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Old 03-30-2005, 09:35 AM   #18 (permalink)
Strange Famous
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I dont know why this definition is made so often.

To me liberals vs conservative is not a meaningful distinction. Both liberals and conservatoves are capitalists - and thus they are placed on one side of the great political divide. On the other side is ths radical working class, the communists.

conservatives seek to preserve the current order, liberals seek only to reform the current order. The reformers is the friend of the capitalist - it is by this tactic that the ruling class divide and conquer the working class. Look at the example of Affirmatibve Action for example... the working class is divided by being turned against itself... one group is given a greater opportunity than the other, and thus the two groups compete, one to defend their advantage, and one to withdraw this advantage. The conservative - even if he is an ethnic minoprity who AA is designed to protect, will seek to maintain the advantage of the white students (in this example) while the liberal - even if she is white - will aim to promote AA to reduce the impact of prejudice and discrimination in school and so on.

To be a communist is really to make two statements - that it is understood that it is incorrect for the white students to be advantaged over the other ethnic groups; but that we do not aim at increasing the opportunity or freedom of one part of the working class, we aim for radical changes in the social order which free the ENTIRE working class. We do not aim ultimately to reform a corrupt unfair system, we aim for this system to be dismantled, to cease to exist, and to be replaced by communist relations of production.

The liberal and the conservative may both me moral or amoral - both may act out of selfishness or perceived moral good - but both stand as the opponent of revolution. Those who stand for the revolution must understand that both ideologies must be swept aside.

If we are asked to choose between Bush and Kerry, my own feeling is that Kerry is a better choice because his reforms will reduce some of the worst suffering of the working class that exists right now, but we must understand Kerry is the enemy as much as Bush is... in fact reform can be dangerous because in the short term it can be a method of averting the unstoppable path of human history which leads us to communism, by appeasing the working class - a more right wing leader, more OPENLY and MORALISTICALLY capitalist may attack the working class far more strongly, which will lead to more immediate revolution.
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