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Editorial Board

Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

PhD

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has a Doctorate in Modern American Literature/Cultural Theory. Click here to contact Dr. Daniels.

257 pieces

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Baby Darl and the Quality of Life – Under Capitalism in the U.S.A

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular, A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, Such as…

But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular, A name that's peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail…

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Demons and Grandeur: The Socialization of American Society

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered… -Tacitus, Germania [Hitler’s] aims, from the campaign’s inception in 1940, were not those of conventional geopolitics. He did not want just to annex useful territory and crate a new balance of power, but to wipe out a culture and an ideology, if necessary a…

In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered… -Tacitus, Germania [Hitler’s] aims, from the campaign’s inception in 1940, were not those of conventional…

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A Few Good Women: Response to “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All”

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

As a modern female proletarian, the woman becomes a human being for the first time, since the [proletarian] struggle is the first to prepare human beings to make a contribution to culture, to history of humanity. -Rosa Luxemburg, “The Proletarian Woman” (1914) In her day, Marxist theoretician and activist, Rosa Luxemburg, was criticized for not…

As a modern female proletarian, the woman becomes a human being for the first time, since the [proletarian] struggle is the first to prepare human beings…

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In A Police Materialist World, Might Is Right!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

-Joseph Stiglitz, Truthout In Memory of Trayvon Martin, Rakia Boyd, Ramarley Graham, Darius Simmons They take out the garbage, make up their beds, vacuum the living room, wash dishes, and baby sit siblings or neighbor’s children, but they are not workers, and yet, they, too, are targets of the U.S. Empire’s militarism. Ever since these…

-Joseph Stiglitz, Truthout In Memory of Trayvon Martin, Rakia Boyd, Ramarley Graham, Darius Simmons They take out the garbage, make up their beds, vacuum the living…

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Children are Targeted by Good Ole’ Americans and Obama Drones – The Black Bourgeoisie is Blessed to be the Empire’s Bourgeoisie!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence,’ 1967 The Root, funded under the leadership of Harvard elite, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, declares the latest shooting too ‘difficult to understand’ (June 8, 2012). The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, no friend to the Black struggle for revolutionary change and democracy, quoted the…

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence,’ 1967 The Root, funded under the leadership of Harvard elite, Dr. Henry Louis…

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Rosa Luxemburg: “Proletarian Women, the Poorest of the Poor, the Most Disempowered of the Disempowered…Hurry to the Front Lines, into the Trenches!”

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism [democracy], that is, the conscious struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism, against its methods, against war. (�Junius Pamphlet�) [2] The dilemma humanity faces is this �inevitable choice,�…

Either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of…

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Rosa Luxemburg: What Say the Citizens of This Business as Usual Narrative of Change?

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Citizens, particularly some in the U.S. would think it tragic that these folks did not have access to cable news or to the Internet! There are no landlines, cell phones or telegraphs or modern-day postal service; nonetheless, the people received news from their government – directly from their government! In this case, news is disseminated…

Citizens, particularly some in the U.S. would think it tragic that these folks did not have access to cable news or to the Internet! There are…

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Rosa Luxemburg: The Future Everywhere Belongs to Revolution!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Written while Luxemburg was serving a prison term for her opposition to World War I, the essay, �The Russian Revolution,� never published in her lifetime, [1] is her plea for the creation of a �revolutionary democracy after the seizure of power� (The Rosa Luxemburg Reader). It is critical of the Bolshevik leadership for their establishment…

Written while Luxemburg was serving a prison term for her opposition to World War I, the essay, �The Russian Revolution,� never published in her lifetime, [1]…

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WAR: The “Mutual Butchery” of the Poor and Working Class

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Luxemburg warns: �[s]ocial democracy is not linked to the organization of the working class; it is the working class�s own movement.� What is needed is �education� for a �new discipline,� one that is �voluntary self-discipline.� Only by �defying and uprooting� this discipline instilled in them by the capitalist state, Luxemburg explains, can the movement of…

Luxemburg warns: �[s]ocial democracy is not linked to the organization of the working class; it is the working class�s own movement.� What is needed is �education�…

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