Viva Chavez from Seattle

[David Blomstrom]

Hi, I'm a long-time Seattle political activist who's running for public office - Washington State Superintendent of Public Office. I'm using my campaign partly to support Hugo Chavez and to support socialism - in the broad sense of the term. I favor a mixed economy, combining capitalism and socialism.

I'm also reaching out to potential supporters abroad because the political climate here in Washington is totally dead. Of course, residents of other nations can't contribute money to my campaign, but that doesn't mean you can't help me publice it, if only by talking about it.

I have several political websites, blogs and forums online and am also a contributing author to a Hugo Chavez blog. I'm also one of the foremost critics of Bill Gates, a corporate bully I've come to know too well - even if I've never met him in person.

About my background: I'm from South Dakota, spent four years in the Navy, then worked as a wildlife biologist in Alaska for several years before becoming a teacher with the Seattle School District. The de facto privatization of public education is one of my specialities, and booting corporations out of our schools one of my passions.

E pluribus unum,

David Blomstrom

[RedAnarchist]

Hi, welcome to Revleft:)

[David Blomstrom]

Thanks.

[Bastable]

Welcome, comrade!

[Organic Revolution]

Fuck Chavez and reformist social democrats.

[Raúl Duke]

...:confused:...

Is this a forum for those who advocate revolution or those who advocate reformism?

Really, I still wonder what's the site's policy on reformism/reformists...

Anyway...welcome...

[David Blomstrom]

"Is this a forum for those who advocate revolution or those who advocate reformism?

"Really, I still wonder what's the site's policy on reformism/reformists..."

Beats me; I'm new here. However, I would hope this site also embraces the third option - people who advocate revolution AND reform. After all, there's little point in having a revolution if you aren't going to fix anyting in the process, right?

[Die Neue Zeit]

^^^ Um, technically most Marxists - save for infantiles who reject reform and have only a maximum programme - fight for reform while agitate for revolution. ;)

http://www.revleft.com/vb/should-capitalism-tamed-t79870/index.html

[chimx]

Hello Blomstrom! I'm another Seattle resident. Do you have a website?

[David Blomstrom]

I have MANY websites. I don't want to post a link here, because I haven't learned the rules yet, but just type my name into Google. Actually, I have two series of websites - general audience and adult politics - so type in my name along with key words like "George W. Bush," "Bill Gates," "Hugo Chavez," etc.

[David Blomstrom]

Sheez, stupid me - I forgot that you can see my main political website in my signature.

[KrazyRabidSheep]

Welcome. I must say, however, that while I thought highly of Chavez at first, over the years my opinion of him has dropped.

It seems to me that Washington state has had many newer members (in addition to veterans) on this forum. Is this a sign of things to come? How is the political tide in Washington?

[Sharon den Adel]

Hello and welcome to the board.:)

[David Blomstrom]

The political tide is very, very depressing. Eastern Washington is very right-wing. How right-wing? Well, when Pat Robertson ran for president several years ago, the only state that carried him was Washington.

In the meantime, liberals like to complain about right-wing bigots while fancying themselves as defenders of education, the environment and everything else. Yet there's no better example of racism in the state than the public schools right here in liberal Seattle. And the environment is going to Hell, from Washington's forests to Puget Sound.

That's one reason I'm making such an effort to connect with Chavistas. There's virtually no poltical energy or intelligence in Washington, not to mention the U.S. as a whole. So I desperately want to tap into some of that energy the Chavistas are generating.

[Malakangga]

hello,welcome to Revleft

[dirtycommiebastard]

Hi, I'm a long-time Seattle political activist who's running for public office - Washington State Superintendent of Public Office. I'm using my campaign partly to support Hugo Chavez and to support socialism - in the broad sense of the term. I favor a mixed economy, combining capitalism and socialism.

So you are in favour of capitalism?
This is not what this board is about, but you can stick around, as you may change your mind.

Also, do you think Chavez is in favour of capitalism? I would have to say no. He is no Marxist but he does not support the oligarchy trying to quell the revolutionary movement in Venezuela.

[David Blomstrom]

So you are in favour of capitalism?
This is not what this board is about, but you can stick around, as you may change your mind.

Also, do you think Chavez is in favour of capitalism? I would have to say no. He is no Marxist but he does not support the oligarchy trying to quell the revolutionary movement in Venezuela.

Like I said, I support a MIXED ECONOMY, combining capitalism and socialism. I would not want to live in a purely socialist state, but free market capitalism can be pretty scary, too.

I'm not sure what Chavez' long range goals or ideals are, but capitalism is certainly thriving in Venezuela. He has nationalized strategic industries and channeled government funds into various social alternatives.

Sounds like a good example of a mixed economy to me.

[dirtycommiebastard]

Like I said, I support a MIXED ECONOMY, combining capitalism and socialism. I would not want to live in a purely socialist state, but free market capitalism can be pretty scary, too.

Why would you not want to live in a socialist state? This site is about anti-capitalism and supports communism.


I'm not sure what Chavez' long range goals or ideals are, but capitalism is certainly thriving in Venezuela. He has nationalized strategic industries and channeled government funds into various social alternatives. Chavez, again, has claimed to be an anti-capitalist and has nationalized many industries because workers who are trying to fight their oppression have taken over their workplaces. Venezuela still is a capitalist country, you are right, but the will of the masses is to change this, though they are wasting a lot of time through purely constitutional means unfortunately.

If you are interested in learning more, look up Hands Off Venezuela. I'd post a link to the site but my post count is too low to be able to.

[KrazyRabidSheep]

If you are interested in learning more, look up Hands Off Venezuela. I'd post a link to the site but my post count is too low to be able to.
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/

[Comrade B]

Still have no idea how the quote function works, so I will do it old school
"The political tide is very, very depressing. Eastern Washington is very right-wing. How right-wing? Well, when Pat Robertson ran for president several years ago, the only state that carried him was Washington."
I am from Walla Walla, its pretty bad out here man. Best of luck to you.

[KrazyRabidSheep]

Still have no idea how the quote function works, so I will do it old school

Two ways. . .under each post there is a "quote" button. Click this and a new screen should pop up with the other post surrounded by the quote bracket thingies. If you want to only quote part, then delete the parts you don't wanna

The other, copy what you wanna quote, then in a new post put:
(quote) paste what you copied here (/quote)

except use brackets [ ] instead of parenthesis it should look like this:

paste what you copied here

[Raúl Duke]

Like I said, I support a MIXED ECONOMY, combining capitalism and socialism. I would not want to live in a purely socialist state...

Not all of us support a socialist state and those who do do so as a "temporary measure", or so are the claims...

However, the large majority of us in this board do support communism (as in the state of society) which is class-less and state-less as an end-goal.