Revisionism

Inhumanity Unbound: No Help From The EU Or US, While China And Cuba Provide Aid

March 26, 2020 Staff, Zzs-blg.blogspot.com Educate! China, COVID-19, Cuba, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Revisionism

Nothing exposes the hypocrisy, arrogance, and selfishness of capitalism and its backers like a major threat or catastrophe. Three hundred Chinese doctors began arriving in Italy on Wednesday, March 18 to help the local effort against the coronavirus (Fifty-two health professionals also arrived from socialist Cuba last week). In addition, PRChina (PRC) is sending testing kits and protective clothing. PRC has sent kits and gear to Spain, Greece, and Poland as well.

Prejudential Is A Must-Read To Understand Current Presidential Election Debacle

March 11, 2020 Danny Haiphong, Ahtribune.com Educate! Electoral Politics, Regime Change, Revisionism

Every four years, ruling elites aligned on either side of the two-party duopoly choose their most important political official, the president, to defend and protect their interests. Ordinary Americans are taught that the electoral process is a shining example of democracy at work.

Bernie Sanders Was Right About The Cuban Literacy Campaign

March 4, 2020 Catherine Murphy, Truthout.org Educate! Cuba, Electoral Politics, History, Revisionism

The corporate media have long been looking for ways to discredit Bernie Sanders, and they settled on a surprising statement he made in the 1980s during his tenure as mayor of Burlington when he said, “We have a lot to learn from Cuba.” Now, they have latched onto a statement he made about Cuba during an interview on “60 Minutes” after winning the Nevada caucuses: “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad,” Sanders said.

Spain’s New Left-Wing Socialist Government Offers Hope In Dark Political Times

January 20, 2020 By Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead, Occupy.com Educate! Left Politics, Revisionism, Spain

“Corbynism has come to Spain” leaving business leaders “trembling,” wrote the Telegraph last week in response to news that the Mediterranean country had elected its first truly left-wing government in decades. Following months of political deadlock, nearly a year without a government and four general elections in as many years, January 7, 2020, saw Spanish Parliament swear a Socialist Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos (UP) coalition into power.

The End Of Neoliberalism And The Rebirth Of History

November 14, 2019 Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project-syndicate.org Create! Ideology, Neoliberalism, New Economy, Revisionism

NEW YORK – At the end of the Cold War, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called “The End of History?” Communism’s collapse, he argued, would clear the last obstacle separating the entire world from its destiny of liberal democracy and market economies. Many people agreed. Today, as we face a retreat from the rules-based, liberal global order, with autocratic rulers and demagogues leading countries that contain well over half the world’s population, Fukuyama’s idea seems quaint and naive. But it reinforced the neoliberal economic doctrine that has prevailed for the last 40 years.

Death By Oligarchy

November 13, 2019 Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Educate! oligarchy, Revisionism, Ruling Class Splits

Oligarchs are blinded by hubris, wealth and power. Their cloying sense of entitlement sees them outraged by even the most tepid reforms or mildest of criticisms. They lack empathy and compassion, along with remorse or guilt, for what is done to those outside of their tiny, elitist circles. Privilege does strange and unpleasant things to human beings. I saw these distortions among my rich classmates as a scholarship student at prep school and at Harvard University, an institution designed, like all elite schools, to perpetuate the plutocracy.

History Demands: Turn Imperialist Wars Into Wars Against Imperialism

November 1, 2019 Ajamu Baraka, Blackagendareport.com Create! Imperialism, Nationalism, Revisionism, Wars

Global dominance has been the centerpiece of U.S. policy in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union when the U.S. suddenly found itself without a counter to its global imperialist aspirations. This drive for dominance has always been fueled by one objective – to position U.S. capitalist interests to more effectively plunder the labor and resources of the peoples and nations of the global South. In other words, it is and has always been both an imperialist and racial project.

Díaz-Canel: There Is A Historically Postponed World Waiting For Our Agreement And Action

October 31, 2019 Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, En.granma.cu Create! Non-Aligned Movement, Revisionism

With sincere emotion, I am grateful for the warm welcome given us by the people and government of the Republic of Azerbaijan, with whom we are joined by 27 years of uninterrupted relations. It has been a long but essential journey. We reached the beautiful, prosperous Baku, after traveling more than 11,300 kilometers, breaking the blockade’s barriers - which in recent months have been brutally reinforced - because the current serious challenges require us to retake the role required of the Non-Aligned Movement in the international arena, as the organization that represents the majority of the planet.

The Crisis Of Rentier Capitalism In Venezuela: A Conversation With Oscar Figuera

October 17, 2019 By Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuelanalysis.com Strategize! Capitalism, Latin America, Nationalism, Revisionism, Venezuela

For us, it is important to begin by characterizing Venezuelan society. For the Communist Party, what has entered into a serious crisis in Venezuela is the capitalist, dependent mode of production which is characterized by a rentier model of accumulation: we find the roots of the catastrophic crisis that we are currently facing in that model. I should add that we are paying the consequences of recent mistakes: the model of accumulation wasn’t transformed during the Bolivarian Process. It wasn’t transformed with President Chavez and much less so now, during the presidency of Nicolas Maduro.

The Global Left Can Learn A Lot From This Tiny Country

October 14, 2019 Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Truthdig.com Strategize! Electoral Politics, Europe, Ideology, Left Politics, Portugal, Revisionism

There’s a place in the West where a smattering of anti-austerity, pro-immigration, pro-public-spending left-wing parties are not only in power, but are actually popular. I’m talking about Portugal, the small European country I have witnessed grow into a global political marvel. On Sunday, progressives around the world cheered as a loose left-wing coalition won enough seats to rule the country for another four years. The story of Portugal’s resurgent left starts in 2015, when, as a center-right government continued to force austerity measures painfully down the throats of a suffering nation, the Portuguese voted for an alternative—sort of.

Expanding The Concept And Practice Of Nonviolence

September 28, 2019 Mike Yarrow, Westernfriend.org Strategize! Ideology, Nonviolence, Revisionism

First, let me confess to an itch about the term “nonviolence” – because it connotes a passive absence of violence rather than an affirmative presence of an alternative force for change, which Gandhi called, “a force more powerful.” I like Martin Luther King Jr.’s statement, “. . . true nonviolence is more than the absence of violence. It is the persistent and determined application of peaceable power to offenses against the community.” This is not just semantics! I know people who are intent on being nonviolent by trying to expunge violent thoughts and deeds from their lives, often by retreating from situations which might provoke violent reactions.

Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Tackles The Allegation She Isn’t Challenging Capitalism

September 9, 2019 By James Wright, Thecanary.co Strategize! Capitalism, Extinction Rebellion, Revisionism

The Canary sat down with Bradbrook after her speech at Shambala festival 2019 to explore this and other areas relevant to the movement. Her speech appeared to emphasise individual responsibility over governmental change. When she was challenged on this, Bradbrook said: We’re obviously about systemic change… I hope that’s obvious. We’re talking about citizens assemblies, we’re talking about debt refusal and changing the finance system and so on. When it comes to climate catastrophe, there are clearly major issues with the nexus of corporate government power.

Six Things We Can Learn From The Socialist Left In Argentina

August 20, 2019 By Nathaniel Flakin, Leftvoice.org Strategize! Argentina, Electoral Politics, Left Politics, Revisionism

On Sunday, revolutionary socialists in Argentina got 700,000 votes in the primary elections. The Workers Left Front—Unity (Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores–Unidad) is the most successful electoral project of the revolutionary socialist left anywhere in the world, and it has been for some time. Is it a model that can be emulated? In the United States, we often hear that socialist candidates have no chance. The election laws favor the two parties of capital. Therefore, our only chance is to support the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

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