Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
marxism [ rotte_volf ]	8:40p	Organize victory! When the Pacific Rescue Plan was published, one so-called "socialist" from Australia said: "Why do you think that the peoples of Oceania would draw attention for your campaign as you're strangers to them?” And the bourgeois liberals think the same... Indeed, there are no persons from the Oceania countries by origin in the PUL now. But these people overlook one thing. All oppressed people around the world understand each other because they have a common cause, because they have common enemy - the oppressors, because they have common goal - put an end to the oppression. If the victory over the oppressors occurs in one corner of the world it causes joy in the hearts of the oppressed in another one. One can recall an example of Marx and Engels in this regard. They did everything to bring their ideas to Russia, which was reactionary at that time. They engaged in polemics with Russian Populist revolutionaries (so-called "narodnik movement"). They ideologically supported first Russian Marxists. And when harvest-time came, this sowing has yielded rich fruits... The most powerful weapons of the oppressed in their struggle against their oppressors are the strength of organization and the strength of solidarity. "At the banquet of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take and you keep what you can hold. And if you can’t take, you can’t get. And if you can’t hold, you can’t keep. And without organization, you can’t take" said A. Phillip Randolph, African-American civil rights leader and the founder of the March on Washington Movement. To the victory of the people's democratic revolution in Oceania countries we must create political party or movement in every country of the region. How? Who will be the skirmisher of the cause? ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Monday, January 4th, 2010
lohang	4:31p	A Possible Sunrise / New year greetings A Possible Sunrise, Acrylic on canvas, 2009 October-December And I wish you all a happy and wonderful 2010 :) Current Mood: contemplative (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
marxism [ rotte_volf ]	2:37p	Pacific road towards socialism. As it is evident from the facts of reality and from the analysis of Pacific Unity League, the ruling groups of Oceania are not interested in development on the basis of economic self-sufficiency and real progress. They are interested in the preservation of a dead-end economic model since their true social nature is comprador i.e. they are intermediaries between national market and owners of foreign capital, which penetrating this market. The path in which they are pushing their own people is the path of eternal underdevelopment and neo-colonial dependence. The unenviable fate of low-wage lackeys of rich Western tourists and unhappy lot to become guest workers in Australia and New Zealand are in store for the peoples on this path. It is the path of destruction all national traditions and culture with transforming them into exotic entertainment for the wealthy Western tourists. And the only way out that letting the Oceania peoples to avoid this sad future is path to socialism. It is possible. Experience shows that bursting through the front of imperialism and neocolonialism is not a simple task even for the larger countries than the small island states. So, why the victory of socialism is possible in Oceania? To answer this question, ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Monday, December 28th, 2009
socialists [ voxsjournal ]	9:37p	Where do we go from here? Alexander Cockburn has an op-ed up at truthout.org, the ending of which struck on something I've been thinking about a lot recently: In 1992, the left went hook, line and sinker for Bill Clinton and lost all independent traction. By 1996, it had become a habit. Same story in 2000. Same again in 2004 (all in behind the Democrat Kerry, in case you forget) and finally, most deliriously, with the salesman of hope in 2008, Barack Obama. The left is dead and gone as a vital force in American political life. The corporations run the show and the only vivid opposition comes from Christian populists, who've brought several million copies of Sarah Palin's memoir. It's an old tale, but still relevant. Just a little over a year ago Americans were talking about the collapse of the financial markets and the death of capitalism. Now investment banks are showing near-record profits and paying near-record bonuses. In a year we went from hysteria to calmly accepting all that was wrong with the economic system just before the meltdown. We can blame all the old bogeymen of the past--apathy, television, alienation, but isn't the real problem with the Left? There was a moment when people were ripe for a radical vision, and the Left was silent. There was no unified mass of Leftists clearly talking about exploitation and the need of capitalism to grow or it dies. There was no voice because there is no broad-based party. Instead we have tiny, little parties, all vying for a slice of a very small pie, each holding rigidly to its own dogmatic principles. It's almost as if the Left gave up the fight many, many years ago and now argues with itself, indeed, talks only to itself. So the listserves will burn up with an argument about whether Lenin or Trotsky was more correct about some obscure point or other while the world goes on around us, getting worse. The various Leftist parties will fight and scratch each other for virtually nothing. It's as if it's all so important precisely because the stakes are so small. Personally, I'd rather have one Leftist party. I probably wouldn't agree with everything in its platform, and neither would you. But perhaps that one party would have been able to be out there, radicalizing the very working class that was so mightily angry when the foreclosures and layoffs really began in earnest. Instead, we left them for the Palin's and Beck's of this world. Any ideas on what could be done? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
marxism [ rotte_volf ]	9:48p	Energy Revolution and dead-end economic model. It is obviously to everyone now that energetics needs the revolutionary changes. Energetics based on nonrenewable energy resources (oil, coal, gas) have to be replaced, sooner or later, by energy based on the inexhaustible sources. Although two-thirds of the world's electricity is still generated by thermal power stations working on fossil fuels, which are to a great extent responsible for the adverse environmental effects (global warming, ozone depletion, etc.), almost all developed countries are actively elaborating alternative energy sources. The solar and wind energy are considered by many as these sources. Indeed, these powers are reliable and highly desired renewable energy sources. But in spite of all this they have significant limitations. Such alternative power plants can't work at night and in case of lack of winds. In order to radically change the structure of power generation in favor of renewable resources we need a stable energy source that has great energy potential. And that source really exists. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
socialists [ atomic_joe2 ]	11:30p	Something I have been pondering for a while... The fact that in the last year or so socialism and so-called 'big government' has saved capitalism's bacon. Were it not for government bailouts with banks being practically nationalised and economic stimulus packages being utilised worldwide to head off the very real threat of a 1930s-style depression following the global credit crunch, we'd probably be in some Mad Max-esque barter system by now. When I see casino capitalists on TV still in their jobs it warms the heart to think that the only reason they are still in employment is down solely to the actions of 'big governments' worldwide. Without the socialist principle of state intervention, their precious capitalist model would be on the scrapheap of history. I find it ironic when I see protestors outside the White House complaining that, in their mind, any vague step in the direction of healthcare reform is 'socialism' when the fact is that socialist policies (even by their good ole pal Dubya) mean that they've still got an economy and money coming out of ATMs. The big inconvenient truth that Republicans in the US and Conservatives in the UK don't want to think about is the fact that their whole way of life was preserved by the very opposite of their political ideology. And that however repulsive we are to them, they need us. Betcha that hurts! (3 Comments |Comment on this)