Congressional Black Caucus at WCAR

Cynthia McKinney is a Democrat, which means she supports capitalism, which is the problem. In particular, the profit motive is literally killing us. The solution is socialism, eliminating the profit motive. As a Democrat, she supports the murder of the Palestinian people to allow for the existence of Israel, a bulwark "against Communism" and for oil profits, and all other wars perpetrated by the Democrat-Republicans. She would not get any support from the Democratic Party for her campaigns if she did not support Israel. The litmus test on Palestine is: Does she support the Zionist state of Israel or does she support the Palestine liberation struggle? Do not vote for anyone who receives money from the Democratic Central Committee as by definition they support Israel and capitalism. On all of the war and peace issues, there is no pretense of difference between the Democratic and Republican Central Committees, and war and peace is the basic issue. The war budget is destroying our economy for we cannot have guns and butter. The only way there will be peace in the Middle East is for there to be a socialist, secular Palestine. The only way there will be world peace is when we have world socialism. For that, we need a labor movement, and it is growing, for the workingclass is now faced with the basic choice: fight or starve.

Ed Rendell, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, was the district attorney who framed Mumia Abu-Jamal. He has not apologized for his evil deed, and the Democratic Party has not demanded that he step down from his position. I have not heard Cynthia McKinney denounce Ed Rendell. For more information on that good Democrat Ed Rendell's evil deeds, see:
http://www.aspenlinx.com/mumia/newstuff/rendell2.htm

Another good Democrat who is black is Willie Brown, the current illegal "mayor" of San Francisco, who sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud and now has only 20% support, because of his vicious attacks on the workingclass, in particular tenants, as well as his many other evil, anti-workingclass deeds. That election fraud was committed in exactly the same manner as Brown's 49er Stadium Swindle "election" of June 3, 1997 which is described at the website that mandates THOROUGH reading:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium (If you have trouble getting it at this point in the article, simply copy this URL and put it in place of what is there to get it.)

It is not a matter of black or white, it is a matter of workingclass class versus the capitalist class, both of which are international. The Democratic Party is a capitalist party, just like the Republican Party, and thus anti-workingclass and viciously racist.

Vote socialist or if there are no socialist candidates for a given position, skip that position. Stop voting for your oppressor, which is what any capitalist candidate is.

this congresswoman was introducing evidence of u.s. political repression through cointelpro and other such programs. so, keep your knee-jerk radicalism to yourself, or dont be surprised when people like this congresswoman dismisses you as unrealistic and someone not to work with. know what i mean?

The United States is well-known as a police state. Cointelpro was exposed decades ago, and the US is now even more of a police state than it was when Cointelpro started. The entire police state apparatus of the US exists to oppress the workingclass so as to enrich the capitalist class. There are many books, magazine and newspaper articles on the long history of the police state activities of the US government, all the state governments and many local governments. Thus, Cynthia McKinney is wasting our tax dollars conducting yet another investigation of this Nazi state called the USA.

The question remains: Does McKinney support capitalism or socialism? Since she defines herself as a Democrat, that means she supports capitalism and opposes the workingclass, who can only achieve a better life with socialism. It is the profit motive that is literally killing us.

As a Democrat, McKinney has joined an organization that is irrelevant to all progress. The anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, with its ringing indictment of apartheid Israel, which does not exist for one second without $4 billion a year and more from the US taxpayers to defend US oil profits, marks the beginning of the end of the Zionist state of Israel and of US imperialism. With this major event that marks the beginning of revolutionary struggle in the 21st Century, it is time all American workers learn the words of the workingclass anthem, well-known to the rest of the workers of the world, "The Internationale":

Arise ye prisoners of starvation,
Arise ye wretched of the earth,
For justice thunders condemnation,
A better world's in birth.
No more tradition's chains shall bind us,
Arise ye slaves, no more inthrall,
The earth shall rise on new foundation,
We have been naught; we shall be all.
'Tis the final conflict, let each stand in one's place,
The international workingclass shall be the human race.

justice, i sympathize with you, really i do. but you are letting your dogma cloud your judgement. cointelpro is not well known, and people do not frequently call the united states a police state. at least, not in public. i support the congressional black caucus for attempting to use their new-found power to shake things up, and i especially support this young woman who has gone on the international record in exposing the united states secret police force.

...and neither is the Republican party. They're not parties because they have no party discipline. They're not like European parties because they're not private associations. They're just state ballot lines on which anyone can run. The party platforms adopted at Presidential conventions don't reflect anything except the politics of the winning Presidential candidate. They aren't and can't be enforced.

Being a Democrat doesn't mean you're taking corporate cash. No corporation would be stupid enough to give money to Cynthia McKinney or Barbara Lee.

In light of the peculiar structure of the American political system (the absence of proportional representation; the absence of coalition governments because of an executive rather than parliamentary system; open party membership and open primaries; single district, winner-take-all electoral districts), most progressive forces, when doing electoral work, pragmatically choose to work in the left of the Democratic Party. Hence, electoral class conflict runs through the Democratic Party, not around it.

Given the structure of the US government, any third party in the United States rapidly has to become a second or first party to survive. The critical question facing socialists in the United States today is not whether to form a third party. Rather, it is how best to build those progressive constituencies which alone can push politicians (whatever their party affiliation) to the left. Forming a party is pointless if the masses will not join it. If and when the mass constituencies of the American democratic left decide to leave the Democratic Party, only then is talk of a national third party seriously on the political agenda.

Of course, this line is probably dominated by anarchists, and anarchists oppose electoral politics in toto, so my comments are probably beside the point.

- Jason