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    Yours for the Revolution
    Yours for the Revolution
    Yours for the Revolution
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    Yours for the Revolution

    By Sebastian Windsor

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    Yours for the Revolution is a dramatization of Jack London's speech to Yale University in 1906 on the subject of socialism.  London, in addition to being a critically acclaimed novelist, was an outspoken socialist in a time when labor organizing was seriously dealt with by industrialists and railroad barons. This speaking event was the first time in American history that the subject of socialism was seriously discussed at a major university.  Yours for the Revolution juxtaposes social attitudes at the turn of the 20th century with similar attitudes still prevailing more than a century later.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSebastian Windsor
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781386789734
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    Sebastian Windsor

    Sebastian Windsor is an American writer who travels the world in search of inspirational stories.  He lives in Bangkok, Thailand with his wife and family.  Sebastian is also an accomplished artist and musician and holds a doctor of jurisprudence degree from Southern California Institute of Law.

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      Yours for the Revolution - Sebastian Windsor

      By Shane Patrick Irvine, J.D.

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      Dedication

      Yours for the Revolution is dedicated to the memory of my great grandfather, Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine.  He was a compassionate  man of great integrity and dedicated to selflessly serving his fellow man and his god. 

      (c)

      Copyright 2018

      All rights reserved

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      CONTENTS

      Forward

      Chapter One: Socialism and the Devil

      Chapter Two: Arrival of the Socialist

      Chapter Three: Jack's Story

      Chapter Four: The Fighting Parson

      Chapter Five: Woolsey Hall

      Chapter Six: Democratic Socialism  

      FORWARD

      Socialism is not the same as communism. Socialism and communism are two separate economic theories that are actually quite different from each other but often associated in a symbiotic relationship with one another. While socialism is basically a political and economic philosophy whereby the government participates in benefiting the community as a whole, communism is an economic theory that promotes a classless society and discourages the concept of private property. But unfortunately, all too many people associate socialism closely with communism and view them both in the same negative light. This confusion as to socialism and communism is nothing new and has existed and been nurtured by industry moguls and the upper crust in the United States for well more than a century.

      Over the years, that confusion as to what socialism is and is not has been taken advantage of by many a politician to vilify social programs that are necessary to protect the working class from the financial hardships that are often a naturally occurring result of capitalism. Politicians skillfully interchange the terms loosely in a slight of hand tactic to confuse issues. They have learned that with negative campaigning they can accuse their opponent of being a socialist and thus drawing public ire and outrage.

      On social media sites, popular conservative memes portray the recipients of social programs as lazy, unmotivated dregs on society that are getting a free ride at the expense of hard-working people. These memes are often perpetuated by people who only want to believe what they already believe and are caught up in an ideology that focuses blame on a specific suspect class, such as liberals and moderates. They become so engulfed in their beliefs that they accuse all facts that in any way counter their beliefs as fake news.

      Sadly, in the new millennium negative campaigning has demonstrated to be more effective than campaigning on actual social issues. Often, voters who would benefit the most from social programs are duped into becoming the most vociferous opponents of the safety nets provided by social programs designed to help the less fortunate to become self-empowered. The practice of shaming people who receive social assistance has become a powerful tool to manipulate people into believing that the very social programs that are designed to help them out of poverty are actually the cause of their poverty. According to a quote by Ronald Wright in, A Short History of Progress, Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

      How often have we heard people talk about how they work hard and pay taxes while others just sit around, do nothing and collect welfare. This tactic becomes especially effective when the alleged abusers are identified as foreigners or minorities. An enemy gets identified, especially by far-right paid political pundits, and foreigners and minorities thereafter become target groups who find themselves at the receiving end of people's anger for their own lack of success. They would prefer to say that their jobs were taken by foreigners rather than admit that they became obsolete as the result of their jobs going overseas, automation, artificial intelligence or their own ineptitude.

      Right wing idealists have found that by getting people angry enough, they can ignite a firestorm that becomes self-perpetuating. All too many people lack the analytical skills to see problems in their aggregate form. Their lack of critical thinking skills leads them to want to place blame on an identifiable individual or group and be able to limit culpability to a single cause. They want to be able to identify the enemy and put a face on their blame. Once the blame is established, it becomes self-perpetuating and that person or group thereafter becomes the root of all evil, i.e., the bleeding heart liberals.

      Under the Marxist-Lennon concept, socialism was closely tied to communism and all property was to be publicly owned by each person working and getting paid according to their abilities and their needs. However, it should be pointed out that both democracies and communist forms of governance employ, to a certain extent, socialist characteristics.

      As socialism can be applied to make communism more appealing to the masses, socialism is also applied to temper the harsh economic effects of capitalism.

      Ironically, The United States Department of Defense, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public school systems, police departments, fire departments, departments of public works, etc. are all example of socialism. These entities are necessary for the community to thrive. Helping the needy has never been a goal of capitalism, yet we recognize the need for such assistance and that it plays a vital roll in a civilized society. Otherwise, the elderly, the disabled and the poor would have little or no means of surviving. As Mahatma Gandhi pointed out, The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members.

      Capitalism is at the other end of the spectrum from communism. It is an economic system in which a country's trade and industry are primarily profit-driven and controlled by private individuals and corporations rather than by the state. It is uniquely characterized by competitive pricing being determined mainly by competition in a free market system. Under pure capitalism, those at the top would continually gain momentum create crippling monopolies and eventually collapse under the weight of its own greed.

      As monopolies of the railroads, steel mills, and commodities such as coal, kerosene, oil and other necessary products began to have a stranglehold on the nation, it became apparent that government involvement in the economic health of the nation was becoming increasingly necessary. A monopoly is the extreme result of unchecked capitalism. It ultimately creates a lack of competition, which more often than not leads to exorbitant price fixing and shoddy products. When this began to happen in the United States in the late19th century, it became necessary for the government to step in and put into place controls to break up and prevent monopolies. In 1890, in response to growing concerns over monopolies, the Sherman Antitrust Act was effected giving the federal government the power to break up big companies into smaller

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