"Communist" leaders in Moldova delay election because of obscure Christian feast...

[Cheung Mo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8071251.stm

Ascension Thursday? Communists bending over for Christianity? The opposition sounds pretty credible in this case.

[Wanted Man]

It's a parliamentary vote, not an election...

Anyway, I agree that the opposition in Moldova are very, umm, credible. They have repeatedly stated their intention to privatise anything that hasn't been yet, to join the EU and NATO, or even just become annexed into a Greater Romania, like in the good old days of Antonescu. They are very credible indeed, because there can be absolutely no doubt that they will keep these campaign promises if they ever end up in power.

The funny thing is that the 'Communist' Party also supports privatisation and European integration, but to the hardcore neo-liberals, these things are never going fast enough. So this year, they initiated an attempt at the 'spontaneous student revolt' or 'Colour Revolution' that we've seen all over Europe.

[Yazman]

When are you people going to realise that just because a group or party says they're communists, it doesn't actually make them communists?

[Dimentio]

It's a parliamentary vote, not an election...

Anyway, I agree that the opposition in Moldova are very, umm, credible. They have repeatedly stated their intention to privatise anything that hasn't been yet, to join the EU and NATO, or even just become annexed into a Greater Romania, like in the good old days of Antonescu. They are very credible indeed, because there can be absolutely no doubt that they will keep these campaign promises if they ever end up in power.

The funny thing is that the 'Communist' Party also supports privatisation and European integration, but to the hardcore neo-liberals, these things are never going fast enough. So this year, they initiated an attempt at the 'spontaneous student revolt' or 'Colour Revolution' that we've seen all over Europe.

Yes, and it failed pathetically. Funny how the word "coup" could be supplanted by "democracy". Even a libertarian former high school classmate to me who is living in Moldova is supporting the communist party on this one.

[Revy]

When are you people going to realise that just because a group or party says they're communists, it doesn't actually make them communists?

I think the surprise factor might be more powerful if the capitalists in question call themselves "communist" - given the old misconception that "communism" denotes a more radical ideology than "socialism" (which is often believed by Stalinists to explain the love-affair Stalinism has had with state capitalism and to an extent, social democracy, all under the name of "socialism" as a "step").

[Glenn Beck]

When are you people going to realise that just because a group or party says they're communists, it doesn't actually make them communists?

Did I miss something? Who exactly is defending the Communist Party of Moldova? I haven't encountered any such sentiment but maybe I'm not reading the right threads.

Or is this just another sectarian party thread I wasn't invited to?

[Q]

Did I miss something? Who exactly is defending the Communist Party of Moldova? I haven't encountered any such sentiment but maybe I'm not reading the right threads.

Or is this just another sectarian party thread I wasn't invited to?
See the OP. It isn't defending, but denoting the "communist" party as communist.

[Glenn Beck]

See the OP. It isn't defending, but denoting the "communist" party as communist.

So failing to put the actual name of a political party in childish inverted commas amounts to an endorsement or defense of that party? In any case your point is lost on me because the actual title of the thread puts the word Communist in quotes.

[Q]

So failing to put the actual name of a political party in childish inverted commas amounts to an endorsement or defense of that party? In any case your point is lost on me because the actual title of the thread puts the word Communist in quotes.
You're the first one to talk about any kind of endorsement, no one else brought it into the discussion. Also, using "" isn't childish, but intended to avoid confusion.

Once more, I refer to the OP:

Communists bending over for Christianity?Cheung Mo (http://www.revleft.com/vb/../member.php?u=11766) is clearly confused on this party actually being communist.

On a completely unrelated note: this is my 1917th post! yay!

[scarletghoul]

I think you are misunderstanding Cheung Mo (http://www.revleft.com/vb/../../member.php?u=11766), Q (http://www.revleft.com/vb/../member.php?u=12488). I interpreted it as a rhetorical statement that they are supposed to be communist but are not.

[Q]

I think you are misunderstanding Cheung Mo (http://www.revleft.com/vb/../../member.php?u=11766), Q (http://www.revleft.com/vb/../member.php?u=12488). I interpreted it as a rhetorical statement that they are supposed to be communist but are not.
Perhaps it was sarcasm, perhaps not; that doesn't translate well over the intertubes.

[Glenn Beck]

You're the first one to talk about any kind of endorsement, no one else brought it into the discussion.


When are you people going to realise that just because a group or party says they're communists, it doesn't actually make them communists?

I took "you people" as referring to a seemingly fictitious group of people on this forum who consider the CP of Moldova an upstanding communist organization with impeccable revolutionary credentials and I assumed it to be a sectarian jab.


Also, using "" isn't childish, but intended to avoid confusion.

You're entitled to your opinion, but I find it an unnecessary and distracting rhetorical device.


Once more, I refer to the OP:
Cheung Mo (http://www.revleft.com/vb/../member.php?u=11766) is clearly confused on this party actually being communist.


Title of the thread copy and pasted: "Communist" leaders in Moldova delay election because of obscure Christian feast...

Note use of quotation marks indistinguishable from your own.