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Topic: Who here is among the Right and Libertarians?
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oldgoat
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posted 09 March 2003 01:04 PM
When there's a kerfuffle in parliament, Hansard will often write it up as...Some Honourable Members: Oh oh! I would imagine Hoxhas meeting minutes went something like that. edited to rearrange the f's in kerfuffle. still doesn't look right. [ 09 March 2003: Message edited by: oldgoat ]
From: The 10th circle | Registered: Jul 2001
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'lance
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posted 09 March 2003 01:26 PM
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I wanna be a Hoxhaite. I think that silent majority who still carry the flame of the late Enver Hoxha will rise again and will be seen at booths of NDP conferences everywhere.
I used to live around the corner from the headquarters, or politburo, or whatever, of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), which was on Ossington at College. It doubled as their bookstore. I was vaguely curious about what they were about -- until, that is, I stopped one day and examined the titles they had for sale. All very cheaply-printed paperbacks, covers in the kind of institutional grey and green that took me back to the walls of my old elementary school, all unadorned except for titles in tiny type about the glories of Albania and the brilliance of Comrade Hoxha's thought, and maybe a hammer and sickle here and there. And all about as dusty and down-at-heels as the little shop they were displayed in. In retrospect, I guess I decided against Marxism-Leninism, in the first instance, on esthetic grounds. Back in Toronto this last Christmas, we walked by this very building. The CPC-ML was long gone, and the businesses in the building looked halfway prosperous. For once I was almost glad to see a bit of gentrification, particularly as the nearby corner store I used to shop at -- sixteen years before -- was still there and still apparently going strong.
From: that enchanted place on the top of the Forest | Registered: Jul 2001
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Email this thread to someone!
), but I would consider myself well to the right of most other Rabblers, but probably to the left of Joe and Mary Sixpack. Why am I here? Because it's not all that interesting discussing things with those who agree wholeheartedly with everything you say. I also enjoy the respectful 'atmosphere' here. If someone disagrees with you here, they will attack the argument, not the person.
I am an anarchist. I would happily work with Libertarians. I read Marx, Gramsci, Chomsky and even Bakunin -- I try not to get upset when the Left or democratically natured people forget history and start saying silly things about who has or has not won a revolution, or talk as if Social Democrats and Communists haven't deluded themselves in the past. Could we get on with the work of working together?
