A Fun Informative Game

[ernestodekam]

I have seen this on other message boards and it can be quite amazing at the quantity and quality of responses that it can get. All you have to do is to create a 'word chain' so the the first and last letter of each name is the same. These names all have to be of a great political leader/activist or any other important person who has influenced you in political thinking. After the persons name a few lines down you can write a couple of reasons why u chose the person. It might sound a bit corny but it can be interesting reading after a few hundred respones.
If u are confused, here is an example:

MarcoS - StaliN
The next person would use a name starting with N.

NapoleaN

please continue

[CPK]

nixon

[Moskitto]

NadeR

because his name begins with N

[CommieBastard]

RabiN

Yitzhak Rabin, 1922 to present day.
Israeli Labour politician. Responsible for several agreements with the PLO, has always favoured Palestinian self-government.

[Moskitto]

I thought Rabin was assasinated on 4th November 1995. That was a black day for world peace.

right back to the game

NerO

A Roman leader who's name begins with N

[reagan lives]

(PJ) O'RourkE

[Chief Rebel Angel]

i'll do it before anyone else does:
Ernesto "Che" GuivarA

do i really need to reason?

[RedCeltic]

AdamS ( John) (1735 - 1826)

American colonial revolutionary, lawyer, second U.S. President. And at one time #1 most wanted by the crown.

[Anonymous]

SpartakoS

Flamous gladiator slave in aincient Rome that lead a slave rebelion in the name of freedom, and defeated 5 legions before he was defeated him self. Just to give you an idea of what this means, at the hight of there power Romans had 25 legions so thats 1/5 of there army.

[Nickademus]

sokrates

need i really explain?

[SellasieI]

Sitting Bull

[AgustoSandino]

rosa Luxembourg

[reagan lives]

George F. WilL

[RedCeltic]

Lenin (Vladimir)

[Drifter]

NietzchE (Friedrich)
i've got a book of his next to me at the moment,
but they say he was a major influence in the thinking of Adolf Hitler

[AgustoSandino]

Erasmus

I hope its Geneaology that you're talking about, its a great book, with a very interesting moral analysis. I mean its called the geneaology of morals and it does its job in establishing the roots of morality. Furthermore, I think that the contention that Nietzsche influenced hitler is based on Nietzsche's use of the term Jewish to describe the monotheistic tradition, when you read Nietzsche you should try and understand that the term jewish is coordinate with Christian. He doesn't propose anti-semitism

[Anonymous]

StaliN

red fashist and traitor to the revolution for his ethernal disgrace.

i guess hitler must have missunderstode :)

[CPK]

Czar NicholaS

[RedCeltic]

SartrE, (Jean-Paul)

1905-1980

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world — and defines himself afterwards. If man as the existentialist sees him is not definable, it is because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself.” Existentialism is a Humanism

[Moskitto]

Eugene V. DebS

[Just Red]

Sun TzU

Great millitairy thinker and general. Writer of "The Art of War." His writings are still being used today. (but I heard he was also a kind of asswipe, but don't know for sure.

[Chief Rebel Angel]

Usama (also: Osama) bin LadeN

leader of the extremist militant group (so they say) "al Qaeda".. main suspect of the September 11th plane crashes.. etc etc

[El Commandante]

Nehru

Leader of the Congress Movement in India in 1946, managed with Gandhi to get Indian independence from British Imperialism in a peaceful way.

[vox]

Upton SinclaiR

US socialist writer most famous for The Jungle.

vox

[Anonymous]

RasputiN

Figure cloaked in myth he was the spiritual guide of the last Czar Russian family.

[Anonymous]

NoaM (Chomsky)

he dispenses introductions, this is a leftist forum after all...

[drunktank]

MakriyanniS

Greek fighter during 1821 revolution.
Perfect military and pure character.
Che could hardly reach his toe-nails.
www.makriyannis.gr

(Edited by drunktank at 6:27 pm on Oct. 21, 2001)

[TNapoleon]

SalazaR

Fascist dictator of Portugal from 1926 to 1970.

[RedCeltic]

RenneR (Karl) (1870-1950)

Austro-Marxist primarily concerned with the problem of nationality and the sociology of law. His 1904 text remains perhaps the classic Marxian work on the role of law in society.

[reagan lives]

Reagan.

[vox]

Reagan?

Really?

What did he teach you? That killing people is a good thing?

Seriously. What was good about Reagan, who turned a one trillion dollar debt into a three+ trillion dollar debt? Who raised taxes on the poor and cut taxes for the rich? Who committed international war crimes?

Tell me, dear reactionary troll, what was good about Reagan?

I know that you can't do it.

vox

[AgustoSandino]

vox had no problesm with bin laden, but he he contended reagan? I think one of the unstipulated rules of the game was that you mentioned names, not argued the merits of the individual in question.

so reagaN -> Nixon

[RedCeltic]

Actually we already had Nixon... he was the first reply from CPK... But it still ends in a N so...

Norman ThomaS


U.S. social reformer and politician. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister and became pastor of New York's E. Harlem Church. He joined the Socialist Party in 1918 and left his parish post to become secretary of the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. He helped found the Amer. Civil Liberties Union, and served as codirector of the League for Industrial Democracy 1922-37. He was the Socialist Party's candidate for governor (1924), mayor of New York (1925, 1929), and U.S. president (1928-48), and headed the party from 1926. After World War II he pressed for nuclear disarmament as chairman of the Postwar World Council.

[CPK]

Ivan Stepanovich Silayev
Russian Prime Minister

[AgustoSandino]

sorry bout the nixon then,

Vajpayee, Atal Bihari

[Moskitto]

Ian SmitH

Former dictator of the South African country Rhodesia (Now called Zimbabwe.) Accused of war crimes by the Mugabe government.

[Anonymous]

general HumbertO Delagado

his nick name was "general without fear" it makes more sense in Portuguese. He was murdered by portuguese fashists because of his actions and words against the "new state", he ran for elections and although they where fixed elections so many people would vote for him that he still had the chance of getting elected! so they catched him, killed him and dorped him in a baththub of sulfuric acid that evaporated his body.

[Chancho]

Mary O'Brien

Marxist feminist philosopher.

[SellasieI]

Newton , Sir Isaac

I'm not sure how great of how good a politcal leader/activist he was, but he did help us with a few things to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

[Chancho]

Robert Nozick

Philosopher who argues for the ultraminimalist state, traditional 18th Century individualism and 19th C laissez-faire capitalism. Author of (most notably) Anarchy, State and Utopia.

(Edited by Chancho at 7:07 am on Oct. 23, 2001)

[Anonymous]

KasparoV

the chess master:)

[CPK]

Vladimir LeniN

[RedCeltic]

We had Lenin... I said his name already.

(Edited by RedCeltic at 3:57 pm on Oct. 23, 2001)

[kevolution]

NegrÍ (antonio?)

Spanish communist or anarchist, i can't remember which. was he the one they called the 'spanish lenin' in the civil war? my memory is failing...

[Chancho]

Idi Amin

Former brutal Ugandan dictator who once claimed to have eaten human flesh.

[Chief Rebel Angel]

NasseR

one of the better Egyptian presidents to say the least.. overthrew the last king of Egypt with the help of his comrades of the Free Officers... turned Egypt into a Republic.. look at it now... so much for the republic...

"The pioneer of Arabic socialism and the leader of their struggle in one of the most critical periods in their history. "(http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby...5270/index2.htm (http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5270/index2.htm))

[Chancho]

Fidel Castro Ruz