Full Communal Power: Against Municipal Power and More

“The Commune to be master of its administration and its police.” (Karl Marx and Jules Guesde)

Despite bourgeois pejoratives, there are more to communes than just isolated Utopian-Socialist outlets or “Year Zero” lifestyle policies pursued by the most insane examples of peasant revolutions. In medieval times, there was no centralized authority to provide physical protection against agents of violent and lawless nobles in the countryside or local unrest within, and so each town formed legal communes for mutual defense and retribution against attackers, as well as for public order. To ensure security along trade routes and other roads in their territory, rural communes were formed, and they developed in northern France, northern Germany, Sweden, Norway, and most importantly in the territories that eventually formed the Swiss Confederation (that is, modern Switzerland). Contemporarily, the commune as a European political form takes the form of communal assemblies encompassing all who live in a Swiss municipality, communal parliaments for larger Swiss municipalities, lower levels of government in France since the French Revolution (most notably the 92 skilled workers and petit-bourgeois professionals comprising the Communal Council of the Paris Commune in 1871), and intercommunality leading up to Communities comprised of the many French communes.

In the earlier commentary on local autonomy, the word “commune”
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“First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew,
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.”

~Pastor Martin Niemoller

Many during the 1950′s that lived in the “Land of the Free” feared not the idea of Communism altogether, but the idea of what may happen to those that were found to have been a Communist. As the years increased, the paranoia against Communism decreased as if the event during the 1950′s never happened. Though, it remains a part of history that is forever remembered upon by many, & some to this day that still acts upon the mindset of those anti-Communists in the 50′s.

Such figures like Glenn Beck, a popular Fox News caster by the conservative right-wing, are ones that seem to be bringing the 50′s back, or at least the mindset that took place then, with such claims that the backing of social-justice is nothing more than the backing of “Nazi-Communism”. [1] This misleading statement has been the very slogan well-used by Beck & his followers against those who of today continue to fight for social-justice & worker’s rights under the Communist banner.

Beck’s equating of Communism with what took place during Nazi Germany is not only misleading, but is completely disregardin
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Friday, August 6th, marked the sixty-fifth anniversary of the day the United States’ dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing some 140,000 people and bringing the second world war to a quick and brutal end. The anniversary was covered in The New York Times and many other major news outlets across the US. This years’ anniversary was especially notable because for the first time ever a US government official, US ambassador to Japan John Roos, attended the remembrance ceremonies in Hiroshima. Though the US government has never actually apologized for the bombing, some took ambassador Roos’ attendance as a symbol of reconciliation and hope for nuclear disarmament worldwide. However, there is another grimmer story that seems to contradict these dreams of peace that has received little if any news coverage within the United States.
On July 6th, exactly one month before the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) released a study titled, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009.” The study’s authors Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan, Entesar Ariabi and their team of researchers gathered data from household surveys of 711 homes in January and February of this year that revealed a tremendous spike in cancer rates and birth defects in the city of Fallujah within the last five years. Using cance
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“A Communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a Communist.” ~Mao Zedong

As oppression & exploitation of the peasantry & working class people of China have increased, unreported discontent within the Chinese people have grown against the revisionist Communist Party of China (CPC). Very little within the United States have a soft spot for China, & an even larger number than those against China today have shown opposition against them even during the leadership of Mao. This has come from a clear misconception of the CPC during Mao’s leadership & the CPC of today. Many do not realize the difference between China of the 1950-1970′s & the China in which people are suffering in today, &, again, many within those numbers fail to realize the advantages that the Chinese people thrived upon during Communist rule, in which none today are able to achieve.

Last year of May 31, 2009, a report was published call
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Crises of Various Types of Consciousness: Revisiting False Consciousness and Ideology

“The vehicle of science is not the proletariat, but the […] intelligentsia; modern socialism arises among individual members of this stratum and then is communicated by them to proletarians who stand out due to their intellectual development, and these then bring it into the class struggle of the proletariat where conditions allow.” (Karl Kautsky)

One of the “scandalous passages” in What Is To Be Done? dealt with the subject of consciousness or awareness from a sociological perspective. The historian Lars Lih has shown that the controversy was in the emphasis and not the passage as a whole. The proper emphasis is not in the glorification of the intelligentsia, but in those educated proletarians (such as this author at the time of writing) who bring revolutionary theory into the class struggle of the proletariat. More importantly, the class movement referred to in Kautsky’s words is by no means the class as a whole!

In my earlier work, I gave a contemporary answer to how the “vehicle of science” has changed:

[i]1) Only those workers who, under initial conditions (the relative absence of open class struggle), support radical or revolutionary change due to their education are capable of “spontaneously” leaving behind underclass or petit-bourgeois false consciousness. All others (“the proletarian masses”), according to Kautsky, “still vegetate, helpless and h
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Critique of Growing Wage Inequality: Educational Training Income Beyond Zero Tuitions

“Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.” (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels)

In June 2009, the National Union of Students in the UK called for the government to replace tuition fees with a graduate tax spread out over a number of years after graduates receive their degrees, based on progressive taxation. The Guardian called this move “a radical departure from decades of opposition to any form of payment for tuition.” A little over a year later, members of the new coalition government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, most notably the Business Secretary John Cable expressed support for this. Traditionally, student politics has been bankrupt, ranging from post-modernist activism to mere identity politics to zero-tuition agitation (calling upon individual universities or colleges to scrap tuitions, not society at large), and it is this demographic that has the lowest voter turnout.

What follows is an alternative analysis and brief policy that dispels illusions in graduate taxes being “a radical departure from decades of opposition to any form of payment for tuition” – courtesy of Paul Cockshott:

[i]Now the question is whether people who have had more education should be paid more. Now, in a capitalist economy, they get paid more
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In a area where guerrilla warfare has been waged for the past two decades now, we find ourselves within a psychological war against those that remain as the true holders of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party, the Sendero Luminoso – or better known as the Shining Path by mainstream media. Led by Chairman Gonzalo, or also known as Abimael Guzman, the “Popular War” was first waged on May 17, 1980. Although they [the Sendero Luminoso] trained themselves under Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought, they also comprised themselves under the banner of what they considered as “Gonzalo Thought”, in which detailed certain key strategies through guerrilla war & survival. Since then, the Peruvian government, military, & media have waged both counterinsurgency & psychological warfare against the Sendero’s, in the hopes of eliminating any element left of this guerrilla army. Although they’ve come close into doing so this past decade, the Sendero Luminoso remain in numbers & still, to this day, are waging class struggle against the Capitalist ruling class within Peru.

The “Popular War” is waged

The media’s use of the peasantry was always a key strategy, as well used by the Peruvian military, in order to try & demonize the Sendero Luminoso, who were known for their class support in key allies such as the peasantry. In 1982, just two years after the Sendero Luminoso waged “Popular War”, the Peruvian military started providing training & funding to the “Ronda Campesina” – counterrevolutio
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Transgenderism

A transgender person can be defined as one who identifies to various extents as members of the opposite sex or gender to which they are born. It’s unknown what percentage of the population can be defined as transgender. According to some estimates most TG people are still “in the closet.”

Since roughly the mid 1990s with the popularity of the Internet there has been a huge increase in the number of people openly identifying as TG and of TG groups. TG feelings — identification as a member of the opposite gender — can be deep seated and last a life time. Like homosexuality there is no "cure" for TGism. Hypnosis and aversion therapy have been tried but do not work. TGism can be an important part of one's personal identity.

There is the example of the African-American jazz musician Billy Tipton (1914-1989). Billy Tipton was a genetic female but lived as a male, married, and adopted children. Few people knew Tipton's secret until after his/her death. Tipton died of uterine cancer. He/she refused to go to the hospital or seek any medical treatment for fear of being "outed." This can be taken to mean that Billy Tipton's gender identity was so important that he literally sacrificed his life for it. Transgenderism can be a powerful aspect of one's identity

To define and discuss transgenderism, it’s helpful to clarify a few terms. Some of these terms might seem like common sense at first. "Sex" is what someone is born as — whether someone is a “man” or “woma
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An Anti-Religious Critique?

"I have never put this question this way to myself for a simple reason. I am convinced that the socialist idea would not have come into existence without Christianity. Christianity is the religion of charity. The politically correct word for charity is solidarity. Karl Marx saw this somewhat differently. He called religion ‘opiate for the masses’. That is what he calls it in his Theses on Feuerbach. Religion at the time of Karl Marx played a different role than it does today. Today the question arises who in society is responsible for the promotion of values. Supermarkets cannot replace cathedrals." (Oskar Lafontaine)

In May 2010, Die Welt interviewed Oskar Lafontaine, an outgoing chairman of Die Linke (The Left party in Germany). This charismatic political figure started to establish his place on the left when in 2008 he called for including the phrase, “For exploitation veiled by religious and political illusions, [the bourgeoisie] has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation” – from the Communist Manifesto – directly in the party program to succeed a much shorter programmatic summary. Later that same year, and during the inaugural congress of the Parti du Gauche (Left Party) in France, Lafontaine made an impressive speech that mentioned constant disappointment in the strategy of reformist parliamentary coalitions, saying that “this is exactly the big dilemma of these socialist parties: to fo
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“I hold that it is bad as far as we are concerned if a person, a political party, an army or a school is not attacked by the enemy, for in that case it would definitely mean that we have sunk to the level of the enemy. It is good if we are attacked by the enemy, since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves. It is still better if the enemy attacks us wildly and paints us as utterly black and without a single virtue; it demonstrates that we have not only drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves but achieved a great deal in our work.” ~Mao Zedong[*]

The current dispositional attitude of post-Cold War communist revolutions has mirrored the very thought-strategies of those that remind us eerily of what had been partaken upon, by the help of mainstream media no less, through US intelligence agencies against those that posed a threat to their “national security”. Although, as the information that’ll be provided here will show the mere corruption of foreign governments, the help of the US intelligence agencies & media has allowed the circulation of biased, one sided reporting’s in order to demonize pre-selected resistance organizations, in which bring about either 1) to disengage any support by foreign allies, &/or 2) to justify imperialist actions, politically & economically. [1]

Nepal

Currently in Nepal, the wage of revolutionary warfare has been put to an indefinite halt for the time
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