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Say Goodbye to: Amiri Baraka, a big surprise since I had just seen him a little before X-mas. Amiri Baraka, 79, American poet, writer and activist, Poet Laureate of New Jersey (2002–2003).
Wise I
WHYS (Nobody Knows
The Trouble I Seen)
Traditional
If you ever find
yourself, some where
lost and surrounded
by enemies
who won't let you
speak in your own language
who destroy your statues
& instruments, who ban
your omm bomm ba boom
then you are in trouble
deep trouble
they ban your
own boom ba boom
you in deep deep
trouble
humph!
probably take you several hundred years
to get
out!
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Say Goodbye to: Tabby Thomas, the long-time Baton Rouge swamp-style blues man. Tabby Thomas, 84, American blues musician.
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Reading Proudhon
I've been caught by one of my detractors reading Proudhon. "I thought you were a Marxist," he quipped, "Proudhon and Marx didn't see eye to eye...." I shut him up with a cold glare. "So, does that mean I can't read Proudhon and remain a promoter of Marx?" Proudhon also liked to discredit Kant, Hegel, and my patron saint of Sociology, August Comte. I mean, Proudhon was a man with the fortitude to say that "property is evil." And since property is evil, then so, too, are proprietors. That grabbed my attention. Proudhon was also relating Liberty to anarchy and as a true libertarian, he believed in anarchy as the solution to government or monarchial rule.
Proudhon as a young man said, "I spit on the gods and on men, and I believe only in study and friendships." I can go whole hog agreeable with that statement. I, too, believe only in study and friendships, both of which I have in abundance.
Dig this from Proudhon: "If I were asked to answer the following question, 'What is slavery?' and I should answer in one word, 'Murder,' my answer would be understood at once. No further argument would be required to show that the power to take from a man his thought, his will, his personality, is a power of life and death, and that to enslave a man is to kill him. Why, then, to this other question: 'What is property?' may I not answer, 'Theft'?"
But enough on Proudhon and his philosophy. Reading what he thought about property and proprietors (he believed the workers should control their production...doesn't that sound like Marx?), I got to thinking about how openly and proudly crooked (thieves) and murderous (just since Obama's been in power we've killed thousands upon thousands of human beings with our omnipresent military and covert agencies) our government is. I got so pissed when I heard that Nancy Pelosi's husband, a rather shady dude, has landed himself a whole passel of post offices to sell off...it'll add more millions to his already overflowing coffers. And then I was further pissed off when I read an open letter to the makers of "The Wolf of Wall Street" from Christina McDowell, who was once Christina Prousalis, the daughter of Tom Prousalis, Jordan Belfort's partner in much crime and sleaziness, including stealing his daughter's identity and putting her and her mother into deep debt and embarrassment.
Jordan Belfort is the Wolf of Wall Street and what a genuine sleaze bag he was and still is. Of course, Hollywood, a pack of sleaze bags themselves, love movies about Wall Street criminals, and that's what these assholes are, folks, common criminals. Belfort's now coming "clean" with revealing Wall Street shenanigans and its devious crimes that have ruined the lives of millions upon millions of people all around the world. Of course, this little sniveling bastard is making a killing off this movie and his tell-all book. In the meantime Christina's worthless bastard of a father after serving time in the big house is now living well in Albania where he's remarried a young Albania babe and is working for the weird Albanian Commie government (Proudhon, by the way, was against communism because he said it took away individuality). Here you go, read Christina's revealing article: blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/12/wolf_of_wall_street_prousalis.php
Jordan Belfort in the movie is played by another prick, Leonardo deCaprio, who to me is an F-ing phony...well, hell, he's an actor, so he ain't real is he?
I've heard Jordan Belfort speak and he's a sorry son of a bitch, a 100% sleaze bag.
And then what does Obama do, why that SoB hires another corporate crony to be Under Secretary of Education, this little privatizing prick is Ted Mitchell, a dude who made $735,000-a-year working for an educational non-profit that worked in cahoots with Pearson the largest promoter of turning our public education system over to the corporate privatizers. Hey, think about it. Who can afford to send their kids to private schools now? Rich White folks. So who's left to go to public schools? You can surely answer that without any clue from me.
And how 'bout old Hillbilly Hillary defending Wall Street in a speech to Wall Street crooks who were paying her $400,000. She's kissing Wall Street ass getting ready to need a bundle of their tainted money when she runs for the presidency in 2016 and some gods help us if she gets elected.
Are you aware of what her sorry-ass hick husband did when he was president? NAFTA, herding the Haitians up and imprisoning them at Guantanamo before sending them back to Haiti, putting a naval blockade around Haiti so no more of them could escape that horrible place thanks to US corporate raping of this once beautiful island paradise, deregulated the banks and financial firms and insurance companies, diddled a young girl in the Oval Office then lied about it when the Republicans tried to impeach him.
And how disappointed was I in reading today that our new "progressive" mayor is going to be sworn into office by SLICK WILLIE CLINTON. What is so special about this low-life buzzard? DeBlasio a progressive...in a pig's eye he's a progressive. He'll continue on in old Mikey Bloomberg's corporatized footsteps rezoning the city and allowing hi-rise development to go berserk while he lines his own pockets with the filthy lucre he'll reap from the developers and Wall Street.
In the meantime, the idiot people of Okinawa have agreed to allow our military to continue using their paradisiacal island to house 36 bases and 12,000 US troops. I ask you, why the hell do we need military bases on Okinawa?
Oh, and by the way, the Pentagon says it has misplaced several trillion dollars of our money.
Quoting Proudhon:
“What they always want is inequality of wealth, delegation of sovereignty and government by influential people . . . democracy says that the people reign and do not govern, which is to deny the Revolution.”
“it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.”
thegrowlingwolf
for The Daily Growler
3 comments:
Nice to see my man Proudhon getting some attention. He's one of the writers who convinced me to become an anarchist.
"for the weird Albanian Commie government"?are you a brain dead
Our apologies to the Albanian people who are no longer Communists...though that transition has only taken place since the 90s and the Hoxha regime. And yes we agree with Mr. Dollani, thegrowlingwolf is brain dead and has been for many years now...however, apologies given, why would the Republic of Albania hire a U.S. financial bandit? Since throwing out Communism have they now become Capitalist fools?
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