{"id":7,"date":"2006-12-21T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T20:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-01-27T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:41:05","slug":"pacifism-and-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Pacifism and Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following was published in The People<\/em>, the oldest socialist paper in the world and the official publication of the Socialist Labor Party.\u00a0 The Socialist Labor Party is the third oldest extant political party in the United States.\u00a0 It is an Americanized and modernized form of Marxism, working to change the government of the United States through education and the ballot box.\u00a0 The Socialist Labor Party never recognized the legitimacy of the Soviet Union, which falsely used the name of socialism in an attempt to disguise its authoritarian nature.\u00a0 They are an interesting and idealistic group of people, offering much that is relevant to today\u2019s world.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the world does not seem to be listening at the moment, and in some ways the group is a living historical relic.\u00a0 At Villanova some years ago I met their candidate for Vice-President of the United States, George Taylor.\u00a0 You can check their website if you\u2019re interested.\u00a0 They are not antithetical to religion.<\/p>\n

p.s.\u00a0 I am also a subscriber to the group\/journal Religious Socialism.\u00a0 The book Christian Socialism (by John Cort…I treasure my inscribed copy) is relevant.\u00a0 Particularly interesting is the material on the early Christian church.<\/p>\n

To the Editor of The People:<\/em><\/p>\n

As a long-time reader of The People<\/em>, I must take exception to an item in your July-August 2006 issue in which you equate pacifists with capitalists (“pacifists\u2026pretend that capitalism can one day provide peace, justice, or equality”).\u00a0 In fact, pacifism refers to an attitude about war, and says nothing about one\u2019s particular political sentiment.\u00a0\u00a0 I feel certain that you would find a much higher percentage of people sympathetic to your cause among pacifists, than you would find among the general public.\u00a0 Personally, I identify myself as a Quaker pacifist revolutionary socialist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following was published in The People, the oldest socialist paper in the world and the official publication of the Socialist Labor Party.\u00a0 The Socialist Labor Party is the third oldest extant political party in the United States.\u00a0 It is an Americanized and modernized form of Marxism, working to change the government of the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}