vorwarts
29th March 2013, 02:05
;) - Sorry, my friend's son told me to post the blue one.:grin:
But here's a shameless promotion!
LIVE FRIDAY, MARCH 30th @ 6PM Eastern / 5PM Central
Listen Online or Listen / Call In at (917) 889-3650
Lenin and company had the printing press and Iskra. We've got the Internet and Anti-Capitalist Radio.
ACR will go live this Friday, March 29th at 6PM (EST) as a weekly platform for today's news – including what the mainstream capitalist media won't talk about at all – to be aired from a working class, people's viewpoint. Initially a half hour program, we anticipate expanding to an hour-long format by May Day. If this sounds like a worthwhile way to get your weekend going, listen live or download a podcast the day after our debut broadcast! And what if you're interested in a more hands-on approach, and want to take a "seat at the table"? Anti-Capitalist Radio is managed entirely through volunteer effort, with each having an equal voice. You certainly don't have to be a member of the Socialist People's Party to feel welcome on, and ownership of, Anti-Capitalist Radio.
The SPP is taking this initiative because, in spite of the capitalist class's domination of the major media which limits the “national discussion” to watered-down options acceptable to the 1% (which are then packaged as realism), we affirm that the only realistic desires of the people are those of freedom, security in life and welfare, and peace. Doesn't it stand to reason, then, that to discuss politics from any other angle than how to attain freedom, security and peace is unreasonable?
We think so.
There are three main goals we hope to achieve through ACR:
Listen, , speak, resist: A working people's partisan media has to take sides; it has to openly declare itself for the exploited and oppressed of all countries in much the same way that Rupert Murdoch's media empire declares itself so openly for the elite, the warmongers and the exploiters.
Build the post-Occupy socialist movement we need: Websites like The North Star and People's Tempest in the United States have put to the forefront a radical debate within the scope of radical politics itself. When a writer for The North Star sparks a fierce - but necessary and productive - debate on, say, what [Russian revolutionary leader] Lenin's relevance is to revolutionaries today, we want to be an additional outlet of the conversation. Where People's Tempest has published an appeal to the U.S. communist movement urging the Marxist Left to organize a unified and mass-character media network, we are saying now: We concur and are ready to join you!
Take concrete steps toward a U.S. Anti-Capitalist Party: unity across the socialist Left and forging our bonds with the class are interlinked tasks. The center must derive its strength through trust and verification, not through command and control. That is, more like a collection of city states than it is a nation. Organizations and individuals from working class and popular movements - though not just trade unions - would form the base of such a party. An American Anti-Capitalist Party, whether it looks more like SYRIZA, Antarsya or something else entirely, would be a great step forward for the majority. At the same time, an organization capable of sinking deep roots in the class and popular movements - without betraying them afterwards - needs to be a thoroughly revolutionary and "centralized", in other words democratic and coordinated, party as well.
Socialists must learn from the world of workers rather than make the world of workers fit theory. The written word, as a newspaper expresses this world is a fairly formal and rigid taxonomic assessment of human life and human history. The written word has its' significant place in formulating and applying knowledge about and to the materialistic world. But, there are significant discovery and dialectic portions of human experience that must be or should be accessed orally and aurally-- being spoken to and speaking to.
The human voice has been the method of learning and reflecting since the dawn of people. The voice speaks in varied vernaculars, even when sharing the same written expression. For example Chinese script is pretty much recognized throughout the Chinese world, yet many Chinese have difficulty understanding different spoken Chinese dialects or vernaculars. In America, dialects by different ethnic or racial groups are best heard and spoken, because that expresses more of the internal monologue of persons. Speech has tonal cues of emotion, emphasis and meaning that writing can approach, but never fully capture.
The spoken word is most readily and reliably absorbed in the thought process that elicits visual imagery for the mind's eye. People who are experts of a given text, especially a work of literature, even as experts, learn something new for the first time after having a text read to them. Radio can go a step more by eliciting live live interaction from the listener who either reponds to the programming by calling in, or by personal, interior flow of consciousness. And, listening to aural dialogue, with minimal or no scripting, portrays finer knowledge detail that might otherwise be missed.
Anti-Capitalist Radio will become a living breathing interaction of socialism with people and people with socialism as only the spoken word, especially, the live spoken word can deliver, and receive. Give and take. Teaching and learning by teaching one another. From each what one is able to teach and to each what one needs to learn.
Twisting a Chinese Communist proverb, to be a fish one must live in water, as that water are the workers that socialist theory and practice must regenerate and evolve from. We hope we can help breathe life into the socialist left. That is because the revolutionary people's movement is our hope.
Anti-Capitalist Radio welcomes contributions from social movement activists and the anti-capitalist Left. We don't view the show as our own property or as part of our organization's unique "branding" image - it should belong, and will belong, to the people, specifically to all groups and individuals who, to paraphrase Marx, know that the point of understanding how the world works is to change it.
But here's a shameless promotion!
LIVE FRIDAY, MARCH 30th @ 6PM Eastern / 5PM Central
Listen Online or Listen / Call In at (917) 889-3650
Lenin and company had the printing press and Iskra. We've got the Internet and Anti-Capitalist Radio.
ACR will go live this Friday, March 29th at 6PM (EST) as a weekly platform for today's news – including what the mainstream capitalist media won't talk about at all – to be aired from a working class, people's viewpoint. Initially a half hour program, we anticipate expanding to an hour-long format by May Day. If this sounds like a worthwhile way to get your weekend going, listen live or download a podcast the day after our debut broadcast! And what if you're interested in a more hands-on approach, and want to take a "seat at the table"? Anti-Capitalist Radio is managed entirely through volunteer effort, with each having an equal voice. You certainly don't have to be a member of the Socialist People's Party to feel welcome on, and ownership of, Anti-Capitalist Radio.
The SPP is taking this initiative because, in spite of the capitalist class's domination of the major media which limits the “national discussion” to watered-down options acceptable to the 1% (which are then packaged as realism), we affirm that the only realistic desires of the people are those of freedom, security in life and welfare, and peace. Doesn't it stand to reason, then, that to discuss politics from any other angle than how to attain freedom, security and peace is unreasonable?
We think so.
There are three main goals we hope to achieve through ACR:
Listen, , speak, resist: A working people's partisan media has to take sides; it has to openly declare itself for the exploited and oppressed of all countries in much the same way that Rupert Murdoch's media empire declares itself so openly for the elite, the warmongers and the exploiters.
Build the post-Occupy socialist movement we need: Websites like The North Star and People's Tempest in the United States have put to the forefront a radical debate within the scope of radical politics itself. When a writer for The North Star sparks a fierce - but necessary and productive - debate on, say, what [Russian revolutionary leader] Lenin's relevance is to revolutionaries today, we want to be an additional outlet of the conversation. Where People's Tempest has published an appeal to the U.S. communist movement urging the Marxist Left to organize a unified and mass-character media network, we are saying now: We concur and are ready to join you!
Take concrete steps toward a U.S. Anti-Capitalist Party: unity across the socialist Left and forging our bonds with the class are interlinked tasks. The center must derive its strength through trust and verification, not through command and control. That is, more like a collection of city states than it is a nation. Organizations and individuals from working class and popular movements - though not just trade unions - would form the base of such a party. An American Anti-Capitalist Party, whether it looks more like SYRIZA, Antarsya or something else entirely, would be a great step forward for the majority. At the same time, an organization capable of sinking deep roots in the class and popular movements - without betraying them afterwards - needs to be a thoroughly revolutionary and "centralized", in other words democratic and coordinated, party as well.
Socialists must learn from the world of workers rather than make the world of workers fit theory. The written word, as a newspaper expresses this world is a fairly formal and rigid taxonomic assessment of human life and human history. The written word has its' significant place in formulating and applying knowledge about and to the materialistic world. But, there are significant discovery and dialectic portions of human experience that must be or should be accessed orally and aurally-- being spoken to and speaking to.
The human voice has been the method of learning and reflecting since the dawn of people. The voice speaks in varied vernaculars, even when sharing the same written expression. For example Chinese script is pretty much recognized throughout the Chinese world, yet many Chinese have difficulty understanding different spoken Chinese dialects or vernaculars. In America, dialects by different ethnic or racial groups are best heard and spoken, because that expresses more of the internal monologue of persons. Speech has tonal cues of emotion, emphasis and meaning that writing can approach, but never fully capture.
The spoken word is most readily and reliably absorbed in the thought process that elicits visual imagery for the mind's eye. People who are experts of a given text, especially a work of literature, even as experts, learn something new for the first time after having a text read to them. Radio can go a step more by eliciting live live interaction from the listener who either reponds to the programming by calling in, or by personal, interior flow of consciousness. And, listening to aural dialogue, with minimal or no scripting, portrays finer knowledge detail that might otherwise be missed.
Anti-Capitalist Radio will become a living breathing interaction of socialism with people and people with socialism as only the spoken word, especially, the live spoken word can deliver, and receive. Give and take. Teaching and learning by teaching one another. From each what one is able to teach and to each what one needs to learn.
Twisting a Chinese Communist proverb, to be a fish one must live in water, as that water are the workers that socialist theory and practice must regenerate and evolve from. We hope we can help breathe life into the socialist left. That is because the revolutionary people's movement is our hope.
Anti-Capitalist Radio welcomes contributions from social movement activists and the anti-capitalist Left. We don't view the show as our own property or as part of our organization's unique "branding" image - it should belong, and will belong, to the people, specifically to all groups and individuals who, to paraphrase Marx, know that the point of understanding how the world works is to change it.