Best socialist/anarchist facial hair PART 1

[fa2991]

There's too much awesome lefty facial hair to put in one poll, so I'll be spreading my Awesome Beard list out over a series of posts. :p The winner of each round will move into a later round comparing winners. This will be the most comprehensive beard poll possible. Suggestions are welcome.

A lot of big names aren't in round 1, for the simple reason that putting Stalin, Marx, Engels, Kropotkin, etc. all in one post would make subsequent ones boring as shit. Individualist, lifestylist, etc. anarchists are included as well, because they have awesome beards.

In this round, I voted Zo d'Axa for looking like a French movie villain:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Zo_d%27Axa_portrait.jpg

Edward Abbey (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FNndI0BvPNA/SunEwNEtxWI/AAAAAAAAAoY/oNH591s2PIc/s400/Edward-Abbey_000.jpg)
Charlie Chaplin (http://school4comedy.com/images/charlie_chaplin.jpg)
Ramon Acin (http://cms7.blogia.com/blogs/u/ul/uli/ulises/upload/20070227202458-ramon-acin.jpg)
Salvador Allende (http://www.veu.ua.es/es/media/962/allende2.jpg)
Mikhail Bakunin (http://antoniocdelaserna.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/bakunin.jpg)
Murray Bookchin (http://www.blackcrayon.com/image/MurrayBookchin.jpg)
Fidel Castro (http://www.pragoti.org/pragoti/pics/fidel_castro_ruz590.jpg)
Zo d'Axa (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Zo_d%27Axa_portrait.jpg)
Bertrand Russell (http://geopolicraticus.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/bertrand-russell-2.jpg)
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (http://www.nndb.com/people/657/000205042/bartolomeo-vanzetti.jpg)
Che Guevara (http://www.americas-fr.com/histoire/ernesto-che-guevara-3.jpg)
Herman Gorter (http://binnenininzinnen.web-log.nl/binnenininzinnen/images/gorter_herman_1892_willem_witsen_1.gif)
Paul Lafargue (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Paul_Lafargue_medaillon.jpg)
Benjamin Tucker (http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/3/3b/BenjaminTucker.jpg)
Ho Chi Minh (http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/vietnam-war/images/3207829.jpg)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/wp-content/themes/AK_PRESS_theme/images/proudhon.jpg)
Hakim Bey (http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Epjgraif/bey_hakim.jpg)
Albert Einstein (http://www.j-net.com.au/monash/albert-einstein-09.jpg)

[Widerstand]

Che or Fidel. I like the cheeks / chin being somewhat covered, but I also like the lip area being relatively free of hair.

[leftace53]

It was between Bakunin and Ho Chi Minh. I voted Bakunin.

[fa2991]

Che or Fidel. I like the cheeks / chin being somewhat covered, but I also like the lip area being relatively free of hair.

:lol: It amuses me that you actually have concrete criteria like that for the determination of beard superiority.


It was between Bakunin and Ho Chi Minh. I voted Bakunin.

Between those two, I'd go with Minh. I like that his beard looks like he has plant roots sprouting from his chin. :laugh:

[Rusty Shackleford]

where the hell is lenin on this!?

EDIT: i voted allende, clean and simple.

second would have been Ho Chi Minh but its too wispy for my liking.

[fa2991]

where the hell is lenin on this!?

My full list of bearded leftists has 149 names - RevLeft only allows 20 options in a poll. Lenin will be in the next round. I'm surprised you didn't ask about Marx. :lol:

[Widerstand]

:lol: It amuses me that you actually have concrete criteria like that for the determination of beard superiority.

I'm giving it a lot of thought lately, as I started letting mine grow last week. I'll let it do what it wants for about a month, or maybe longer, and then I'll decide how to shape it.

[leftace53]

I'm giving it a lot of thought lately, as I started letting mine grow last week. I'll let it do what it wants for about a month, or maybe longer, and then I'll decide how to shape it.

Hipster.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Didnt vote. Peter Kropotkin isn't listed.

http://www.nndb.com/people/839/000024767/peter-kropotkin.jpg

IT FUCKING GOES IN ALL DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND IS WILD SHIT

[Widerstand]

Hipster.

Since I'm ironically being Hipster, I prefer the term meta-Hipster.

edit: My nominee is winning! Fuck yeah!

[fa2991]

Didnt vote. Peter Kropotkin isn't listed.

http://www.nndb.com/people/839/000024767/peter-kropotkin.jpg

IT FUCKING GOES IN ALL DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND IS WILD SHIT

Well, for all time, I think Kropotkin takes it. Just didn't have room for him this round. I prefer this angle:

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Kropotkin/kropotkin2.gif


edit: My nominee is winning! Fuck yeah!

By one vote! :p

[Rusty Shackleford]

My full list of bearded leftists has 149 names - RevLeft only allows 20 options in a poll. Lenin will be in the next round. I'm surprised you didn't ask about Marx. :lol:


i prefer lenins facial hair to marx's. thats why i was asking lol.

full beards are too grantpa-ey

[leftace53]

Since I'm ironically being Hipster, I prefer the term meta-Hipster.

edit: My nominee is winning! Fuck yeah!

meta-hipster

[Rusty Shackleford]

meta-hipster?

im a post-meta-pseudo-hipster.

i am beyond hipsterdom and i ironically act kind of like a hipster.

[fa2991]

full beards are too grantpa-ey

Beats looking like Anton LaVey's long lost brother, as Lenin did.

[Rusty Shackleford]

touche
EDIT: Also,
http://www.apforums.net/customavatars/avatar17205_1.gif

[Tablo]

I voted Castro. None of my top picks were on this one. When the next one comes around I'm probably voting Stalin or Kropotkin. Stalin has the sexiest mustache ever and I want to jump his bones every time I see it. Kropotkin on the other hand just has an all around awesome beard that gets bonus points for size. :cool:

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

I would've voted for Kropotkin if he was listed but since he wasn't I'll go with Castro.

[scarletghoul]

hitler wasnt there so i voted charlie chaplin

[Weezer]

hitler wasnt there so i voted charlie chaplin

:lol:

Gotta give Proudhon some lovin'.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Other: Pancho Villa
http://www.revleft.com/vb/picture.php?albumid=232&pictureid=1644

[Sir Comradical]

In all honesty, Stalin had the best moustache ever.

[Chambered Word]

No Trotsky.

Fuck you!!11

[Bilan]

Malatesta had a bad ass goatee. Just saying.

[Il Medico]

I went with Edward Abbey cause he was smoking a pipe.

[Crux]

Upcoming Challenger Joseph Dietzgen:

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/d/pics/dietzgen.jpg

[fa2991]

Upcoming Challenger Joseph Dietzgen:

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/d/pics/dietzgen.jpg

He was on my list already. I'll make sure he's in the next poll. :lol:

As for the other suggestions - were Zapata and Pancho Villa socialists or anarchists? I've always considered them just national liberation heroes.

[revolution inaction]

kropotkin obviously


and whats Hakim Bey doing on there?

[Raúl Duke]

My roommate and I thought we made up the term "meta-hipster..."

[fa2991]

kropotkin obviously


and whats Hakim Bey doing on there?

From the original post:


A lot of big names aren't in round 1, for the simple reason that putting Stalin, Marx, Engels, Kropotkin, etc. all in one post would make subsequent ones boring as shit. Individualist, lifestylist, etc. anarchists are included as well, because they have awesome beards.

[Sasha]

Didnt vote. Peter Kropotkin isn't listed.

http://www.nndb.com/people/839/000024767/peter-kropotkin.jpg

IT FUCKING GOES IN ALL DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND IS WILD SHIT


this, kropotkin hands down

[revolution inaction]

From the original post:

but is he an anarchist at all?

he seems to be opposed to revolution and to use anarchism to justify fucking young boys

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

but is he an anarchist at all?

he seems to be opposed to revolution and to use anarchism to justify fucking young boys
:confused:

[revolution inaction]

:confused:

http://libcom.org/library/leaving-out-ugly-part-hakim-bey

http://libcom.org/library/paedophilia-and-american-anarchism-the-other-side-of-hakim-bey


http://libcom.org/search/apachesolr_search/Hakim%20Bey

[fa2991]

but is he an anarchist at all?

he seems to be opposed to revolution and to use anarchism to justify fucking young boys

Self-identification as an anarchist or socialist is enough to qualify him for this poll. Benjamin Tucker's on here, too, and he was opposed to revolution and wanted to abolish the age of consent. But you can't deny those awesome beards.

Besides, it's not like anyone voted for Hakim Bey anyway. :lol:

EDIT: This poll is shaping up to be quite interesting. Who would've guessed that people like Che and Ho Chi Minh's beards/mustaches better than Castro and Vanzetti's?

[Tenka]

Bookchin has a solid moustache so I voted for him.

This is a beard-biased poll--nay, A BEARD-BIASED WORLD!

[fa2991]

This is a beard-biased poll--nay, A BEARD-BIASED WORLD!

8/20 options are mustache guys, including some of the most famous mustached socialists ever, like Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein. That's almost unslanted. :lol:

[Aloysius]

Fucking beards, how do they work?

Sorry....
Proudhon, because Lenin and Kropotkin weren't on this one.
Though I don't know what to do if they're both on the next...

[fa2991]

Proudhon, because Lenin and Kropotkin weren't on this one.
Though I don't know what to do if they're both on the next...

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Kropotkin will be in the next one. :thumbup1:

[Tablo]

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Kropotkin will be in the next one. :thumbup1:
All of which are by far the best!

:engles::trotski::castro::che::marx:
Why no anarchist smileys? :(

[fa2991]

All of which are by far the best!

:engles::trotski::castro::che::marx:
Why no anarchist smileys? :(

If there were a Kropotkin smiley, it would take up two lines with just his beard alone. That's probably why. :p

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

All of which are by far the best!

:engles::trotski::castro::che::marx:
Why no anarchist smileys? :(
You should try to make some.

[leftace53]

I think my own facial hair is the best out of all these.

[StoneFrog]

I'm waiting for someone to say this is sexiest since no women are listed :rolleyes:

And how did Engels not make the list, his beard is some sort of alien being attached to him.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Engels.jpg

[fa2991]

I'm waiting for someone to say this is sexiest since no women are listed :rolleyes:

And how did Engels not make the list, his beard is some sort of alien being attached to him.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Engels.jpg

Saving him for the poll Marx is in.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Where's Engels? His looks like there is a monster eating his chin.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Damn With no.Mute beat me to it.

[fa2991]

Last day to get your votes in, folks. It would be nice to not have a 3-way tie for second place. :cool:

[BeerShaman]

Didnt vote. Peter Kropotkin isn't listed.

http://www.nndb.com/people/839/000024767/peter-kropotkin.jpg

IT FUCKING GOES IN ALL DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND IS WILD SHIT
Yeah! Thumbs up!