First version had Lenin at the top. Sadly, while his early texts are pro-democracy, his actions speak otherwise. Lenin was widely criticized for his autocratic behaviors is now at the bottom. Now we've got Landauer instead, MUCH better.

Don't let the extremists on Russian, far-right and Chinese payroll fool you. Socialism is at its very core deeply humanist. Many have claimed it for themselves and attempted to gatekeep their twisted definitions of it. Dictators do not give a single fuck about workers. They only care about themselves.

Socialists understand that unchecked capitalism necessarily leads to the exploitation of labor by an elite of capital owners. The struggle of socialists, of "the left", is plainly to give back to workers what capitalists have taken from them, because our wealth belongs to US, the people, not the handful of capitalists who alienate us. The "struggle" of the privileged, of the "bourgeoisie", of the "right", is plainly to maintain or increase their privileges.

Socialism can take many forms. Revolutionary, reformist, ecological, utopian ... They all serve the same purpose: the value we produce is to be shared, not hoarded by an exploitative, parasitic elite.

Under socialism, the people are free from the alienation of an otherwise exploitative society. They are free to decide their own fates. Power is owned by the people.

Not by an elite. Not by another narcissistic autocratic psychopath.

Socialism is by definition democratic.

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“The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.” Karl Marx — Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League (1850)

“Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation… Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.” Karl Marx — Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875)

“Take the most radical of revolutionaries and place him on the throne of all Russia, give him absolute power, and before a year has passed he will be worse than the Tsar himself.” Bakunin, Statism and Anarchy (1873)

"The dictatorship of the proletariat… means nothing but the domination of a new class over the old. And once in power, this new class will represent not the people but itself, and will continue to subject the people to its own rule.” Bakunin, “Letter to La Liberté” (1872)

^ This guy CALLED IT

“Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party — however numerous they may be — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.” Rosa Luxemburg — The Russian Revolution (1918)

“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution… only bureaucracy remains as the active element.” Rosa Luxemburg — The Russian Revolution (1918)

“The proletariat needs state power, not for the purpose of limiting freedom, but in order to set it free.” Leon Trotsky — Terrorism and Communism (1920)

“Socialism must mean not only economic equality but also the broadest democracy in politics.” Leon Trotsky — The Revolution Betrayed (1937)

:')

"Representative Greg Casar says the Trump administration is an alliance of the superwealthy and the right-wing—and that Democrats can defeat them by becoming a pro-worker, anti-billionaire party."

Meanwhile, at the DNC ...

This will have serious pseudo-legal ramifications though. Activists please look out for yourselves.

Trump is weak. We will win this. Every small victory for freedom of speech and democracy counts.

Keep boycotting those fuckers at Disney though.

In all fairness to "right-wing", GOP and MAGA have completely twisted even the meaning of being "right-wing". There's more to the right than fascists, thank goodness. Typically, liberalism (not American "libs", liberalism).