Best socialist/anarchist beards ROUND 2

[fa2991]

Featuring the two guys most requested in the last poll, Stalin and Kropotkin.

The last poll (http://www.revleft.com/vb/best-socialist-anarchist-t140931/index.html)ended with 43 votes counted; Che Guevara won first, with Mikhail Bakunin, Fidel Castro, and Ho Chi Minh tying for second. All four will advance to the semi-finals.

I voted Kropotkin. Here, in alphabetical order, are your choices:

Jules Bonnot
http://guillotine.voila.net/dieudonne.jpg

Paul Brousse
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Paul_Brousse.png

Léo Campion
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/CampionLeo/CampionLeo.jpg

Daniel DeLeon
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Daniel-DeLeon-1902.jpg

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

Sébastien Faure
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Faure/seb.jpg

Adolph Fischer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfisherA.jpg

Charles Fourier
http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/b/be/Charles_fourier.jpg

David Harvey
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/img/faculty/new_faculty/Harvey.jpg

Peter Kropotkin
http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1158417&t=w

V.I. Lenin
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_65fJY6BlFC0/SP9LT4r0ZOI/AAAAAAAAAXc/MMlV9eGEJf8/s400/lenin.jpg

Nestor Makhno
http://wiki.infoshop.org/images/6/61/Makhno-1921.jpg

Errico Malatesta
http://www.punk4free.org/images/news/libri/errico_malatesta_-_al_caffe.jpg

Alan Moore
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Alan_Moore.jpg

GB Shaw

http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/shaw_gb/icons/shaw.jpg
Lysander Spooner
http://mises.org/images4/LysanderSpooner.jpg

Josef Stalin
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images-3/stalin-4.jpg

Henry David Thoreau
http://www.blackcrayon.com/image/HenryDavidThoreau.jpg

Leo Tolstoy
http://www.makara.us/04mdr/01writing/03tg/bios/Tolstoy_files/LeoTolstoy12.jpg

Leon Trotsky
http://artsytime.com/img/misc/the-most-famous-assassinations/trotsky.jpg

[Il Medico]

nvm

[leftace53]

Voted kropotkin, though lenin gets major points for being quite dashing.

[Aloysius]

Dammit...Kropotkin, Tolstoy, Spooner, Shaw, who1?!?!
Who should I choose?!

Blargh!!!!
*dies*

[Invincible Summer]

Kropotkin fo sho. I didn't know Malatesta looked like a transient.

[Aloysius]

i don't know...Kropotkin's got this Santa Claus look going, but Shaw looks straight awesome, and Spooner has an awesome name...
EDIT: Fuck it, Kropotkin it is.

[Manifesto]

Lenin was a close one but I had to vote Kropotkin. Also Trotsky looks way too close to Colonel Sanders and has Alan Moore ever heard of scissors?

[Commiechu]

No Marx? The beard is the most instantly recognizable thing about him...Engels too had quite the beard.
Or did the first series have Marx and Engels? I never saw it.

[fa2991]

No Marx? The beard is the most instantly recognizable thing about him...Engels too had quite the beard.
Or did the first series have Marx and Engels? I never saw it.

Saving 'em for later. Put all the big names in one poll and all the subsequent polls suck.


Kropotkin fo sho. I didn't know Malatesta looked like a transient.

:lol: He looks a little better in this shot:
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/malatesta/graphics/malatestafrontpiece.jpg

[Sasha]

tight between kropotkin and tolstoy, went with kropotkin in the end.

alan moore deserves an honourable mention for that charles manson cult leader look he's got going on.

[Tablo]

For me it was between Kropotkin and Stalin. I chose Stalin though cause mustaches are crazy sexy and underrated. :laugh:

[Invincible Summer]

Also, whoever this "Jules Bonnot" guy is, he looks like some sort of really bad spy from the 19th century that glued some dyed parchment to his face as a disguise.

[Il Medico]

Why is there still no marx????

[fa2991]

Why is there still no marx????

Saving him for the poll with Engels. I'm trying to spread the big players out so the last polls don't consist solely of people like Jules Bonnot that no one will vote for. :lol:

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Prince Kropotkin fucks shit up. He'd fucking devour Stalin and that pussy 'stache with his beard.

[Il Medico]

For me, it was between Errico Malatesta and Peter Kropotkin. Kropotkin won out.

[Tablo]

Prince Kropotkin fucks shit up. He'd fucking devour Stalin and that pussy 'stache with his beard.
But which out of the 2 would have all the sexy men and women chasing after them?

I rest my case. ;)

[fa2991]

But which out of the 2 would have all the sexy men and women chasing after them?

I rest my case. ;)

But which one carried a cheap and portable substitute for two pounds of steel wool around with him on his face all day? Shit comes in handy. :thumbup1:

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

Kropotkin got my vote.

[Il Medico]

But which out of the 2 would have all the sexy men and women chasing after them?

I rest my case. ;)
Neither?

[scarletghoul]

Malatesta ftw. Though I was stuck between him, Tolstoy, and Stalin (original super mario right)

[Quail]

I voted Malatesta. His beard is pretty nice (and so is his writing :blushing: I always feel so inspired when I read it).

I do laugh every time I see an ad for KFC though, because it makes me think of that song: "Whatever happened to... Leon Trotsky!"

[scarletghoul]

I do laugh every time I see an ad for KFC though, because it makes me think of that song: "Whatever happened to... Leon Trotsky!"Haha. It's times like this I wish I was on the KFC marketing board so I could get them to make an advert with that song and then "after his theory of permanant revolution failed, Trotsky discovered his new passion: chicken"

[Quail]

^ Oh, if I could only give you rep for that :thumbup:

[Os Cangaceiros]

Also, whoever this "Jules Bonnot" guy is, he looks like some sort of really bad spy from the 19th century that glued some dyed parchment to his face as a disguise.

Jules Bonnot of the "Bonnot Gang" fame. I think that he looks like a magician, personally.

Anyway, I vote Zapata. (Who STILL hasn't been nominated yet!)

[fa2991]

Anyway, I vote Zapata. (Who STILL hasn't been nominated yet!)

I asked last time if he was actually a socialist or anarchist, and got no reply. Care to answer?

[Os Cangaceiros]

I'd say that he was a socialist. The Zapatista program was influenced to some degree by the Magon brothers.

[fa2991]

Having Stalin and Kropotkin in the lead kinda makes me wonder who would win in a fist fight. I'm inclined to believe Kropotkin since I think his beard would absorb most of Stalin's punches.

[Tablo]

Having Stalin and Kropotkin in the lead kinda makes me wonder who would win in a fist fight. I'm inclined to believe Kropotkin since I think his beard would absorb most of Stalin's punches.
True, but Kropotkin didn't have much meat on his bones. I think Stalin would just phone in the KGB to assassinate Kropotkin. xP

[anticap]

Stalin had a bum left arm, so his jab would've been shit.

Voted Kropotkin, but probably would have been Engels if here were available. In some shots his beard looks almost like a foam prosthetic. "Epic" is overused, but his truly was.

[scarletghoul]

^ I agree. Maybe this is just my orthodox marxism creeping out but I honestly think Marx and Engels are the 2 contenders for greatest beard in socialist history.

They should be put in separate polls to save the showdown for the end

[Martin Blank]

Haha. It's times like this I wish I was on the KFC marketing board so I could get them to make an advert with that song and then "after his theory of permanant revolution failed, Trotsky discovered his new passion: chicken"

And the logo:

http://www.ucpa.us/images/ldt-parody.gif

T-shirts are available in the lobby. :D

[fa2991]

KROPOTKIN WINS! No surprise there. Kropotkin & Stalin advance.

[nuisance]

The Vegan Marxist