Chomsky Interviews

Great Videos! Check

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CKpCGjD8wg

and Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB1q2tdb-Gw

Quote Of The Week

"Don't Hate the Media, Be The Media!"
-Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys

Democratic Socialism Forever!

Quote of the Week:

"Everybody's Talking About Stopping Terrorism. Well, Here's A Way To Stop It: Stop Participating In It"

-Noam Chomsky

American Situation

The Obama Press Conference was on a couple days ago. I agree with some of his views, but why is he shying away from government growth? Neo-liberal and ultra-capitalist policies of previous administrations have got us into this, now lets have the government, the rock of our infrastructure, to pull us out? Health care is corrupt. I know someone, a 13 year old with cancer, who was denied healthcare. American heathcare is, like so many others, a greedy capitalist enterprise. In something as basic as healthcare! Even Cuba, one of the poorest nations on Earth, has used socialist principles to create some of the best heathcare and education on earth, despite the fact they are a poor country. We need more government involvement. Keep the Auto Industry socialised! Nationalise heathcare! If a buisness is corrupt, tax the snot out of them! Control pollution! Its time the government stepped up and really starte helping those who really need it, something that I, and America, haven't seen yet.

The New Left

The New Left, as it is often known, is Left Wing Politics past about 1965. By that time, the Stalinist tendencies and autocratic rule of the "Old Left", a.k.a. the USSR and China, had created something just as opressive as right-wing capitalism. Eventually, new radicals and revolutuionaries began speaking out against the both the capitalist right and the socialist left, ushering in a revitalized Left-Wing inspired by revolutionary socialists like Che Guevara, anarchists and feminists like Emma Goldman, radical artists and writers like Allen Ginsberg, and even social democrats and civil rights leaders like MLK and Malcom X. This "New Left" opened up ideas of the socialist commune, green movements, and open-mindedness in general. While creating movements like the hippies, the New Left also ushered in new, younger Leftist politicians that provided an alternative to the cold, oppressive Marxist policies of many communist states. The New Left movement proved disasterous to the communist parties of America, and the USSR lost much of its support among American radicals. However, New Leftists, such as Noam Chomsky and E. P. Thompson, have opened up modern radical and left-wing politics for the 21st century and beyond.

The Left Wing Hall Of Fame: Allen Ginsberg

ALLEN GINSBERG:

Allen Ginsberg wasn't a polititian, but he was very politically active. A poet and a founder of the Beat Generation, Ginsberg made up the more political faction of Beatnik writers. At different times calling himself a Trotskyist and an anarchist, Ginsberg opposed the status quo, as well as consevative politics. In the poem "America", Ginsberg confesses his idealistic communist beliefs yet also professes he believes that the Soviets had turned socialism into something just as bad as capitalism. Despite his anarchist political tendancies, Ginsberg was a huge supporter or freedom of speech and was active in many anti-war protests. He, along with other Leftists like Che Guevara and Malcom X, provided an alternative to the rigid, oppressive communism of the Soviet Union. These beliefs created a revitalised Left-Wing, called the "New Left".