A Reading List I'm Pretty Sure Bernie Sanders Would Approve Of...

[WillyT]

And... if you read nothing else here, do NOT miss Mark Twain's 'King Leopold's Sililoquy"

Everybody loved Twain's humor and stories of Huck Finn, and Tom Sawyer...

But when he came back from Africa and told this story... he was blacklisted... on the outs as an author...

He was fucking with Ford, Standard Oil, and especially Firestone...

Why ???

Rubber.

He was also a Socialist, BTW.

DULink: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002623564

[bravenak]

1. 28 minutes early

[WillyT]

3. I Have No Idea What That Means... Are You Alright ???

[bravenak]

5. I had set a timer.

[leftofcool]

6. Didn't take long did it?

[bravenak]

7. Of course not.

Really, I am surprised at how quickly it happened.

[WillyT]

8. LOL !!! - Ok... That's Good...

[sheshe2]

10. ;)

[bravenak]

13. You were giving too much credit. And HOUR! And look a me, a DAY!

[Lizzie Poppet]

19. "Will the foreman please read the verdict..."

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"Are You Alright ???" Why is this poster always insinuating that there must be something wrong with someone who identifies as a minority. It's either Stockholm syndrome or some other disorder that makes them disagree with him? I serioulsy don't think it's a matter of ignorance, but more a matter of condescending bullshit.

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[Scootaloo]

4. Gonna trash said book list? Or just edit your earlier praise for it?

[bravenak]

18. Good grief!!

[jfern]

2. H.G. Wells and George Orwell are two other famous socialist authors

[bravenak]

9. A George Orwell quote for you:

The coloured worker cannot be blamed for feeling no solidarity with his white comrades. The gap between their standard of living and his own is so vast that is makes any differences which may exist in the West see negligible. In Asiatic eyes the European class struggle is a sham. The Socialist movement has never gained a real foothold in Asia or Africa or even among the American Negroes: it is everywhere side-tracked by nationalism and race-hatred, Hence the spectacle of thoughtful Negroes getting ready to vote for Dewey, and Indian Congressman preferring their own capitalism to the British Labour Party. There is no solution until the living standards of the thousand million people in this world who are not "white" can be forced up to the same level as our own. But as this might mean temporarily lowering our own standards the subject is systematically avoided by Left and Right alike.

As I Please, Tribune December 10, 1943

[sheshe2]

11. Woah!

Awesome quote.

There is no solution until the living standards of the thousand million people in this world who are not "white" can be forced up to the same level as our own. But as this might mean temporarily lowering our own standards the subject is systematically avoided by Left and Right alike.

Thank you bravenak.

[bravenak]

15. My friend and yours Kev, hit me with that awesomeness.

[sheshe2]

16. Whoosh.

That whole quote is amazing. Thanks for letting me know Kev gave it to you. Good to see he will be back in 2 weeks. He needs to be heard here.

[bravenak]

17. I am in countdown mode.

[jfern]

12. Don't worry, a lot has changed in the last 72 years

Most of Africa wasn't independent then. You can see that parties belonging to the Socialist International are in government in Angola, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mozambique, Nambia, Niger, South Africa, and Tanzania. There are others where they are part of a coalition government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International

[bravenak]

14. Yet the fact remains that he was right then and right now.

Circumstances have changed. But the facts of the gaps and lack of feelings of solidarity have only grown larger.