Socialists in Congress
Monday, September 3, 2001
By William Jud
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| Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee |
When you think you are strong enough that your opposition can't harm you, you can be brazen enough to go public. Democratic Socialists of America now list their Congressional members on their website.
"Socialism" is
- a political system in which production and distribution of goods are controlled by 'the people' according to 'equity and fairness' rather than market principles,
- a Socialist political movement, typically advocating the end to private property ownership and exploitation of workers,
- a Marxist system in which pay and benefits are distributed according to 'need' rather than according to work done,
- the intermediate Proletarian Revolution phase as society changes from Capitalism to Communism.
Socialism's endgame is Communism. Communism is the opposite of our Republican form of national government. Communism requires abandoning Constitutionally-guaranteed rights of individual citizens for the "common good" of collective society.
The Communist Manifesto demands the following:
- end of private property ownership,
- progressive and heavy taxation,
- end of inheritance rights,
- government confiscation of property of emigrants and rebels,
- a national central bank,
- government control of transportation and communication,
- government ownership of factories and agriculture,
- government control of labor,
- corporate mega-farms to replace family farms,
- regional planning,
- government control of education.
If you think America is abandoning its Constitution and slouching into Socialism, consider yourself perceptive. According to the Democratic Socialists of America internet website -- and the Socialist elected officials members list on the Congressional Progressive Caucus website -- America in 9/03/2001 had 58 elected Congressional Representatives in the US House of Representatives, who were members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In 12/17/2008 73 elected Congressional Representatives in the US House of Representatives, and 1 elected Congressional Senator who are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. They help create our national policies and laws.
Article 6 of our US Constitution says, in part, ". . . The Senators and Representatives before mentioned (in Article 6), and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution . . . "
Elected officials who support the goals of Socialism do not and can not support the US Constitution. Those are mutually exclusive philosophies of government. Congressional Socialists violate their Oath Of Office, fraudulently continue serving in office, and are prime candidates for prosecution for treason.
Socialists in Congress tend to support legislation such as HR-701, the Conservation And Reinvestment Act (CARA) which would spend US Treasury funds to condemn and force buyout of rural citizens' land and to relocate rural folks to giant hive cities where they can be more easily controlled and managed through dependency on government. Congressional Socialists tend to support massive land-grabs such as The Wildlands Project designed to return 50% of the United States to pre-Columbian wilderness. Congressional Socialists tend to support massive tax increases, massive government spending, restrictive regulations, unlimited immigration, taxing workers to reward drone citizens, federal control of education, and supporting and expanding international control of America through the United Nations.
Congressional Progressive Caucus website -- lists the following elected members of Congress
Caucus Member List
Co-Chairs
- Lynn Woolsey (CA-6)
- Barbara Lee (CA-9)
Vice Chairs
- Diane Watson (CA-33)
- Raul Grijalva (AZ-7)
- Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5)
- Hilda Solis (CA-32)
- Mazie Hirono (HI-2)
- Phil Hare (IL-17)
Senate Members
House Members
- Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
- Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
- Xavier Becerra (CA-30)
- Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
- Robert Brady (PA-1)
- Corrine Brown (FL-03)
- Michael Capuano (MA-8)
- Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
- Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
- William “Lacy” Clay (MO-1)
- Steve Cohen (TN-9)
- John Conyers (MI-14)
- Elijah Cummings (MD-7)
- Danny Davis (IL-07)
- Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
- Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
- Keith Ellison (MN-5)
- Sam Farr (CA-17)
- Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
- Bob Filner (CA-50)
- Barney Frank (MA-04)
- Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
- John Hall (NY-19)
- Maurice Hinchey (NY-26)
- Michael Honda (CA-15)
- Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
- Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
- Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
- Hank Johnson (GA-4)
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH-11)
- Marcy Kaptur (OH-9)
- Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
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- Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
- John Lewis (GA-05)
- John Lewis (GA-5)
- David Loebsack (IA-2)
- Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
- Ed Markey (MA-7)
- Jim McDermott (WA-7)
- James McGovern (MA-3)
- George Miller (CA-7)
- Gwen Moore (WI-4)
- Jerrold Nadler (NY-8)
- Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
- John Olver (MA-1)
- Ed Pastor (AZ-4)
- Donald Payne (NJ-10)
- Charles Rangel (NY-15)
- Laura Richardson (CA-37)
- Bobby Rush (IL-1)
- Linda Sanchez (CA-47)
- Jan Schakowsky (IL-9)
- Jose Serrano (NY-16)
- Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
- Pete Stark (CA-13)
- Bennie Thompson (MS-2)
- John Tierney (MA-6)
- Tom Udall (NM-3)
- Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
- Maxine Waters (CA-35)
- Mel Watt (NC-12)
- Henry Waxman (CA-30)
- Peter Welch (VT-AL)
- Robert Wexler (FL-19)
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