2/22/2006

"Why you should be a socialist"

It's interesting that our blog neighbors at ontheborderline.net would calls us the "local socialist blog." Especially when you readers can attest to the variety of opinion that we provide at this forum. Although we would never stoop to such levels, we are big enough to take what they throw at us and small enough to dodge the drool of their mean-spitited invective.

Since they did call us "socialist," I found this in piece titled "Why You Should Be A Socialist."
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WHY DO we live in a world of such obscene inequalities and terrible violence?

A world where 1.2 billion people survive on less than $1 a day. A world where the most powerful country on earth uses horrific weapons of mass destruction in a war for oil and empire. A world where the fat cats live the high life, while working people live in fear that they’ll be standing in the unemployment line--or worse.

There is an alternative. The socialist alternative is based on the power of working people to fight together for a better world--and create a society based not on profit but on making a better life for everyone in it. In this special section, we print excerpts from ALAN MAASS’ Why You Should Be a Socialist, soon to be republished by Haymarket Books in a new and expanded edition.

Read more: Socialist Worker Online
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I'd be thinking -- if He were walking the Earth today -- the pharisees at OTBL would be calling Jesus a socialist, as they nailed him to their gold cross of hypocrisy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You hit the point. In reading Christ's teachings, he was more concerned with the "love of God", ones neighbor, helping the poor and oppressed than any profit margin.
He expressed this throughout his teachings (an example being "Beatitudes" Mathew 5:1-12 or Christs identification of the "Geratest Commandments" Matthew 22:34-40).