Originally posted by: Budmantom
Van Jones is the RED Jobs Czar.
Indeed.
If people want to see what Van Jones is about (and Obama) they should read the "manifesto" for the organization he founded called STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement)
"With a growing membership and a growing commitment to Marxist politics, STORM began rewriting out Points of unity and Constitution. The resulting documents signaled a clear commitment to communist politics, drawing primarily from traditions of Third World Marxism.
Our new points of Unity represented an unorthodox and somewhat eclectic form of Marxism. We drew on the strengths of the communist traditions while challenging it to provide a greater priority on gender, race, democracy and mass organizing . Specifically we upheld revolutionary democracy, revolutionary feminism, revolutionary internationalism, the central role of the working class, Urban Marxism and Third World Communism.
STORM's Points of Unity
REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRACY: the belief that our movement will have to replace the falsley democratic capitalist state with a truly democratic people's government
REVOLUTIONARY FEMINISM: the belief that women's oppression is fundamnetal to this society and that we have to place "Sisters at the Center" of our struggle.
REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALISM: the belief that white supremacy is a critical force impacting world politics and that Third World communities - inside and outside of the United States - along with white anti-racist allies need to work in solidarity to build the power we need to overthrow the global system of WHITE SUPREMACY.
CENTRAL ROLE of the WORKING CLASS: the belief that in order to defeat capitalism and other forms of oppression, the working class will have to play the central role in the revolutionary struggle.
URBAN MARXISM: the belief that the urban space was now the central site of revolutionary struggle, just as the factory and the point of production were in the days of Marx.
THIRD WORLD COMMUNISM: drawing on the revolutionary communist traditions from Asia, Africa and Latin America, including the recognition of the need for a disciplined revolutionary party rooted among oppressed people
Moving from Resistance to Revolution:
Our commitment to communist politics didn't give us any easy answers about what we should be doing to advance a revolutionary movement in the country. Other organizations with a Marxist analysis seemed to lack a practical program for building the kind of power needed to win our people's liberation.
Several of these communist groups emphasized the immediate building of the vanguard party. They thought the party should prepare to seize power when the people "spontaneously" rise up during imperialism's' inevitable crises. We believed that these groups had badly misaddressed the real state of imperialism and of social movements. They prematurely anticipated a people's uprising (which we didn't see on the immediate horizon) while underestimating the importance and difficulty of building power in oppressed communities to lay the groundwork for future UPRISINGS.
Other communist organizations - and many individual activists - were questioning the possibility of a revolutionary movement ever succeeding. They emphasized immersion in unions and mass struggles to the exclusion of intentional work to develop a revolutionary movement."
http://www.capitalresearch.org.../08/stormsummation.pdf
