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson we so worried about democracy and war was the right way to proceed how come they didn't bomb and nuke Alabama and Misssissippi?
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@joecombs7468 Most or many of those deaths were not murders at all but death do to starvation. Since you can't rerun history who knows if different policies would have saved their lives. Some of my ancestors came during the great famine in the 1840 period in the coffin ships. How come British Capitalism could save them and their families? Or since you like Ghandi so much why did Churchill upon hearing of the Bengal famine in 1943 ask, "Why isn't Ghandi dead yet?" Plenty died in India while the British sat around drinking tea. The had food sitting on the docks in many of the British famines which makes them even worse that a bad collectivization policy or the killing the sparrows in China where there was no food to be had.
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Heard almost nothing about the 60's and everything about the Obama Democratic Party. Asked to choose between the MLK with nonviolence and Militants like Malcolm X "of course King was right" than on with equal opportunity vs. equal outcome along with more Obama bashing. Malcolm X pointed to the Democrats as being the Dixiecrats.
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@ReviewsAndMore9 A better title would have been Black Republicans can become wealth like me or you don't need to be a Democrat to have the tired old ideas of Clinton and Reagan bootstrap pulling.
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@minermike61 He makes the same arguments made by the capitalist power structure in general. Work hard pull yourself up by the bootstraps and we'll give you a cookie.
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You have him pegged right as a big talker of little to no action.
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@jamespetry3337 Conservatives shot themselves in the foot long ago when Barry Goldwater voted with the Dixiecrats in 1964 against the 1964 Civil Rights act. Goldwater was the Republican candidate for President. Chief Justice Earl Warren the former Republican Governor of California who vote for so many of the court decisions ending segregation was the object of abuse from conservatives like Nixon, Reagan and Dixiecrats who demanded his impeachment.
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@politicalfoolishness7491 Name five of those lessons or is that just political foolishness?
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@politicalfoolishness7491 The basic lessons I get are these A. We are lazy and uneducated which is why we are labeled failures B. Obama and the Democrats the devil incarnate. C. We have no real solutions but trust us anyway. Now did I miss anything? The most important of all. MLK and nonviolence is obviously right and Militants like Malcolm X are wrong because everyone can become "nonviolently" rich like us though God s word even though the division of labor precludes such a capitalist paradise.
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@politicalfoolishness7491 I went through school asking those who claimed to be teachers questions. Since you a student I suspect you don't understand the material but don't want to admit it.
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@politicalfoolishness7491 Really or are you just so use to sucking up to the professor tit you don't realize that the title (The Civil Rights Movement) has almost nothing to do with the talk?
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@millville444 Hard work, as in becoming a lawyer, didn't close down segregated facilities. Mass protest and refusal to accept the indignanties of dejure and defacto segregation is what brought about the cultural changes necessary to defeat segregation. Accept the fact the Lawyer Larry Elder JD did no more than the Lawyer Barack Obama JD. Both did the 'Hard Work' of becoming a lawyer. Barack Obama JD did participate in a few cases involving civil rights law while in a big corporate law firm. Did Larry Elder JD take any civil rights cases or was he to busy making big money like Barack Obama JD in corporate law. After others had already broken the color line both Barack Obama JD and Larry Elder JD were the benefactors.
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@afringedweller Okay Professor Know It All maybe you can show me the errors of my ways? Or are you still working on figuring it all out?
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spot light The first goal of Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution was to teach the army and the peasants to read. Unlike the capitalist who only want to save money our goal is to raise the general cultural level of the working class.
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spot light Any progressive role played by US capitalism began to end with the Hayes Tilden compromise of 1877 ending reconstruction in the South another turning point was the Imperailist war with Spain in 1898. Certainly since the first world war it has been the task of the labor movement alone to defend the democratic rights fought for and won in two bloody revolutions the first in 1776 and the next being the civil war.
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spot light The belief in three co equal branches is wrong. Congress wrote the constitution and made itself the most powerful branch. Presidents, Justices, and Judges can be impeached only each house of Congress can take any disciplinary measures against their respective members. Presidents and Justices play no role in calling for a constitutional convention or adding constitutional amendments. The Senate looks over the shoulder of many things the President does and legally only Congress can declare war.
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spot light A socialist revolution is not the same as electing a Labour government in the UK. We do expect to elect Congressmen and Senators but we also expect the probability of a slaveholders revolt like that of Jeff Davis only to be done by the capitalist class in an effort to nullify electoral results and retain private property the property used to exploit others.
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spot light Nazi Germany was a capitalist country organized for war. No more socialist than any other fascist country like Italy or Spain. Hitler was brought in by President General von Hindenburg to save the German capitalism with the approval of businessmen who formed a committee to advise Hitler. .
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spot light Socialism began in the poor nations first instead of the rich. No way am I joining the capitalist Democratic party. I'm 67 and I've never cast a vote for them and have no intention or reason to do that now. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are talking about going to Mars and I saw the SpaceX thing in the local paper and it looks like I said it did. If all I wanted was a life of comfort I'd of stayed or returned to MIT and statistically be a rich engineer by now or at the very least be middle class in comfort level. The SWP ( TheMilitant.com) has no intention of becoming progressive and joining the Democratic (war) Party. Since the 2008 more and not fewer workers are interested in what our movement has to say. If socialism was irrelevant than Trump wouldn't have to run against, the Capitalist Democratic Party wouldn't need or allow Bernie Sanders join it and the New York Times which usually ignores our Party wouldn't have printed an op ed urging anyone who considered voting for us to vote for Clinton instead. To me it seems like you need to convince yourself that socialism is a 'big loser' since you can't convince me of that. You wanted me to leave the country so you can more easily keep those eyes closed to the injustice that surrounds a capitalist world in crisis.
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spot light One election I believe. We don't expect to win any elections right now. We play a role outside of our size when any mass anti capitalist movement develops. Like the 1934 Teamsters General Strike in Minneapolis and the over the road campaign to build the Teamsters Union. Malcolm X use to speak at our Militant Labor Forums and we publish many of his speeches. Leon Trotsky in Mexico was consulted by our parties founders. We played a major role in the anti Vietnam war movement NPAC and SMC. We are the defenders of the Cuban revolution on this side of the Florida straits. We have a weekly paper TheMilitant.com and a book publisher PathfinderPress.com.
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spot light Will do!!!
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