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TomCADem

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8. BS and Supporters Seek to Sharpen the Contradictions per Karl Marx
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 02:57 PM
Mar 2020

The American people are seeking competence and rule of law under Biden. Nonetheless, expect BS surrogates like Cornell West and Susan Sarandon to double down in calling for an end to the Democratic party as an obstacle to revolution. Afterall, if the lives of Americans improve under Joe Biden, they may not desire the radical revolution that Bernie is hoping to sell.

Instead, if BS cannot seize power, then as Susan Sarandon explained the silver lining is that the chaos of a Trump presidency might help undermine the status quo.

https://www.beaconjournal.com/akron/editorial/cass-r-sunstein-trump-disrupts-so-did-marx

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: Karl Marx and his followers argued that revolutionaries should disrupt capitalist societies by “heightening the contradictions.” Russia used a version of that Marxist idea in its efforts to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign. It should come as no surprise that the most powerful nation from the former Soviet Union, whose leaders were schooled in the Marxist tradition, is borrowing directly from that tradition in its efforts today.

What is more surprising, and far more important for American politics, is that President Donald Trump is drawn to a similar strategy.

Marx contended that as the conditions of workers started to improve, they would cease to be content with their lot, or to regard their alienation as inevitable. Lenin seized on this idea and transformed it into a revolutionary strategy.

Lenin urged that as capitalism developed, workers would see, or could be made to see, the contradictions between the official story of universal freedom and their actual inability to have real control over their own lives. The job of the communist revolutionary was to “heighten” or “accelerate” those contradictions.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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What a clown. wyldwolf Mar 2020 #1
She seems nice. bluedye33139 Mar 2020 #2
Haaaaaa! NurseJackie Mar 2020 #3
ROFL Sloumeau Mar 2020 #11
Well Briahna. Dems pushed the Russia did the hacking because MontanaMama Mar 2020 #4
Bernie dosent have a campaign evertonfc Mar 2020 #5
It Is Not Just His Surrogates. BS Picked Them. They Are a Reflection of Him TomCADem Mar 2020 #6
re: "BS attracts and hires people who trash the Democratic party" thesquanderer Mar 2020 #10
The Article You Link Is Not Accurate, It Is Just Propaganda About BS TomCADem Mar 2020 #14
re: "The Article You Link Is Not Accurate, It Is Just Propaganda About BS" thesquanderer Mar 2020 #18
This indeed! eom BlueMTexpat Mar 2020 #22
Thank you! Cha Mar 2020 #24
Isn't that his goal? That has always been his goal, imo. apcalc Mar 2020 #7
BS and Supporters Seek to Sharpen the Contradictions per Karl Marx TomCADem Mar 2020 #8
Very good. Thank you. apcalc Mar 2020 #23
Grievance politics eilen Mar 2020 #9
Yes. One of the first alarming signals from the Sanders campaign, MineralMan Mar 2020 #12
Here is David Sirota Today Using Pandemic To Attack Bernie's Critics TomCADem Mar 2020 #17
Ugh! MineralMan Mar 2020 #19
This is from January. Ztolkins Mar 2020 #13
Sanders needs to get his crap together and Wellstone ruled Mar 2020 #15
He's grasping at straws now. He knows she's not going to back him, C Moon Mar 2020 #16
I can't even put into words how I feel about that guy!! Thekaspervote Mar 2020 #20
Sirota is too toxic to travel with the sanders Gothmog Mar 2020 #21
All they have is name calling like this. Cha Mar 2020 #25
And Sen Warren dropped out of the race after Super Tuesday. ms liberty Mar 2020 #26
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