Democratic Primaries

Uncle Joe

(58,328 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:45 PM Jan 2020

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important

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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important (Original Post) Uncle Joe Jan 2020 OP

"Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social Uncle Joe Jan 2020 #1

That and the OP are both awesome quotes. Shame they're not as well known as some others. nt eppur_se_muova Jan 2020 #3

I believe that's purposeful because of this profound but inconvenient truth Uncle Joe Jan 2020 #5

+1000 Hell yes. JudyM Jan 2020 #11

To truly honor Dr. King Uncle Joe Jan 2020 #2

thanks for posting booley Jan 2020 #4

I couldn't agree more booley. Uncle Joe Jan 2020 #6

In 1968, Dr. King said Uncle Joe Jan 2020 #7

What Dr. King understood is that the only way you make real change Uncle Joe Jan 2020 #8

D.U. kick Uncle Joe Jan 2020 #9

Double D.U. kick Uncle Joe Jan 2020 #10

Uncle Joe

(58,328 posts)

1. "Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:04 PM

Jan 2020

“Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/706610-communism-forgets-that-life-is-individual-capitalism-forgets-that-life

― Martin Luther King Jr.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

eppur_se_muova

(36,256 posts)

3. That and the OP are both awesome quotes. Shame they're not as well known as some others. nt

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 03:06 PM

Jan 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

Uncle Joe

(58,328 posts)

5. I believe that's purposeful because of this profound but inconvenient truth

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 03:30 PM

Jan 2020

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

― Frederick Douglass

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/951719-power-concedes-nothing-without-a-demand-it-never-did-and

It's easy today for the powers that be; to give lip service to MLK's fight against racism, while ignoring that social malady's other essential siblings of the "triplets;" "materialism and militarism" thus their ironclad grip on the economic, and political aspects of our society is never directly threatened and Martin's dream will only remain a dream.

The less than 1% and mega-corporations are literally most afraid of a united America across all racial lines, that could threaten their ironclad domination of "We the People" and end autocratic corporate supremacy.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided