Another year, another 4th of July in the US - and another blog entry

I’m writing this on the second of July, just two days before our big celebration for the 4^th of July—Independence Day. For Marxist of all kinds, there are various views on this day. Some hate it and the US all together. Some like it as a date for an important historical revolution. Most Maoist I know of, hate the 4^th. I see this as an important revolution in history. In Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism, he said there would be revolutions from feudalism to capitalism. Next comes socialism and the US is definitely ready for that revolution. Most of us Marxists appreciate revolutions, unless, as in modern times, they lead to a bourgeois government as we have here in the USA.

I love these blow up logos.

In two days, I will pull out the bar-B-Q, for some chicken, hotdogs and hamburgers. I will stock up on beer. And I have a lot of fireworks I will light off. If I fly a flag, it won’t be the modern day Stars and Stripes. And it won’t be that snake flag, on the yellow background, that I used fly and I used to love, before it was taken over by tea-baggers and right-wing jerks. Maybe I will just fly a red flag, or a red and black flag. But after all of that I flew a Mozambique Flag- A flag of modern revolution.

Each year I write something about the US revolution.  As I’ve said in the past, it was a step forward for white males. We moved society from feudalism to capitalism, which goes along with Marx’s historical materialism theories. Of course Afro Americans could not vote until the end of the Civil War. Native Americans were not made citizens until June 2, 1924, which was four years after women got the vote in the summer of 1920. And today those rights are under attack once again. Republicans are looking for ways to make it harder for minorities to vote. Their motivation is simple. They think that the more white voters that vote, the more likely they are to win upcoming elections. As Hunter S. Thompson once said:

"I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth."

 

So for a look at my earlier writings on the US Revolution see:

 

Another Fourth of July holiday 2020— light the fireworks— shut off the jingoistic commercials.

I don't know where these folks got the idea to put up a big blow up gorilla, but they did.