PROGRESSIVE'S AGENDA SIMILAR TO COMMUNISM

[Whatshername]

Dem's new agenda hauntingly similar to communism

 

By Aaron Klein

 

 

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

 

Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a 13-point national “Progressive Agenda” that is being touted as the liberal “Contract with America.”

 

 

The aim is for the “Progressive Agenda” to become the basis for the Democratic Party’s main economic policies, including those of its 2016 presidential candidate.

 

De Blasio has compared his plan to the “Contract with America,” a document released by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election and drawn up by future House Speaker Newt Gingrich to serve as the GOP policy agenda.

 

Now WND documents that most of the 13 points in de Blasio’s “Progressive Agenda” can also be found in the manifestos and literature of the Communist Party USA and the Socialist Party USA.

 

The full progressive plan, entitled, “The Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality,” can be found on the agenda’s new website.

 

 

Here is a comparison of the Agenda’s plan with literature from the manifestos and writings of the Community Party USA, or CPUSA, and the Socialist Party USA, or SPUSA.

 

• Progressive Agenda: “Raise the federal minimum wage, so that it reaches $15/hour, while indexing it to inflation.”

SPUSA: “We call for a minimum wage of $15 per hour, indexed to the cost of living.”

CPUSA: Calls for “struggles for peace, equality for the racially and nationally oppressed, equality for women job creation programs, increased minimum wage. … Even with ultra-right control of the Federal government, peoples legislative victories, such as increasing the minimum wage, can be won on an issue-by-issue basis locally, statewide, and even nationally.”

 

• Progressive Agenda: “Reform the National Labor Relations Act, to enhance workers’ right to organize and rebuild the middle class.”

SPUSA: “The Socialist Party stands for the right of all workers to organize, for worker control of industry through the democratic organization of the workplace.”

CPUSA: “One of the most crucial ways of increasing the strength and unity of the working class as a whole is organizing the unorganized. Working-class unity depends on uniting all the diverse sectors of the multiracial, multinational working class in the U.S. … Speeding up the organization of unorganized workers is one of the most important challenges to labor and all progressive forces.”

 

• Progressive Agenda: “Pass comprehensive immigration reform to grow the economy and protect against exploitation of low-wage workers.”

SPUSA: “We defend the rights of all immigrants to education, health care, and full civil and legal rights and call for an unconditional amnesty program for all undocumented people. We oppose the imposition of any fees on those receiving amnesty. We call for full citizenship rights upon demonstrating residency for six months.”

CPUSA: Declares the “struggle for immigrant rights is a key component of the struggle for working class unity in our country today.”

 

• Progressive Agenda: Pass national paid sick leave. Pass national paid family leave.

CPUSA: In October 2014, hails that “women are fighting back to defend their jobs and their families against candidates who want to destroy women’s reproductive rights, health care, family leave and paid sick days. Women’s voices and votes can make the difference in this election in the U.S. Senate and House, for Governors and State Legislatures, and in the movement going forward for full equality.”

 

• Progressive Agenda: “Make Pre-K, after-school programs and childcare universal.”

SPUSA: “We support public child care starting from infancy, and public education starting at age three, with caregivers and teachers of young children receiving training, wages, and benefits comparable to that of teachers at every other level of the educational system.”

 

• Progressive Agenda: “Earned Income Tax Credit.” “Implement the ‘Buffett Rule’ so millionaires pay their fair share.”

SPUSA: “We call for a steeply graduated income tax and a steeply graduated estate tax. …”

CPUSA: “No taxes for workers and low and middle income people; progressive taxation of the wealthy and private corporations. …”

 

Dems hail ‘beginning of revolution’

 

De Blasio criticized Obama as “too conservative” to assert a progressive economic vision and “too afraid to take the bold kind of action that President Roosevelt took” during the Great Depression, reported the liberal news network.

 

Speaking at the “Progressive Agenda” launch event outside the Capitol building last Tuesday, de Blasio said “something is changing in America.”

 

“It’s time to take that energy and crystallize it into an agenda that will make a difference,” he said. “We’ll be calling on leaders and candidates to address these issues, to stiffen their backbones, to be clear and to champion these progressive policies.”

 

The Hill quoted Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., saying de Blasio’s plan “could be the beginning of a revolution.”

 

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., commented the mayor’s plan represents “the meat on the bones of a progressive agenda.”

Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., said, “The cavalry has arrived.”

 

The Hill reported that at the event, some Democrats pushed back against rumors de Blasio was attempting to use the plan to nudge presidential candidate Hillarious Clinton further to the left.

 

“There’s gossip in Washington that this is about trying to move a certain candidate in a certain direction,” said former Democratic Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. “If you look at that candidate’s record, you’ll find that she’s embraced a lot of this already.”

 

Last week’s de Blasio event was reportedly attended not only by politicians but also by union leaders and MSNBC host Al Sharpton.

 

The Atlantic reported the coalition supporting de Blasio’s plan includes Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party. Cantor also was a founder of the socialist-oriented New Party.

 

De Blasio once served as executive director of the New York branch of the New Party.

 

WND previously exposed that President Obama himself was listed in New Party literature as a member.

 

Soros economist behind Dem’s new ‘Contract with America’

 

As WND reported last week, a plan drawn up by a George Soros-funded professor seeking to “rewrite” the rules of the U.S. economy forms the foundation of de Blasio’s new progressive agenda.

 

De Blasio’s “Progressive Agenda” was informed by a 112-page policy report at the liberal Roosevelt Institute titled “Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy,” reported MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald.

 

That 112-page plan was crafted by Nobel prize-winning Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz, who previously conducted teach-ins at Occupy Wall Street.

 

Indeed, prior to last Tuesday’s launch of the “Progressive Agenda,” de Blasio attended an economic forum at the Roosevelt Institute co-hosted by Stiglitz, where he heaped praised on the economist’s “rewriting” plan.

 

Besides accepting funding from Soros, Stiglitz has engaged in numerous projects with the controversial billionaire and sits on the boards of Soros’ organizations, including one openly seeking to remake the world’s economy.

 

Stiglitz is a leading proponent of more government regulation of the economy.

 

He previously chaired the Commission on Global Financial Issues of Socialists International, the world’s largest socialist organization.

 

Stiglitz, the brains behind de Blasio’s new plan, has been an economic adviser to Obama, but he also criticized the president’s bank-rescue plan. Stiglitz said whoever designed that plan is “either in the pocket of the banks or they’re incompetent.”

 

Stiglitz won his Nobel for research on what became the theory of information asymmetry, which argues for more government intervention in failing economies than the traditional “market failure” school had previously advocated.

He has stated that “the real debate today is about finding the right balance between the market and government.”

“Both are needed. They can each complement each other. This balance will differ from time to time and place to place,” he has said.

 

Gavin Wright, chairman of Stanford’s economics department, summarized Stiglitz’s work.

 

“Broadly speaking, Joe’s theoretical work has had to do with the shortcomings and imperfections of market economy, not from the standpoint of a thorough-going rejection of the market economy but from the perspective that holds out hope for improvement through government regulation or use of the tax system,” Wright said.

 

Government, business as ‘partners’

 

Stiglitz was a member of President Bill Clinton’s administration, serving both in Clinton’s cabinet and as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

 

Stiglitz’s most important contribution during his time in the Clinton administration was helping to define a new economic philosophy called a “third way,” which called for business and government to join hands as “partners,” while recognizing government intervention could not always correct the limitations of markets.

 

“Third Way” is an ideology first promoted as an alternative to free markets by Mikhail Gorbachev after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The “Third Way” of governing would be neither capitalist nor communist, but something in between.

 

In his 1998 “State of the Union” address, President Clinton outlined the “Third Way”: “We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say government is the answer. My fellow Americans, we have found a Third Way.”

 

The “Third Way” calls for business and government to join hands as “partners.”

 

Discover the Networks criticized the theory: “In short, Big Business would own the economy (as under capitalism), while Big Government would run it (as under socialism). Corporations would be persuaded to comply with government directives through subsidies, tax breaks, customized legislation, and other special privileges.”

 

Soros himself has been a vocal proponent of the “Third Way” economic policy.

 

Stiglitz, meanwhile, also became involved in “global warming” issues, including serving on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, helping to draft a new law for toxic wastes and serving on the boards of numerous environmental groups, such as the Alliance for Climate Protection.

 

There's more... read it here: http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/dems-new-agenda-hauntingly-similar-to-communism/#zLZpRC1Y6JFbdba9.99

 

[Shabibilicious]

This is America.....and if I ever have toxic waste lying around, nobody is going to tell me where I can dump it, PERIOD.    

 

GO RV, then BV

[new york kevin]

Soros!!!! And the Dems complain about the Koch Brothers. Idiots.

[Maggie123]

Thanks WHN,,,not that your article doesn't have merit...it does.

 

I find it curious that few here see or mention the other side of the coin...

 

Anyone notice any of these characteristics in our current government and society?

 

Anyone notice how many of these policies are being pushed harder than ever in the upcoming elections?

 

Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism

By Dr. Lawrence Britt

Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

 

http://rense.com/general37/char.htm

[RV ME]

Communism, socialism, call it what you want but it sure isn’t Americanism.  To paraphrase Shakespeare, a turd by any other name still smells like s h i t.  The only thing that surprises me is that they would be so out in the open.  Kind of proves the person who once told me on this site that….

 

 

Could not have been more wrong.

[markb57]

the dem revolution will hopefully spark an american civil war!

[dog53]

Progressiveness 

communism

socialism

Marxist

Leninism

 

 

 

 

Same thing

All

Same thing 

[Whatshername]

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[dog53]

Hey Dog...  you forgot this joker!

 

 

 

Ok I raise you one dip $hit

 

[Whatshername]

I'll see your dip **** and raise you a commie a-hole! 

 

[dog53]

I CALL

 

 

[Shabibilicious]

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GO RV, then BV

[Whatshername]

I CALL

Nicely played!!!

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If you two will accept Canadian chips.......I'm all in.    

 

 

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[Nelg]

Some hide their "aces" in other places.

[Bandit795]

Statists, criticizing other statists... The pot calling the kettle black.

 

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[RV ME]

I have 3 of a kind.

 

[dog53]

I have 3 of a kind.

 

 

 

Winner Winner  Chicken dinner 

[Bandit795]

[Whatshername]

Thanks WHN,,,not that your article doesn't have merit...it does.

 

I find it curious that few here see or mention the other side of the coin...

 

Anyone notice any of these characteristics in our current government and society?

 

Anyone notice how many of these policies are being pushed harder than ever in the upcoming elections?

 

Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of FascismBy Dr. Lawrence BrittDr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

 

http://rense.com/general37/char.htm

Hmmm... I think not! But thanks for playing!

http://therightstuff.biz/2014/01/22/fascism-no-one-a-response-to-dr-laurence-britt/

[RV ME]

Winner Winner  Chicken dinner 

 

 

Three of a kind wasn't good enough dog, so I drew two and came up with 4 Ace(hole)s