It was 1972 when I first read the Communist Manifesto. I thought to myself:  I’m a worker and if the workers are to be the leaders I’ve got some studying to do. The next book I took up to read was Das Kapital. I must have read & reread the first 100 pages 5 times. […]

I can’t quote Marx or Lenin in support of my thesis. I’m pretty sure though that if Lenin was still alive he would be an elitist on Twitter. Lenin believed in the top down military command structure. He would most likely argue against the direct democrats and align with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle for the […]

Prologue: “Historians will write of the birth of humanity and the birth of democracy as a simultaneous event.” Deeply embedded within the genetic code of humans is the imperative to cooperate; regrettably, also just as deeply embedded in that code is the desire to enrich oneself. These imperatives have driven our development as social beings […]

  From the debates of the Mass. convention to ratify US Constitution: Hon. Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, I am a plain man, and get my living by the plough. I am not used to speak in public, but I beg your leave to say a few words to my brother ploughjoggers in this house. I […]

Per Twitter Direct Message: Jul 27 ralph scenic Jeremy, just curious (and I believe I know the answer or at least part of the answer), you follow bmorebloc why is it that they don’t follow you? You are an important man in Green party. Does Green Party follow you? Jul 27 I just went through […]

ralph scenic Before you get all pissed off at me I would like you to take a look at my blog. https://wordpress4772.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/the-struggle-for-democracy/ … I was born in Cumberland and grew up in the Tri-towns, near Keyser ,W. Va., where I went to school. If you get to the first post you’ll see my name. My […]

By J. Keir Hardie, M.P. Is there such a thing as “class war,” and, if so should our Socialist propaganda be based primarily on its recognition? The question would not be of such moment were it not for a tendency on the part of a small knot of Socialists to, mentally at least, excommunicate all […]

Keir Hardie 1904 from “The Labour Leader” Part 2 The class war dogma is admittedly based on the theory of Socialism set forth in the Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels, which was written in 1847, when Europe was a seething, turgid mass of revolutionary enthusiasm.  It is an exposition of Socialism from the Materialistic […]

Photo is looking at St. Petersburg from the Peter and Paul Fortress 1984 was the year of my first paid vacation after 4 years driving bus for Metro Seattle. My seniority allowed for 2 weeks in February. I went to Moscow and Leningrad, to see the difference between the theory and the reality of Soviet […]

The struggle for democracy has its origins in the earliest forms of social rules and structure which allowed groups of individuals social cohesion and survival. As society has developed from its most primitive forms (I hesitate to use the word “primitive” for fear of appearing superior…) to the present ones it has undergone changes in […]