Describe your 'political tradition' in one sentence

[8ball]

I hope this is not going to turn into revleft where people tear each other into pieces over "whats your tendency"

Seems pretty good-natured so far.

 

[mk12]

Surely there's enough common ground between most of us to work together in one group? The U75 Party?

 

[frogwoman]

Surely there's enough common ground between most of us to work together in one group? The U75 Party?

Dont bet on it

 

[DotCommunist]

the issue having a cleaner for the party hq would rend us asunder

 

[danny la rouge]

Surely there's enough common ground between most of us to work together in one group? The U75 Party?

Too many Bruce Springsteen fans for my liking.

 

[phildwyer]

Antı-capıtalıst.

 

[articul8]

Too many Bruce Springsteen fans for my liking.

The Springsteen question would lead to our first major split then

 

[mk12]

The International Bruceshevik Tendency would be forced out early on I feel.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Anarchist-communist, libertarian-socialist, anarcho-syndicalist, council/left communist, autonomist Marxist (armchair branch)

I think that covers it.

that's about right for me too.

 

[malatesta32]

'a good breakfast, then despairing' about sums it up for me.

 

[8ball]

The Springsteen question would lead to our first major split then

A revolution without Dancing In The Dark is a revolution not worth having.

 

[imposs1904]

laptop socialist

 

[dylans]

Single parent

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Surely there's enough common ground between most of us to work together in one group? The U75 Party?

Vote Urban - a kitteh in every home

 

[danny la rouge]

A revolution with Dancing In The Dark is not a revolution.

 

[Das Uberdog]

Liebknecht-era KPD

oooooooooohhhhh niche...

 

[sihhi]

you set soup kitchens whilst wearing a balaclava and black leather gloves?

This sounds so wrong if you read it without looking at where it's from.

 

[sihhi]

A revolution with Dancing In The Dark is not a revolution.

Have you done your jazz post danny la rouge? Will it feature black South African jazz?

 

[danny la rouge]

Have you done your jazz post danny la rouge? Will it feature black South African jazz?

I haven't done one today. But I can feature black South African jazz in the next one, if you like.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Santino is still yet to explain why I like state-sanctioned murder.

 

[butchersapron]

Liebknecht-era KPD

oooooooooohhhhh niche...

That is niche - two whole weeks!

 

[sihhi]

I haven't done one today. But I can feature black South African jazz in the next one, if you like.

I didn't understand any of the music theory but the saxophone on the tune is very good, never really got the whole softly,softly snare ? drumming with most jazz though. The drum background just sounds like a mushy pulp. The occasional piano is alright tho.

 

[TruXta]

It's like porn, I know it when I see it but I can't really give a clear definition. Also, increasingly fed up with labels.

 

[danny la rouge]

never really got the whole softly,softly snare ? drumming with most jazz though. The drum background just sounds like a mushy pulp.

That's specifically bebop drumming. Swing drumming wasn't like that. In swing, the beat was held on the bass drum (as it is in most other forms of music), but in bebop it was moved to the ride cymbal. The reason was that bebop was much busier rhythm-wise, and the soloists needed space. That meant the bass drum could be used as punctuation, in the way that swing used the ride and crash cymbals.

 

[sihhi]

That's specifically bebop drumming. Swing drumming wasn't like that. In swing, the beat was held on the bass drum (as it is in most other forms of music), but in bebop it was moved to the ride cymbal. The reason was that bebop was much busier rhythm-wise, and the soloists needed space. That meant the bass drum could be used as punctuation, in the way that swing used the ride and crash cymbals.

cymbal - that's it that's the word I was looking for

way over me but thanks anyway , have you read Still Grazing: Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela?

 

[danny la rouge]

cymbal - that's it that's the word I was looking for

way over me but thanks anyway , have you read Still Grazing: Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela?

No, I haven't. Is it good?

 

[sihhi]

No, I haven't. Is it good?

I've seen it one library but I was in the wrong borough for it. It seemed very interesting because it highlighted how behind the liberation struggle 'we will win' facade and someone feted by the liberal establishment there's someone who is coercive towards women, self-destructive, wasteful of all the money he receives from his records (a number one in the US in 1968 popular among soldiers serving in Vietnam WTF?) perhaps because he is convinced he will never return home.
Andre Brink in his memoir talks about something similar with the exile students at Lumumba University.
Almost inevitably, both Brink and Masakela become 'ANC inspite of itself, upsetting though it is' once national liberation is achieved.

 

[BigTom]

Surely there's enough common ground between most of us to work together in one group? The U75 Party?

It already exists

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You just wait, fuck Stalin and Mao and the "100 million dead" we'll double that this century, easy.

There's an optimist in every crowd.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You dont actually understand what Communism is do you?

Apparently, communism is this ethereal, will-of-the-wisp thing that have never actually existed in physical presence or practice in the world.