What the economic conversation needs to be about

Contributing towards "the economic conversation" is a great little book, "Getting America Back To Work" by Stewart Acuff and Richard Levins. Scott Marshall has started a "Stewart Acuff Fan Page" on facebook. Let's all read, study and participate and give it our Communist Plus. There are a lot of great Marxist pamphlets to supplement this book. See you all on the "Stewart Acuff Fan Page" on facebook.

It is difficult to understand how Sam Webb the head of the CPUSA would write such an article (http://peoplesworld.org/what-the-economic-conversation-needs-to-be-about#PageComment_4467) and not mention the military/war budget. Nor does he explain how the way out of this mess is through pushing massive job creating programs aimed at solving the problems of the people like socialized health care and day care programs. Socialized healthcare would create as many as ten-million jobs and a national public day care program would create another 4 to 6 million jobs. Massive CCC and WPA programs would create around 15 million jobs.

Nor is it mentioned by Webb that wealth needs to be created that will be owned by society to do what needs to be done and this is going to require the 3,700 closed mines, mills and factories be reopened under public ownership producing for what people and society require to live better lives while solving issues like global warming and the results of oil spills not to mention helping people in other countries rebuild in the wake of destruction wrought by U.S. imperialist wars.

What is really "concealed" by Webb just like the Wall Street economists he so admires is the fact that working people create all wealth and as long as this wealth is being stolen by Wall Street coupon clippers our problems will continue.

We should be focusing on the need to make the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights a living reality for all working people.

The Democrats are whittling away at their own "jobs bill;" in the end it will be useless for anything other than Wall Street making a profit off the problems of the people that these Wall Street parasites created in the first place.

Where is the Communist Program for uniting the working class around real solutions?

Shouldn't the Communist Party USA be distributing such a program widely among its coalition partners at conventions and conferences? And what about initiating organizations in local communities around an emergency program for real change?
Radical Ideas? Real Politics? But, where are the solutions from Sam Webb?

Let's see right now what the CPUSA is going to be distributing at the U.S. Social Forum and at the Campaign for America's Future’s upcoming Conference.

Sam, put the program out there in a way that is understandable to working people so any working person can pick it up and go to work building Party Clubs in their own communities and where they work or go to school.

Let's have a program printed on paper that can be handed out and distributed where ever we go- at the grocery store or food shelf.

Where is the left's popular people's front alternative to the right-wing Tea Party movement? And don't tell us its Obama and the Democrats.

Why there is no mention of enforcing affirmative action needs to be explained.

 
A national bank would solve most of the "debt problem" because what little interest would be paid would come right back to government coffers.

"Fiscal responsibility," "limited government," and "free markets" can not be refuted without getting specific and it is on these three points that the "ultra-right" is basing its agenda sucking in millions of people. It is when the facts AND real solutions are shoved under their noses that the right-wing agenda stands exposed.

Right now Barack Obama is in the process of building 700 military bases in Afghanistan for its long-term occupation... do you really think the American people won't respond to a program that calls for building 700 public health care centers spread out across the United States providing free basic healthcare for everyone, instead?

And how many military bases will be needed to "secure" the Iraq oil fields for the long term occupation intended for the oil companies like British Petroleum... do you really think the American people won't respond to a call to build public day care centers across the United States, instead?

Marx was right: When a Nation wastes its resources on militarism and wars it may just as well be throwing its human and natural resources out into the ocean. This has to be the focus of any Communist program for real change--- Radical Ideas; Real Politics; People before profits... Wall Street is the enemy. Its what William Z. Foster called "educating the American people about the nature of imperialism while uniting workers in the struggle for peace."

Posted by Alan L. Maki, 06/08/2010 9:44am