Being a Leftist in the 21st Century

The 2007 Left Forum came to a close Sunday in New York City. Each spring the Forum convenes the largest gathering in North America of the international Left. With close to one hundred panels and three major cultural events, the Left Forum brings together organizers and intellectuals from across the globe to share ideas. One of those who spoke was professor, culture critic, and social justice advocate Cornel West.

He has been described as one of America's most vital and eloquent public intellectuals. A professor of religion and African-American studies at Princeton University, West has written and co-authored numerous books on philosophy, race and sociology. His most recent book is "Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism."

Video exerpt from the 3/13/2007 episode of Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.

http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=20070313

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[Shponglothep]

@SuperGuitarman69 actually, you exposed yourself as someone who does not understand how to use Caps Lock. apart from that, you are in the realm of opinion and nothing more.

[Halftrac]

Leftists OUT OF U.S. NOW!!!

[SuperGuitarman69]

@heathdwatts My concern wasn't to convert you to sanity. It was for this debate to be archived for others to witness. To help others know the truth and expose the left. Once again, I have accomplished that

[heathdwatts]

@SuperGuitarman69 Well, I've wasted far too much time on you. Good luck; you'll need it.

[SuperGuitarman69]

@heathdwatts The shiftless rich? YOU are the drone. Lets analyze shall we. I wouldn't have a job, nor you, if it were not for rich people taking risk and providing our jobs. And did you dismiss what I said before? And taxation? The top 2% wage earners pay over 50% of the taxes already. That fair in the least. And if they were taxed LESS they could take even more risks and create more jobs. A government job isn't a job when it takes people in the private sector to pay for it. Geeez

[heathdwatts]

@SuperGuitarman69 Actually, I work for a living, as does my entire family. I presume that you work regularly, too. Why should you and I pay an unfair share of the tax burden, when hedge fund managers, earning billions of dollars per year, pay a a smaller percentage of their share than we do. Why do you hate yourself so much that you're willing to defend the shiftless rich? You seem to be incapable of rational thought; you are a perfect slave for your corporate masters.

[heathdwatts]

@SuperGuitarman69 You really know the libertarian playbook by heart. I'm not interested in living in a country where people are allowed to die, if they can't afford to pay the corporate or religious controlled hospitals their bounties. I'm also not interested in living in a country where a tiny fraction of the population controls all of the wealth. The U.S. will eventually fade into obscurity, thanks to the failed policies of Reagan and Bush II. As soon as I get the opportunity to move, I will.

[SuperGuitarman69]

@heathdwatts goes directly to pay the INTEREST in the debt? In laymans terms, 12 families are getting richer off of business people who earned their money. The 12 families rockefellers, Rothschilds JP Morgan etc... They could steal every last dime every year from the rich and it WOULDN'T EVEN PAY OFF THE INTEREST IN FULL!!!! The INTEREST not the principle. You advocate THEFT! That is why I fucking HATE A FUCKING LEFTIST. You are all theives. You sit on your ass and expect everyone else to pay!

[SuperGuitarman69]

@heathdwatts YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND!!!! Why do you live in this country? Go someplace that its socialist. And let me explain something to you. Listen very very very carefully. Did you know that income tax is unconstitutional? That the IRS had ZERO legal right to take a dime of taxes from income? That there isn't even a law to enforce it? And that if it EVER went before the supreme Court it would end income taxes? Did you know that every last cent of income taxes now PART1

[heathdwatts]

@SuperGuitarman69 Yes, I think that the rich should be taxed progressively, as they were when Ike was President. Then, if one earned >$250 K then, they paid ~90% in federal income taxes. We'd have to adjust this for inflation by increasing this break-point to ~$2 million. David Stockman, Reagan's former budget director claims that the Reagan tax cuts were not meant to be permanent. He has also suggested a one-time tax on the net-worth of the rich, which would halve the national debt.