If you could win anyone over...

[hugsandmarxism]

If you could win anyone over to a communist/anarchist position, who would it be? A celebrity? A comedian? A parent or loved one? If you had the power to convince someone of your political position, who would that be and why?

I though up this idea for a thread sort-of at random today... I was flipping through the channels, and saw a movie with that "Larry the Cable Guy" blue collar comedy show performer and got to thinking "wouldn't it be funny if at random, in between jokes about farts and saying his timeless phrase "Get R done!" he started talking in plain terms about the class nature in our society, and got cheers from the crowds for indignantly shouting anti-capitalist rhetoric into the microphone? I think it would :D

I look forward to your responses ;)

[Luisrah]

That's a tough one. I wouldn't want to waste the opportunity. :D

If he would be able to hold in his position, without getting killed, and succesfully winning people over to socialist ideas and applying socialist measures, I would get Obama.

But the problem is that he is just a puppet, and it wouldn't work.

I guess I'd stay for someone with a lower position, but with more power to convince the masses.

But heck, it's not one person who will do the difference.

[Pirate Utopian]

Glenn Beck, because the results would be fantastic.

[Pawn Power]

bill gates. for the cash, obviously.

[Bilan]

Bill O'Reilly. Just for kicks.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

Stephan fry.

[Dr Mindbender]

It would be funny as fuck to turn Nick Griffin into a leftist.

[Panda Tse Tung]

Glenn Beck, because the results would be fantastic.
Beat me too it.

[NecroCommie]

Glenn Beck, because the results would be fantastic.
Curse you and your timing! Lousy revisionist cur!

[Spawn of Stalin]

Probably either Jennifer Lopez or the Undertaker.

[Uncle Hank]

Do they have to be alive? Stupid question, I know.

[Bright Banana Beard]

Hu Jintao

[ls]

Pretty much Obama ideally, right now.

[Uncle Hank]

Okay nobody answered my question so I'll just go with...

Joseph Stalin! Zing!

[hugsandmarxism]

Do they have to be alive? Stupid question, I know.

I'd be better to stick to contemporary people, but if you want to talk about how history might have turned out had this or that person been a communist, I won't stop ya.


Okay nobody answered my question so I'll just go with...

Joseph Stalin! Zing!

:lol::rolleyes:

[9]

My supervisor. Hands down. She's like a walking television set that only receives FOX News. If I could win her over, I wouldn't have to spend hours and hours outside of the lab trying to think up cryptic ways to bring relevant issues up at work which wouldn't have the potential to get me fired.

[sarmchain]

Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck may be more popular right now but the when it comes to whose a bigger asshole Limbaugh wins hands also having him become a leftist would really be a blow to all the "hardcore" conservatives out there

[Invincible Summer]

Either Glenn Beck or Alex Jones, although their following would probably turn into an Avakian/Dixon-esque thing

[Chambered Word]

Okay nobody answered my question so I'll just go with...

Joseph Stalin! Zing!

Ooooohhh SNAP! :lol:

In all seriousness, I'd go with Bill Gates. It would be incredible for the richest man in the world to suddenly denounce his capitalist ways (I mean he did donate alot to charity but this really would be for propaganda value) and become a commie. I think that would make the bourgeoisie shit their pants.

[Jimmie Higgins]

One day the pope walks out to greet people in Vatican square, throws his silly hat down to the people below and says: "Do you really believe all this? There's no heaven unless we work together and build it here on earth. I'm just some guy, and a pretty politically repugnant one at that. God doesn't talk to me, I'm a fraud. So I'm liquidating the church and its holdings and giving the money to revolutionary organizations and parties. Amen forever mutherfuckas!"

Actually - the pope might not be influential enough - I want to make Oprah a radical.

[hugsandmarxism]

One day the pope walks out to greet people in Vatican square, throws his silly hat down to the people below and says: "Do you really believe all this? There's no heaven unless we work together and build it here on earth. I'm just some guy, and a pretty politically repugnant one at that. God doesn't talk to me, I'm a fraud. So I'm liquidating the church and its holdings and giving the money to revolutionary organizations and parties. Amen forever mutherfuckas!"

Actually - the pope might not be influential enough - I want to make Oprah a radical.

Even better than the pope, one of those evangelists of the christian right like Pat Robertson, who reverts his position from "god wants you to get rich by giving me money" to holding a position of liberation theology and anti-capitalism, as well as reinvesting his millions in bankrolling revolutionary action. That'd be win :lol:

[Jimmie Higgins]

Ha-ha. I have to say though, even as a believer in redemption, I'd have a hard time trusting either the Pope or Pat Robertson if they suddenly left their positions, sold off their organizations, and declared that they were now leftists.

I still find it hard to believe that Ariana Huffington is now a liberal because I still remember her as the candidate's wife who went on television all over California declaring - in a thick Greek accent no less - that Latino immigrants are the source of all of California's budget problems. Not that there aren't bigoted and anti-immigrant liberals, but she claims to have had a total change of heart on these issues.

[which doctor]

bill gates. for the cash, obviously.
This is my choice too.

Nearly all leftist political organizations are cash-strapped and this severely limits their effectiveness. Historically, many radical groups were financed by wealthy sympathizers, but this era seems to have passed.

[hugsandmarxism]

Ha-ha. I have to say though, even as a believer in redemption, I'd have a hard time trusting either the Pope or Pat Robertson if they suddenly left their positions, sold off their organizations, and declared that they were now leftists.

Of course, but for this little thread, the idea is that they'd be convinced in earnest, and not for some other agenda.


Nearly all leftist political organizations are cash-strapped and this severely limits their effectiveness. Historically, many radical groups were financed by wealthy sympathizers, but this era seems to have passed.

Yeah, i figured people with money would be a big choice for this thread. Still, I like the thinking of tapping into personality cults like that of Robertson, the Pope, the FOX pundits, and even Oprah. Howabout artists? Anyone want their favorite non political band to make a revolutionary song? I know I'd like to see some communist anime out of some certain artists that I follow :D