The 00's

[Il Medico]

Thoughts?

[Communist Theory]

I watched club/dance music take over the popular music scene.
:(

[ellipsis]

Worst decade ever...

[Melebeb]

Poverty is "picturesque".

[Mindtoaster]

I watched club/dance music take over the popular music scene.
:(

Sadface?

Probably one of the only good parts of this decade

[Andrei Kuznetsov]

I hated every single fucking thing about them.

[RHIZOMES]

I hated every single fucking thing about them.

Yup, what a horrible decade to spend my teen years.

And the 10's will probably be even worse.

[Kwisatz Haderach]

Worst decade ever...
The 40s. 'Nuff said.

[AK]

We watched capitalism take on a friendlier face ("freedom" and "democracy") and watched the USA invade another poor country for control of it's capital.


I watched club/dance music take over the popular music scene.
:(

Terrible, I know.

[Rusty Shackleford]

ill get back to you in a few years on this one. only until recently have i become aware of things. the early 00's(00-03) are actually a bit hazy as im only 18 now.
i dont have a decade that i can compare it to:lol:

[Pogue]

The working class continued to rapdily grow in size, imperialism continued, the left remained a joke and that same working class began to suffer the consequences of Blairism in the UK.

The dubstep was good though.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

To be fair though there were some wicked films out. Shame about the poverty, warfare and general decline in living standards though. Good films though.

[Pogue]

To be fair though there were some wicked films out. Shame about the poverty, warfare and general decline in living standards though. Good films though.

He does have a point about the films.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I watched club/dance music take over the popular music scene.
:(

Did it? Mind you, I've noticed that American dance "music" tends to be a completely different beast to its counterpart in the UK/Europe.

In other words, American clubs sound shit.

[Pogue]

Did it? Mind you, I've noticed that American dance "music" tends to be a completely different beast to its counterpart in the UK/Europe.

In other words, American clubs sound shit.

what he said!

[Aesop]

Better than the 90s

[Angry Young Man]

Ten years of disaster in pictures. First there was this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George-W-Bush.jpeg

Whose sycophants to this day, such as

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glenn_Beck_Book_Tour_cropped.jpg

use this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_Park_Service_9-11_Statue_of_Liberty_and_WTC_fire.jpg

to justify things like this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_x-ray_detainees.jpg

There's probably more to come before the 31st. Tomorrow, popular culture

[Angry Young Man]

Awww fuck

[Rusty Shackleford]

^:laugh: nice fail

[Il Medico]

So, I am I the only one thinking that the 00's saw the first signs of the fall of the American Empire? I mean, when you look at the USA's relationship with other powers now, in contrast to at the beginning of the decade, it really is quite a bit worse. So that is kinda a good thing. The music was good, at least the music that I listen to. Movies were pretty good. Technology has taken leaps and bounds. I mean:
2000:
http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/image/phone-detail/phone_qcp2000.jpg
2010:
http://image.ec21.com/image/astrofly/oimg_GC02639287_CA03749800/Smart_Mobile_Phone_Wifi_Mobile_Phone_TV_Cell_Phone _Dual_SIM_Mobile_T2000.jpg

So some good, a lot bad and a good deal indifferent in my opinion.

Also, Am I the only one who is for some reason expecting a huge bloody war to break out in about four years?

[RHIZOMES]

what he said!


nah

[Revy]

yeah. World War III will happen in a few years probably sooner.

here's a video to demonstrate it:

mVzt7S6CGWs

[Killfacer]

Considering it was the decade in which i went from 9-19, it's difficult not to have enjoyed them.

[Il Medico]

I was 8 when the decade started.

[Angry Young Man]

God this time next decade, I'll be thirty :crying: Or dead.

[Revy]

God this time next decade, I'll be thirty :crying: Or dead.

i'll be 31.

[Angry Young Man]

i'll be 31.

Or dead

[LeninBalls]

A fortune teller once told me in the next 10 years I'm going to die while walking in an accident, so, the 10's don't sound very appealing.

[Angry Young Man]

Either accept it as total toss, or break your legs on New Years Day, but if you go for the latter, you might end up on the wrong end of some Oedipal self-fulfilling prophecy

[Dr Mindbender]

Thoughts?

good riddance.

[Killfacer]

The music was poor.

[Dr Mindbender]

did i say good riddance?

Well, here it is again.

Good riddance.

[Killfacer]

the music was poor.

[RHIZOMES]

the music was poor

[Pogue]

the music lacked money

[Mindtoaster]

Fuck all of you

club/dance music was the best thing to happen to this world

[Killfacer]

Fuck all of you

club/dance music was the best thing to happen to this world

I like drum & bass and this has been a good decade for that admittedly.

[Pirate Utopian]

there were a few good songs here and there.

[Dr Mindbender]

Fuck as from next month my life will have spanned 4 decades. :scared:

[Killfacer]

Fuck as from next month my life will have spanned 4 decades. :scared:

Old man! why don't you set up a site called "chestore"? Perhaps then you could forsake your left wing ways and grow rich from the sale of che t-shirts.

[Dr Mindbender]

God this time next decade, I'll be thirty :crying: Or dead.
look on the bright side you could be forty.

[RedAnarchist]

Fuck as from next month my life will have spanned 4 decades. :scared:

Mine too (1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s). My dad's life will have spanned 7 decades, and my one living grandfather (maternal), will have lived through 9 decades.

[RHIZOMES]

Old man! why don't you set up a site called "chestore"? Perhaps then you could forsake your left wing ways and grow rich from the sale of che t-shirts.

its like all those years of being an actual leftist were valuable training time so you could more efficiently exploit every leftist consumers hidden desires

so no time was wasted $$$$$$

[RedAnarchist]

look on the bright side you could be forty.

This time next decade I'll be 33.

[Pogue]

I'll remember how revleft was born and died in the 00s.

[Pirate Utopian]

This time next decade I'll be 33.
I'll be 29. Not in my 30s. :cool:

[Killfacer]

I'll also be 29 hahahaha suckers.

[Dr Mindbender]

i'll be thirty in only a couple of years.

[Mindtoaster]

Fuck as from next month my life will have spanned 4 decades. :scared:

You dinosaur!

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

The 00s was certainly an interesting decade, I don't think that can really be argued against effectively. Bloody, nasty, and brutish, but also interesting.

0 world series rings for the A's, 0 super bowls for the Raiders, 0 NBA championships for the Warriors, 0 stanley c....ah fuck it. Needless to say, not the greatest decade for east bay sport fans.

[Angry Young Man]

Mine too (1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s). My dad's life will have spanned 7 decades, and my one living grandfather (maternal), will have lived through 9 decades.

No, it will have spanned two decades. You will have lived in four, but you don't say a bridge spans a gorge if it's a foot long on the east side. It's like me saying I was there in the 80s, when I was there for 255 days of it.

[Angry Young Man]

look on the bright side you could be forty.

Dude, you just do not say some things

[Revy]

well you were in the 80s. like me you were a baby though. but it doesn't mean you didn't experience it, you just don't remember it....

[Dr Mindbender]

No, it will have spanned two decades. You will have lived in four, but you don't say a bridge spans a gorge if it's a foot long on the east side. It's like me saying I was there in the 80s, when I was there for 255 days of it.

well i'm from the early 80's so in my case it will have spanned 4 decades, young whippersnapper.

I have avid memories of a day when the Soviet Union was alive and well and people still knew who Bros (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szWkAaD00j0) were.

[Revy]

Incidentally, the '80s film 2010, sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, has the Soviet Union still existing in 2010.

[Dr Mindbender]

Incidentally, the '80s film 2010, sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, has the Soviet Union still existing in 2010.

Yes but folk in the 80's thought the USSR was invincible and would live forever.

And force Patrick Swayze and his mates out into the woods so they call themselves 'the wolverines'.

[RHIZOMES]

Yes but folk in the 80's thought the USSR was invincible and would live forever.

And force Patrick Swayze and his mates out into the woods so they call themselves 'the wolverines'.

god i love that film

[Rusty Shackleford]

yeah its a pretty good movie

[Revy]

2010 or Red Dawn?

[RebelDog]

2010 will either be the start or end of me. The most important thing in my life left me in 2009. I still love her so much. In silience I grieve.

[cb9's_unity]

The 00s was certainly an interesting decade, I don't think that can really be argued against effectively. Bloody, nasty, and brutish, but also interesting.

0 world series rings for the A's, 0 super bowls for the Raiders, 0 NBA championships for the Warriors, 0 stanley c....ah fuck it. Needless to say, not the greatest decade for east bay sport fans.

3 rings for the patriots, 2 rings for the sox, 1 ring for the celtics, never cared much for the bruins. Pretty much the greatest decade ever.

Otherwise we lived in a decade were a vice president shot a guy in the face and got an apology from his target. I think that says a lot.

[Rusty Shackleford]

2010 or Red Dawn?


well i have not seen 2010 so Red Dawn. the politics werent what were good, i was just into the camping and shooting as a kid.

2010 any good?

[RHIZOMES]

well i have not seen 2010 so Red Dawn. the politics werent what were good, i was just into the camping and shooting as a kid.

2010 any good?

it's terrible

[The Author]

2010 was meh, not as good as 2001.

The 00s sucked. Total opposite of the 90s for me. Music sucked. Movies sucked- everything is a sequel, prequel, or remake of something that was better. Sports scene sucked. Politics really sucked. Life in general sucked. Not really seeing the 10s as a better decade. In fact, until the past few weeks, I hadn't even thought about the end of the decade- it was just so bad. The years are nothing more than numbers for me.

[Rusty Shackleford]

thanks for the input. ill just avoid it now :lol:

[Vendetta]

I'm still waitin' on my hoverboard promised to me by the future. :(

[Revy]

You should watch it....I mean what better movie to watch on New Years 2010 than a movie with the year 2010 as the title.

[Rusty Shackleford]

ill save it for the 31st then. ive sat through shitty movies before willingly so it shouldnt be that big of a problem

[Il Medico]

I'll be 28 on new years day in 2020. Holy shit, I have a decade left till I am old.

[RHIZOMES]

I'll be 28 on new years day in 2020. Holy shit, I have a decade left till I am old.

Me too

Man I didn't expect you to be the same age as me actually, thought you would be about 20+

[Sasha]

you turn old when you hit 28? fuck that shit, in 2020 i'll be 37, than i'll be ancient by your standarts.

[Rusty Shackleford]

in 2020 ill be living in a post revolutionary society:D

[RedAnarchist]

you turn old when you hit 28? fuck that shit, in 2020 i'll be 37, than i'll be ancient by your standarts.

You're three years older than me? I thought you were like 20 or something (no offence).

[Sasha]

nope, the evil 30 is creeping closer and closer.

[Angry Young Man]

well i'm from the early 80's so in my case it will have spanned 4 decades, young whippersnapper.

I have avid memories of a day when the Soviet Union was alive and well and people still knew who Bros (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szWkAaD00j0) were.

A bridge still doesn't span a gorge if it stops two foot short of the west side.

[9]

Hawaiian shirts, bucket hats, "Who Let the Dogs Out". In short, utter shit. To be fair, that's more the earlier 00's. There was an improvement toward the middle-end.

[Angry Young Man]

in 2020 ill be living in a post revolutionary society:D

Will they be able to reverse ageing by then? I kind of want to stay 20. Or maybe go back to 18.

[Rusty Shackleford]

actually yes. because some scientists at CERN and the Nuclear Research Facilitymajigger in CA figured out how to get cold fusion to work, revolution came within 3 months of that due to the ability to have free energy. science was now able to devote itself to other issues like cosmetics, something never done before.

[mykittyhasaboner]

Stop lamenting on how shitty this decade was. Here's to 2010 and beyond.

Let us smash this fucking decade, and all the previous ones. I have a feeling the '10's will be better. Maybe I'm crazy but a guy can have gut feelings right?

[Angry Young Man]

Stop lamenting on how shitty this decade was. Here's to 2010 and beyond.

I would, but in case I haven't already said this, at the end of it, I will be 30! That's 210 in dog years

[Il Medico]

Me too

Man I didn't expect you to be the same age as me actually, thought you would be about 20+
That's alright, I thought you were like 25, so.


you turn old when you hit 28? fuck that shit, in 2020 i'll be 37, than i'll be ancient by your standarts.
Well, 30 is old. 28 is only two years away from 30, thus 1 decade till I am old.

And yes, if you were born before 1990 you will be out dated before the 2020.



I would, but in case I haven't already said this, at the end of it, I will be 30! That's 210 in dog years
God you are old, 18 is were it is at.

[Killfacer]

And yes, if you were born before 1990 you will be out dated before the 2020.



but... why would you say that to me??? :crying:

[Il Medico]

but... why would you say that to me??? :crying:
Well, don't worry mate, I'll be out dated before 2030.

[Killfacer]

Well, don't worry mate, I'll be out dated before 2030.

You're outdated in a couple of days time when the master hands your ass to you.

[NecroCommie]

I don't understand you guys and your worship of youth. :confused: What's so special about turning 30? I know I will still be active the same way when I turn 40, and I propably start feeling old at 45+. Hell, I'm 20 right now and I am not even allowed at all the clubs in Helsinki! I'm just an infant!!!

[Killfacer]

I don't understand you guys and your worship of youth. :confused: What's so special about turning 30? I know I will still be active the same way when I turn 40, and I propably start feeling old at 45+. Hell, I'm 20 right now and I am not even allowed at all the clubs in Helsinki! I'm just an infant!!!

I can do pretty much whatever i want and i have done most of it. Life ends at 18.

[Sarah Palin]

Thoughts?

Thoughts on the oughts ey?

Très horrible, except for advances in technology.

[Il Medico]

You're outdated in a couple of days time when the master hands your ass to you.
Nah, time is ending. If there is no future how can I become outdated? :lol:

[Jimmie Higgins]

As far as comparisons: culturally, the 00s were worse than the early 90s, but better than the late 90s or basically the same as the 80s.

Politically, the 00s were pretty bad. The 90s were bad, but things picked up at the end of the decade. But really the 00s were just a political continuation and acceleration of what's been happening since the decline of the social movements in the 1970s.

[Angry Young Man]

What was wrong with the late 90s? And you can never make a decent comparison of two decades' popular culture because you will only ever really belong to one.

But nothing was as bad as the 80s.

[Niccolò Rossi]

As far as comparisons: culturally, the 00s were worse than the early 90s, but better than the late 90s or basically the same as the 80s.

Politically, the 00s were pretty bad. The 90s were bad, but things picked up at the end of the decade. But really the 00s were just a political continuation and acceleration of what's been happening since the decline of the social movements in the 1970s.

On the contrary, I think this decade has seen an, albeit very modest, resurgance in the combavity of the working class. I think that the anti-CPE struggles in France in 2003 marks the beginning of this new wave of workers struggle. Whilst in absolute terms the US lags quite far behind and in some respects has seen a retrogression, the balance of class forces can only be measured from an international perspective.

[RHIZOMES]

What was wrong with the late 90s? And you can never make a decent comparison of two decades' popular culture because you will only ever really belong to one.

http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Brad/backstreet.jpghttp://images.coveralia.com/audio/v/Vengaboys-Up_&_Down_The_Party_Album-Frontal.jpg

http://misskind.no.sapo.pt/dbimg/Aqua-Aquarium19995478_f.jpg
http://www.thelyricarchive.com/images/blink182.jpg
http://dummidumbwit.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/limp-bizkit.jpg
http://images.paraorkut.com/img/artists/images/k/korn_album-240.jpg
http://www.twd.in/entertainment/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/britney_spears.jpg

I rest my case

[Jimmie Higgins]

I rest my caseWell illustrated.


On the contrary, I think this decade has seen an, albeit very modest, resurgance in the combavity of the working class.This may just be a regional difference. In the late 90s there was a moment in the US when it seemed like the labor movement might turn around a bit. There were several large strikes that won (justice for a janitors, UPS teamsters, for example) after 15 years of retreat and big losses. Unions also had an immigrant rights campaign and began making alliences with the left and with enviornmentalists (teamsters and turtles). Outside the official labor movement there was movement too, but after 9/11 there were a few more losses and unions retreated back to the conservativism of being the Democrat's lap-dogs.

In the US there were big anti-war protests, pro-immigrant rights protests (on May Day!) so things weren't as bleak as the 80s, but none of these movements actully congealed and they were mostly channeled into liberal bullshit limbo where they remain today.

I think that thinks simply must get better in the next decade - it may take a few years, but there is some of that combativity that you mentioned in the air and hopefully the working class and organized left can build something self-sustaining out of that.

[Angry Young Man]

I don't understand why Korn are in there. Plus that's all about music. The late 90s brought in Futurama, South Park and Family Guy. And like I said, not like as bad as the 80s.

[Il Medico]

In all fairness the late 90's also saw:
http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Eheathwoo/images/Neutral_Milk_Hotel_-_In_the_Aeroplane_Over_the_Sea.jpg
http://wwnivny.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/neutral_milk_hotel.jpg
and
http://musosguide.com/public_html/musos.wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Of_Montreal.jpg

[Communist]

This decade? Not much good at all, and I disagree about films. I can't think of even one movie from this decade that I'll likely want to watch in 20-30 years time...could be wrong of course but I can't think of one off the top of my head.
Offtopic: I've noticed this for a long time but never bothered to ask, what the heck is the Vast Jewish Conspiracy?:confused:

[Angry Young Man]

In all fairness the late 90's also saw:
http://spot.colorado.edu/%7Eheathwoo/images/Neutral_Milk_Hotel_-_In_the_Aeroplane_Over_the_Sea.jpg
http://wwnivny.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/neutral_milk_hotel.jpg
and
http://musosguide.com/public_html/musos.wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Of_Montreal.jpg

Not to mention

http://www.calshop.biz/gol_2005-2006/immagini/Psx/FICHE%20T/COVERS/Tomb_Raider_2_Pal.jpg

http://www.kijo.no/wp-content/uploads/tekken3-f.jpg

http://savepointonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/metal_gear_solid.jpg

http://www.lejeuvideo.com/phpbuns/jeu/upload/3599.jpg

I was a pre-teen in the late 90s, so video games are pretty much what I remember vis-a-vis popular culture. Still, fucken golden age!

[Sam_b]

In this thread, teenagers will without a trace of irony brand the years in which they became class-conscious and active as the 'worst decade ever'.

[Angry Young Man]

Yea, maybe it would have been better if more teenagers became class-conscious

[ls]

Better than the 90s
Truesay

[Stranger Than Paradise]

I have lots of fond memories of the decade. Especially the early years when I was still a kid.

Arsenal won the league unbeaten aswell....

[Pogue]

I have lots of fond memories of the decade. Especially the early years when I was still a kid.

Arsenal won the league unbeaten aswell....

gunner scum

[The Essence Of Flame Is The Essence Of Change]

Edit:
gunner scum
fuck you post quick

[Stranger Than Paradise]

gunner scum

Why did you have to tarnish fond memories with derogatory remarks?

Remember this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39467000/jpg/_39467968_henry_get.jpg

[The Essence Of Flame Is The Essence Of Change]

Browsing this thread and some other in chit chat, I'm very suprised to see some people being between 16 and 19.I always thought of some of you as....older.For example whenever I saw a post of Pogue for some reason I had in mind a late-twenties, always angry student who works as a pizza boy or waiter or something..:huh:

[革命者]

Start of the end of postmodernity; back to (more) rationalism again. Terrific: big changes ahead. Further verelendung.

I think it was a very interesting decade. Can't wait to see the next!


Scotty

[Jimmie Higgins]

Not to mention

I was a pre-teen in the late 90s, so video games are pretty much what I remember vis-a-vis popular culture. Still, fucken golden age!

Ouch! I'm old... I was 14 when Nirvana broke and so maybe we are all just fond of what was going on when we were at a formative stage. Then again, I hated all the hair metal and pop music that was popular at the same time, so I don't know.

I really loved the early 90s rap and underground rock scenes and it really helped form my first values apart from what I had been taught by my parents or at school. Really haven't seen much like it (in rock anyway) until the last two years or so... I'm really looking forward to music now in a way I haven't been for most of the 00s. I've seen more good local shows in the last 2 years than in the rest of the decade combined.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Start of the end of postmodernityYou really know how to sweet-talk me:blushing:.

Politically the end of the unquestioned reign of post-modern ideas and identity politics in activist and academic circles is one of the best things about the decade. This clears the ideological deck somewhat and hopefully more militant and radical ideas will make some inroads.

[Sam_b]

when i saw a post of pogue for some reason i had in mind a late-twenties

hahaha oh wow

[The Red Next Door]

This decade is only good because it the decade that bastard pinochet died and his victims are in heaven doing el augusto pinochet getting rape in the ass by satan balia :laugh:

[Angry Young Man]

This decade is only good because it the decade that bastard pinochet died and his victims are in heaven doing el augusto pinochet getting rape in the ass by satan balia :laugh:

Reagan also died. If Thatcher dies in the next 29 hours, then it's a triple crown decade.

[Pirate Utopian]

This decade was not the worst decade ever, it wasnt that bad.

[*Viva La Revolucion*]

I think it's been an interesting decade and I'm excited to see what will happen in the future. New Labour's partnership with the U.S. and its hunt for invisible weapons was a real low point, but it could've been worse (ie the 1980s).


Browsing this thread and some other in chit chat, I'm very suprised to see some people being between 16 and 19.I always thought of some of you as....older.For example whenever I saw a post of Pogue for some reason I had in mind a late-twenties, always angry student who works as a pizza boy or waiter or something..:huh:

:laugh: I always imagined Pogue and a few of the others being like a character from The Young Ones. It seems like most people here are younger than I expected them to be!


Offtopic: I've noticed this for a long time but never bothered to ask, what the heck is the Vast Jewish Conspiracy?:confused:

Shhh, you're not supposed to mention the Vast Jewish Conspiracy! Let's just say that you're part of it and so am I.


Life ends at 18.

:crying: So my life ended two months ago? :crying:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Start of the end of postmodernity; back to (more) rationalism again.

I bloody hope so. The 00s was a decade when I realised how low humans could sink.

[Il Medico]

Offtopic: I've noticed this for a long time but never bothered to ask, what the heck is the Vast Jewish Conspiracy?:confused:
An off shoot of the International Jewish Conspiracy.

[Redmau5]

Well I turned 13 in 2000, so I've spent my teenage years growing up in this decade. On a personal level, it has fucking rocked, especially 2009.

[Axle]

I can't wait for this decade to be over.

2002-2007 were fun, but damned if my life hasn't become boring and stagnant since then. Took a few steps to change that in 2009, but I've decided that 2010 is going to be the year where I actually take full control of my life.

[Angry Young Man]

Only 6 more hours. I need to get tea on and buy some beer after the Simpsons

[Communist]

>>I've noticed this for a long time but never bothered to ask, what the heck is the Vast Jewish Conspiracy?<<
>>An off shoot of the International Jewish Conspiracy<<

Hmm. Still don't get it.

Happy new year (and decade) everyone!

[Il Medico]

>>I've noticed this for a long time but never bothered to ask, what the heck is the Vast Jewish Conspiracy?<<
>>An off shoot of the International Jewish Conspiracy<<

Hmm. Still don't get it.

Happy new year (and decade) everyone!
Well we share goals, but differ on how best to oppress the white race.

[Pirate Utopian]

I'm telling you, Obamacare is the way to go, these white people wont know what hit them.

[Saorsa]

The 00s were pretty good I think. We're seeing a resurgence of class struggle and revolutionary movements across the world. Plus, I was 8 when they started and I'm 18 now they're finishing, so as others have said how could I not have good memories of them?

I had a great New Years Eve, watched the sun rise over the hills and the ocean, and felt fucking stoked about life and hopeful for the future. You guys are all boring as, appreciate life don't whinge about it

The 00s were better than both the 90s and the 80s. The 80s in particular were a horrible decade I'm glad I missed them.

And as Pogue rightfully pointed out, it was all worth it for the dubstep

[Il Medico]

Well, decade over.

Thread Closed.

:lol:

[Angry Young Man]

The 00s were pretty good I think. We're seeing a resurgence of class struggle and revolutionary movements across the world.

Do you mean right towards the end? Where it would be sowing the seeds for a more militant decade now. Up the Tenties, Up the Workers :thumbup1:

[Jimmie Higgins]

The "Tenties"!:laugh:

Did you coin that? It's hilarious.

[Angry Young Man]

I like it. Decades have been known as '-ties' since 1920. It's such a strong tradition that the just-gone decade was the Noughties. I see no reason to drop that tradition.

ED: Would you prefer teenties, so it can't be confused with the 20s?

[Ravachol]

And as Pogue rightfully pointed out, it was all worth it for the dubstep

this!

Although I must confess I prefer Tekno.

The 00's were great on a personal level, politically it's been the start of the road downhill in my country. Although, in retrospective, these changes were brewing beneath the surface, the increasing acceptance of racism, autoritarianism, 'surveillance-society' and the comatose state of the labor movement here weren't 'all that' :thumbdown:

[the last donut of the night]

You can all quit your whining. At least in the US, revolutionary parties have grown and I have seen that so has class-consciousness. Even if it is misused, the word "socialism" is being used more than when I became a communist. No doubt some curious teenagers will stumble upon it. I mean, if I did, so should they.

Also, The Antlers and Immortal Technique. All that needs to be said.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Even if it is misused, the word "socialism" is being used more than when I became a communist. No doubt some curious teenagers will stumble upon it. I mean, if I did, so should they.

Yeah, look how well right-wing anti-pot and anti-sex campaigns worked for reducing pot-use and premarital sex! I seriously remember reading a anti-drug book for class in middle school that listed all the dangerous drugs and their effects... I went down the list like it was a shopping list thinking, ooh, this one make you think that TV characters are coming off the screen - cool!

If the most repulsive and obnoxious bigots are warning people about socialism, I can't help but imagine some kid thinking: "socialists want black reparations and universal health care and the people I hate are scared of them... cool!"