Are you a marxist but not a member of a marxist organisation?

[Sue]

In terms of the original poll, people's names might give a hint...

Guests at a Kerala wedding included Marx and Lenin. Guess the groom’s name?

Newlywed Engels was also joined by Ho Chi Minh at southern India ceremony highlighting popularity of communist names

www.theguardian.com

 

[hitmouse]

In terms of the original poll, people's names might give a hint...

Guests at a Kerala wedding included Marx and Lenin. Guess the groom’s name?

Newlywed Engels was also joined by Ho Chi Minh at southern India ceremony highlighting popularity of communist names

www.theguardian.com

From that article:

The hammer and sickle remain in vogue across Kerala, where the Communist party has governed for much of the last six decades, and revolutionary names such as Stalin and Trotsky are still popular.

Calling your kid Trotsky while living in a CP stronghold seems like a bold move.

 

[Carl Steele]

Calling your kid Trotsky while living in a CP stronghold seems like a bold move.

Stay away from the family with a kid called Mercader.

 

[deeyo]

Stay away from the family with a kid called Mercader.

good advice -pick your friends carefully, trotsky.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

In Venezuela there is a high profile Trotskyist activist and union organiser called Stalin Perez Borges. Apparently his parents were not even communists, but anti-fascists who named their children after the leaders of the Allied powers. Stalin has two brothers called Churchill and Roosevelt.

 

[redcogs]

Meal time debates must have been a hoot!

 

[LDC]

In Venezuela there is a high profile Trotskyist activist and union organiser called Stalin Perez Borges. Apparently his parents were not even communists, but anti-fascists who named their children after the leaders of the Allied powers. Stalin has two brothers called Churchill and Roosevelt.

Apologies for the deviation, but reminded me of this....

Baby Dictators - Photo Essays

Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan dressed her daughter as some of the past century's most infamous dictators to highlight the human potential for evil

content.time.com

 

[hitmouse]

In Venezuela there is a high profile Trotskyist activist and union organiser called Stalin Perez Borges. Apparently his parents were not even communists, but anti-fascists who named their children after the leaders of the Allied powers. Stalin has two brothers called Churchill and Roosevelt.

I definitely remember there being at least one, possibly more, instance of someone involved in the Latin American cleaners' struggles in London who faced victimisation who was called Stalin, a brief look around found this for instance:

Fight is on to win Jose Stalin his job back - Socialist Worker

More than 100 trade unionists and campaigners joined an angry protest on the steps of Soas, which is part of the University of London, on Wednesday of last week against the sacking of trade unionist Jose Stalin Bermudez.

socialistworker.co.uk

 

[The39thStep]

Those were the days, Totsky's fond memories of meeting his first anarchist.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Those were the days, Totsky's fond memories of meeting his first anarchist.

Of course anarchists the world over have modelled themselves on Luzin ever since.

 

[hitmouse]

That is quite a funny answer tbf.

 

[Shechemite]

From that article:

Calling your kid Trotsky while living in a CP stronghold seems like a bold move.

Would make for a good ice-breaker though

 

[hitmouse]

Those were the days, Totsky's fond memories of meeting his first anarchist.

Actually, that sort of puts me in mind of the famous Lenin quote, from his letter to Inessa Armand:

Is there enough for a compilation of "historical figures getting wound up by Trotsky"?

 

[Pickman's model]

Those were the days, Totsky's fond memories of meeting his first anarchist.

Wonder how many dead anarchists he'd encountered before meeting his first living one

 

[rekil]

Trotsky conveniently left out Luzin's long explanation of how the imminent arrival of intergalactic comrades with their superior transportation technology would render primitive railways redundant.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I definitely remember there being at least one, possibly more, instance of someone involved in the Latin American cleaners' struggles in London who faced victimisation who was called Stalin, a brief look around found this for instance:

Fight is on to win Jose Stalin his job back - Socialist Worker

More than 100 trade unionists and campaigners joined an angry protest on the steps of Soas, which is part of the University of London, on Wednesday of last week against the sacking of trade unionist Jose Stalin Bermudez.

socialistworker.co.uk

There was also another cleaner involved in that dispute called Lenin:

Lenin Escudero | Staff | SOAS University of London

Lenin Escudero | SOAS University of London

www.soas.ac.uk

 

[Pickman's model]

There was also another cleaner involved in that dispute called Lenin:

Lenin Escudero | Staff | SOAS University of London

Lenin Escudero | SOAS University of London

www.soas.ac.uk

But not I note a trotsky

 

[hitmouse]

Do we need a "are you a marxist but not a parent of a child, or owner of a pet, named after a famous marxist historical figure?" thread?

 

[Sue]

But not I note a trotsky

Not that we know of. Yet.

 

[Pickman's model]

Do we need a "are you a marxist but not a parent of a child, or owner of a pet, named after a famous marxist historical figure?" thread?

Spymaster's middle name is Alexei after the famous russian miner stakhanov.

 

[Pickman's model]

Not that we know of. Yet.

I met Trotsky once, the drummer out of the subhumans in march 1990. There's more detail in my autobiography "brushes with greatness"

 

[The39thStep]

I knew Charlie Van Gelderen who was up until his death the last surviving member of those who attended the founding conference of the Fourth International.

 

[petee]

I knew Charlie Van Gelderen who was up until his death the last surviving member of those who attended the founding conference of the Fourth International.

but he was a member of a Marxist organization.

 

[Carl Steele]

but he was a member of a Marxist organization.

I think this has nonplussed everybody It's the "but" that does it.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I was going to recommend the following to glitch hiker on Kronstadt, but I see he's been banned (don't know if that's just from this thread or if it's a perma ban?) :

The Kronstadt uprising of 1921 - Ida Mett

Ida Mett's history of the Kronstadt uprising highlights one of the most important yet neglected events of the Russian Revolution.

libcom.org

The Kronstadt Commune

Ida Mett The Kronstadt Commune 1938 Original title: “La Commune de Cronstadt” Published: Paris 1938. First published in English by Solidarity, 1967....

theanarchistlibrary.org

 

[Pickman's model]

I was going to recommend the following to glitch hiker on Kronstadt, but I see he's been banned (don't know if that's just from this thread or if it's a perma ban?) :

The Kronstadt uprising of 1921 - Ida Mett

Ida Mett's history of the Kronstadt uprising highlights one of the most important yet neglected events of the Russian Revolution.

libcom.org

The Kronstadt Commune

Ida Mett The Kronstadt Commune 1938 Original title: “La Commune de Cronstadt” Published: Paris 1938. First published in English by Solidarity, 1967....

theanarchistlibrary.org

Permaban

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Permaban

Ahh I see. I can't say I'm surprised tbh. Looks like I was too late, although he did kinda seem like he had made up his mind and wasn't gonna budge. But one has to try.

 

[andysays]

Ahh I see. I can't say I'm surprised tbh. Looks like I was too late, although he did kinda seem like he had made up his mind and wouldn't budge.

He's a serial bannee/returner, so if previous behaviour is any guide, he'll be back shortly, as unpleasant and implacable as ever

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Ahh I see. I can't say I'm surprised tbh. Looks like I was too late, although he did kinda seem like he had made up his mind and wasn't gonna budge.

To be honest, I think you might be giving him too much credit in assuming the Leninism etc was sincere.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

As a wildly promiscuous user of forums, I have been putting it about on Libcom recently and have uploaded a few pieces on the remarkably wretched Workers Revolutionary Party and its implosion in the mid-80s:

57th Variety Act - Robin Blick

Few people have noted the spectacular split in the Workers' Revolutionary Party as more than a diverting entertainment. We invited two ex-members of the WRP's forerunner, the Socialist Labour League, to comment on the show. Below, Robin Blick casts an experienced eye backstage, while Ken Weller...

libcom.org

WRP: The Party's Over – Ken Weller

Solidarity member Ken Weller reviews the new Workers Revoutionary Party chorus line and finds it parading the same feet of clay.

libcom.org

Revolution betrayed - the Workers Revolutionary Party and Iraq

Two articles from Solidarity on corruption in the Workers Revolutionary Party and its links with Saddam Hussein and other Middle Eastern governments.

libcom.org