Why don't more modern leftists have beards?

[graymouser]

Seriously guys. There is not enough facial hair on the American left. I'm tired of going to meetings full of clean-shaven guys. Male leftists should grow powerful revolutionary beards, like Marx and Engels, Bakunin and Kropotkin, or at least like Lenin and Trotsky. Clearly the beard is more revolutionary than the shaved chin. I just have a goatee these days but I have rocked the full beard a few times. My wife's never seen me without facial hair. So why aren't you guys getting on that? (Women are of course excused from the appeal for more beards, although if you've got it, flaunt it.)

[Pirate Utopian]

Because facial hair is shit.

[fa2991]

Because most leftists don't want to look like hipsters/the homeless. It is a shame, though.


Women are of course excused from the appeal for more beards

They're so not.

[Reznov]

Because I don't want to?

[graymouser]

Because I don't want to?
Bah, I say. Could Marx have ever written Capital without a power beard? I think not. Q.E.D.

[communard71]

Shaving is so much easier now tho. I used a straight razor once and it was freaking agony.

[fa2991]

Bah, I say. Could Marx have ever written Capital without a power beard? I think not. Q.E.D.

His beard was like Samson's hair.

[Rusty Shackleford]

They're so not.
agreed.

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

I want a beard now.

[danyboy27]

Seriously guys. There is not enough facial hair on the American left. I'm tired of going to meetings full of clean-shaven guys. Male leftists should grow powerful revolutionary beards, like Marx and Engels, Bakunin and Kropotkin, or at least like Lenin and Trotsky. Clearly the beard is more revolutionary than the shaved chin. I just have a goatee these days but I have rocked the full beard a few times. My wife's never seen me without facial hair. So why aren't you guys getting on that? (Women are of course excused from the appeal for more beards, although if you've got it, flaunt it.)

Beccause beard are fucking annoying, that why.

[scarletghoul]

our goal is a classless stateless beardless society. as many of you will know, we have already reached the beardless stage with the progression from marx, engels, lenin, stalin and mao. the 'history of shaving' picture is testement to this. now all that remains is to abolish clases and the state. we must be eternally grateful to mao for guiding us to beardless freedom. any socalled 'communist' in this day and age who insists on growing a beard is in fact nothing more than a revisionist

[the last donut of the night]

Because facial hair is shit.

wow we got ourselves mr. mc h8r

[the last donut of the night]

our goal is a classless stateless beardless society. as many of you will know, we have already reached the beardless stage with the progression from marx, engels, lenin, stalin and mao. the 'history of shaving' picture is testement to this. now all that remains is to abolish clases and the state. we must be eternally grateful to mao for guiding us to beardless freedom. any socalled 'communist' in this day and age who insists on growing a beard is in fact nothing more than a revisionist

so much win

[meow]

because only women can be true leftist and they dont want/cant grow a beard?

[¿Que?]

Generally, these days, beards are associated with dem evildoin moslems. So when I grow my beard out, people usually ask things like if I'm trying to join the Taliban or something.

[Animal Farm Pig]

Don't worry comrades, I'm rocking a big enough beard for three leftists! :castro:




Generally, these days, beards are associated with dem evildoin moslems. So when I grow my beard out, people usually ask things like if I'm trying to join the Taliban or something.

Just the other day, the guy at the gas station asked if I am Muslim.

[mossy noonmann]

garymouser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_Liberation_Front

you should check these lot out, you could set up a US chapter

[eyedrop]

I do consider growing a beard every time I have to shell out those 180 kr (about 20 euroes) for 4 shitty razor blades. Can someone break up that Gillette monopoly?

Keeping it clean shaves of 6 years of my true age though, it's fun showing an id every time I'm buying beers/snus.

[NecroCommie]

Not only beard, but a mousache! Think about it! Imagine if the capitalists could not see the immediate surroundings of your mouth! Imagine the advantage!

[Jazzratt]

I'm rocking a moustache and goatee ensemble. There is absolutely no irony to it. I fucking love facial hair.

[Rjevan]

Could Marx have ever written Capital without a power beard? I think not. Q.E.D.
Win! :thumbup1:

Seriously, don't ask me, I contribute my part by proudly wearing a moustache and a chin beard. No way to go without it!

[AK]

Because the dirty labor aristocrats can afford razors.

[AK]

our goal is a classless stateless beardless society. as many of you will know, we have already reached the beardless stage with the progression from marx, engels, lenin, stalin and mao. the 'history of shaving' picture is testement to this. now all that remains is to abolish clases and the state. we must be eternally grateful to mao for guiding us to beardless freedom. any socalled 'communist' in this day and age who insists on growing a beard is in fact nothing more than a revisionist
:laugh:

[Incendiarism]

i can't grow a beard.

[graymouser]

our goal is a classless stateless beardless society. as many of you will know, we have already reached the beardless stage with the progression from marx, engels, lenin, stalin and mao. the 'history of shaving' picture is testement to this. now all that remains is to abolish clases and the state. we must be eternally grateful to mao for guiding us to beardless freedom. any socalled 'communist' in this day and age who insists on growing a beard is in fact nothing more than a revisionist
So clearly the "rivers of blood" between Trotskyists and Maoists are actually "rivers of beard."

[Rusty Shackleford]

this makes hipsters counterrevolutionary due to their affinity with facial hair. if im using Scarleghoul's logic correctly.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I already have a full head of luscious locks to die for, why would I want to ruin it by growing a beard?

[graymouser]

this makes hipsters counterrevolutionary due to their affinity with facial hair. if im using Scarleghoul's logic correctly.
No, it makes them Trotskyists. ;-) Clearly, Shaving is for Stalinists.

[Sasha]

I do consider growing a beard every time I have to shell out those 180 kr (about 20 euroes) for 4 shitty razor blades. Can someone break up that Gillette monopoly?



what? over here you can buy cheap imitation blades everywhere (supermarket included). i buy 16 double blades for 4 euros or sommething, you can only buy gillette? :crying:

[Sasha]

anyway, regarding revolutionaries and facial hair

history has clearly shown;
beards are for the intelectuals
mustaches are for the bureaucrats
true proletarians have sideburns/mutton chops

[Il Medico]

"Why don't more leftist have beards?"

Because they know that it looks like shit?

[graymouser]

Because they know that it looks like shit?
Engels's beard on its own could have taken out a whole brigade! We need beard power, comrades, not this petty-bourgeois shaving.

[Jazzratt]

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with some of you people. "Beards look shit" the fuck sort of talk is that?

[Il Medico]

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with some of you people. "Beards look shit" the fuck sort of talk is that?
Case:
http://www.hahahasports.com/images/March%2009/goodenbeard2.jpg

in
http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/07/Brad-beard-2.jpg

Point
http://beaut.ie/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/BRAD-PITT-BEARD.jpg

[Pirate Utopian]

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with some of you people. "Beards look shit" the fuck sort of talk is that?
Facts.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

So clearly the "rivers of blood" between Trotskyists and Maoists are actually "rivers of beard."

Should this perhaps be "rivers of beer"?

[graymouser]

Should this perhaps be "rivers of beer"?
Nah, beer is how we manage to get along despite the rivers of blood and the petty-bourgeois Stalinist shaving the Maoists do.

[Lord Testicles]

People have an obsession with looking like a prepubescent.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I can't find it on you tube but there's a George Carlin routine where he says "Lenin had a beard. Marx had a beard. Gabby Hayes had WHISKERS."

From an atheist blog

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/06/to_beard_or_not_to_beard.php


I read somewhere that beards were considered a symbol of socialists/Marxists/communists/anarchists and that this is why they fell out of fashion, only radicals and academics kept them, while suddenly no one with facial hair could be president (seriously, look at pictures of the presidents, there's a clear beard line (Benjamin Harrison was the last, 1893 - the rise of the specter of anarchism) followed shortly by a mustache line (Taft was the last, 1913).

[Sasha]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1hLmH7rWA7I/SNEaeyXZ0AI/AAAAAAAAAEs/lhT8Nu7C6hg/s400/mm_guns%5B1%5D.gif

[Q]

I have a goaty beard and mustache, Lenin-style.

[Madvillainy]

facial hair is for perverts

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

facial hair is for perverts

as a clean-shaven pervert I find this hilarious

[Jazzratt]

People have an obsession with looking like a prepubescent.
Fucking this.

[Q]

as a clean-shaven pervert I find this hilarious

*instant rimshot*

[eyedrop]

what? over here you can buy cheap imitation blades everywhere (supermarket included). i buy 16 double blades for 4 euros or sommething, you can only buy gillette? :crying:
Gillette is the only blades you can buy at a store. There are one-time use razors you can buy that are quite cheap though, but those are terrible and I'd rather not add 15 minutes to each shaving session. (Five cuts included each shave)

[IllicitPopsicle]

Mutton chops/sideburns ftw.

I'm actually thinking about a handlebar mustache-mutton chop combo. And then shaving my head.

[Q]

what? over here you can buy cheap imitation blades everywhere (supermarket included). i buy 16 double blades for 4 euros or sommething, you can only buy gillette? :crying:

Those cheap imitation blades are way more expensive than Gillette. I bought a Mach 3 pack (5 heads) about half a year ago and still am shaving with my first blade. Now, I don't shave that often, but that outperforms any cheap imitation crap I had to date.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I just buy 10-packs of supermarket brand twin blade disposable razors with those lubricating strips. Don't see the point ion spending more money than I have to.

[Bilan]

Beards should be illegal.

[Sentinel]

I proudly wear a full beard since a while back. I keep it extremely well-trimmed though.



Beards should be illegal.


Oppressor!

[727Goon]

because more modern leftists enjoy having sex?

[brigadista]

not all leftists are men:)

[graymouser]

because more modern leftists enjoy having sex?
Never hurt my chances; I got a lot more after growing facial hair than before I did. Of course, if you can only grow patchy fuzz it might be a different story.

[bailey_187]

because we dont want to look like idiots

[Medvyet]

I'm a woman so growing a beard is next to impossible for me. But look at Frida Kahlo, she had a moustache and she was proud of it! Maybe if I start smoking I'll eventually sprout one.
This thread is hilarious, BTW. :laugh:

[Honggweilo]

anyway, regarding revolutionaries and facial hair

history has clearly shown;
beards are for the intelectuals
mustaches are for the bureaucrats
true proletarians have sideburns/mutton chops

i guess im a working class intelectual bureaucrat then :rolleyes:

[maskerade]

i prefer having a stubble than growing out a beard. though unfortunately, it acts sort of like a face peeler with chicks.

they still dig it though

[Magón]

Last time I grew a beard, it got too out of control. I'd clean it up, and make it look real nice, but the next morning it would be grown out twice as big and mangey looking. So now I just shave and keep smooth. Plus, where I live it gets too hot in the Spring and Summer times to have a beard. And Fall/Winter don't really make it any less easier, except on a rainy day?

[Quail]

I don't have a beard because I'm a woman.

But I was also thinking earlier that perhaps the ready availability of safety razors (as opposed to cut-throat razors) might have an effect.

Also the fact that I don't find facial hair attractive. Not that that should dictate what men do, but I don't like guys with beards.

[Sir Comradical]

Modern leftists don't have beards because apparently it's sexist, patriarchal and male chauvinist to have a beard or moustache.

[Quail]

Modern leftists don't have beards because apparently it's sexist, patriarchal and male chauvinist to have a beard or moustache.

How? :confused:

[Sir Comradical]

How? :confused:

I'm kidding.

[Quail]

I'm sorry. Sarcasm doesn't always come across online :blushing:

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

I'm sorry. Sarcasm doesn't always come across online :blushing:

racist

[Sir Comradical]

I'm sorry. Sarcasm doesn't always come across online :blushing:

Sorry, I should have indicated.

[Jazzratt]

Also the fact that I don't find facial hair attractive. Not that that should dictate what men do, but I don't like guys with beards. My facial hair exists to spite you.

[chegitz guevara]

I can only grow a throat beard. I've got sideburns and a soul patch.

Philistines shirk the burden of bristel
By shaving their faces as clean as a whistle
We are not philistines, so we
Can let our mustachios flourish free (real toast by a young Engels)

http://books.google.com/books?id=3KOyuSakn80C&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=engels+revolutionary+moustache&source=bl&ots=vZlzzYONoT&sig=p0ElLBElaFnq1GGX9QzZIZqHl-s&hl=en&ei=siKaTNyVN4P58Aa7rbR2&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=engels%20revolutionary%20moustache&f=false