By Shari Boiskin
Eastside Online (NJ)
Sick of exploitation based on your sex, gender, race, ethnicity, social class or sexual orientation? Frustrated by the restraints and injustices created by capitalism? Interested in forming a new social and economic order based on community involvement in production, distribution and governance? Want the voting age to be lowered to fifteen? You’re in luck – there’s a party that caters to your needs: the Socialist Party USA. Even better, they have a candidate running for president: Emidio “Mimi” Soltysik.
Soltysik, born in
Reading, PA, was educated at Troy University in Alabama and currently
lives in Los Angeles, California. Before accepting the presidential
nomination from the Socialist National Committee, he worked as an
activist for and co-chair of the Socialist Party.
The Socialist Party USA has a Democratic Socialist Agenda under which it “strives
to establish a radical democracy that places people’s lives under their
own control — a non-racist, classless, feminist socialist society where
working people own and control the means of production and distribution
through democratically-controlled public agencies, cooperatives, or
other collective groups.”
Because Soltysik is a
Democratic Socialist, he does not believe in vanguardism – the belief
that the most politically savvy and class-conscious members of the
proletariat should rise up to create organizations to help guide the
masses toward revolutionary politics and serve as manifestations of
proletarian power against enemies. He also doesn’t believe in democratic
centralism – a Leninist philosophy in which the policy of the political
party is centrally decided upon and thus binding for all members.
In essence, what Soltysik
believes is that a radical democratic change is needed to create a more
egalitarian and fair society. He has a few ideas of how that could be
accomplished....
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