22 April 2018

Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 7


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Tory "Brexit".....

1. No intention of stopping immigration which provides cheap labour for their fat cat big business paymasters

2. "Free trade" with countries that employ workers on sweated labour wages, which our manufacturing industry either has to mimic to survive or go under.

Populist Brexit.....

1. No more immigration from countries with a national average wage that does not either equal or exceed our own....

2. Import tax on goods made in countries where the national average wage that does not either equal or exceed our own.... (exceptions made for goods we cannot grow or make here).

Russell White, Populist Party, 2018

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Authentic nationalism is not a patriotic or chauvinist disposition but quite simply the will of a people to live according to their own laws, this nationalism is and will always be the real enemy of imperialism.

Ernst Von Salomon

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But yet this is the struggle against capitalism! Let’s become the communists! Our fight is socialism in its purest form! - Perfectly, socialism in its Prussian form. A socialism on every front, which will not only break the tyranny of economic laws ... but moreover a socialism through which we will rediscover the internal firmness, the spiritual unity that eluded us in the 19th century. We fight for this socialism ... If there is a power we must destroy, it’s the power of the West and the German milieus that have allowed themselves to be overwhelmed by it.

Ernst Von Salomon

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"The U.S. government’s global boot print is no post- 9/11 phenomenon. The United States has been in a state of permanent war for decades, and the U.S. government has intervened in global affairs for centuries. No consensus exists on how many times the U.S. government has employed military force throughout the country’s history; nevertheless, attempts to catalog historical foreign interventions, beginning in the 1790s, have documented hundreds of cases. Each list varies depending on the relevant time frame under consideration and how the author defines foreign intervention. An exact number, however, is not important for our purposes. What is important is that no matter how one cuts the data, the U.S. government has used military force abroad a significant number of times. The historical prevalence of the U.S. government’s activist foreign policy is captured by economist Deepak Lal, who concludes that “[t]he United States is indubitably an empire. It is more than a hegemon, as it seeks control over not only foreign but also aspects of domestic policy in other countries.”

The militarism that characterizes U.S. foreign policy is a central tenet of the country’s national identity. As historian Andrew Bacevich notes, “[t]oday as never before in their history Americans are enthralled with military power. The global military supremacy that the United States presently enjoys— and is bent on perpetuating— has become central to our national identity. More than America’s matchless material abundance or even the effusions of its pop culture, the nation’s arsenal of high tech weaponry and the soldiers who employ that arsenal have come to signify who we are and what we stand for.”"

Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall, "Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism", 2018, pp. 4-5

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The Fourth Political Theory proposes a totally new understanding of the three political ideologies of Modernity. This understanding could be qualified as existential Mit-sein [being-with]. But in this existential understanding of the presence (Dasein) [being-there], there is neither atom (parties, individual) nor sum of individuals (totalitarianism). In the Fourth Political Theory, being together means to exist, to constitute a presence - a living presence in the face of death. We live together only when we face our own death. Death is always deeply personal and, simultaneously, there is something common, something that effects each of us. So, we must not speak of totalitarianism (a mechanical concept linking parts and the whole), but an organic existential holism. And it’s name is the People. “Dasein exists in the people” [“Dasein existiert völkisch”]. In complete opposition with a “third totalitarianism.” For “being facing death.” Mit-Sein. We are the People.

Alexandr Dugin

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"QUESTION: You have read many of the works of philosophers, statesmen and literati. Which of them has influenced your thinking? And which has influenced your emotions? In your youth did you have an exemplary ideal amongst any historical and political figures? What do you read now and when?

SADDAM HUSSEIN: From the deep intellectual and political point of view, Lenin was actually the person who attracted my attention most as a thinker and profound-thinking revolutionary. When one reads Lenin, one is reading life with its living movement and warmth. Gamal Abdul-Nasser influenced me, despite our party's sensitivity to his experiment and his sensitivity towards our party. I was particularly interested in his personality, as well as De Gaulle's. Both had their ways of dealing with things, but each had a prominent nationalist stand in his country, and a particular nationalist role in his nation with a touch of heroism. It was a great thing when De Gaulle said to the English: "Make a record of what you give to France so we can repay it after independence." De Gaulle played his part in reviving France after it had fallen to its knees, Abdul Nasser in his personality, and Lenin in his thought and political eminence."

Dr. Amir Iskandar, "Saddam Hussein: the fighter, the thinker and the man"

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