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The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in New York City
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I am a former Officer of Bank of America and lost my job during the administration of George W. Bush. I am a liberal Democrat in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman,John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. I am a Christian and a Social Capitalist and a Social Conservative on what I consider to be moral issues. I saw Gregor Gysi’s speech at your foundation. I understand German quite well. I am old enough to remember the Cold War very well. How do you know we can trust him. He was born and raised in the DDR in Berlin. I do not trust his reincarnation of the Communist Party of East Germany. I believe we need to reform our system too. We need Medicare for all, and we need to have jobs for all who can work. We need to save the poor and the middle-class; however, when I look at Herrn Gysi, I see Josef Stalin and Walter Ulbricht. I do not trust him and do not want to become a slave to a tyrant.
Charles E. Miller, BA in German, MA in Religion
I know my previous comment shows distrust to Herrn Gysi and their movement; however, I am beginning to have distrust for our so-called American Capitalism. My wife and I are about to lose everything. I worked for a rich man’s institution and they let me go. I am almost sixty and no one wants to hire me. My wife who is also a college graduate and former professor at ODU in Norfolk, Va has to work three jobs. I feel depressed since I cannot help her. My health is bad. I have diabetes,lung problems, infections, and I also have a blood disease called Mgus; I have too many blood cells. This sickness could turn into cancer even though it has not done so yet. I have seven specialist. I cannot get insurance on my own; I have been given Medicare. I have to thank God for Walter Reuther and President Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society. Roosevelt’s New Deal did not hurt either. Our country is like a cancer when it comes to taxes. Credit Cards will eat one alive. If I could, I would move to Canada or Great Britain. I can see why Mrs. C.S. Lewis moved to England to escape our Ronald Reagan clones and the extreme rich. I am afraid of what the future will bring. Does anyone really care? I do not trust Dr. Gysi yet; however, his speech in New York is logical. Could it be that he is right. I would like to find someone who is. President Bush did not do a good job and Mr. Obama seems just as bad. I did vote for Obama since Gov. Romney was no Theodore Roosevelt or Wendel Wilke. Do not be insulted by my first comment; I believe you can understand someone who was born when Eisenhower was president and who was an exchange student to the German Federal Republic. West Germany did have a social program for its citizens. The party of Brandt was a good organization for the people.
I just wanted to say one more thing. I wish the Democratic Party would quit asking me for money. I told them I no longer am able to give.
Would anyone like to make a statement in reference to previous statements?
Moechte jemand etwas in Bezug auf meine Aussagen, die ich vorher machte, schreiben? Es wuerde mich interessieren zu wissen, was Sie davon halten? Ich moechte auch wissen, was Sie von Nordkorea davon halten?
Sometimes the best thing we can do for one another is to remind somebody he or she is not alone. Mr. Miller has just helped be, so maybe it will help him if I say that lately I have been thinking about the demise of what was long called Christian Socialism, which had a serious role in British socialist politics and the Labour Party as such — not the wimpy joke (lazily, not critically, at that) of the present party. Charles may want to know that the DSA has a Religion and Socialism Commission which has an occasional journal: Religion and Socialism. Otherwise, he might want to visit the Friday night meetings of he Catholic Worker, on East Third Street, which unfortunately often conflict with meetings of the Brecht Forum, though it’s more Christian anarchist than Christian Socialist. (And I hope it’s clear that when we call such things Christian it’s just to show that we are socialists, ultimately, thanks to the Gospels, and in no way against he parallel religiosity of our Jewish sisters and brothers. In fact I like to think (admittedly from my angle) that Rosa Luxemburg was what the Orthodox Christians call a ‘passion-bearer,’ i. e., a sort of honorary saint who shared in the Passion without knowing it. Let me wrap this up by encouraging Charles to press on: everybody forgets that Marx’s notorious ‘opiate of the people’ paragraph also calls religion “the heart of a heartless world.” Ironically, KM meant that we might better learn to live without it and fight; but now, while forced to do without any operational socialism — and the ‘educational’ stupidification of the young, who are being taught to equate socialism with Stalinism — I think it can hardly do harm to pray from time to time, if when we do we think of all those suffering from this warmongering and exploitative culture.
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