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Thinking about Revolution (pdf)

a pamphlet by John Spritzler and Dave Stratman with supplementary articles here

Please download, print and share "Thinking" with your friends, neighbors and co-workers. (Also feel free to pass out this related flyer.)

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A Critique of Marxism: selected chapters from We CAN Change The World: The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life (pdf file)by David G. Stratman

Hope and Revolution (Introduction)
Communism and Counterrevolution (Chapter 7)
From Marx to Lenin (Chapter 8)

"The Communist Manifesto Is Wrong"by John Spritzler

The Revolution Series -- three flyers from the mid '90s:

Also, from the early days of New Democracy, our first flyer calling for revolution: We Can Change The World.

Click here to see articles relating to the necessity and/or possibility of revolution with useful information, though not necessarily reflecting the views of New Democracy.

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They're singing about revolution and democracy:

Tracy Chapman, "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution"

Leonard Cohen, "Democracy is comin' to the USA"

Bugger the Bankers, performed by The Austerity Allstars

No Rich, No Poor (lyrics)

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Articles that reflect New Democracy's views:

Paul Krugman: A Smart Man Paid to Say Stupid Things
Government Spying Aims to Silence Us
Why Cooperative Businesses Are Not the Answer
Beware of Robert Reich's Latest Op-Ed
What Kind of "Freedom" Did They Die For?
If Only Glenn Greenwald Would Learn to Say "They" Instead of "We"
Jump Off the Treadmill of Defeat!
Senator Elizabeth Warren's First Bill is a Disguised Attack on Students
Ugh! Senators Warren and Franken Vote to Confirm Brennan to Head CIA
To Those Wondering, "What's Wrong With the F*%$#@! American People?"
Razan Ghazzawi at IAW – Toronto: “Who’s Afraid of Syria’s Popular Revolution?” by Henry Lowi
The Billionaire
The Despicable Values in Obama's State of the Union Speech
Who is the Enemy?
What Makes a Government Legitimate?
What Side Is Senator Elizabeth Warren Really On?
Global Wealth Equality: What Would it Mean?
The Family Next Door
Beware of Dennis Kucinich, Robert Reich, Bill Moyers and their Like
Millions Who Voted for Romney Would Prefer an Anti-Capitalist Revolution
Video: After Sandy, Occupy Movement Re-Emerges as Relief Hub for Residents in Need continued here.
Big Money Did Not Lose the 2012 Election
Most Adults in the U.S. Don't Vote
An Open Letter to America's Voters
Michael Moore Just Doesn't Get It
The Artificial Scarcity of Jobs
The Evil of Sanctions on Iran
Look Who's Telling Us to End the Oppression of Women: PBS's 'Half the Sky'
The Capitalist Big Lie about Human Nature
Why Some People Insist that Twice Two is Five
Democracy Versus Sharia
Did Poor Whites Vote for the Racist Jim Crow Laws of the South?
What is Democratic Revolution? (a PDR leaflet)
FBI Face-Recognition Surveillance, by John Spritzler
DNC "Vote" Exposes America's Fake Democracy, by John Spritzler
Lessons for Today from the Spanish Revolution 1936-9, by John Spritzler
Listen, Right Wing Talk Radio Host! by John Spritzler
What About the Green Party, U.S.A.? by John Spritzler
Beware of Harvard's "Radical Fix for the Republic" by John Spritzler
Voting for President in America: History is Trying to Tell Us Something, by John Spritzler
How to Think Like a Realistic Revolutionary, by John Spritzler
Leaflet about shutting down the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, by People for Democratic Revolution
Should We Pay Back the Debts? a leaflet by People for Democratic Revolution
A Misunderstanding about Democracy by John Spritzler
Message from Greek Hospital Workers Occupying their Hospital
What Causes a Political Sea Change? by John Spritzler
Boston leaflet about cuts to the public transportation system by People for Democratic Revolution
Declaration of Occupation,
passed by consensus, at General Assemply, Dewey Square, Boston, Nov. 29, 2011
James Romer Reflects on his Lifetime of Political Activism by James H. Romer
From Occupation to Revolution by John Spritzler and Dave Stratman
Mom and Pop Capitalism? by John Spritzler
The British Ruling Class Foments, and then Uses the 'Riots' by John Spritzler
Reform Congress?, by John Spritzler
Gaddafi Is No Anti-Imperialist, by John Spritzler
Egypt and the China Syndrome, by Dave Stratman
Inside Job is an Inside Job: A Misleading View of the Economic Crisis, by Dave Stratman
How Progressive Ideas Protect Inequality, by John Spritzler
Moral Debts and Ethical Deficits by Frank Scott
BP Lays Waste to the Gulf. Corporations Lay Waste to America
by Dave Stratman
Goodbye to Social Democracy? by Dave Stratman
Bank Credit Versus Solidarity, by John Spritzler
The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing by Frances Moore Lappe
Paulson's Bailout and the Great Tradition by John Spritzler
How Can We End the U.S. Government's Pro-Israel Foreign Policy?, by John Spritzler
Democracy in the United States? Fugetaboutit! by John Spritzler
After the Revolution, What? by John Spritzler
A Realistic Solution to Illegal Immigration by John Spritzler
"Solidarity, Not Charity" - Revolution in the Ninth Ward by Beth Moore
"What Will It Take To Win?" by John Spritzler
"No War But the Class War" by Beth Moore
"America Is Not A Democracy: What Are We Going To Do About It?" by John Spritzler (August, 2004)
Scenarios of Revolution by Dave Stratman (May 2004)
"Religion, The Golden Rule, and Revolution" by John Spritzler (web only, April, 2004)
"Worshiping A Strange God"by John Spritzler (web only February, 2004)
"John Adams And New Democracy On Revolution" by Dave Stratman. (web only, January 9, 2003).
"Winstanley & The Diggers: The Spiritual and Political Story of a Seventeenth Century Communist Movement" by David Spritzler (not previously published).
"In Name Only" by Philip Farruggio. (web only, November 13, 2002).
"People, Get Ready." A New Democracy Editorial. (NDN* May-August 2002).
"A Coal Miner's Call For Revolution" by Vic Roberts. (NDN* January-February 2001).
"No, Voting Won't Work" by John Spritzler (NDN* Nov-Dec 2000)
"Why We Can Change The World" by Dave Stratman. (NDN* July-October 2000). This speech challenges the "Diversity" concept as a means of social change and proposes instead a movement that focuses on what we have in common.
"The WTO, The US Constitution, And Self-government" by Richard Grossman. (NDN* Jan-Feb 2000).
"The Battle Lines: Democracy vs. Capitalism" by Dave Stratman. (NDN* Jan-Feb 2000).
"Counterrevolution: The Role Of Communism In The 20th Century" by Dave Stratman. (NDN* May-June 1999).
"Revolution: As American As Apple Pie" by John Spritzler (NDN* January-February 1999)
"The Communist Manifesto Is Wrong"by John Spritzler (NDN* January-February 1999)
"We Can Get There From Here" by Mike and Melanie Masching. (NDN* Nov-Dec 1998).
"What Is Missing From The World?" by Dave Stratman. (NDN* Nov-Dec 1998).
"Does Revolution Make Sense?" by Dave Stratman. (NDN* March-April 1998).
"What Kind of Society Do We Want?" by John Spritzler (NDN* May-June 1997)
"Fake Democracy" by Dave Stratman (NDN* Oct 8 1996)

* "NDN" indicates that the article is from the New Democracy Newsletter.

Articles by Dave Stratman

Articles by John Spritzler

Turn the World Upside Down (John Spritzler's blog #1)

End Class Inequality (John Spritzler's blog #2)

Books

We CAN Change the World: The Real Meaning of Everyday Life by Dave Stratman

The People as Enemy: The Leaders' Hidden Agenda in World War II by John Spritzler