I am just tickled RED...thought i would share this

[dcsmart]

Support D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor...that's right....a Socialist running for Detroit mayor...be still by beating heart.....

• For socialism and the political independence of the working class! Break with the Democratic and Republican parties!

If the working class is to fight for its interests, it must break resolutely with the trade unions, including the United Auto Workers, which is headquartered in Detroit. These organizations—trade unions in name only—have for decades collaborated with the corporations in the destruction of jobs and wages. Their alliance with the Democrats and defense of the capitalist system has produced a disaster for auto workers and the working class as a whole. The SEP calls for the formation of independent rank-and-file committees to carry forward the struggle.

The economic crisis has exposed not only the failure of a set of polices, but of an entire economic and social system—the capitalist system, based on private ownership of the productive forces and the profit motive.

There can be no solution to the crisis facing Detroit without the political mobilization of the working class on a national and international level against the capitalist system. Capitalism is a global system and it is in the midst of a global crisis. Workers must unify internationally in struggle for their common interests.

The alternative to capitalism is socialism, the democratic control of the productive forces in the interests of social need. If the working class is to advance its own solution, it must build its own political party based on a socialist perspective.
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from his campaign statement

see post below for link to full article


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=395x474

[jwirr]

1. The corporations have forgotten that FDR and his programs stemmed

the rising tide for socialism in the 1930s. The Socialist party was at its height in the Great Depression and it should not surprise any of us that *ss by getting rid of the programs in the safety net and the financial rules that protected the middle class has reawakened the sleeping giant of socialism.

[dcsmart]

2. well said

i hope the giant stays awake for awhile. I am a member of the Democractic Socialists of America, and we work in and out of the Dem party....but mostly:



" A democratic community committed to the equal moral worth of each citizen will socially provide the cultural and economic necessities—food, housing, quality education, healthcare,childcare—for the development of human individuality."

We cannot accept capitalism’s conception of economic relations as “free and private,” because contracts are not made
among economic equals and because they give rise to social structures which undemocratically confer power upon some over
others. Such relationships are undemocratic in that the citizens involved have not freely deliberated upon the structure of
those institutions and how social roles should be distributed within them (e.g., the relationship between capital and labor in
the workplace or men and women in child rearing). We do not imagine that all institutional relations would wither away
under socialism, but we do believe that the basic contours of society must be democratically constructed by the free deliberation of its members."

just a little plug..thanks for the response

[jwirr]

3. I have been called a socialist all my life and I am far enough left that

they may be correct.