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My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. - Karl Marx
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Basic Info| Name: | Go Left |
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AboutGo Left is a new community created for the purpose of giving people with left-wing political views a place to post news, thoughts and opinions.
This community needs posters, if you have anything to say on issues relating to the left you are more than welcome to go ahead and post. I am also looking for a few people to act as moderators.
People of a right-wing persuasion are invited to look elsewhere for any one of the many other communities geared towards their politics to join.
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
- Karl Marx
"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the nearby marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation."
- V.I. Lenin, What is to Be Done?
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."
- Rosa Luxemburg
"Another poll revealed that "faith in God is the most important part of American's lives." Forty percent "said they valued their relationship with God above all else"; 29 percent chose "good health" and 21 percent "happy marriage." Satisfying work was chosen by 5 percent, respect of people in the community by 2 percent. That this world might offer basic features of a human existence is hardly to be contemplated. These are the kinds of results one might find in a shattered peasant society. Chiliastic visions are reported to be particularly present among blacks; again, not surprising, when we learn from the New England Journal of Medicine that "black men in Harlem are less likely to reach the age of 65 than men in Bangladesh.""
- Noam Chomsky
"The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime."
- George Soros, (financial speculator and profiteer) on Capitalism
and one firmly from the right, to remind us all what we must strive against:
"We have 50 per cent of the world's wealth, but only 6.3 per cent of its population. In this situation, our real job in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which permit us to maintain this position of disparity. To do so, we have to dispense with all sentimentality . . . we should cease thinking about human rights, the raising of living standards and democratisation."
- George Kennan, US Cold War Planner, 1948
This community needs posters, if you have anything to say on issues relating to the left you are more than welcome to go ahead and post. I am also looking for a few people to act as moderators.
People of a right-wing persuasion are invited to look elsewhere for any one of the many other communities geared towards their politics to join.
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
- Karl Marx
"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the nearby marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation."
- V.I. Lenin, What is to Be Done?
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."
- Rosa Luxemburg
"Another poll revealed that "faith in God is the most important part of American's lives." Forty percent "said they valued their relationship with God above all else"; 29 percent chose "good health" and 21 percent "happy marriage." Satisfying work was chosen by 5 percent, respect of people in the community by 2 percent. That this world might offer basic features of a human existence is hardly to be contemplated. These are the kinds of results one might find in a shattered peasant society. Chiliastic visions are reported to be particularly present among blacks; again, not surprising, when we learn from the New England Journal of Medicine that "black men in Harlem are less likely to reach the age of 65 than men in Bangladesh.""
- Noam Chomsky
"The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime."
- George Soros, (financial speculator and profiteer) on Capitalism
and one firmly from the right, to remind us all what we must strive against:
"We have 50 per cent of the world's wealth, but only 6.3 per cent of its population. In this situation, our real job in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which permit us to maintain this position of disparity. To do so, we have to dispense with all sentimentality . . . we should cease thinking about human rights, the raising of living standards and democratisation."
- George Kennan, US Cold War Planner, 1948
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