Thursday, January 2, 2014

Happy New Year from the Freedom Socialist Party!

Freedom and socialism appear to me as exact opposites, but that doesn't seem to bother the Freedom Socialist Party. They have high hopes for 2014.

In a New Year's greeting, the FSP said:
Dear Friends,

Here’s wishing you and yours a revolutionary New Year in 2014!

From the vantage point of the window of the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) National Office in Seattle, it would have been hard not to notice the fresh winds of dissent gaining strength

Locally, a series of hopeful events have taken place in recent months. Seattleites chose a Trotskyist socialist for the City Council, Kshama Sawant. Boeing workers voted down a lousy contract that their international union leadership was pushing hard. Just weeks later, Metro Transit employees told management and their own local union president to take a tentative agreement full of concessions and shove it. In the nearby town of SeaTac, low-paid workers won a ballot measure guaranteeing a $15.00 per hour minimum wage. And FSP’s initiative sparked international protests demanding the freedom of Seattle-area resident and indigenous leader Nestora Salgado from a prison in Mexico.

All this warmed the hearts of radicals, feminists, and working-class champions in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

7 comments:

  1. You have to remember who they are trying to appeal to which isn't exactly the critical thinking morality driven crowd that can easily understand that socialism and freedom are diametrically opposed.

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  2. Gee, I thought FSP stood for the Free Shit Party. I can smell their winds of dissent all the way over here on the East Coast, in the middle of a blizzard.

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    1. Definitely not to be confused with the Free State Project (freestateproject.org)...

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  3. They cite two instances of workers disagreeing with their union leadership. I'm perplexed as to why they're proud of this, as it's pretty strong evidence for why SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK. Are these people clueless or what?

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    1. "....as it's pretty strong evidence for why SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK."

      You know, it's just incredible to me that we're still having this argument. Over 150 million people (at least) are DEAD because of socialism since 1917 and we STILL have brain dead nuts actually wanting it. It's positively insane.

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    2. Not clueless. Delusional. Absolutely insane.

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  4. I'll never understand how someone....ANYONE....can say freedom and socialism are the same thing. I just don't get it! It's like saying that blowing my own brains out is going to make me the healthiest man alive. 0_o

    Socialist Freedom Party? They're saying this in the same sentence? *Gives socialists a funny look*

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