Sunday, 11 August 2019

Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 74


The capitalists often boast that their constitutions guarantee the rights of the individual, democratic liberties and the interests of all citizens. But in reality, only the bourgeoisie enjoy the rights recorded in these constitutions. The working people do not really enjoy democratic freedoms; they are exploited all their life and have to bear heavy burdens in the service of the exploiting class.

We want to build a new society, a free society where all men are equal, a society where industry, thrift, integrity and uprightness prevail hence we must wipe out all bad habits of the old society.

To make the revolution to transform the old society into a new one is a very glorious, but also extremely heavy task, a complex, protracted and hard struggle. Only a strong man can travel a long distance with a heavy load on his back. A revolutionary must have solid foundation of revolutionary morality in order to fulfil his glorious revolutionary task.

Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom... Independence without freedom is worse than no independence.

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"When I talk about 'nationalism,' like many other Quebecois I am not dreaming either of throwing up the barriers that formerly kept Quebec comfortable in her folklore, or of concealing under a national mask the problems relating to social classes and economic inequalities. I yield quite simply to one of the rare pieces of solid proof coming out of the Quiet Revolution. Abandoning decayed structure, our people have no choice but to call on their unique resources and pour them into an idea for development that is something else than the deceptive business of catching up with the others.

This same reason has led me to the ideal of political independence for Quebec. [...] What the new consciousness of the 1960s led us to challenge radically was not the idea of federation, which is in fact one of the great ideals of this century, but the caricature of it represented by the Canadian Confederation. Always, and more than ever during the past decade, we have had the conviction that we are a distinct people, and it is as a free people that we desire from now on to conclude our alliances, or, if you prefer the word, our federations. [...] The necessary unity of the peoples of the of the world will never come through such imbroglio and it will never come through an abstract levelling of our differences.

Our socialism desires the same type of substructure. The state, referring only to the liberal ideal, may certainly consider citizens as atoms moving in a society that is nothing more than a mechanical game. By contrast, attention to genuine inequalities, to the poor, the workers and the underprivileged has always been the quality of socialism, however diverse may have been the ideologies it held. Moreover, it has perennially refused to treat the less fortunate as if any individual destinies had placed them in their position of inferiority: socialism has never misunderstood the weight of social structures and milieux or the existence of classes and powers. How could socialists, without contradicting themselves, disregard the variety of cultures?"

- Fernand Dumont, 'The Vigil of Quebec'

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The weakening of a people or a civilisation results from endogenous causes, and tends to cause it to lose its identity and its creativity.

The causes of decadence are nearly the same everywhere in history: individualism and excessive hedonism, the loosening of mores, social selfishness, devirilisation, contempt for heroic values, the intellectualisation of the elites, the decline of popular education, turning away from or abandoning spirituality and the sacred.

Other causes are common: modification of the ethnic substrate, degeneration of natural aristocracies, loss of historical memory, forgetfulness of founding values. Decadence occurs when the desire to maintain the community of the people in history fades, when the communitarian links of solidarity and lineage weaken. To summarise, we can say that decadence sees apparently contradictory symptoms combine: the excessive intellectualisation of the elites, increasingly cut off from reality, and the primitivisation of the people. Panem et circenses…

Today Europe experiences such a situation. Most of the time, decadence is hardly perceived as such and denied by its contemporaries. Those who denounce it are likened to prophets of misfortune. Epochs of decadence often adorn themselves with the mask of rebirth. These attitudes are behaviours to conjure reality, conceal symptoms in order to reassure.

No decadence must be considered irreversible. We must cultivate the tragic optimism of Nietzsche. “Paris - Marseille in a quarter hour, that's great! So your sons and daughters can die, the big problem to solve will always be transporting your meat at lightning speed. So what are you fleeing, imbeciles? Alas, you are fleeing yourselves.”

- Georges Bernanos, La France contre les robots, 1947

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We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system! And with my inclination to practical action it seems obvious to me that we have to put a better, more just, more moral system in its place, one which, as it were, has arms and legs and better arms and legs than the present one!

- Gregor Strasser

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" Pagani are very simply the " people of the place ", the locals-of the city or the province -, those who saved the local customs. On the contrary, the alien, "people who come from elsewhere", are becoming more and more Christians. This explanation corresponds to the etymology of the word, to which the Christian writers used it in its new meaning. It also responds to the preference of the national of the late antiquity for everything that belonged to the homeland, the heritage of their ancestors. It defines paganism as the religion of the homeland, in the closest sense of the city and its province. It also provides for the variety of pagan practices and beliefs."

-  Pierre Chuvin (1943-2016), French Greek
[ApĆ³ to "Chronicle of the last pagans" (1990)]

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As long as you are still fighting in defence of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.

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Professionals are using the myth that people are born transgender to justify engaging in massive, uncontrolled, and unconsented experimentation on children who have a psychological condition that would otherwise resolve after puberty in the vast majority of cases.

…These harms constitute nothing less than institutionalised child abuse. Sound ethics demand an immediate end to the use of pubertal suppression, cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment surgeries in children and adolescents, as well as an end to promoting gender ideology via school curricula and legislative policies.

It is time for our nation’s leaders and the silent majority of health professionals to learn exactly what is happening to our children, and unite to take action.

Dr. Michelle Cretella

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