Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Malcolm X, James P. Cannon, Clara Zetkin, Geronimo, Frederick Douglas, WEB DuBois, Mother Jones, Eugene Debs, Leon Sedov, Mumia Abu Jamal, Stan "Tookie" Williams
We are a network of young socialists who are committed to the fight for a better world - a world that is free of sexism, racism, homophobia, war, exploitation and oppression!
Thursday February 28 7PM NYC Film Screening/Discussion "From 9066 to 9/11" from Japanese-American Internment in WW 2 to Attacks on Arabs, Muslims, South Asians Today post 9/11
at 339 Lafayette Street 3rd Floor (ring buzzer #11) A.J. Muste Institute (between Bleecker & Bond) Manhattan/NYC #6 to Bleecker, F/V to Broadway/Lafayette no elevator, there are bathrooms in building, vegan refreshments potluck
Socialism only matters in its implimentation. We can talk all we want, but organization will liberate us. Here in East LA, the socialist tendancy is an ever present, though muffled part of daily life. I hope to do my part.
Labor is an expression of our deepest essence. Our labor is sacred, in a sense, a fundamental and profound manifestation and creativity. Capitalism defiles and perverts work. Intellectual and physical labor is a mere commodity that must be sold to a buyer. In American society, most of us are alienated from our labor activity and from the product of that intellectual or physical labor. Our productive activity is not our own, the production created is not our own. We are thereby alienated from our own sweat. Your labor is an expression of you, of your deepest and truest self, but in a capitalist society workers activity belongs to another, it is the loss of his self. Labor creates all wealth. When your labor belongs to another, you are left with nothing. You are nothing. I am nothing and I should be everything. Capitalism is a system designed to steal. That theft is so grand that it is hard to fathom.
In America, it began with the genocide of Native American peoples, continued with the capture and enslavement of Africans and marches on today with an assault on U.S. and foreign labor headed by multinational corporations and euphemistically known as globalization. Capitalism compels all nations, on pain of extinction to adpot bourgeois mode of production, it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst to become bourgeois themselves. It happens as this is written in the U.S. occupation of Iraq today. Capitalism must and will expand at the cost of life, freedom, culture, or anything else in the way of profit.
