The NFL Socialists

February 10 2011 by rowan wolf in CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, EDITORS NOTES, FEATURED |No Comments

By Rowan Wolf In his usual blue form, Bill Maher took on baseball vs football in the lead up to the Super Bowl. This is a brilliant piece of commentary on the socialism of the NFL vs the Capitalism of Baseball. As predicted, the Superbowl beat baseball hands down in terms of viewers. This is [...]

THE NEW CLASS AND THE WORKERS / Gaither Stewart

April 8 2009 by tom rigbert in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |No Comments

  WHEN THE YUGOSLAV COMMUNIST MILOVAN DJILAS wrote his book, The New Class, he was referring to a “political” bureaucracy in Yugoslavia. Today’s global New Class consists of the financial class that has bought and subjugated its second component, the political class, which fronts for it, protects it and legislates for it. Today’s New Class [...]

Time to ask: How long must the Obama "honeymoon" last?

April 2 2009 by tom rigbert in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, IMPERIALISM, INEQUALITY, U.S. POLITICIANS |1 Comment

April 2, 2009 Give Obama a Chance to Do What? By Kevin Gosztola IF IT WEREN’T FOR ALL THE EXCUSES BEING MADE for Obama’s and his administration’s actions, I would feel a whole lot better. I think others who suffered under the Bush Regime would too. The populist anger across America is refreshing. People are [...]

Capitalism Rejected? / By William Bowles

March 27 2009 by tom rigbert in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, IMPERIALISM, U.S. POLITICIANS |3 Comments

Wherein Bill Bowles sets forth the reasons—for the obvious good of humanity and planetary survival— why the capitalist beast should be brought to heel, and inexorably destroyed. SO I GET THIS NOTE:  would I like to write an essay under the heading of ‘Capitalism: Rejected‘, to which I immediately added the question mark, after all, a [...]

Reading Lenin in Modern Rome / By Gaither Stewart

March 14 2009 by oliverMiau in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE |3 Comments

A little bit of Leninism for breakfast gives you the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard. (My adaptation of a Paul Bowles’ Arab adage) And then this, straight out of the horse’s mouth:  “It is more pleasant and useful to go through the experience of the revolution than to write about it.” (Vladimir Lenin) [...]

ITALY, ITALIANS AND SILVIO BERLUSCONI— A CASE OF ANYTHING FOR POWER

January 7 2008 by ascetorix_ariz20 in CJO'S OpEds, CONSERVATIVE + RIGHTWING, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, PARTY FRAUDS, THE LEFT & PSEUDO LEFT |8 Comments

By Gaither Stewart The name Forza Italia chosen by Berlusconi for his party blends sports metaphors with political triumphs to come. A masterful propaganda choice. “Rome is well worth a mass” HOW MUCH LAUGHTER AND TEARS, consternation and gnashing of teeth Silvio Berlusconi has provoked in Italy, Europe and the world since he entered politics [...]