You know you're a Communist when...

[Broletariat]

You refer to everyone as "Comrade"
You've renamed your Recycling Bin to "The Gulag"
You purchase most of your clothing from AK Press
You refer to your job as wage-slavery
You understand when people say "Time is money"
You can't live through a single day without raging at Capitalism in some way
You can connect everything wrong in the world to Capitalism to the utter joy of your apolitical friends


Add your own.

[ContrarianLemming]

You have a fundamental love of the world and it's inhabitents.

[bcbm]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[9]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
.

[#FF0000]

when you die alone

[Rusty Shackleford]

when you die alone

:laugh:

When you cant watch a movie without analyzing it like a communist.

[ContrarianLemming]

:laugh:

When you cant watch a movie without analyzing it like a communist.

I do that all the time!

[Crusade]

Where every post you make on a non-leftist political forum gets 7+ replies each.

[9]

when you die alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAJCUGD6FtM

[Qayin]

When you cant watch a movie without analyzing it like a communist.

:thumbup1:

[AK]

Вы знаете, что вы коммунист, когда вы вводите все на русском языке.

[Communist]

.

...you know what communism really is.


.

[Qayin]

...you know what communism really is.

When you judge a man by his looks and not his politics.
Che or Stalin guys come on!

[Rusty Shackleford]

Вы знаете, что вы коммунист, когда вы вводите все на русском языке.


You know you are a communist when you had a period of sovietophilia including attempting to learn russian.

[AK]

You know you are a communist when you had a period of sovietophilia including attempting to learn russian.
I know I'm me when I simply draw on the current ignorance of the working class of anything socialist in the form of translating a not-very-funny-at-all one-liner to Russian with the dreaded "Google Translate".

[Rusty Shackleford]

I know I'm me when I simply draw on the current ignorance of the working class of anything socialist in the form of translating a not-very-funny-at-all one-liner to Russian with the dreaded "Google Translate".

my last comment was more of a self-depricating joke. i had a period of sovietophilia. but that came after i tried learning russian. i kinda had a crush on a russian girl when i was 11 haha.


ITP: Self Deprication.

[AK]

i had a period of sovietophilia. but that came after i tried learning russian.
Oh you poor soul :crying: (no sarcasm, btw)
Is that how you became a commie?

[Rusty Shackleford]

Oh you poor soul :crying: (no sarcasm, btw)
Is that how you became a commie?

nah not really. and i was exaggerating sovietophilia. (kinda)

i actually became a commie by watching a bunch of iraq war documentaries and wanting universal healthcare.


as for the russian, i still think its bad-ass.

[ContrarianLemming]

You know you are a communist when you had a period of sovietophilia including attempting to learn russian.

We've all been there..

[Honggweilo]

when you refer to ejaculating like a dialectical synthesis of practice and pleasure
when you laught at the marginal injokes in chit-chat

[Agnapostate]

When you wear drab, olive-colored clothing.

[AK]

when you laught at the marginal injokes in chit-chat
ha. ha.

[Rusty Shackleford]

when you realize you are pretty much against everyone else politically, save a few hundred thousand people. At least in the US.

[AK]

You know you're a communist when - if your ideology does come to be the subject of conversation - you are immediately spammed with "every communist country has been corrupt, and so has every communist leader - so explain it, you prick" despite your rational replies of "that's not actually my ideology..." and "I oppose state ownership and minorities in power". And after those replies, they don't budge from their position, nor do they acknowledge the fact that you made a rebuttal.

[Rusty Shackleford]

oh heres one related to that Alpha,

You know you're a communist when in a debate you debate with a completely different analysis system than your opponent.

[AK]

oh heres one related to that Alpha,

You know you're a communist when in a debate you debate with a completely different analysis system than your opponent.
My opponents don't have analysis systems... they musn't actually analyse anything I say because they ignore all counter-arguments and rebuttals.

[RedStarOverChina]

When you accuse your girlfriend of Bourgeois decadence.

[Lyev]

when you make really funny threads in chit-chat

[Tyrlop]

when you think you're something.

[Nwoye]

when you have a terrible sense of humor.

[Os Cangaceiros]

When you make a passing comment about imperialism during a conversation, only to realize that no one else knows what the fuck you're talking about.

[Martin Blank]

When you refer to things other than sidewalks, driveways and blocks as "concrete".

[Antifa94]

when you scream class war during school color wars.
if at the first sign of a political debate you tremble as to the contents of their rhetoric( will it be fascist? capitalist? do I hear a god-damn republican?)

when you refer to your local library as the commissariat of enlightenment.

when instead of calling your pets lazy you call them bourgeois.

when your criticism of everything kitsch, bad, anti-intellectual etc. contains the words bourgeois, lumpenproletarian or petit-bourgeois.

if you have questioned established norms since childhood.

[Nwoye]

When you make a passing comment about imperialism during a conversation, only to realize that no one else knows what the fuck you're talking about.
this is a good one actually.

[Il Medico]

...when no one will buy your paper.

[The Ben G]

...when you refer to people who you hate as 'Beckkkite, Fascist, or Bourgeois Scum'.

When every other word you say is Reactionary or Revisionist.

When you become the nerd at your school for knowing how to pronounce Hoxha or even knowing who he was.

[brigadista]

When you accuse your boyfriend of Bourgeois decadence.

[Pirate Utopian]

When you become the nerd at your school for knowing how to pronounce Hoxha or even knowing who he was.
How do you pronounce I always read it in my mind as Hock's Ha.

[Comrade Hoxha Hysni]

How do you pronounce I always read it in my mind as Hock's Ha.

It's pronounced Hodja.

*"guilty" of most things said in this topic* :cool:

[leftace53]

You know you are a communist when you had a period of sovietophilia including attempting to learn russian.

Story of my life.

[Jazzratt]

...you can remember the names of every bearded weirdo that ever wrote so much as a paragraph to do with your politics but struggle to recall the names of your immediate family or closest friends.

[black magick hustla]

when you dont get laid

[black magick hustla]

except for horizontal recruitment

[Broletariat]

...you can remember the names of every bearded weirdo that ever wrote so much as a paragraph to do with your politics but struggle to recall the names of your immediate family or closest friends.

when you dont get laid
except for horizontal recruitment

Fucking lol'd

[Dimitri Molotov]

You know you are a communist when you had a period of sovietophilia including attempting to learn russian.

lol i thats kind of funny, i have attempted to learn russian and i would finish but i think my teacher is moving back to the ukraine lol

[Qayin]

I lol'd

[Chambered Word]

It's pronounced Hodja.

Life will never be the same again.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Life will never be the same again.
its actually pronounced Hchockschdgjah...

[AK]

It's pronounced Hodja.
Everything that I ever knew...

[4 Leaf Clover]

when you trust noone

[ZeroNowhere]

When you accuse your girlfriend of Bourgeois decadence.This is blatant heteronormativity.

In that spirit, you know that you are a communist when you object to the word heteronormativity on largely aesthetic grounds.

[mykittyhasaboner]

When you make a passing comment about imperialism during a conversation, only to realize that no one else knows what the fuck you're talking about.


When you refer to things other than sidewalks, driveways and blocks as "concrete".

these

[Pavlov's House Party]

if you think that any video-game, movie, book or TV show that has communism/socialism as a theme or even a passing reference is the best thing ever, regardless of how awful it might be

[Joesky]

you have a irresistible urge to head butt a police officer.

you have a collection of left propaganda posters

you refuse to spend more than £10 on footwear, unless they're boots (i got my pair from oxfam for £7)

[bailey_187]

you refuse to spend more than £10 on footwear, unless they're boots (i got my pair from oxfam for £7)

speak for yourself darg

[Comrade Hoxha Hysni]

Everything that I ever knew...

Life will never be the same again.

:lol: Don't worry guys, I used to think it was Hocksha too, but only for one week or so until I started listening to songs about him.

[RedScare]

You know you are a communist when you had a period of sovietophilia including attempting to learn russian.
Hahahaha, this one for sure. Never really gave up learning Russian, because I actually came to enjoy the language.

On that note, you know you're a communist when you spend an inordinate amount of time arguing over which dead Soviet leader you support.

[Rusty Shackleford]

You know you're a communist when you think a red star would look good on almost anything.:star2:

[Joesky]

speak for yourself darg

Consumerist pig! :lol:

[the last donut of the night]

when MIM-speak is funny to you, but nobody else knows what it is and you end up looking very strange

[A Revolutionary Tool]

When you repeatedly say you don't support Obama but the other person says you do because CPUSA endorsed Obama.

[AK]

:lol: Don't worry guys, I used to think it was Hocksha too, but only for one week or so until I started listening to songs about him.
Hearing the correct pronounciation must've have mindfucked the hell outta you...

[RedRise]

When you evesdrop excitedly on anyone complaining about lack of worker's rights.

When you quote Che Guevara or another revolutionary leader (or shout communist slogans) at every opportunity that presents itself.

When you mere presence seems to turn any discussion on politics or economics into a vicious left/right debate.

[Fictional]

When every other Facebook status is either quoting a revolutionary leader, or in general something to do with Communism.

(the other status' and moaning about the lack of interest in your status')

[Rusty Shackleford]

When every other Facebook status is either quoting a revolutionary leader, or in general something to do with Communism.

(the other status' and moaning about the lack of interest in your status')

basically my facebook status is:

A: Political 40% at least

B: Random funny shit i find on internet 25%

C: me hating my financial situation/stress/random shit' 25%

D: Random Shit. 10%

[Comrade Awesome]

When you know The Internationale by heart but couldn't say the name of even one chart song.

When you use reactionary as a slur.

When you often have heated political arguments with Communists.

[Durruti's Ghost]

You know you're a communist when the most vicious arguments you've ever had have all been with people who share your opinion on 99.9% of issues.

[Comrade Hoxha Hysni]

Hearing the correct pronounciation must've have mindfucked the hell outta you...

I admit it was not what I expected. :P But it wasn't that much of a difference. I mean, "Enver" is still pronounced the same as I thought, lol.

[Nolan]

You can't stop seeing red.

You named your cat Vladimir.

[The Ben G]

You know you're a communist when the most vicious arguments you've ever had have all been with people who share your opinion on 99.9% of issues.

This

[Weezer]

When you know The Internationale by heart but couldn't say the name of even one chart song.

When you use reactionary as a slur.

The past year of my life.

[Sir Comradical]

You know you are a communist when you had a period of sovietophilia including attempting to learn russian.

I learnt how to read Russian. Pretty easy.

You know you're a communist when you can debate every pathetic right-wing degenerate pretty easily, but find it much more challenging to debate comrades of different tendencies.

[Tablo]

When you have to argue that Obama is not left wing and certainly not a Communist, Socialist, or Maoist.

[Sir Comradical]

You can't stop seeing red.

You named your cat Vladimir.

A friend of mine has a cat with thick whiskers, that cat's name is Stalin.

[AK]

A friend of mine has a cat with thick whiskers, that cat's name is Stalin.
I'd get a dog called Stalin (I hate dogs) and kick it in the face.

Lovingly, of course.

[Honggweilo]

Iskra has 2 cats named Koba and Mao :lol:

[Sir Comradical]

I'd get a dog called Stalin (I hate dogs) and kick it in the face.

Lovingly, of course.

Animal Cruelty. That's so Stalinist!!

[AK]

Animal Cruelty. That's so Stalinist!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSrIkUXwsNk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fyjcjWXXPk&feature=related

[synthesis]

When you have an innate inability to perceive sarcasm, irony, or satire.

[Aurora]

you giggle lightly when to clock turns to 19:17

[Sir Comradical]

You know you're a communist when everyone around you is a fucking idiot.

[Sam_b]

This would be the benefit of posting on RevLeft.

[Jazzhands]

You know you're a communist when you know the Russian alphabet without any kind of chart or formal teaching, but don't speak a single word of Russian.

[Sam_b]

Speak for yourself.

Do most communists have a fetish for Russian?

[Rusty Shackleford]

Speak for yourself.

Do most communists have a fetish for Russian?
probably a large part of the american ones.

[Sir Comradical]

You know you're a communist when you know the Russian alphabet without any kind of chart or formal teaching, but don't speak a single word of Russian.

Guilty.

[S.Artesian]

1. when you criticize your bourgeois girlfriend or boyfriend for not being decadent enough

2. when you're in a firefight and wonder why your tracer rounds, as part of the "big green machine" are red, but their, the reds', tracer rounds are green?

3. when Rosa refuses to answer anything you say about the actual relations between capital and labor.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

When you're depressed and have an inferiority complex because you've only read 3/4 of volume 1 of Capital (I've been working on it for the past 2 years, on and off).

When you say stuff like, "Izviniti, moya Russky tozhe ochen ploxho." I went though a very long Soviet fetish stage, too long.

[Rusty Shackleford]

you successfully make a better chat room than the irc channel.

[synthesis]

When you're depressed and have an inferiority complex because you've only read 3/4 of volume 1 of Capital

Wait, really?

[AK]

you successfully make a better chat room than the irc channel.
No that's a sign of a wasted youth.

[Rusty Shackleford]

No that's a sign of a wasted youth.
no, its a sign that you are the most revolutionary uber-communist rivaled only by lenin.

[Q]

When you get pissed every time you watch the news to the point that you start shouting at the tv.

[Rusty Shackleford]

When you get pissed every time you watch the news to the point that you start shouting at the tv.
a new hobby of mine actually.

[Martin Blank]

When you get pissed every time you watch the news to the point that you start shouting at the tv.

When you scream and yell at the news on television like others scream and yell at sporting events on television.

[AK]

When you scream and yell at the news on television like others scream and yell at sporting events on television.
When you scream at Revleft.

[Animal Farm Pig]

When you get pissed every time you watch the news to the point that you start shouting at the tv.

Don't watch much TV, but I'm constantly shouting at National Public Radio and the BBC World Service for their bourgeois liberalism. My friends seem to think those programs are bastions of the left. :(

[Rusty Shackleford]

Don't watch much TV, but I'm constantly shouting at National Public Radio and the BBC World Service for their bourgeois liberalism. My friends seem to think those programs are bastions of the left. :(

yeah at first i was excited to listen to NPR but i got increasingly disappointed with their work.

i might just go to sac state and ask them to revise their work. :lol:

[Martin Blank]

When you scream at Revleft.

When you complain about RevLeft to your friends who have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!

[Martin Blank]

When someone uses the word "opiates" and the first thing your mind goes to is "religion".

[AK]

When you complain about RevLeft to your friends who have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!
Haha true.
I always make inside jokes that no-one has any clue about :(

[Sir Comradical]

You know you're a communist when you accidentally type 'community' as 'communisty'.

[AK]

You know you're a communist when you accidentally type 'community' as 'communisty'.
On a slightly related note; I always mistype Soviet as Societ :blink:

[Jazzratt]

The "c" and "v" are very close on qwerty keyboards, it's not that surprising an error.

You might also know you're a communist (albeit a shite one) if you call the USSR the "motherland" despite never having lived there or been to any of its constituant countries.

[synthesis]

You might also know you're a communist (albeit a shite one) if you call the USSR the "motherland" despite never having lived there or been to any of its constituant countries.

You know you're a communist when you talk about the USSR as if it still actually exists.

[Jazzratt]

Touché. I suppose I should have added "while it still existed, bonus points if you were born after it collapsed" to the end there.

[Scary Monster]

...when you have a bright red shirt with a big, bright, yellow hammer and sickle on the front!..Which is what i used to wear back in high school (with combat boots.......and i think a mohawk at that time :lol:) Wtf wuz i thinkin :lol::lol:

[AK]

...when you have a bright red shirt with a big, bright, yellow hammer and sickle on the front!..Which is what i used to wear back in high school (with combat boots.......and i think a mohawk at that time :lol:) Wtf wuz i thinkin :lol::lol:
O.O
My student co-ordinator wears a red t-shirt with black hammers and sickles on each sleeve and a big black hammer and sickle on the front.

[Rusty Shackleford]

you click "Your CP" and think "Your Communist Party"

[AK]

you click "Your CP" and think "Your Communist Party"
Funny... I always think something... erm... different...

[Rusty Shackleford]

Funny... I always think something... erm... different...


please dont mean child porn.

[AK]

please dont mean child porn.
My friends lurk 4chan, what can I say?

[Rusty Shackleford]

My friends lurk 4chan, what can I say?
ok you are excused. to be honest. that has happened once or twice to me too. :blushing:

[revolution inaction]

Funny... I always think something... erm... different...

your not the only one

[Lyev]

...when you see an interesting article and then immediately copy & paste it into Politics, to share with the comrades.

And when Revleft is your homepage.

[Mumbles]

your not the only one

I still have to struggle to not see it as that as well.

[mikelepore]

When you accuse your girlfriend of Bourgeois decadence.

Or you request some of it.

[AK]

And when Revleft is your homepage.Go outside and get some fresh air.

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

...when your publicly socialist teacher gets a big smurk on his face and attempts to use you as a pawn against the capitalists and the conservatives in the class... ugh....

...when friends are giving you link to books written by the founding fathers (of America) thinking that those books will decomefy you...

...when you get into a heated debate with a relative who was an active member of a labor union but at the same time supported capitalism and he decides to kick you out and disown you because of your opinions being "childishly idealistic."

[AK]

...when your publicly socialist teacher gets a big smurk on his face and attempts to use you as a pawn against the capitalists and the conservatives in the class... ugh....
Why does everyone here get commie teachers except me?

[RedRise]

When you come to school wearing a beret with a star on the front and expect people to know what it symbolizes.

When you chuck rants about various political events only to realize that in everyone else's opinion you might as well be speaking in Russian.

When you can denounce anything you don't like as capitalist, right-wing or bourgeois when you put your mind to it.

[Sir Comradical]

When you come to school wearing a beret with a star on the front and expect people to know what it symbolizes.

When you chuck rants about various political events only to realize that in everyone else's opinion you might as well be speaking in Russian.

When you can denounce anything you don't like as capitalist, right-wing or bourgeois when you put your mind to it.

All the freakin' time. Yesterday I denounced the positioning of the escalators at a train station as "fascist". Why? Because to go from one level to another, you had to walk all the way around to the next escalator on the other side which means walking past an array of stores. The capitalist state did this intentionally to force people to pass by the stores and buy commodities from capitalists! This wastes time and slows everything down! These sheeple don't see what I see, dammit.

I denounce Wynyard Station.

[AK]

All the freakin' time. Yesterday I denounced the positioning of the escalators at a train station as "fascist". Why? Because to go from one level to another, you had to walk all the way around to the next escalator on the other side which means walking past an array of stores. The capitalist state did this intentionally to force people to pass by the stores and buy commodities from capitalists! This wastes time and slows everything down! These sheeple don't see what I see, dammit.

I denounce Wynyard Station.
People like you are the reason why the world thinks we belong in the loony-bin.

[Sir Comradical]

People like you are the reason why the world thinks we belong in the loony-bin.

I'm kidding...relax.

[AK]

I'm kidding...relax.
This is chit-chat... who says I was being serious? It's insane to think anyone is serious in chit-chat...

[Sir Comradical]

This is chit-chat... who says I was being serious? It's insane to think anyone is serious in chit-chat...

I forgive you.

[ingendan]

You know you're a communist when ...

you see a lot more than the USSR in the hammer and sickle.

[Blake's Baby]

You know you're a communist when ...

Stalinists denounce you.

[Joesky]

You know you're a Trotskyist when you don't call yourself a communist due to the negative connotations.

You know you're a Trotskyist when you international revolution.

[LeninBalls]

You know you're a communist when you're an annoying prick that posts on Revleft

[Zanthorus]

You know you're a communist when ...

Stalinists denounce you.

You know you're a communist when you denounce Stalinists as liberal anti-communists :D

[Os Cangaceiros]

You know you're a communist when you're an annoying prick that posts on Revleft

Pretentious, too. Don't forget pretentious.

[Blake's Baby]

You know you're a communist when you denounce Stalinists as liberal anti-communists :D

Damn, I only called him a social democrat. I have to go back to Communism School to learn my insults proper. I mean, learn my denunciations of counter-revolutionaries proper.

[the last donut of the night]

when you fight more for your tendency than for socialism

[Mumbles]

Why does everyone here get commie teachers except me?

Hey, at least be glad your teachers aren't all Christian. Or are they as well?

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

What's wrong with Christian teachers? Besides my socialist teacher, the only teachers that didn't try to mop the floor with me for my views were the Christian teachers. However, that could be, because they know that I view Communism as a way to help the people that have been left on the streets without hope by capitalism and by "Patriotism."

[leftace53]

There was a notoriously christian teacher at my high school who "taught" biology, and from what I hear, she wasn't very fond of the evolution section of the course. I've only ever had right wing, or liberal teachers, none were lefties :(

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

I see. Personally, when it comes to creation and that kind of stuff, I am a creatio-evolutionist. In other words, I believe that evolution occurred, but that it occurred as God had desired it to occur. However, I do believe that there have been many creations and many ages on the earth, and the fossils that we are collecting are probably from the former ages. Ultimately, I think evolution should be taught fully in biology, but that schools should be allowed to offer religious classes if the students request them so that other theories like Creation can be taught and argued against evolution.

[Mumbles]

Okay, yeah, I was a bit general. I meant Christian teachers teaching all Christian courses and berating you for opposing any and every part of a course. Although some of the teachers were decent people outside of the classroom, some of them stayed assholes. Actually the majority of them did. And the bio classes are a joke. One day a week learning something new followed by four days of trying to defend the Christian viewpoint of why stuff is like it is.

[black magick hustla]

when you like about your politics

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

when people who are dirt poor and whose parents' bodies are destroyed by hard labor tell you that communism is evil and unpatriotic...

[Mindtoaster]

When everyone thinks you're joking during a political debate

[Mindtoaster]

When you come to school wearing a beret with a star on the front



What the fuck is wrong with some of you people

[RED DAVE]

When you know where Lenin got the title for "What Is to Be Done? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Chernyshevsky)"

RED DAVE

[AK]

I see. Personally, when it comes to creation and that kind of stuff, I am a creatio-evolutionist. In other words, I believe that evolution occurred, but that it occurred as God had desired it to occur. However, I do believe that there have been many creations and many ages on the earth, and the fossils that we are collecting are probably from the former ages. Ultimately, I think evolution should be taught fully in biology, but that schools should be allowed to offer religious classes if the students request them so that other theories like Creation can be taught and argued against evolution.
Dude. Don't think any less of other commies but is this is just a troll in the spirit of chit-chat?

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

I'm not thinking any less of others I'm just saying and replying to a statement. No need to call me a troll over it....

You know you're a communist when your facebook image has a hammer and sickle in it.

[AK]

You know you're a communist when your facebook image has a hammer and sickle in it.
I'm pretty sure that, if I did that, I'd get my head bashed in.

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

I'm pretty sure that, if I did that, I'd get my head bashed in.


Oh trust me, when I did it using the Anarcho-Communist symbol, I got a lot of crap from people over it. Interestingly enough, no one has commented on the penguin that I changed it to, the same one that I have on here.

You know you're a communist when you are threaten over your ideas about Marxism.

[AK]

Interestingly enough, no one has commented on the penguin that I changed it to, the same one that I have on here.
Because the penguin is fucking adorable.

[Kyrite]

When you rage inside when you overhear people say 'Communism is a nice idea, but in reality it just wouldn't work'.

[El Rojo]

when you pray for economic collapse
when you shout at the tv
when you hum the internationale unconciously under your breath
when you feel faintly ill in shopping centers

[Jazzhands]

When you manage to use Marxian economic terms in even the most unrelated topics, like an essay on Shakespeare's 12th Night.

[Durruti's Ghost]

When you manage to use Marxian economic terms in even the most unrelated topics, like an essay on Shakespeare's 12th Night.

I wrote an essay on class conflict in Twelfth Night for my AP English Lit exam. I got a 5. :D

[StoneFrog]

...when your stockpiling for the revolution...
....when you want to build an AK 47
.....when you political debates with friends and family end with the other people going silent, due to either ignoring you or trying to figure out why they never heard this before.
......when your family thinks your going to end up a street person because your willing to sacrifice things for your beliefs
.......when your always the minority in political debates with your peers
........when your smart
.........when your sexy
..........when your me

[AK]

...when your stockpiling for the revolution...
....when you want to build an AK 47
Enter SWAT team.

[soyonstout]

When you know where Lenin got the title for "What Is to Be Done? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Chernyshevsky)"

RED DAVE

actually less people know this than you might think. i was trying to think of the author's name the other day is describing the nihilist movement in Russia and just said "you know... the guy who wrote the 1st 'what is to be done' book--what was his name" and nobody remembered.

oh well. i only really know about it because of those accusations you sometimes hear from socialdemocrats that lenin was overly influenced by that stuff, or a blanquist or whatever else.

-soyons tout

[Sir Comradical]

...when your stockpiling for the revolution...
....when you want to build an AK 47
.....when you political debates with friends and family end with the other people going silent, due to either ignoring you or trying to figure out why they never heard this before.
......when your family thinks your going to end up a street person because your willing to sacrifice things for your beliefs
.......when your always the minority in political debates with your peers
........when your smart
.........when your sexy
..........when your me

Yep.

[Black Sheep]

When your friends silently pray that when having a cup of coffee with you and a person you don't know (s)he wont bring up political topics, so that you wont start the marxist analysis for the next 2 hours.

[Sam_b]

when you pray for economic collapse


huh?

[El Rojo]

@ Sam B, do you cheers on barcleys, loyds TSB, ect? i cant wait for them to crash, because a) it cant be worse than it is now and b) i will be able to walk around in urban areas shouting "repent! the end is nigh!"

[Cooler Reds Will Prevail]

...you know that we've always been at war with East Asia. :)

...you have a "Quotations from Chairman Mao" iPhone app.

...you've tried to turn a casual Che shirt-wearer into a communist.

...people give you dirty looks at sporting events for not standing for the national anthem.

[AK]

...you've tried to turn a casual Che shirt-wearer into a communist.
...when you explained who Che was to a casual Che shirt wearer and they took it off out of disgust.

[Sam_b]

...when you make up unfunny one-liners or something that you either don't have or don't do on Revleft in a thread called 'You know you're a Communist when...'

[Raúl Duke]

What the fuck is wrong with some of you people

:lol::laugh::lol:

I feel the same way about people here sometimes.

[Sam_b]

@ Sam B, do you cheers on barcleys, loyds TSB, ect? i cant wait for them to crash, because a) it cant be worse than it is now and b) i will be able to walk around in urban areas shouting "repent! the end is nigh!"

Wow this is pretty stupid. I love how you gleam from my last post of 'huh?' that I apparently cheer on multinational banking corporations, cheers.

I would have thought it to be pretty obvious that there is a difference between economic collapse and the collapse of an economic and political system. I don't take a patrionising view of the class that things need to get worse to get better with regards to revolutionary situations. But why do I not 'pray' for economic collapse? Pretty simple and pretty obviously because that suffices to give more leway to bail out banks and bankers rather than the people, and I don't particularly want more workers or myself to lose their jobs and homes.

Somehow I don't think you do actually 'pray for economic collapse' at all. If you do then you should probably sort out your priorities.

[Jazzratt]

@ Sam B, do you cheers on barcleys, loyds TSB, ect? i cant wait for them to crash, because a) it cant be worse than it is now

Yes, it really can. If you've got a house with all the usual amenities and a garunteed source of income then it can get a fuck of a lot worse very quickly...

[Joesky]

An economic collapse can ruin working class moral and set back a revolution years.

It's never good.

[Joesky]

...you have a "Quotations from Chairman Mao" iPhone app.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285980/Revealed-Inside-Chinese-suicide-sweatshop-workers-toil-34-hour-shifts-make-iPod.html

[Zanthorus]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285980/Revealed-Inside-Chinese-suicide-sweatshop-workers-toil-34-hour-shifts-make-iPod.html

The Daily Mail? :lol:

This isn't to detract from your point, just to point out that the source is kinda weird

[Joesky]

The Daily Mail? :lol:

This isn't to detract from your point, just to point out that the source is kinda weird

Ok, Guardian is a little more left..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/06/foxconn-workers-pay-rise

[Zanthorus]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/06/foxconn-workers-pay-rise

Wow...



Seriously, did I enter a parrallel dimension or something? This just gets weirder and weirder.

[Lyev]

Ok, Guardian is a little more left..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/06/foxconn-workers-pay-risePerhaps this would be a better source? http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/9747/02-06-2010/workers-suicides-the-human-cost-of-an-ipad

[Zanthorus]

Trotskyist sect war go, go, go! :laugh:

[A.J.]

You know you're a Communist.....when you spurn the sexual advances of Polish women (based on the assumption that all polacks are rabid anti-communists)

[Sam_b]

:rolleyes:

[Jazzratt]

You know you're a Communist.....when you spurn the sexual advances of Polish women (based on the assumption that all polacks are rabid anti-communists)

Lol, those stupid poles :rolleyes:

How about fuck you, xenophobic cocksplash?

[Animal Farm Pig]

Laying in bed with the girlfriend yesterday. She is staring at the tattoo on my shoulder. The tattoo is a (man) worker and a (woman) peasant holding a hammer and sickle.
Me: Hey, stop staring at my Worker! I'm getting jealous!
Her: Maybe you'd rather I stared at the Peasant? Would you like that?
Me: Her? No, that would be a bit too Maoist for me.

[Lyev]

Cocksplash? That's a new one. I'll use that if you don't mind.

[Sam_b]

You know you're a communist when you make xenophobic generalisations that are completely unfounded against Polish people

[Joesky]

You know you're a communist when you get massacred by Stalinists

[El Rojo]

Wow this is pretty stupid. I love how you gleam from my last post of 'huh?' that I apparently cheer on multinational banking corporations, cheers.

I would have thought it to be pretty obvious that there is a difference between economic collapse and the collapse of an economic and political system. I don't take a patrionising view of the class that things need to get worse to get better with regards to revolutionary situations. But why do I not 'pray' for economic collapse? Pretty simple and pretty obviously because that suffices to give more leway to bail out banks and bankers rather than the people, and I don't particularly want more workers or myself to lose their jobs and homes.

Somehow I don't think you do actually 'pray for economic collapse' at all. If you do then you should probably sort out your priorities.

alors... from yr post of "huh" i dont state that you support international banking, i question whether yr do. (?)

i agree with yr that things dont have to get "worse" for revolutionary situations, but they do need a crisis. i may regret saying this, but show me one revolution that did not spring in some way from a crisis of the ruling class. viz banother bank bailout, that would be pretty tricky to pull of on the scale of last time, since all the cappie bigwigs are now worrying about how the state is bankrupt. maybe the banks will bail out the state! If we dont bring down financial institutions, then they will topple themselves. the former is preferable, but both work for me.

but chease fire a second, this is supposed to be the chat thread. read this, but dont hold a hot beverage whilst doing so.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/15/us-man-quest-kill-bin-laden-pakistan

[BeerShaman]

When you have passed a period of your life, by which there was no single day gone without your trying to change the society to what you want, which is equality and autonomy of the inividuals through fighting the state and capitalism.:)

[Sam_b]

i dont state that you support international banking, i question whether yr do. (?)

Which is pretty damn ridiculous considering that a) this is a leftist forum, and b) i'm a member of your party.

There is a difference between toppling the ruling class, its system and its institutions; and 'praying for economic collapse'. The latter shows nothing less than a sloppy analysis.

[Ocean Seal]

When you tell your friends sister that iCarly is fascist propaganda.
When you analyze the anti-communist elements in television, music and the such.
When you cringe when you hear about people going to college for making money.
When you wear clothes that make people ask you "Are you a communist?"
When you spends hours on revleft.
When you engage in debates with people over communism.
When you stop those who say Hitler and/or Obama is a communist.
When you've heard the greedy/lazy person response to your argument at least 1,000 times.

[Animal Farm Pig]

When you wear clothes that make people ask you "Are you a communist?"


How exactly does a communist dress? I mostly wear my brown working clothes.

I used to have an awesome red tee-shirt with a line art image of Stalin and the words "Stalin: The Original Man of Steel". I printed it up myself. :)

Also, this:
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[RedRise]

When you stop those who say Hitler and/or Obama is a communist.

When you jump up to correct even the tiniest misconception about communism even if its out of context and nobody really gives a damn causing the conversation to fall flat.

[Jazzhands]

When you jump up to correct even the tiniest misconception about communism even if its out of context and nobody really gives a damn causing the conversation to fall flat.

The new way I normally deal with that is to say "Not true at all, but let's move on." It worked a lot better than the old approach.

[Nwoye]

When you cringe when you hear about people going to college for making money
why else would you go to college other than to make a living?

[Os Cangaceiros]

why else would you go to college other than to make a living?

Casual sex and rampant drug (ab)use?

[Uppercut]

When you watch Spongebob and are angered at the immense exploitation taking place at the Krusty Krab. But Spongebob annoys me too, lumpen as he is.

DAHAHAHAHA IIIIIII'M REEEEADDYY FOR MY MINIMUM WAGE JOB!!!!

[ed miliband]

... you're shit with money.

[Quail]

You'd probably make a great capitalist because you know all their dirty tricks.