tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287364542024-03-28T20:27:49.445-07:00* Insurgency * Lowell B Denny"The power that produced man when the monkey was not up to the mark, can produce a higher creature than man if man does not come up to the mark. We must beware; for man is not yet an ideal creature ... Nature holds no brief for the human experiment: it must stand or fall by its results. If man will not serve, nature will try another experiment."
- George Bernard Shaw, BACK TO METHUSELAHLowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-17225004245124130662024-03-21T12:53:00.000-07:002024-03-21T13:28:25.772-07:00The problem of Cuba: some thoughtsPanel meeting of the Union of Young Communists (UJC). Photo by Cde. Raul Palmero.Cuba is once again in the mainstream news. This can only mean the prism through which all US mainstream media view the global South has discovered new grist for the mill. How, it remains to be understood, does a free press, uncontrolled by the US State Department or US secret agencies, all, and in unison, ask the Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-82972546956925236582024-03-21T10:19:00.000-07:002024-03-21T11:20:49.116-07:00Why Margaret Sanger Matters[from l-r, author Pearl Buck, Margaret Sanger, and Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn]Recently, Planned Parenthood took steps to publicly disavow their founder, Margaret Sanger. The organization announced it was removing her name from a clinic in Manhattan, citing her support for eugenics. This decision seems to have garnered support from anti-abortionists, who have always rejected Sanger, as wellLowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-877647971681530122022-12-24T10:38:00.000-08:002022-12-24T10:38:45.466-08:00Some Final Thoughts on the Gender Wars and the LeftThe year 2022 is about to be behind us, and 2023 rises in the near distance. The future always begs some questions. Will it be more of the old wine in new bottles? Will I find the lovers best suited to me? And will the left - inasmuch as it still exists to be called such - get its shit together?One area that guarantees to cause dumpster fires on social media that I wish we could have left in 2021Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-47304248615027964622022-11-04T17:03:00.002-07:002022-11-10T04:55:52.497-08:00The Roots of US Anticommunism can be found in White RacismThe deep roots of anticommunism in the US are integral to white racism. They are not tangential, nor are they coincidental. They are connected in logical flow, one to another.Anticommunism in the US has less to do with the 1917 Russian Revolution and much more to do with the so-called "freeing of the slaves" after the US Civil War and the white panic this unleashed.Prof. Gerald Horne recently Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-33525921491363638792022-07-07T16:02:00.000-07:002022-07-07T16:02:02.569-07:00A brief note on British democracyA brief note on British democracy on the day Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns but doesn't leave.From 1935-1945, Britain had a "National" government consisting of a coalition. No elections were held in Britain for those 10 years. The king chose the PM and with the PM, they both chose the cabinet. According to biographers, the king chose the PM based on his class and chose the aristocrat Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-1577910795865345702022-06-24T16:44:00.006-07:002022-06-24T17:24:08.530-07:00The First Shots in the Next Civil War?June 24, 2022, at 4:30AM HST [10:30AM EDT], the rightwing of this settler-colonial experiment called the United States made a seismic win for its side comparable only to the seismic shift it gained on March 6, 1857. On that earlier date, the US Supreme Court's chief justice, the proslavery Roger Taney, issued the court's ruling that not only failed Dred Scott but all Black people. Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-85033340753001755362022-02-19T11:11:00.010-08:002023-05-10T05:58:30.161-07:00Lucy and the CommunistsRecently, Turner Classic Movies embarked on a podcast series delving into Hollywood history. The inaugural launch of the series, which can be heard on iTunes or watched on YouTube began with the life of actress/comedian Lucille Ball. This was soon followed by Aaron Sorkin's treatment, "Being the Ricardos." The TCM multi-part series on Ball begins with her birthplace of Jamestown, NY, throughLowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-68934628444282134072021-08-20T13:04:00.000-07:002021-08-20T13:04:02.630-07:00This is from the Army Times, a periodical I have never read, but the narrative on Afghanistan could have come from practically any US news organ, left or right, bemoaning the crisis of this "withdrawal" and the affected Afghanis left at the mercy of the Taliban.This is strange, tiresome jibberish.You will never read, except perhaps in People's World that Afghanistan did in fact have a stable Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-15226255056723678902021-08-02T06:44:00.005-07:002024-03-28T13:38:04.640-07:00But Mother was a communist Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn and Dr. Thomas N. HepburnA biographer of actress Katharine Hepburn, William Mann, who wrote Kate: The Woman who was Hepburn, [Henry Holt, 2006] writes that the actress's mother, Mrs. Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, almost joined the Communist Party USA and did not.Mann's contribution, the most recent in a line of biographies which begin with Garson Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-42416034412851537012021-07-03T15:02:00.002-07:002021-07-03T15:06:27.207-07:00What's Going on in Florida is What's Going on in the USI watch a lot of YouTube content like this because while reviving dead theorists over and over can be interesting, applying radical analysis to what's going on RIGHT NOW is better. What does this "out of control" housing market in Florida mean for the working-class renter? Nothing good. I saw this phenomenon in the two years I lived in Tampa, 2016-2018, where my rent was hiked three times [third Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-13656425235490529172021-04-30T12:41:00.004-07:002021-04-30T12:41:56.961-07:00Why San Francisco's Burton Academic High School doesn't make the List and wasn't supposed toI scoured the list for the high school where I taught and was later promoted to be a guidance counselor. Philip & Sala Burton Academic High School was not on the list. And only two San Francisco schools are listed, one is Lowell High School which only takes students based on high test scores. The second is a charter school. A note about San Francisco Unified School District. In the early 80'sLowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-38152399311177700882021-04-10T13:04:00.001-07:002021-04-17T10:58:09.629-07:00CDE. CHRIS HANI MEMORIAL ESSAY: Why the US needs a communist party ... and why it does not have oneI compose these thoughts barely a day after the US National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] declared a resounding defeat for the Retail, Warehouse, Department Store Union [RWDSU] election in Bessemer, Alabama, and a victory for Amazon, whose CEO is one of the wealthiest people on the planet. While the union has vowed to challenge illegal acts taken by Amazon and seek overturning the election, I Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-27955443645711242102020-10-24T12:23:00.005-07:002020-10-24T12:26:33.339-07:00Two Pandemics, Two World Approaches, and Lessons: Cuba and the United StatesLast November, unaware that a novel coronavirus pandemic was a few months away, the Des Moines Register published an article to mark the upcoming World AIDS Day (December 1).Since mainstream media are only allowed to praise achievements of communist systems 30, 40, 50 years after the fact, if at all, the lead to the 2019 article read "On Global AIDS Day, researchers argue Cuba quarantine three Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-2317383154023989452020-08-14T08:23:00.006-07:002022-10-12T10:36:31.726-07:00Kamala Harris, for which People? A Response to People's World article[Note: this is in response to Mark Gruenberg's article in People's World headlined "Selection of Kamala Harris as VP candidate makes history" A few days before, during a conference call during which Party members complained strongly about the Gruenberg piece, the editors said they'd consider printing a reply. I wrote one. In rejecting the reply, the news site's editor-in-chief, John Wojcik, Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-18982109861227947302020-05-04T15:06:00.001-07:002020-05-04T15:37:13.421-07:00A Word about Hawaii and the Reds
L-R, Dwight Freeman, Dr. John Reinecke, Koji Ariyoshi, Jack Kimoto, an attorney [dark suit],
Charles Fujimoto, Eileen Fujimoto, and Jack Wayne Hall
Absent from the website of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People is the true beginning and ending of its Honolulu chapter. While the composition of the Black population of the territory of Hawaii was negligible, Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-2667642307644418002020-03-12T16:42:00.009-07:002021-09-09T14:02:36.496-07:00The Subversive Side to the Queen of Salsa
''Subject is inadmissible to the United States because of her affiliation with the Cuban Communist youth organization and the Communist Party of Cuba." - FBI memo, 1959A year after her death in 2003, the Miami Herald, of all newspapers to do so, printed the results of an investigation by one of its reporters, Carol Rosenberg, into some little-known parts of the life of Cuban salsa singer Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-29694602458656861822020-02-14T12:32:00.001-08:002020-02-14T15:19:38.959-08:00An American Myth
My expectations of "An American Factory" went from low to high, plateaued, then bottomed out.
I had first heard it was a project of Barack and Michelle Obama and imagined a cross between an ABC Afternoon Special and an episode of "Ellen." Whatever they had to say about factories or workers did not really rouse my interest given his eight years in office.
Barack and Michelle are our Harry Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-21404333756110928832020-01-25T13:18:00.001-08:002020-01-25T13:18:04.886-08:00King exemplified today’s shift toward radical roots
The upcoming federal holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an occasion to remember the movement in which he labored so prominently. This particular election year, King and that movement strike an even stronger relevance. While it is unfortunate the country finds itself divided by political differences, it is encouraging the left has rediscovered its radical roots and is reaching Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-41911176475329935072019-12-21T12:35:00.000-08:002019-12-21T13:02:34.541-08:00Why Trump wins a Second Term in 2020: An Analysis
With the 2020 general election less than a year off, the prospect of a Trump win are very credible.
Of course, I hope I am wrong, but I will not be so quick to rejoice the election of a moderate, Wall Street Democrat in his place, even though such a win will give me a brief, heavy sigh of relief.
Trump is not only all the retrograde things said about him - slum lord, racist, tax cheat, Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-9315868646061129022019-11-16T09:09:00.002-08:002020-03-02T07:06:45.338-08:00The Pivot of Margaret Sanger
"The eloquence of those who led the underpaid and half-starved workers could no longer, at least for me, ring with conviction," Margaret Sanger.
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Margaret Sanger remains one of the most controversial figures of American activism. Moreover, she is probably not even well known outside certain, limited circles as an activist. Not even the far right-wing Phyllis Schlafly, of the American Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-17914343530727801532019-09-06T16:08:00.002-07:002019-09-08T07:30:15.131-07:00The Special Question of Lenin, Harry Hay, and Trans Liberation: An Argument
Not a week goes by where a shit-storm over the recognition of trans women doesn't explode on social media. On one side, there are the so-maligned TERFS [Trans-exclusionary radical feminists], who fight against what they claim is the infringement of space of real women by trans women. The other side fights for the recognition that trans women are in fact women and are accused of ignoring basicLowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-12719431674778645642019-08-02T14:50:00.003-07:002019-08-02T14:50:53.081-07:00Contexts of the Border Crisis, the USSR, and the Struggle Ahead
It's not an honest discussion of the border crisis without bringing in the Soviet Union. Yes, I refer to that much-maligned country that was destroyed by external and internal forces over a generation ago, but who absence is strongly felt in so many areas of our struggle to this day. And because it has been so maligned - for very deliberate, political reasons - it's hard to even bring up its Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-49603778167856401142019-07-09T20:21:00.004-07:002019-07-09T20:21:34.674-07:00The Problem of Reparations
Reparations was a subject easier to digest when it was a fringe subject among certain Black people I grew up around. We used to call the advocates “Hoteps,” but never to their faces. They were older, very eager, very strident "Afrocentrists". They were among the first to call themselves African before it became more fashionable. Some had the goal to return to Africa, long before we had the Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-48427364249394065102019-07-04T00:30:00.000-07:002019-07-04T06:44:27.690-07:00On "No Room for Patriotism in Capitalism Imperialism Colonialism" by the YCL
This position piece was originally published by the Young Communists League of Southern California on its site. As the YCL was dissolved by the CPUSA [and re-instituted in the recent 31st Convention], the site no longer exists, but the article has been posted on a few other sites and discussed widely.
Today being the supposed "Independence Day," and this occupied land from which I write Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28736454.post-78548712851393238342019-03-29T15:48:00.000-07:002019-03-29T15:50:27.636-07:00Prostitution is not work. A Communist Party should stand behind women's liberation, not oppression
Below is a contribution of mine to the discussions ahead of the Communist Party's 35th Convention this June]
A raucous debate persists in social media and in the pages of many political magazines. It persists between radical feminists with good intentions. The debate is whether prostitution is a scourge of exploitation against women by capitalist patriarchy or something to be organized as Lowell B Denny, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667499285365913663noreply@blogger.com0