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freshwest's JournalP. S. Here is the link to Alienation as mentioned in the video:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1961/man/ch05.htmIt's part of the Erich Fromm Archive . Bye.
My father gave me my first book by Fromm when I was twelve.
It was The Art Of Loving and I read it and then he gave me Escape From Freedom and The Sane Society later. I purchased his book The Art of Being last year.
I've heard Fromm later described as a Marxist. Chomsky regards him as superficial, but each to his own. Here's more if anyone is interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm#Later_works_in_English
I just found the text of his Introduction to Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium if anyone wants it.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1965/introduction.htm
Don't I know it! Here's what Martin Luther King said about racists and anti-unionists:
Negroes are almost entirely a working people. There are pitifully few Negro millionaires, and few Negro employers. Our needs are identical with labor's needs — decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old age security, health and welfare measures, conditions in which families can grow, have education for their children and respect in the community. That is why Negroes support labor's demands and fight laws which curb labor.That is why the labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature spewing anti-Negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other mouth.
AFL-CIO Convention, December 1961
What Martin Luther King had to say about Right to Work 1961!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021958389
Tom, you're right very hard to find our side in the media. Thanks for these enlightening links.
We must not break the solemn mood of winter:
In the face of those determined to be afflicted with sorrow, lesser kittehs like myself shamelessly beg for cheeseburgers.
One person. one chair is not the party. It's us, going to community meetings, persuading.
If we can't talk our neighbors into what we believe, and god know the media is filling half the voters heads with crap -- no, I take that back -- all the voters heads with crap -- then the chair can't do it either. Please don't blame one person, this wasn't done by one person.
MI has a hard slog ahead, there will be no relief from gerrymandering there or in any state in this country until 2020. That's 8 years away and was the reason the Koches invented the Tea brand for the GOP in 2010, among others.
After media consolidation gave the networks to all conservative owners in the Bush years, they filled the media with crap and got Democrats demoralized, didn't show what Obama was doing or what the GOP was doing to screw things up, then they got their CT and other media to drive the baggers into office.
2010 was a pivotal election, to keep the Bush tax cuts from expiring, that Obama and others had run the numbers on to get the country over the Bush budget disaster. And they knew the census would hit so that gave them the ability to do these things and get away with it. The Koches are long-term planners. Most Americans seem to run from one soundbite to another, but forget about government between elections. It's what goes on between that makes the elections.
Why blame the party, when it was the voters? The party is composed of those who are active.
Those who don't vote or are swayed by emotional appeals or lack of them, which is what many seem to be calling for at DU, didn't confront this on a daily basis and walked away. Because it wasn't exciting enough at the time.
The Tea Party was very excited, but about all the wrong things. I think many Democrats thought things would never change and didn't take time to learn just what was coming. I could have told them the GOP was going to betray them, because it's logical.
It doesn't make a difference if the Democratic party candidate isn't a great motivational speaker or a 'tough as nails' guy which some seem to want us to run for office. Motivational speakers are usually hucksters and tough guys follow the mentality of Eastwood and Romney, overbearing, hostile and to some that means strength.
The quiet thinking man like Obama does not appeal to such people, they call him weak. But a guy that talks tough, blows the right whistles or is media favorite gets their vote, even thought all their ideas stink in regard to working people.
I don't believe a Democrat would have signed this bill and they opposed it in a legislature in which they were not the majority. It is not their fault they were gerrymandered out of office.
The Democratic party is as strong as the people involved, and most aren't photogenic or great speakers, but have a track record. I'm sad to hear so many people think we should run elections like popularity contests or American Idol. All I hear is that 'they let us down.' They can't do this alone, they need a well informed and involved electorate.
Possibly bought the both parties are the same meme. And I'm sure it hurts deeply.
But they have promised a war for this... we need to support them in regaining their rights of freedom of association and banding together to protect their own economic interests. After all, this is what the corporations did.
Breaking!!! It has been five weeks since President Obama kicked Mitt Romney's ass!
Also, don't forget why those unhappy folks lost:
My Ten Favorite Kinds of Right-Wing Temper Tantrums
I remember how I felt when George W. Bush was reelected in 2004—that pit of absolute unthinkable, desparate despair—and so I guess I should have a little more sympathy for the 150 Million Waaahmbulances of the Apocalypse currently flailing all over Twitter. And, beyond that, I should probably be sad about the overt racism of our conservative youngsters and frightened at the gun-nuttiness of our gun nuts.
However. At least for right now, I AM NOT. I am just 99% completely fucking delighted by every single weepy right-wing temper tantrum. I can't stop hate-reading. I can't stop. And you know what?
I don't need to stop. It's not like this was some arbitrary election for Homecoming Court—where we were choosing between Mitt Romney's totally on-trend bangs and Barack Obama's ability to pull off a structured blazer.
The party that my team defeated on Tuesday was a nebulous, fiscally disastrous pitchfork mob—united by racism, xenophobia, self-interest, willful ignorance, hatred of the poor, and a puritanical desire to deny my gay friends their civil rights and me, PERSONALLY, equal access to health care and basic humanity.
That's about as ungracious as it gets. So fuck being gracious.
http://jezebel.com/5958966/my-ten-favorite-kinds-of-right+wik-
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