Michael Magann:
CLASS OF 1989
Graham High SchoolClass of 1989
Bluefield, VA
Michael's Story
Michael is from Bluefield, Virginia. Michael's schools include Graham High School. Michael works(ed) at Magann Law Office, Pllc, Magann & Gurganus, Pllc, Williamson Magann & Gurganus.
Music Michael likes includes Russian Music, Red Army Choir, Bluegrass music. Books Michael likes include Social Capitalism, Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Robert A. Caro. Movies Michael likes include Doctor Zhivago, Cool Hand Luke, Jesus Was a Commie. TV shows Michael likes include msnbc, Current, The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell.
One of Michael's favorite quotes is:""What is Soviet power? What is the essence of this new power, which people in most countries still will not, or cannot, understand? The nature of this power, which is attracting larger and larger numbers of workers in every country, is the following: in the past the country was, in one way or another, governed by the rich, or by the capitalists, but now, for the first time, the country is being governed by the classes, and moreover, by the masses of those classes, which capitalism formerly oppressed. Even in the most democratic and freest republics, as long as capital rules and the land remains private property, the government will always be in the hands of a small minority, nine-tenths of which consist of capitalists, or rich men.
In this country, in Russia, for the first time in the world history, the government of the country is so organised that only the workers and the working peasants, to the exclusion of the exploiters, constitute those mass organisations known as Soviets, and these Soviets wield all state power. That is why, in spite of the slander that the representatives of the bourgeoisie in all countries spread about Russia, the word "Soviet" has now become not only intelligible but popular all over the world, has become the favourite word of the workers, and of all working people. And that is why, notwithstanding all the persecution to which the adherents of communism in the different countries are subjected, Soviet power must necessarily, inevitably, and in the not distant futu...Expand for more
re, triumph all over the world.
We know very well that there are still many defects in the organisation of Soviet power in this country. Soviet power is not a miracle-working talisman. It does not, overnight, heal all the evils of the past- illiteracy, lack of culture, the consequences of a barbarous war, the aftermath of predatory capitalism. But it does pave the way to socialism. It gives those who were formerly oppressed the chance to straighten their backs and to an ever-increasing degree to take the whole government of the country, the whole administration of the economy, the whole management of production, into their own hands.
Soviet power is the road to socialism that was discovered by the masses of the working people, and that is why it is the true road, that is why it is invincible." - V.I. Lenin, March 1919
"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day." - Lyndon Johnson
"We are the party of the haves and have mores." - George W. Bush
"The Republican Party: Where the Lessons of Pharisees Overrule the Lessons of Christ" - one smart and observant Christian
"Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." - Finley Peter Dunne
"The Ballot Box is simply a capitalist concession. Dropping pieces of paper into a hole in a box never did achieve emancipation of the working class, and in my opinion it never will." - Father Thomas J. Hagerty, American Roman Catholic priest and one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1862-?)
"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." - Eugene V. Debs at his criminal sentencing hearing for the conviction of treason for opposing World War I on November 18, 1918
âWorkers of the World, Unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains!â - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848".
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