you ever met a left-wing "celebrity"

[ed miliband]

was in a bookshop as the same time as david graeber, who was asking if they had any of his books.

met tariq ali at a rally, even shook his hand. ewww.

think that's it.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

I met Vermin Supreme at the NATO protests. I got to take a picture with him.

[Tim Cornelis]

I met Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin, and Kropotkin in five, five, four, three handshakes, respectively. I met a guy who met Anton Constandse, a Dutch anarchist journalist. Anton Constandse met Kropotkin. Kropotkin met Lenin. Lenin met Stalin.

Handshakes transcend time.

[doesn't even make sense]

I asked Immanuel Wallerstein a question at a lecture, he gave me a shitty non-answer

[ed miliband]

if lectures count, last year malcolm chase, the most respected historian of chartism, took a few of my lectures and seemed a nice chap, but very boring.

[Althusser]

Met Immortal Technique at zuccotti park on the first day of Occupy Wall Street. I met Vermin Supreme, Jimmy "rent is too damn high" McMillan, and Tom Morello briefly at the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.

[Sasha]

not really famous ones but i met a bunch of old dutch (councel) communists, lots of classwar folk like ian bone, martin wright etc, stuart christy, stuart home, mark barnsley is a regular in amsterdam, juanra rodriguez offcourse when he was underground here.

and ofcourse lots of leftist musicians as i work in a concert venue

[ed miliband]

not really famous ones but i met a bunch of old dutch (councel) communists, lots of classwar folk like ian bone, martin wright etc, stuart christy, stuart home, mark barnsley is a regular in amsterdam, juanra rodriguez offcourse when he was underground here.

and ofcourse lots of leftist musicians as i work in a concert venue


you know of jan appel? met his widow a few years ago, tenuous i know.

met bone and martin wright, or rather marched side by side with them.

[Sasha]

you know of jan appel? met his widow a few years ago, tenuous i know.


never met him or his widow, leo klatser was married into my family though and fought in the international brigades with my great-uncles.

[Ostrinski]

I think jookyole or whatever his name is met the very distinguished* historian, Grover Furr
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[Sentinel]

Of the top of my head, I've met most of the CWI Swedish and international leadership. Having an administrative conversation with Clare Doyle (one of the original members of the Militant Editorial Board) was the 'high point' I suppose. I also once spoke with Peter Taaffe, but that was about something totally nonpolitical.

We were out of coffee cups and I informed him that I just brought some. I also once attended an event where Aleida Guevara March, daughter of Che, spoke..

[Os Cangaceiros]

I met Wayne Price once.

He's an old platformist anarcho-Trot from (what formerly was) NEFAC. I guess he's a big deal in the US east coast anarchist scene. Published a book or two I think.

[Let's Get Free]

Keith Olberman!

[Crux]

I've met someone who's met the guy in my avatar, Anton Nilson, who in turn was in the russian revolution and met most of the old guard of the bolsheviks, including zinoviev, trotsky, lenin and stalin. He got a leather jacket from trotsky. Yeah I know. :cool: I've also met the two former leaders of the Left Party if that counts for anything...

[Prometeo liberado]

Met Big Bird at a cage match recently.

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[Ele'ill]

yes had the opportunity to avoid them and did, fuck activist Hollywood fuck activism

[ed miliband]

yes had the opportunity to avoid them and did, fuck activist Hollywood fuck activism

to be fair, we're mentioning the widows of dutch council communists as "celebrities" in this thread; hollywood liberals aren't getting a look in.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Met Boots Riley at Occupy Oakland. Shook his hand and told him I'm a big fan.

Also met this old guy from the Peace and Freedom Party at a protest against a pig killing someone. Don't know his name or how "famous" he is but I've seen him enough times in videos representing the PFP that I immediately recognized him. Didn't really talk much, just about how unjust what had just happened was.

[o well this is ok I guess]

was in a bookshop as the same time as david graeber, who was asking if they had any of his books.who the fuck is conceited enough to go to a bookstore to find their own books?

[sixdollarchampagne]

I met Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin, and Kropotkin in five, five, four, three handshakes, respectively. I met a guy who met Anton Constandse, a Dutch anarchist journalist. Anton Constandse met Kropotkin. Kropotkin met Lenin. Lenin met Stalin.

Handshakes transcend time.

Of course you did!

One of my favorite books, that I read a long time ago, was Krúpskaya's Reminiscences of Lenin (which is a heck of a lot easier to spell in Russian, Vospominaniya Lenina, approximately), which is a book I loved, and in that book, or maybe some other, I seem to remember reading that Lenin had, in fact, met Kropotkin when Kropotkin was very elderly, and Lenin saw to it that Prince Kropotkin was well-treated. I think it is possible that they did meet, since Kropotkin died in 1921 and Lenin, in 1924).

[sixdollarchampagne]

Around 1970 or 1971, I met the SWP's philosophy expert and published author in that field, George Novack. He gave a lecture in Washington DC, when I lived in northern Virginia, across the Potomac. I saw the veteran workers' leader and Teamsters' activist Farrell Dobbs at the SWP's 1969 Convention in New York City, which I attended.

[Ostrinski]

Lenin died in 24.

[Ocean Seal]

Obama, we talked about our Islamosocialist plans.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Don't suppose Alexei Sayle counts? Met him once when doing a writing course; shook his hand, had a chat. Seemed nice enough.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Boots! Howard Zinn! Angela Davis! John Carlos!

[Rugged Collectivist]

who the fuck is conceited enough to go to a bookstore to find their own books?

Shut up. You would if you ever got any published.

[cynicles]

Elmo.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

I met Billy Bragg when he came to my university occupation and played us a few songs. Met Tony Benn on a demo recently and briefly shook his hand. Met a load of leftist documentary makers...

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

ian bone quite a few times if that counts

drank with peter taafe once. don't think that counts but someone else mentioned him

[Drosophila]

I've met Alan Woods.

[NewLeft]

i am 99% sure that i saw naomi klein downtown once but didn't say anything

[cynicles]

i am 99% sure that i saw naomi klein downtown once but didn't say anything
You must have been paralized with excitement.