While Sen Obama is today quick to denounce the New Party, that organization was once proud to tout Sen Obama as a young star of the future in that party. Following his election in 1996 to the Illinois Senate, his victory was widely hailed in the New Party News. I have been unable to find any denunciation of the group from Sen Obama at that time.
Photocopies of the pages of the New Party News on the website New Zeal are here, here, here and here. Take note of the fact that Sen Obama is listed as a Party Member, while Willie Delgado is merely listed as "endorsed." Clearly, the New Party believed Sen Obama to be a party member.
By this time, most Americans who have been the product of a public school education over the past 20 years, are wondering what is wrong with being a Socialist. The word has ceased to have meaning in most people's minds.
This might be a perfect time, therefore, to look again at the CDSA website, and to examine what their belief systems really entail.
We cannot accept capitalism's conception of economic relations as "free and private."
The Democratic Socialist Vision
Democratic socialists believe that the individuality of each human being can only be developed in a society embodying the values of liberty, equality, and solidarity. These beliefs do not entail a crude conception of equality that conceives of human beings as equal in all respects. Rather, if human beings are to develop their distinct capacities they must be accorded equal respect and opportunities denied them by the inequalities of capitalist society, in which the life opportunities of a child born in the inner city are starkly less than that of a child born in an affluent suburb. A democratic community committed to the equal moral worth of each citizen will socially provide the cultural and economic necessities food, housing, quality education, healthcare, childcare for the development of human individuality.
Achieving this diversity and opportunity necessitates a fundamental restructuring of our socio-economic order. While the freedoms that exist under democratic capitalism are gains of popular struggle to be cherished, democratic socialists argue that the values of liberal democracy can only be fulfilled when the economy as well as the government is democratically controlled.
We cannot accept capitalism's conception of economic relations as "free and private," because contracts are not made among economic equals and because they give rise to social structures which undemocratically confer power upon some over others. Such relationships are undemocratic in that the citizens involved have not freely deliberated upon the structure of those institutions and how social roles should be distributed within them (e.g., the relationship between capital and labor in the workplace or men and women in child rearing). We do not imagine that all institutional relations would wither away under socialism, but we do believe that the basic contours of society must be democratically constructed by the free deliberation of its members.
The democratic socialist vision does not rest upon one sole tradition; it draws upon Marxism, religious and ethical socialism, feminism, and other theories that critique human domination. Nor does it contend that any laws of history preordain the achievement of socialism. The choice for socialism is both moral and political, and the fullness of its vision will never be permanently secured.
saw a book called PRAIRIE FIRE on ZOMBIETIME.com this was written by Ayers and wife in 1974.. it talks of socialism and cutting off aid to Isareal..but the sickening part is that there is a dedication to SIRHAN SIRHAN (scum who killed Bobby Kennedy) and as far as ACORN another (take for the poor but leave the poor poorer) Tom Brokaw sits on a board of a group called ROBIN HOOD which is a george soros group
and this group gave ACORN big $$$$ also..no wonder MSNBC wants to "team up" with ACORN on election night...seems there are alot of "puppets" for SOROS...