Category: Politics
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Race Realism Detox
Hakim dismantles core propaganda radicalizing Americans. Time to counteract at the root. In the U.S. the political right aligned are the main perpetrators of misconceptions about race.
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Preparing Black Youth in the 1960s: Education and Class Issues
This documentary from 1968 in Brooklyn highlights the controversial Ocean Hill-Brownsville conflict that focused on community control of schools. It also reveals past problems in the education system decades ago, and the struggles of parenting our Black youth, and inculcating in them the desire and love for learning. In the backdrop, we get young Black…
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Four Points about the Revolutionary Character of Republicanism
There are four things to understand about Republicanism:
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Elon Musk’s Fascist Salute reveals his Political Trajectory
ELON MUSK HAS NOT DENIED OR COMMENTED ON HIS INFAMOUS SALUTE. Do you think Elon Musk’s actions and open beliefs lately reveal a predictable, knowable and inevitable political trajectory for him? Musk is pictured gesturing the Fascist salute, which survives with the Neo-Fascists in Italy and among various factions of Neo-Fascists and Neo-Nazis today. When…
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Discussion on Ignorance of Republicanism in our Political Degeneration
THE TERM REPUBLICANISM IS NEVER USED BY OUR MODERN POLITICIANS. Rachel Hammersley demonstrates its importance in her work, also taking from ancient republicanism the words of several lawmakers, such as the Spartan — Lycurgus. No politician today embodies the American politics in this form — its arguably highest form. Amy Klobucher for example repeatedly used…
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Marx, Lincoln and Anti-Capitalistic Roots in Republicanism
Steven F. Hayward writes about the classical influences of the American Revolution: “Wood says that the American Revolution was a “republican” revolution. By that he means that it had intellectual roots ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to the English Commonwealth, and that it was more communal than capitalistic. “Ideally,” he writes, “republicanism obliterated the…
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Henry A. Wallace Spiritual Ideals and Fascination with the United States Motto
Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) was a progressive Republican and Episcopalian, a high ranking official during the war, New Deal Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President of the U.S. 1941-45. He is considered a notable contributor to American liberalism and political culture. This brief will not cover his life or political work but highlight his particular…
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Dance of the Parties in Warnings of Fascism in American Politics
Giovanni Gentile taught that Fascism was a development from Italian liberalism and represents a new spiritual and revolutionary ideal of order and progress. It combined elements and minds from the left and right. Mussolini heavily sought the promotion and power of Fascism and believed that the liberalism of Italy had become outdated. We moreso associate…
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Testimony of Communist and Civil Rights Activist Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
“In the first place, wherever I’ve been in the world, the first to die in the struggle against Fascism were the Communists (…) I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist (…) You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of…
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‘Black Lives Matter is a Communist Movement’ — or so we hear! Trump and the Right’s Alarming Tactic
From Australia to the United States, we are hearing echoes of the statement ‘Black Lives Matter is a Communist Movement.’ This article dissects right-wing media portrayal of Liberals and Democrats as Communists. “This belief in a broad liberal conspiracy is standard in the highest echelons of the conservative establishment and right-wing media.” DAVID A. WALSH,…
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Red-Scare Tactics in 1960s against Black Communist Revolutionaries: “Revolution Underway”
DOCUMENTARY REPORT ON BLACK COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARIES “Revolution Underway” is a preserved documentary report on Black Communist revolutionary activities during planned riots throughout 20 states in the 1960s. Conservatives are sharing it to de-legitimize the real issues of police brutality, militarized police, racism, and so forth. In these times, the classic red scare propaganda aims at…
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Cornel West on America as a Failed Social Experiment
Cornel West has been bringing Anderson Cooper to tears as of late on national television in his dialogue with the philosopher and civil rights activist, who shares his insight on the eruption of protests in America, explains what he means when he says “…what we see, is America as a failed social experiment.” On the…
The American Minervan 