Originally Posted by
Mintjewlips
Can you be a liberal and a communist?
Hello my good friend Mintjewlips. Of course you can. Unfortunately the american capitalist media has so much world power that so called liberals are nothing but white washed conservatives. Both would be well to the right in any world political survey. American
liberals, just like their american conservative cousins are owned by the american capitalist infrastructure. If they do not parrot what they are told to parrot, they will quickly lose access to their million $ checks. There is an abomination of the language at work here, leading to an abomination of facts.
The significance of Communism bears an inverse relation to historical development. In proportion as the modern class struggle develops and takes definite shape, this fantastic standing apart from the contest, these fantastic attacks on it, lose all practical value and all theoretical justification. Therefore, although the originators of these systems were, in many respects, revolutionary, their disciples have, in every case, formed mere reactionary sects. They hold fast by the original views of their masters, in opposition to the progressive historical development of the workers of the world. They, therefore, endeavor, and that consistently, to deaden the class struggle and to reconcile the class antagonisms. They still dream of experimental realization of their social Utopias, of founding isolated “phalansteres”, of establishing “Home Colonies”, or setting up a “Little Icaria”(4) — duodecimo editions of the New Jerusalem — and to realize all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois. By degrees, they sink into the category of the reactionary [or]
conservative Socialists, differing from these only by more systematic pedantry, and by their fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous effects of their social science.