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This is an official web blog featuring some of the articles from Progressive Labor Party’s CHALLENGE NEWSPAPER.
Progressive Labor Party (PLP) fights to smash capitalism — wage slavery. While the bosses and their mouthpieces claim “communism is dead” capitalism is the real failure for billions all over the world. Capitalism returned to the Soviet Union and China because socialism failed to wipe out many aspects of the profit system, like wages and division of labor.
Capitalism inevitably leads to wars. PLP organizes workers, students and soldiers to turn these wars into a revolution for communism — the dictatorship of the proletariat. This fight requires a mass Red Army led by the communist PLP.
Communism means working collectively to build a society where sharing is based on need. We will abolish work for wages, money and profits. Everyone will share in society’s benefits and burdens.
Communism means abolishing racism and the concept of race.
Communism means abolishing the special oppression of women workers –sexism– and traditional gender roles created by class society.
Communism means abolishing nations and nationalism. One International working class, one world, one Party.
Communism means the Party leads every aspect of society. For this to work, millions of workers — eventually everyone — must become communist organizers. Join Us!
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bibomedia said
Have a nice day !
Ted said
“Communism means working collectively to build a society where sharing is based on need. We will abolish work for wages, money and profits. Everyone will share in society’s benefits and burdens”
1) why will a person work hard(if much at all) when you will feed them regardless?
2) What if people disagree with your idea of need, benefit, and burden?
If capitalism has had success it is because it is flexible and motivates people to be productive(generating technological advances and reducing poverty).
Kory said
I agree with a true communist giving and receiving society, but this won’t happen, because people in a rather perverse way like the idea of greed, control, power ,and always wanting to make sure that someone is working or being exploited. I can see work for the benefit of people, but people would rather work for the benefit of profit. So people in general really shouldn’t complain about health care, and everything else if all they want is a world based on profit. By the way to the people out there who are pro capitalists…don’t complain about how your children are going to able to live, or if their jobs leave the country and everything else, because according to many executives this considered FREE ENTERPRISE! Again, if everyone is out for themselves, then don’t complain about the future that your children will have in life.
oxypolitis said
As Adam Smith described:
“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer employment which is most advantageous to the society . . . . [H]e intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.” — Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk. IV, ch. 2, 397, 399 (D.D. Raphael ed., 1991) (1776).
jim willitssonburg said
The problem with Communism is that there is no freedom of expression. If you dare raise any concerns, you will be silenced.
Even posting an opinion on a site like this–under communism–would be strictly monitored. This is why it will never work.
challengenewspaper said
Jim, Do you really believe their is freedom of expression under capitalism? Look how many people have been silenced during the beginning of the Iraq war.
stan said
I have a question….why doesn’t the PLP website make any mention of gay rights? I found a blog post here which supported gays. But when I search the PLP website (progressivelabor.890m.com) there is literally nothing on the issue. Your party seems to reflect on many current issues, but when will it take a stand on this?
It’s too bad the PLP is so late in that game. the vast majority of communist/socialist groups have taken clear stands on this, but the PLP has not.
Ed Schimberg said
Hello:
This is not an ideological comment but personal actually. Back in the late 1960s I was an SDS member at the College of Marin, in Marin County, CA. The genesis of our chapter flowed out of the San Francisco State strike, when a several SDS organizers came to our school looking for some of us radicals who might be interested. One of the SDS organizers was a fellow named Howie Foreman, I think. Howie was a PLP member as I remember. Me and two of my friends were receptive and under Howie’s direction, along with his wife, I think here name was Pat, we organized a fairly successful chapter. I subsequently, along with several others became active in the SDS Workers Student alliance. To cut to the chase, I was thinking about those days with some friends here where I live, and If you can could you send me some information on how Howie and Pat are. They were really wonderful people on a personal level, and excellent organizers back then. I hope they are doing well. If you can’t give me an update on them for whatever your reasons might be, I understand.
I can tell you that I have long ago left the radical movement and have no interest in rejoining. I do not see socialism as the answer to our problems, but my purpose is not to start a debate or an argument with ya’ll. This is strictly a personal request concerning two people I really liked when I was young.
Thank you for your consideration of my request, Ed Schimberg
challengenewspaper said
Hi Ed, We will find out and get back to you. Thanks for you letter.
Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. said
Under recent archives at this site you will find the most recent version of my book FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM, BOLSHEVISM 2009. I would appreciate an opinion from one or more of your theoretical people on the theses presented.
Thank you comrades
Jason
Robin Cox said
Hi
It was refreshing to come across a site that clearly states what communism is: “Communism means working collectively to build a society where sharing is based on need. We will abolish work for wages, money and profits. Everyone will share in society’s benefits and burdens.”
So many on the left are so ensnared by the illusion of state capitalism – misnamed socialism – to the point of being almost embarrassed to even talk about the idea of abolishing the wages system for fear of appearing “utopian”.
However, there are some things I find a bit odd: this talk of the dictatorship of the proletariat for example. The existence of a proletariat necessarily implies the continuation of capitalism and the existence of capitalists exploiting proletarians. I think you should scrpa the whole idea. In communism there are no classes – proletarian or capitalist – only people