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Our Marxist in Chief, An Historic Perspective

Posted by AfterShock on Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:39:38 AM

It remains to be seen just how much damage to our nation Barrack Obama will get away with over the next 38 months. The damage he's done thus far is considerable, but as of September 23, 2009, it truly defy's description. His appearance before the UN Security Council left most conservatives and a good many centrists, speechless. And at no time in my 56 years has any president or high ranking administration member ever acted in such an anti American and disgracefull manner as has President Barrack Obama. Yet, the coming of a Barrack Obama and of worker/labor social justice organizations like STORM, ACORN and The Apollo Project were predicted some 45 years earlier by the profit and soviet premier, Nikita Khruschev. Khruschev stated then that "Revolutionaries are the locomotives of history"; and he prophesied that "[we] will not bury you with a shovel, your own working class will bury you." He boasted many times that the USSR wouldn't need to fire a shot, that we were being conquered from within. In communist Russia the working class was represented as the communist labor party. There were many American labor-union ties to the communist labor party throughout the 20th century. Radicals to say the least.

The very month and year I was born, June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for treason. Accused of passing microfilm secrets -- which included the Manhatten project -- to the Soviets. But why, they were both born Americans. What led them to commit such a crime against their country? Thirty four years prior to their execution by electric chair, in 1919, the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) was founded. According to the CPUSA's bio, for approximately the first half of the century primarily in the 1920's, 30's and 40's, the CPUSA was "the largest and most influential communist party in the U.S"., playing a "prominent role" in the U.S. labor movement, as well as "founding most of the country's major industrial unions". They were also known for pursuing racial discrimination cases in workplaces and city communities. Also in 1919, the Socialist Labor Party another communist affiliate was formed; then came the Communist Labor Party of America. All three shared similar objectives but with varying degrees of aggressiveness; The Rosenbergs had connections to all three. By 1931 a young and impressionable -- 12 year old -- Julius Rosenberg had become a member of the Young Communist League, a sort of youth program of the CPUSA designed to indoctrinate would be communists. Though all three organizations are well documented, the following excerpts from the Socialist Labor Party are all too familiar when compared with radical community organizers of today:

The Workers Party [In USSR] vs. The Socialist Labor Party [in America] by Joseph Brandon

Published Aug 1, 1925 in the Weekly People. (reprinted 1925 as the Arm & Hammer pamphlet No. 8)

full text at http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/slp/1925/0801-brandon-wpavsslp.pdf

Russia’s Problem and Ours.

In Russia the problem was not to take the industries but to create them. In America the problem is the reverse. We do not have to create the industries, what we must do is to take them. The easiest task the Russians had, the seizing of power, is the hardest nut we have to crack, and the thing that is no task for us at all is what is puzzling the Russians night and day, all these years. When the working class seizes power in America it controls all that is necessary to run production on socialized lines. A dictatorship of the proletariat is unnecessary, the workers being in a majority. There will not even be a rule of the proletariat because the act of socializing the industries automatically abolishes all classes and therefore the proletariat as a class ceases to be.

Organization Must Preceed Revolution.

Obviously the workers cannot wait until the Social Revolution has stepped upon the scene and then organize. Tactics therefore dictate the organization of the working class today, under capitalism, into an organization whose primary purpose is to seize the industries and act as the framework of the new social order. Just as the chick develops in the shell before the world as a distinct creature, so the future society must be built up under capitalism. And just as the fully developed chick breaks the shell of its egg, so the shell of capitalism will never be broken until the organization of future society is developed to the point where it is able to function. Does it not follow logically that the working class must organize today, under capitalism, in order to achieve its emancipation?

Ignorance Extends to Politics

The Workers Party wants a dictatorship of the proletariat. But it argues that the large mass of workers will never become Socialist and will have to be led by an intelligent [elitist] minority. So it is willing to unite with any movement of workers, no matter how wrong this may be, in order that they will have some masses to lead. This is called a united front. (blogger's note: the American Socialist Labor Party rejected this tactic)

How to “Bore” and How to Build.

The SLP says, “Bore from within but bore to a purpose.” The purpose of working inside the trade unions is to destroy the bulwark of capitalism and establish bulwarks of Socialism, the industrial union.

The Revolutionary Organization.

The SLP correctly holds that the political party must be a party of no compromise (blogger's note - does this remind anyone of Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the radical Dems?). The SLP mission is to point the way to the goal and it refuses to leave the main road to follow the small bypaths that lead into the swamp of reformism. Its skirts are clean. The banner of Socialism is held high, uncorrupted, and not dragged down into the mire of petty bourgeois reform. Capitalism cannot be reformed. It must be overthrown.

The Real Power of Labor.

Here in America we have a right to come out openly and agitate for the overthrow of the government and the establishment of a workers’ republic. If we did not have this opportunity then no alternative would be open for us but to advocate a violent overthrow of capitalism...

It was of course the great depression; injustice, poverty, hunger, jobless and homelessness were rampant. By 1932 Julius Rosenberg had become a radicalized activist and threw his support into a racially charged case know as the Scottsboro Boys, in defense of nine homeless black teenagers accused, tried and convicted of raping two homeless white women in a freight train boxcar. Thereafter, Rosenberg became a full member of the Communist Party of America -- the CPA.

In 1931 at age 16 already two years graduated from high school, Ethel Greenglass took a job with the National New York Shipping Company. Not long after she became a political activist and union organizer. Greenglass had grown up dirt poor, her family was destitute - the working poor underclass. She heard often from her Russian father the plight of the worker and the evils of a capitalist society. Inevitably she was drawn to the far left cause of worker's rights. In 1935 she organized a strike against her employer and was fired for her lack of loyalty. The communist party of the United States was heavily involved in union organizing and Ethel Greenglass had endeared herself to them with her efforts (against her employer and as an activist) to that point. In 1934 at only 16 years old, Julius Rosenberg also by then a high school graduate entered City College of New York. Continuing his prior activism against racial discrimination, Julius took an interest in far left radical politics both on and off campus. Though they had known each other previously through association with the Communist Party, in 1935 on New Year's Eve, the now twenty year old Ethel Greenglass, and 17 year old Julius Rosenberg met again at a union organized party where Ethel had been asked to entertain. This time 'round the two radicalized revolutionaries hit it off and four years later, 1939, Julius and Ethel were married.

WWII: after the December 7th, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the ensuing US participation in World War II, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg fearing retribution during a time of world war, went underground with their communist affiliation.

Nonetheless, the Rosenbergs remained radical activists. In 1943 Julius who had become a member of the United States Signal Corp., was approached by a Soviet KGB officer/recruiter -- Alexander Feklisov -- and asked to spy for the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Ethel Rosenberg's younger brother, David Greenglass, had been assigned to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos NM. Having accepted the assignment to spy, Julius Rosenberg set about convincing brother in-law David Greenglass to help pass classified information to the Soviets. Though history has since attempted to repaint the Rosenbergs as penny ante even sympathetic players in the affair, the fact remains that within a year of receiving intelligence provided by the Rosenbergs, the Soviets had an A-Bomb of their own.

To the Rosenbergs, America was a decadent capitalistic society that used people for the profit of rich industrialists. They viewed communism under Stalin as preferable, buying in to the worker/laborer propaganda of the time. They believed the perfect Marxist world could be created here without a dictator. Too bad neither of them were afforded the privilege to live their lives in the USSR, maybe they'd have realized how fortunate they were back in the US of A.

The parallels between radicalized youth from the 1920's and 30's and the process by which they, particularly the Rosenbergs, became radicalized as compared to American youth of the 60's and 70's, are compelling and too prevalent. Poor even destitute kids are enticed to get involved with radical activist organizations very similar to those the Rosenbergs associated with. Organizations, I might add, which have thoroughly infiltrated our political system. The difference is, the radicals of this era no longer feel the need to act "underground". They're in full view, openly taunting us with a brazen agenda to subvert the political process and constitutional system of self governance we've known for over 200 years

Today's radical community organizers are working to fundamentally change America into a neofascist socialist state, one among many intended to form a new world order, just as -- if you've truly been listening -- our President has been articulating to the rest of the world. Is it possible that we have in Barrack and Michelle Obama, the same devout anti-American radicals that were once embodied as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg? The Obama Administration is selling out capitalism, the locomotive that drives America, just as readily as the Rosenbergs did some 65 years ago. History has been repeating itself in just about every conceivable way since the 1920's. The only thing the radical left has learned is how to better infiltrate industry, education and politics. Come to think of it, what else is there?

We all say "God Bless America" from time to time (unless your name happens to be Rev. Wright or Pfleger) but how much longer will the America for which we've so often asked God's blessing, exist?