Welcome
to ClassWars, the home of Activist Radio, a weekly program for
all Americans who are not in the wealthiest one percent of the
US population.
Class wars have been going on since the beginning of recorded history. As societies become more powerful and wealthy, they often become more corrupt. Towards the end of each cycle, a few rich families own practically everything and rule with an iron fist. Imperial wars for empire and military over-expansion are other trademarks of a debased and undemocratic society. Empire often brings about great poverty and suffering not only in the occupied and exploited lands, but at home as well. Class wars is a dirty term in our media, which always implies that America is above such crudeness. But the very rich are not above that at all. They have been waging an especially intense attack on working people since the 1970's, and have accumulated immense wealth and power at the expense of the rest of us. Of course, America's class wars are not fought with tanks and bombs, but with crooked politicians, right wing think tanks and corporate owned media. For the very rich to maintain and increase their share of the national wealth, they have to fool you. How else could one percent of our population call the shots for the other ninety-nine percent? Well, there is another way. The very rich can bankroll a fascist demagogue who then uses racial fears and hatreds to overcome any form of worker resistance. Mussolini and Hitler are examples of how this was done in the 1930s. Trump is, of course, the most dangerous demagogue of the 21st century. To understand how he has gotten this far, check out: "The Unspoken Spread of Fascism." Activist Radio will attempt to show you how the few richest of our citizens lie to the rest of us to expand their power and wealth. They are sick with greed, of course. But so far, the rest of us are what might be worse, and that is stupid. None of the information presented is particularly new or really very hard to find, although you won't read it in the mainstream press or see it on TV. If that is what you are relying on for news, you are being suckered, my friend. I don't know how to put it any nicer. So sit back, relax, and listen to Activist Radio streamed live: Thursdays from 5 - 6 pm ET
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Fred
Nagel is a Vietnam Era veteran and political
activist whose articles have appeared in CounterPunch,
Global Exchange, LA Progressive, Mondoweiss, Peace
& Planet News, Popular Resistance, and
Z Magazine. He also hosts a show on Vassar
College Radio, WVKR (classwars.org).
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Abraham Lincoln
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And above all Fascism denies that
class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation
of society.
Benito Mussolini
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The first truth is that the liberty of a
democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of
private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their
democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -
ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by
any other controlling private power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A revolution is a class struggle. It was
one class - the oppressed, and that other class - the
oppressor.
Fred Hampton
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Surely, in the history of lies told to
the population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of
secrets, withheld from the American people, this is the
biggest secret: that there are classes with different
interests in this country. To ignore that--not to know that
the history of our country is a history of slaveowner against
slave, landlord against tenant, corporation against worker,
rich against poor--is to render us helpless before all the
lesser lies told to us by people in power.
Howard Zinn
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The clinical definition of "fascism' is
when private concentrated economic power takes government away
from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a
subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
Ralph Nader
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There's class warfare, all right, but
it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're
winning.
Warren Buffet
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This [$700 billion bailout] was the
largest single act of class warfare in the modern history of
this country.
Dennis Kucinich
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I think this has been a class war waged
by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I
think the poor are fighting back.
Naomi Klein
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The solution is revolution, first in the
spirit of the gospel; Jesus could not accept people going
hungry. It is a conflict between classes, rich and poor. My
role is to preach and organize.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The effect of the [European Central
Bank] policies is to weaken the welfare state measures and to
reduce the power of labor. That's class war. It's fine for the
banks, for financial institutions, but terrible for the
population.
Noam Chomsky
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The
US has a highly class-conscious business class. If you read
the business literature, it's like reading Mao's "Red Book."
The values may be inverted, but the terminology is the same.
They're fighting a bitter class war constantly. They never
relax for a minute. Noam Chomsky
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The breakdown [of American society] is
not caused by economic laws. They are policies, a kind of
class war initiated by the rich and powerful against the
working population and the poor. This is what defines the
neoliberalism period, not only in the United States but in
Europe and elsewhere. Noam
Chomsky
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For
45 years there has been a war in this country waged by the
corporate elite against the working class of America. Bernie
Sanders
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If
there is going to be class warfare in this country, it's about
time the working class won that war. Bernie Sanders
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The
theft of public resources for the military and militarism
domestically and abroad represent a one-sided class war waged
on the working class in the U.S. The 6 trillion dollars spent
on U.S. wars since 2003 are resources that could have been
directed to address the increasing desperate plight of workers
and poor people in the U.S. Ajamu
Baraka
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You
look at the reality, neoliberalism translates as bitter class
war. That?s the meaning of it, everywhere you look, every
component of it. Noam Chomsky
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Now
I'm finding out there's just one kind of war. It's the one going on 'tween the rich and the poor. I guess that I don't know a lot about class, But the upper and middle can all kiss my ass. Utah Phillips
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