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		<title>Rich Politicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS News reports that although the basic pay for members of Congress is $174,000, nearly half &#8212; 261, to be exact &#8212; are millionaires (there are 535 total members of the House and Senate). Just 1 percent of Americans overall can say the same. 55 members had an average calculated wealth of $10 million or more in 2009. While the economy has generally faltered over the past two years, congressional members actually saw their collective personal wealth increase by more than 16 percent between 2008 and 2009. The wealthiest member of Congress is Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), whose holdings exceed $303.5 million. Rep Jane Harman (D-Calif.) is close behind with $293.4 million, and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) rounds out the top three at $238.8 million. In the House, five Democrats and five Republicans make up the 10 wealthiest members, while in the Senate, six Democrats and four Republicans make up the top 10. The median wealth of a House member in 2009 stood at $765,010, while the median wealth for a senator in 2009 was nearly $2.38 million. The most popular company among members of Congress, CRP found, was General Electric, in which 82 current members invested. The second most [...]


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		<title>What is Real Democracy and How Do We Get It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is well known that the word ‘democracy’ originates from Ancient Greece and means ‘power of the people’. Such an idea, in its literal sense, encompassing economic, political and social democracy does not exist anywhere in the world. This is primarily because the planet’s resources, many of which human beings need in order to live, do not belong to the people as a whole. Instead, they are in the hands of a small, privileged, rich minority. Such extremely limited political ‘democracy’ as does exist in parts of the modern world, is scarcely even a shadow of what genuine democracy will be like when it is finally put into practice. For real democracy: imagine a society where all the people would be of equal status, with equal, free access to resources owned by the community, as a whole (e.g. food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, etc.). Imagine a world with no leaders and no elite to lord it over the rest of the population. A society where everyone can have an equal say in the issues that concern them. Above all, a world, in which all the people own and share the wealth that we need in order to live. People and [...]


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		<link>http://wspus.org/2010/01/1185/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Haygood</dc:creator>
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		<title>OBAMA – WHOSE PRESIDENT?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whose president is Barack Obama? He would have us believe that he is president of “all Americans.” But how is that possible when there are such sharp conflicts of interest in American society? Does the business owner have the same interests as the workers he hires at or below the minimum wage? Or consider the health insurance company assessor whose pay and prospects depend on how many claims she denies. Does she have the same interests as those whose survival depends on her decisions? Is Obama president of the millions of “black” Americans who voted for him with such pride in their hearts? He has not addressed the specific problems that face “black” people. True, he has raised their status simply by being president. By the same token, he provides a pretext for pretending that the issue of racism no longer exists. If he can make it, why can’t they? Is Obama president of the millions of working people of all colors who voted for him because they hoped he would make their lives easier and more secure? Because they hoped he would stop layoffs, foreclosures, military adventures? Look at the military budget. Look at Afghanistan. Look at the huge [...]


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		<title>US Gap Widens</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2009/07/us-gap-widens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socialists often meet with the argument that while capitalism may have been a terrible system in the past, with the awful gap between rich and poor, today we are gradually improving things and such inequalities no longer exists. So what do the anti-socialists make of these recent statistics? &#8220;The rich-poor gap also widened with the nation&#8217;s top one percent now collecting 23 percent of total income, the biggest disparity since 1928, according to the Economic Policy Institute. One side statistic supplied by the IRS: there are now 47,000 Americans worth $20 million or more, an all-time high.&#8221; (San Francisco Chronicle, 2 September &#8217;08) Eighty years of reform and now the gap is even wider No related posts.


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		<title>Why didn’t anyone wake me up while the revolution was going on? (Why we are not Leftists)</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2009/02/why-didn%e2%80%99t-anyone-wake-me-up-while-the-revolution-was-going-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ROEL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  It is not uncommon to hear leftists talk knowingly of “ongoing struggles” when they project the day after tomorrow of an anti-capitalist revolution, as if it weren’t really over yet with the expropriation of the capitalist class. The working class must evidently “smash” the capitalist state and set up a “proletarian” régime holding down the entire capitalist class, if we are to take our cue from Lenin (The State and Revolution). The truth, however, is at once simpler and more complex: an anti-capitalist revolution cannot stop with promising capitalism’s eventual replacement worldwide but must make immediate global common ownership and democratic control of wealth production its exclusive goal — or it will remain just another heavenly milkshake. The distinction is not esoteric. It makes all the difference.  Common ownership (communism/socialism) — the system that replaces capitalism — is totally unlike public ownership or state capitalism. It means direct community ownership and control based on universal free access and moneyless production. Banks are a conceptual possibility in a state-owned public industry. They are not in a communist society. Suffice it to say that more or less radicalized versions of the status quo will not do the trick. Those who posit [...]


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		<title>Obama – No real change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judging by the ubiquitous media-generated euphoria that greeted the Barak Obama victory in the US presidential election, you could be forgiven for thinking that the class struggle had ended in the USA. Across the globe, the world’s media intimated that this was the dawn of a new age and hundreds of millions of workers breathed a sigh of relief, convinced President Obama will now undo all the wrongdoing carried out by President Bush and generally improve the quality of their lives and the safety of the planet. The first thing to note, however, is that this had been the most expensive American election so far. The pooled cost of the Republican and Democratic campaigns was a cool $1 billion. The McCain camp raised $340 million whereas the Obama team secured $640 million.While Obama’s team boasted that most of their money came from small $100 and $200 donors, in truth the great bulk of his financial support came from Wall Street and the US corporate elite and was way in advance of that given to John McCain, suggesting the US capitalism plc feels its profits are best protected via Obama. The US power elite bankrolled the Obama campaign and for no [...]


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		<title>Political Reality</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2008/12/political-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bianca Jagger participating in a demonstration during the United Nations climate change conference in Poznan, Poland &#8220;The politicians just don&#8217;t seem to get the seriousness of the global warming crisis. Scientists attending the recent UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland, complained that the gap between political rhetoric and scientific reality on climate change is growing.&#8221;It doesn&#8217;t matter what the politicians promise,&#8221; said French climate scientist Phillipe Ciasis. &#8220;Even if we stop emissions growing today, the world will still warm by 2 °C &#8211; a lot more in some places. It is too late to prevent that.&#8221; Ciais was at Poznan to present the latest findings of the Global Carbon Project, a network of scientists that monitors how humans are influencing the natural carbon cycle. While politicians boast of their progress in cutting CO2 emissions, in the real world the gas is actually accumulating at an accelerating rate. Emissions have risen 28% already this decade, compared with 9% for the whole of the 1990s, said Ciais.&#8221; (New Scientist, 20 December) This is another example of politicians making sympathetic noises about the environment but in practice to cut emmissions may put them at a disadvantage against their international competitors. If they put [...]


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		<title>Manufactured Scarcity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review from the December 2008 issue of the Socialist Standard Green Capitalism. Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance. By James Heartfield. www.heartfield.org .2008 James Heartfield is associated with the former Trotskyist (British) Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) which used to publish Living Marxism (LM) and has moved on considerably since “the collapse of Communism” at the end of the 1980&#8242;s and the dissolution of the formal RCP organisation in 1997. These days the so-called “LM network” produces the edgy www.spiked-online.com website and organises debates and events under the auspices of the Institute of Ideas and a myriad of propaganda campaigns expedited largely through a robust, sometimes entertaining, and not ineffective style of media entryism. One area this current has been particularly interested in over the last two decades is in promoting a full-on critique of the reactionary imperatives of the politics of “Environmentalism”. In Green Capitalism James Heartfield reminds us that the profit system is essentially a system of rationing, which is now, in certain circles and in a variety of ways, being dressed up as “greenwashing” by Big Business and Governments – as the contemporary ruling elites reinvent scarcity in an age of abundance. Heartfield rightly presents the [...]


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		<title>Power and Privilege</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2008/06/power-and-privilege/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Friend of WSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And this man wants to be president. From MSNBC : Senators John McCain and Barack Obama released their Senate financial disclosure statements on Friday, revealing that Mr. McCain and his wife had at least $225,000 in credit card debt&#8230;The bulk of the McCains&#8217; obligations stemmed from a pair of American Express credit cards that are held in Cindy McCain&#8217;s name. According to the disclosure reports, which present information on debts in a range rather than providing a precise figure, Mrs. McCain owed $100,000 to $250,000 on each card. Unlike the millions of Americans who can&#8217;t afford to pay their bills, because wages haven&#8217;t risen in years, and are using their credit cards just to get by, Cindy McCain&#8217;s: filing, however, indicated that she had substantial holdings in property and stocks &#8211; including shares in Anheuser-Busch, which this week became the target of a takeover bid that is expected to send its value climbing. Her land holdings included parcels in Arizona and California, one of which was sold last year for a profit of more than $1 million. In other filings, the McCains have reported total household assets of $24.6 million to $39.5 million. In recently releasing a summary version of [...]


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