If you could ask any now-dead communist

[EvilRedGuy]

Karl Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, etc. What would you ask and talk whith them about?

[bricolage]

beards.

[fa2991]

Marx & Engels. I'd present them with a book on Russian history and see how they reacted.

[iwwforever]

I would thank them.

[ContrarianLemming]

Bakunin: whats with the nut-job look?

http://libcom.org/files/images/library/marx-bakunin.jpg

[Volcanicity]

I would ask Mao how long did it take to wash his hands clean from all those people he killed single-handedly.

[Devlar]

Che Guevara, about how he feels to be a near symbol of capitalism

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

Marx & Engels. I'd present them with a book on Russian history and see how they reacted.
This.

I'd also ask Marx how he felt about such a sectarian shit fest growing out of his name. I might even ask him "who was a better Marxist, Stalin or Trotsky" just for the LOLs. Something tells me that Marx and Engels would want to die all over again if presented with our history of Marxism.

[graymouser]

I'd have a long talk about strategy with Trotsky, mostly because it would be easier to get him up to date and thinking about the changes in society since 1940 than with Lenin since 1924, Engels since 1895 or Marx since 1883.

[Queercommie Girl]

I would ask Mao how long did it take to wash his hands clean from all those people he killed single-handedly.

WTF? :confused:

How many people, or more specifically proletarian class people, did Mao kill directly?

[Queercommie Girl]

Actually with advanced holographic technology this kind of thing may be possible in the future, for example like in Star Trek, where the holographic characters all have very advanced AI.

[Queercommie Girl]

This reminds of an interesting thread on a Chinese socialist forum where one poster actually wrote a long dialogue between various characters that were once progressive or relatively progressive (or so considered by the poster himself) when they were still alive: Confucius, Lincoln, Marx, Lenin, Mao, and even Deng.

[manic expression]

I'd get Karl Marx together with esteemed (mostly Marxian) history professors and have them do a four-week-long seminar on world history from 1883 to the present day. Then I'd get a ton of tape recorders and stenographers and ask Marx: "So, what is to be done?".

[Volcanicity]

WTF? :confused:

How many people, or more specifically proletarian class people, did Mao kill directly?
Iseul it was supposed to be a joke on how every death in China in Mao's time is always attributed to him,as if he killed them himself.

[JacobVardy]

Kropotkin. I'd get him up to speed on 90 years of biology and psychology, and then watch him crank out pieces on the biological feasibility of communism.

[Weezer]

I would make Marx & Engels a tag-team and have them go against Reagan and McCarthy in the ring.

[Queercommie Girl]

Iseul it was supposed to be a joke on how every death in China in Mao's time is always attributed to him,as if he killed them himself.

Ok, sorry. My bad. :D

[the last donut of the night]

sorry

[Peace on Earth]

Along the lines of what durdles said, I'd ask Mao how it feels to be regarded as one of the most evil mass-murderers of all time.

But I'd be interesting in discussing why any famous communist (Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, etc.) why they did (x) for what reasons. To get insight on their positions, mainly.

[fa2991]

Kropotkin. I'd get him up to speed on 90 years of biology and psychology, and then watch him crank out pieces on the biological feasibility of communism.

Marx & Kropotkin would be a great duo to talk with, too, since they never met. I'm sure they'd have some great fights over the nature of revolution, and specifically the Russian Revolution.

[anticap]

I'd ask Marx to finish Capital for himself, and to release a new edition of the completed work taking the intervening 127 years into consideration, and to release an audio-book version in his own voice.

[Honggweilo]

Stalin, ask him out for a beer. I always picture the guy as a mix between BCBM and Wanted Man :rolleyes:. We'd go cruzing downtown, go to hipster parties, thrash them, sip some vodka, write pretentious slogans on billboards, be rude basasses, smash some bank windows, pick up barely legal women with our awesome facial hair, moderate revleft and ban some silly trots... good times.

[Sasha]

i have the feeling this should be in chatchit....

moved

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I'd ask them what is their favorite kink, of course...

[Rusty Shackleford]

I would ask Pol Pot if he would charge Dead Kennedys royalties.

[JacobVardy]

Marx & Kropotkin would be a great duo to talk with, too, since they never met. I'm sure they'd have some great fights over the nature of revolution, and specifically the Russian Revolution.

A Kropotkin & Marx collaboration would be really interesting. Marx doing the history and economics, Kropotkin doing the biology, neurology and anthropology. A General Theory of Politics or Principia Politica. Maybe with Bakunin doing the publicity and Lenin the executive editor (making sure everything got finished).

[AK]

Stalin, ask him out for a beer. I always picture the guy as a mix between BCBM and Wanted Man :rolleyes:. We'd go cruzing downtown, go to hipster parties, thrash them, sip some vodka, write pretentious slogans on billboards, be rude basasses, smash some bank windows, pick up barely legal women with our awesome facial hair, moderate revleft and ban some silly trots... good times.
Youthful troublemaking? I never pegged you to be an anarchist.

[Lyev]

I would ask Kautsky if I could snuggle up with him on the sofa with some nice chocolates and watch a Film 4 re-run of Love Actually.

[maskerade]

I would ask Stalin to draw naked pictures of me, and then write funny comments at the bottom

[¿Que?]

I would invite Rosa Luxemburg for coffee. Then I would seduce her by making lewd jokes about Bernstein and Lenin.:lol:

[anticap]

I would ask Stalin to draw naked pictures of me, and then write funny comments at the bottom

Did Stalin actually draw those nudes? I thought he just doodled on them. If he drew them then he made an even more serious error in career choice than I thought! Those are very good drawings.

[maskerade]

Did Stalin actually draw those nudes? I thought he just doodled on them. If he drew them then he made an even more serious error in career choice than I thought! Those are very good drawings.

hmm, well if he didn't draw them I would gladly supply him with some.
and then ask him to critique my politics with reference to either masturbation or my stunning physique

[Red Brigade]

I'd get Marx, Engles, Lenin, and Stalin and we would beat the shit out of glenn beck. :thumbup1:

[EvilRedGuy]

^^Agree, beat alot of peoples up.

TBH theres only so much you could ask them.

[Iskalla]

I'd just wanna toke with Engels and talk shit about bankers.

[L.A.P.]

I'd get Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky to go on a Jerry Springer type show to see them hug each other and walk into the sunset holding hands in the end of it all.:D

[Crux]

Given the stories I've heard a drinking binge with Marx and Engels sound fun.

[Ocean Seal]

Actually with advanced holographic technology this kind of thing may be possible in the future, for example like in Star Trek, where the holographic characters all have very advanced AI.
I was thinking more futurama when I heard this, but anyway I would want to talk to Marx and ask him to critique Pannekoek, Trotsky, and Stalin. And then of course I would want to hear what Stalin had to say about Hoxha, Mao, Kruschev, and Deng.

[Axle]

I'd bring Bolsheviks to a Tea Party rally.

[Dr Mindbender]

would be interesting to get lenin's reaction to the demise and collapse of the soviet union.

[Die Neue Zeit]

I would ask Kautsky if I could snuggle up with him on the sofa with some nice chocolates and watch a Film 4 re-run of Love Actually.

I really should watch it for Kautsky references in Chit Chat! :p :lol:

I'd have too much to say to him anyways.

[WeAreReborn]

Kropotokin for sure, I would talk to him about everything. Since he seemed to know every field of study.

[Invincible Summer]

Make Mao watch Glenn Beck and see how he would proceed.

Ask him what he thinks of Monkey Smashes Heaven and China today.

[EvilRedGuy]

Me, Peter Kropotkin, and Bakunin are good friends.

[Zanthorus]

I'd ask Plekhanov and Kautsky how it feels to be the inventor of one of the largest religions in history :D

j/k

[Trigonometry]

Maybe Marx or Lenin but tbh I'm not inclined interview them anymore than I would be to interview other historic characters

[Os Cangaceiros]

I'd ask Blackbeard where he buried his treasure.

[Kuppo Shakur]

I'd ask Blackbeard where he buried his treasure.
Dude, Blackbeard didn't bury any treasure.

[Os Cangaceiros]

He's got treasure somewhere. And I'm gonna be the one to get it.

[Wanted Man]

I'd ask Marx if he would terribly mind being pit in an arena death match against all the "Marxist academics" of this world, Marx being armed with only a rusty knife.

[Kuppo Shakur]

He's got treasure somewhere. And I'm gonna be the one to get it.
How the hell do you know? There are absolutely no records that suggest that he may have hidden any of his wealth. Most of his loot was converted into supplies, estates, etc. as soon as possible and after his couple of pardons and eventual defeat at Ocracoke, his wealth was collected by the authorities.

[Os Cangaceiros]

How the hell do you know? There are absolutely no records that suggest that he may have hidden any of his wealth. Most of his loot was converted into supplies, estates, etc. as soon as possible and after his couple of pardons and eventual defeat at Ocracoke, his wealth was collected by the authorities.

Only he and the devil knew where it was!

[Red Commissar]

I'd ask Marx about how to pubcrawl and troll successfully.

[Kuppo Shakur]

Only he and the devil knew where it was!
Where what was?
ARGH! I AM GENUINELY ENRAGED THAT YOU ARE NOT AS KNOWLEDGEABLE AS MYSELF WHEN IT COMES TO THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE.
You call yourself revolutionary? This is vital information that all leftists should know.:cursing:

[EvilRedGuy]

I'd ask Blackbeard where he buried his treasure.


What has this to do whith the thread? Unless "Blackbeard"(did he even excist?) was a communist i don't see the point in the posting this off-topic trash.

[REVLEFT'S BIEGGST MATSER TROL]

marx of course, i'd ask him what the fuck should we be doing right now as we're all totally lost

[Os Cangaceiros]

Where what was?
ARGH! I AM GENUINELY ENRAGED THAT YOU ARE NOT AS KNOWLEDGEABLE AS MYSELF WHEN IT COMES TO THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE.
You call yourself revolutionary? This is vital information that all leftists should know.:cursing:

His treasure, broseph!

I own the Charles Johnson book on pirates, although I've only skimmed through it, and have never actually read the section on Teach.


What has this to do whith the thread? Unless "Blackbeard"(did he even excist?) was a communist i don't see the point in the posting this off-topic trash.

LOL

[Bilan]

I'd tell Stalin that Bordiga was right about him.

[Kuppo Shakur]

His treasure, broseph!

I own the Charles Johnson book on pirates, although I've only skimmed through it, and have never actually read the section on Teach.

Books are meant to be read, comrade.
And hollowed out for illegal wares.

[¿Que?]

Books are meant to be read, comrade.
And hollowed out for illegal wares.
Exactly. I really don't think Marx had that much to say about capitalism...

[Kuppo Shakur]

Exactly. I really don't think Marx had that much to say about capitalism...
Are you saying you hollowed out Capital for storing illegal wares? If so, gtfo.

[¿Que?]

:laugh:
Are you saying you hollowed out Capital for storing illegal wares? If so, gtfo.
In my defense, the introduction and conclusion are still intact!

[NoOneIsIllegal]

To be fair, simply the introduction is almost big enough to hollow out for a gun.

[Kuppo Shakur]

:laugh:
In my defense, the introduction and conclusion are still intact!
All I'm saying is you better have that shit memorized.