Re: Upcoming SLP discussion meetings in Columbus!i_330September 10 2005, 16:04:08 UTC
I love working at the library. Actually, it used to be much better. Things definitely went down hill after we got self checkout machines. That used to be my job. The problem with libraries is the fact that it is a business pure and simple and not a community service. I read an article about the future of libraries, and it had a lot of interesting info in it. I think it was the Seattle library that had 67 different rules aimed at keeping homeless people out. And many libraries are partnering with companies such as Starbucks and fast food chains. They're run horribly inefficiently and god knows how much time and effort is wasted on doing stupid shit. The budgets are cut every year, more and more libraries close every year, and yet they squander their money on shit, like thousands of copies of the latest dvds, and 800 copies of the newest Harry Potter. (Not that the library shouldn't buy these things, but they're just going to sit on the shelf and rot after the high initial demand.) One positive thing in that article-there are more libraries in America than McDonald's. There are 16,400 libraries. However, a McDonald's opens every few minutes, and libraries keep closing. To get back on topic... My brother could not possibly be less interested in politics, and cutinhalfblues wants to pursue a career in politics, so neither of them would go. I had also thought of trying to go with someone, but I do not know anyone that would go.
Re: Upcoming SLP discussion meetings in Columbus!socialistpoetSeptember 10 2005, 17:32:40 UTC
But doesn't cutinhalfblues believe in the abolition of private property? I also plan on getting into electoral politics, but only for the purpous of abolishing the government. Maybe be you should drag her there to prevent her from becoming some kind of... something not cool in the realm of politics.
Re: Upcoming SLP discussion meetings in Columbus!i_330September 11 2005, 00:04:33 UTC
How do you plan on getting into electoral politics? Would you run under the SLP? How exactly would you A. get elected, and B. use your position to abolish government? That is cutinhalfblues' stance, but she has become a reformer that thinks change can only come from within the system. (Hahahahahaha.) She plans on running as a republicrat. If I could drag her with me, I would, but she wouldn't dream of doing anything that could possibly jeopardize her career in politics. Also, she's completely disappeared from my life.
Re: Upcoming SLP discussion meetings in Columbus!socialistpoetSeptember 11 2005, 00:23:35 UTC
I will run on the SLP ticket, provided the Party would support me. A. I would get elected if the masses supported our program. B. We would be simitaniously helping to organize Industrial Unions, run directly and democraticaly by the workers, to serve as the new government once the political/geographical state is abolished. As Daniel De Leon said, “the Industrial Union is, at once, the battering ram with which to pound down the fortress of capitalism, and the successor of the capitalist social structure itself.”
They would also ensure the outcome of the elections, because there would be institutions of dual power to challenge the fraud that is historicaly inevtible. If I could make another sugestion for your studies, I'd ask you to read De Leon's "Socialist Reconstruction of Society." It had a really huge influence on my joining the Industrial Workers of the World in 2003.
Re: Upcoming SLP discussion meetings in Columbus!i_330September 11 2005, 02:28:06 UTC
How will you get the masses to support your program? And you do know the elections are rigged, right? I just looked on ohiolink to see if they had that, and of course they do. I just requested a copy from 1930. They also have one from 1920, but it's in Croatian. Have I ever told you how much I love ohiolink (which links all of Ohio's college libraries)? They almost always have every obscure book and foreign film I look for. I've gotten a few other old pamphlets from ohiolink, Daniel De Leon's Reform or Revolution and a few by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. It's a shame I have to be in college to use it; I'm too busy to really appreciate it. I could spend the right of my life reading all those books.
Re: Upcoming SLP discussion meetings in Columbus!socialistpoetSeptember 11 2005, 03:19:33 UTC
Well, I think grass roots organization is the best way to appeal to people. Just trying to reach out and engage people in what Socialism really is intended to be. I've tried to bite the bullet and actually stay some place a few times in the last year, and my experience has been that when I'm around other young poeple for long enouph, I can make some good in roads organizing.
Not all elections are rigged, but again, the Indusrial Unions would ensure we would get what's ours when the time is right. Of course the forces of reaction will cheat like hell when ever they want something.
I think you've mentioned digging Ohio link before. I regret not being too into libraries when I was going to school in Ohio because of that system. Though I do just enjoy building my library, in between New York Labor News, AK Press, and all the Leftist Bookstores and spaces I hang around, I too could spend the rest of my life reading these books.
My brother could not possibly be less interested in politics, and cutinhalfblues wants to pursue a career in politics, so neither of them would go. I had also thought of trying to go with someone, but I do not know anyone that would go.
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That is cutinhalfblues' stance, but she has become a reformer that thinks change can only come from within the system. (Hahahahahaha.) She plans on running as a republicrat. If I could drag her with me, I would, but she wouldn't dream of doing anything that could possibly jeopardize her career in politics. Also, she's completely disappeared from my life.
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They would also ensure the outcome of the elections, because there would be institutions of dual power to challenge the fraud that is historicaly inevtible. If I could make another sugestion for your studies, I'd ask you to read De Leon's "Socialist Reconstruction of Society." It had a really huge influence on my joining the Industrial Workers of the World in 2003.
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I just looked on ohiolink to see if they had that, and of course they do. I just requested a copy from 1930. They also have one from 1920, but it's in Croatian. Have I ever told you how much I love ohiolink (which links all of Ohio's college libraries)? They almost always have every obscure book and foreign film I look for. I've gotten a few other old pamphlets from ohiolink, Daniel De Leon's Reform or Revolution and a few by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. It's a shame I have to be in college to use it; I'm too busy to really appreciate it. I could spend the right of my life reading all those books.
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Not all elections are rigged, but again, the Indusrial Unions would ensure we would get what's ours when the time is right. Of course the forces of reaction will cheat like hell when ever they want something.
I think you've mentioned digging Ohio link before. I regret not being too into libraries when I was going to school in Ohio because of that system. Though I do just enjoy building my library, in between New York Labor News, AK Press, and all the Leftist Bookstores and spaces I hang around, I too could spend the rest of my life reading these books.
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