emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
You go to Starbucks but feel guilty about it afterwards?
Describe your 'political tradition' in one sentence
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8ball
Decolonise colons!
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
a former schoolfreind whos now an employer of some young chaps in my locality informed them recently that when i was 15 i stood up in class and told my english teacher ( who did a heavy line in anti soviet propaganda) that in the event of the Red army landing in Ireland Id be telling them everything she was saying about them . And that i had her under close scrutiny .
This is seriously not a joke, i actually did that in all earnestness .
This is seriously not a joke, i actually did that in all earnestness .
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
Ex- Marxist, Machajski-ist, an individualist anarcho-communist.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
jakethesnake
In bed for Britain
Guilt is the cop in your head maaan.I don't like coffee, but you're in the right ballpark.
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
nay, thats merely an alliteration towards my (possibly fateful) decision to readopt the sergio tacchini/fila brands of old, despite my old age . Which id been in the middle of doing when i signed up to the forum . Mid life crisis .
Fantastic!
So, not so casual then, eh?
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Was daily mail reading tory boy when younger
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Now probably a green.
.Now probably a green.
Quoting me in a different thread utterly confused the hell out of me for a good 90 seconds. I thought, "I'm sure I don't remember posting in this thread."
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
I should have mentioned that it was from another thread. Can't remember which one though. Works better on this one. Sorry for the bamboozlement.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Although there were everything from Marxists to wet tories in my family I was most influenced by my aunt's second husband who had been in the blackshirts. He was so full of bile and wrongness that I got politically educated to argue with him from a relatively young age (13 or 14). I'm not particularly left-wing though. The Marxists in my family loved Stalin because the children got shoes and ignored everything else so I saw how blinkered extremists were at both ends of the spectrum. I did pretend to be much more left-wing as a teenager as it royally pissed off my parents.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Anyhow. To rrspond to Frank's original error:
There are many places in the world where it is most definitly not ok to call yourself a communist.
Equally there are places where it is socially acceptable to call youself a fascist. Parts of Italy for example. Witnesd Brlusconi, Di Canio etc. I met plenty of "civililians" who quite happily described tjemselves as fadcists.
There are many places in the world where it is most definitly not ok to call yourself a communist.
Equally there are places where it is socially acceptable to call youself a fascist. Parts of Italy for example. Witnesd Brlusconi, Di Canio etc. I met plenty of "civililians" who quite happily described tjemselves as fadcists.
In addition to that, what about the places where it's not ok to call yourself a fascist, but acting like one and, supporting fascist politics under another name, is tolerated? In some cases supported by the powers that be (see Daily Mail thread for more)
Or what about those places where you're technically allowed to call yourself a communist, but should you ever actually organise (democratically and peacably) to be a communist you'll find mi5 up your arse faster than you can say gulag?
Or what about those places where you're technically allowed to call yourself a communist, but should you ever actually organise (democratically and peacably) to be a communist you'll find mi5 up your arse faster than you can say gulag?
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Minarchist by inclination, Conservative voter in line with my class interests and Australian Liberal Party donor.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Fence-sitting tree-hugger.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
Working class dazed and confused.
corrected for you
Can I change mine to Northern Seperatist for the establishment of a People's Democratic Socialist Republic of the m62 Corridor?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Were you a banker, then?
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Armchair pro-working class clipboardist.
I find it less useful to think about myself as being in a "tradition" these days. It just gets in the way when you talk to people.
I find it less useful to think about myself as being in a "tradition" these days. It just gets in the way when you talk to people.
ReturnOfElfman
Well-Known Member
Libertarian socialist inspired by groups including, but not limited to, the IWW, CNT, The Black Panthers, Delo Truda, AFA and the Zapatistas.
So you set up soup kitchens whilst wearing a balaclava and black leather gloves?
Remus Harbank
Cake and whipped cream…
oh the joy of labels.
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