Communist Party unites behind
Hillary, Rave
'coverage' of Democrat convention puts MSNBC to shame, 8/7/16, WND
WASHINGTON – The Communist Party USA
may not control many actual votes, but what they lack in support is made up for
in enthusiasm. That passion was in full display with a seven-person team of
“reporters” covering their
national political convention last month. And their convention was the Democratic National Convention that
nominated Hillary Rodham Clinton as their
undisputed candidate for president of the United States. Exaggeration? Judge
for yourself.
Here are excerpts from the editorial produced as part of that coverage by the team
credentialed to cover the convention by the Democratic Party. “Donald Trump steals wages. He’d pick your pocket in a New
York minute. He lies and spreads hate. He’s a racist and a bully.”
“Do not underestimate Trump and the
Republicans. While the establishment GOP was surprised by the successful
insurgency of so-called outsider Trump, they are united in purpose: delivering
more inequality, more misery, more instability and violence against
working-class people of all races, genders, religions and sexual orientations.
They are united with giant corporations and the billionaire class in their
drive to lower wages and living conditions and increase their profits and
power.”
“With Senator Bernie Sanders
endorsing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the message was loud and clear,
“We’re stronger together.” That is what it will take to win in November.”
“The union movement, communities of color, students, women, progressives and the newborn “political revolution” can help generate voter enthusiasm by talking and tweeting about Clinton and the issues. Challenging sexism is a must as well as racism, which has been a coded (and overt) staple of presidential elections for decades.”
“Winning in a landslide” is needed
now more than ever, and that landslide for Clinton could swing control of the
Senate to Democrats, and other potential positive effects could be felt on the
‘down ballot’ congressional and state races.”
The Communists, who for decades ran
their own candidates for president and vice president but supported Barack
Obama in 2008 and 2012, don’t just like Hillary and Bernie. The party also gave
a big thumbs-up to Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine.
“He’s a great choice,” wrote staffer
Larry Rubin on the first day of the convention. “Kaine pushed the political
envelope of Virginia, an erstwhile red southern state, in a progressive
direction – and won! He was elected mayor of Richmond, then governor of the
state and then senator. Everyone agrees: he’s a sincere, nice guy.”
Joseph Farah, the founder of WND.com
and a former revolutionary communist himself in his youth, said the CPUSA’s
coverage was so effusive in its enthusiasm it put MSNBC to shame.
“Back in the day when Stalinists Gus
Hall and Angela Davis were regularly nominated by the party as presidential and
vice presidential candidates every four years, the U.S.
Communists actually had beefs with
the Democrats,” he said. “But, in recent years, the party ceased those efforts
in favor of a united front with the Democrats, with whom they have very few
differences, if any.”
You can read for yourself the rest of the
Communist Party’s coverage of the Democratic convention at People’s World, but suffice it to say the U.S. Communists have been leaning
Democratic for a while now.
The party was jubilant in 2008, when
Obama won his first race for the presidency. Hailing Barack Obama’s win as a
victory for the “working class,” the Communist Party USA called on the
president-elect to carry out his promises, including his noted commitment to
“spread the wealth.” An editorial by the People’s Weekly World, the official
newspaper of the party, said the victory was for “workers of all job titles,
professions, shapes, colors, sizes, hairstyles and languages.”
In 2009, President Obama’s
leadership was “one of the best opportunities that Americans have had in
decades,” declared a civil-rights activist addressing an overflow crowd at a
gathering sponsored by the official newspaper of the Community Party USA.
The party was never disappointed by
Obama. Here’s how it critiqued Obama’s final State of the Union Address earlier
this year: “In his final SOTU address, President Obama projected a bold vision
for a more socially and economically just nation while appealing to the hopes
of the American people. … President Obama pointedly rejected
rightwing-Republican policy solutions including repeal of Obamacare, aggressive
military buildup and action, tax cuts to the wealthy, blocking common-sense gun
control … He also rejected efforts to exploit the fears of the American people
using hate, anti-Muslim bigotry, racism and division.
“The challenges facing the nation
and planet are immense: climate crisis, massive concentration and inequality of
wealth, growing poverty and declining wages, joblessness, including
skyrocketing unemployment in the African-American community, over $1 trillion
in student debt, a crumbling infrastructure, underfunded schools and social
services, lack of affordable housing, a frayed retirement security system,
etc.”
David Kupelian, managing editor of
WND.com, had this to say earlier this year in a commentary on the
shrinking divide between the two parties :“Amazing
as it may seem, Barack Obama has dragged the entire Democratic Party so far
leftward over the past seven-plus years that today’s Democratic Party has
become almost indistinguishable from the Communist Party.
“If that sounds hyperbolic to you,
just stop reading right now and pull up the CPUSA’s website,” he added. “Spend some time reading and digesting it. Try to
discern any major differences between the Communist Party’s concerns,
sensibilities and solutions – on issues from ‘gay’ rights, to unfettered
immigration, to renewable energy, to wealth redistribution, to condemning cops
as racist, to universal health care – and those of today’s Democratic Party.”
The interest has been largely fueled
by Clinton’s suppressed and later released 92-page senior thesis for Wellesley
College offering an extensive, largely positive critique of Alinsky and his
work.
Hillary Clinton’s association with
radical thought dates back to at least 1969, when Obama was just 8 years old,
himself a protégé early on of Frank Marshall Davis, a loyal Communist Party
activist.
Clinton’s 1969 Wellesley College
senior thesis was titled “There Is Only the Fight … : An Analysis of the
Alinsky Model.” The thesis received attention when it was released after the
Bill Clinton presidency. According to reports, in early 1993, the White House
requested that Wellesley keep the thesis on “Rules for Radicals” author Saul Alinsky confidential and not release any
copies.
Clinton was said to have met with
Alinsky several times in 1968, when she was writing her thesis. In her most
recent memoir, Clinton wrote that she rejected a job offer from Alinsky to
instead attend law school.
Last year, WND found that long after
Alinsky’s death in June 1972, a group Clinton co-chaired maintained a working
relationship with Alinsky’s main community organizing outfit, the Industrial
Areas Foundation, or IAF. The partnership
extended into the 1990s and yielded influence over the education policy of the
Bill Clinton presidency, it can now be disclosed. Founded by Alinsky in 1940
and run by him until his death, the IAF is a national community-organizing
network established to implement Alinsky’s expansive organizing agenda. After
Alinsky’s death, the IAF was taken over by his longtime associate and
designated successor, Ed Chambers, who became the group’s executive director.
Dick Morris, a former top political
adviser to Bill Clinton both as governor of Arkansas and as president, noted to
WND that education reform “is the key issue Hillary Clinton used to propel
herself independently to the forefront of Arkansas politics during Bill’s
governorship.”
“The revelation of how closely
linked her efforts were back in the 80s – and have been since – to an Alinsky
radical front group is deeply disturbing and expands our understanding of
Hillary’s fundamental radicalism and commitment to the new left of Saul
Alinsky,” Morris said.
David Horowitz, whose parents were
members of the Communist Party and who himself became a leader in the new left
movement of the 1960s and 1970s before rejecting it, said the revelation is
significant though not surprising.
“When radicals set out to
fundamentally transform a society, the first institution they attack is the
educational system which under their influence becomes a system of
indoctrination in radical ideas,” he told WND.
Interestingly, the Communist Party
USA has not changed its stripes in any significant way. It hasn’t walked back
its 100 percent commitment to Communism. What has changed is the Democratic
Party.
The drift leftward hit warp speed
beginning in the 1990s, according to Farah. That’s the year Bernie Sanders was
first elected to Congress and founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
“One of his first actions in
Congress was to found the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which was partnered
with the Democratic Socialists of America,” recounts Farah. “No surprise there,
because most Americans have no idea of what the Congressional Progressive
Caucus and the Democratic Socialists of America are really all about.”
Farah reported on the antics of the
caucus in 1998.
“Back then the Congressional
Progressive Caucus shared a website with the DSA,” he wrote. “In other words,
these two organizations, one government-funded and the other a tax-exempt
nonprofit, were of like mind and on the same page politically. What I found
back then was astonishing – even for me. On this shared website, that was
quickly scrubbed after I exposed it, was a collection of songs I can almost
hear Bernie, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and other members of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus singing in harmony. One of my favorites back then – – was
“Red Revolution” sung to the tune of “Red, Red Robbin.”
Here are the lyrics as they still
appear on the Congressional Progressive Caucus
website as captured by the Wayback Machine:
(The original site was scrubbed within hours after it was exposed by WND: When
the Red Revolution brings its solution along, along There’ll be no more lootin’
when we start shootin’ that Wall Street throng Wake up you proletarians Don’t
act like seminarians Expropriate barbarians Build a workers’ republic
Exploitation and degradation you won’t find here Surplus value and capital will
disappear I’m just a Red again, saying what I’ve said again, When the Red
Revolution … da, da, da, da
brings its solution … da, da, da, da, da along
brings its solution … da, da, da, da, da along
“How do these people get away with
denying they are redder than a robin’s breast while singing songs like this –
and printing them on the Internet?” asked Farah incredulously.
The song list also included lyrics
to “Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie,” sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques.”
Are you sleeping, are you sleeping, Bourgeoisie,
Bourgeoisie, And when the revolution comes, We’ll kill you all with knives and
guns, Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie
“For those not trained in the lingo
of communism, the dictionary definition of ‘bourgeoisie,’ is, and I quote: ‘(in
Marxist theory) the class that, in contrast to the proletariat or wage-earning
class, is primarily concerned with property values,'” wrote Farah. “If you’ve
got property, if you’re part of the middle class, these people not only want to
raise your taxes, they want to kill you with knives and guns!”
Meanwhile, an email sent out by the
Communist Party USA over the weekend had this to say: “The 2016 elections are
in full swing. Many of our districts and clubs and members are actively
participating in the campaign to strike a blow to the extreme right and defeat
Donald Trump and other down ballot GOP extremists. If you’re not yet involved,
there are many ways to get connected with labor and our allies, especially in
the key battleground states and in targeted congressional and state legislative
races. But no matter where you live you can be part of this exciting election.
We can defeat Trump, oust right-wing majorities in Congress and statehouses
while also building powerful labor-led people’s movements, advancing a progressive
agenda and political independence at the grassroots. We have some great tools,
beginning with People’s World daily (sic) Marxist analysis.”
If you’d like to join a
teleconference on the CPUSA’s overall election strategy, you can do so
Thursday, Aug. 18 at 8 p.m. Eastern at this number, according to the email:
605-475-4850; Access code: 1053538#
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