"You want to know what my policies are, look to the people I surround myself with...."
Barack Obama Nov. 2008
Name: Van Jones
Position: Former Green Jobs CZAR
Bio: A Self Avowed Communist, Black Nationalist, and radical revolutionary, Jones was appointed to the position of Green Jobs CZAR by the president on March 16th of 2009.
Early in his career, Jones was a self described revolutionary, he co-founded the organization S.T.O.R.M. (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) a group that was explicitly dedicated to revolutionary Marxist politics. He is also the co-founder of Colorofchange.org, an organization dedicated to strengthening Black America's political voice.
Jones has also been criticized for his support of convicted cop killer and avowed communist, Mumaia Abu-Jamal, his efforts to free Abu-Jamal led to his forming the Bay area Police Watch, a group that sought out to expose police injustices. In addition to his relationships with fringe groups, Jones is also the author of Green Dollar Economy, a proposed solution to our economic and environmental problems. Interestingly enough, the solution requires a COMPLETE RE-STRUCTURING OF AMERICA.
Quotes: concerning the Rodney King verdicts in 1992 "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, then the verdicts came down on April 29th, by August I was a Communist!"
"I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, Communist and Anarchist, and it was like, this is what I need to be a part of..."
"Republicans are ###holes"
Jones referred to a Memphis prison as "a huge slave ship on dry ground..."
"You don't have to call somebody the N-Word if you can call them a felon.."
"This movement is deeper than a solar panel, it's deeper than a solar panel. Don't stop there. Don't stop there. No where gonna change the whole system, were gonna change the whole thing." Excerpt from a speech given in April of 2009
"In this stage of the struggle, and I'll only speak to this stage of the struggle, I am the best (inaudible) the capitalist every had......" April of 2009
"You have never seen a black kid commit a Columbine..."
"the white polluters and the white environmentalist are steering poison into the black neighborhoods...."
Views: Jones is clearly a Marxist inspired politician. Despite claims that he is now a capitalist, he has never denounced his Marxist philosophy. His connections to black nationalist, the Black Panthers and his support for communist cop killer Mumai Abu-Jamal shows that he has been exposed to very radical ideology. His belief that the 9/11 massacre was coordinated and or allowed to happen by the Bush Administration is also another indicator of how far out of touch he is with reality.
Lunatic Fringe Rating: 7
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Recessions result because the working class is unable to buy the full product of their labors and the ruling capitalists do not consume all of the surplus value. A proletariat or socialist revolution must occur, according to Marx, where the state (the means by which the ruling class forcibly maintains rule over the other classes) is a dictatorship of the proletariat. Communism evolves from socialism out of this progression: the socialist slogan is “From each according to his ability, to each according to his work.” The communist slogan varies thusly: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
ReplyDeleteVery interesting, no?