If You Could Live In Some Other Time And Place

[which doctor]

Let's say that you can choose to live in some other time and place. Where and when would'd you choose to go?

I will say 3 of my choices later.

I expect to hear lots of Russia, 1917's.

[More Fire for the People]

Ancient Greece or Africa
Mayan civilization at its peak
Europe c. 1910s-1920s [specifically St. Petersburg and Munich]

[RevSouth]

Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Spanish Civil War, 1936.

[which doctor]

For me

Zurich in 1916-1918 for Dadaism

Chicago in the 1880's for Anarchism

Paris in 1968 for the Latin Quarter occupation

[Cult of Reason]

Spain, July 1936. Make sure they tell Garcia Oliver to fuck off, and shoot some of the politicians. Seeing some Anarchy in action would also be nice.

[Urban Rubble]

Jamaica in the late 60/early 70's. Watch Rocksteady bands like the Ethiopians and the Maytones, get in shantytown knife fights and smoke spliffs on the beach.

[R_P_A_S]

knowing what i know now. I would live in Mexico around the first revolution. 1800's

[afrikaNOW]

Any African state when it gained its independence, Egypt, Nubia or Ethiopia at its peak, middle east maybe roll wit Jesus and Muhammad. Can't forget the 60's for the black power movement, haha and see my dad, that would be weird. :)

[Jesus Christ!]

SPainish civil war.

[RebelDog]

I would go forward in time. I don't want to go back and share in the dissapointment of failure. I want to see our victory with my own eyes, it would be stunning. A global communist/anarchist society. The pinnacle of civilisation, that would be something to be involved in.

[Morpheus]

I would live either in the future or in the far past, before class society.

[che's long lost daughter]

Peru, during the Mayan period.

[RedAnarchist]

Spanish Civil War
Paris, 1968
100 years from now (to see how the world is)

[Dimentio]

I would probably adapt better if I was born in 1884, not 1984.

[Si Pinto]

I'd quite like to try about 80,000,000 years ago.

I like dinosaurs.
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I'd like to go back to Margaret Thatcher's mum & dads house just before she was concieved.

That is if she was actually conceived by humans....more likely a jackal.

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and number 3

I'd quite like to go to Bolivia in 67.

With about 50,000 friends :D .

[Led Zeppelin]

Roman empire around 40 BC. I'd like to have been a Praetorian.

[Ol' Dirty]

Mars. :D

Seriously, I'd like to be around in the American Sixties, so I could learn how to really protest, y'know? I'd like to get a guitar lesson from Hendrix and Dylan, and hang out with some hippies. Yeah, that'd be dope.

[Global_Justice]

i'd say britain in the 70's. marxism was rife in the youth and in the politicians, people were living by there ideals, squating and marching. and workers were standing up, union density was high and people weren't afraid to strike. basicallt, socialism in the near future was a reality.

then thatcher came along <_<

[rioters bloc]

spain &#39;36.

or failing that, paris 68.

[Trent Steele]

Certainly not too far in the past. One word: anesthetics.

The future would probably be a good bet though. Not sure about place, somewhere with nice scenery and weather would be nice.

[Nachie]

Maybe the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia, 1921.

[Kid_A7]

Paris, 68&#39;, and take over the god damn Sorbon while i&#39;m at it.

Besides that.. hmm.

To be part of the army that revolutionised Cuba maybe,

and of course, to live in ancient Greece for just a bit.

[Dyst]

It would be impossible to go back in time, unless some sort of extra dimensions would be created.

You can&#39;t go back in time, because you would change the past, which could for example lead you (in the future) to not be able to make a time machine, it&#39;s like a paradox.

Besides, why haven&#39;t we seen anyone from the future?

Travelling forward in time is a little more likely.

I realize that I&#39;m a jerk and it is a hypothetical question.

[ComradeOm]

Russia 1917. I can only imagine being on the white hot edge of revolution.

[Black Dagger]

In our stateless classless future&#33;

Or if you wanna be arse and say it has to be the past, Paris 68 :P

[kaaos_af]

I&#39;ll say 10 000 BC- hunter and gatherer for me :D

[Free Left]

Either 400 years in the future where society has collapsed.

Or in Rome about 200BC,

[which doctor]

You can&#39;t go back in time, because you would change the past, which could for example lead you (in the future) to not be able to make a time machine, it&#39;s like a paradox.
You don&#39;t know much about time travel do you.

[Leo]

May 68, Paris...

[Mesijs]

Maybe to some time where I could kill Stalin as a young kid studying, so the good communists could introduce socialist democracy in the USSR.

But for the fun of it, maybe the 70s or so, when there still was idealism instead of the fancy bullshit and empty minds of our time.

[RevSouth]

I&#39;m in for Battle of Blair Mountain, too, Nachie. I&#39;d never heard of that so I Wikipedia&#39;d it, that is something they sure as hell don&#39;t teach you in U.S. history. Wouldn&#39;t want you to know that the working class can succeed.

I shudder to think what some of the replies to this thread would be at stormfront.

[which doctor]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2006, 05:27 PM
I&#39;m in for Battle of Blair Mountain, too, Nachie. I&#39;d never heard of that so I Wikipedia&#39;d it, that is something they sure as hell don&#39;t teach you in U.S. history. Wouldn&#39;t want you to know that the working class can succeed.
I don&#39;t have time to look it up, but was Mother Jones involved in that?

[RevSouth]

Yes, she called the men to organize a Union forcibly when local authorities and the coal mines they worked for did not allow them too. Which they did.

[Taiga]

Originally posted by Si [email protected] 14 2006, 03:07 PM
and number 3

I&#39;d quite like to go to Bolivia in 67.

With about 50,000 friends :D .
I guess 50 001 including me :D

http://www.forum.nbp-nord.org/style_emoticons/default/_86_comando.gif


I also would like to go to Ukraine to see Batko Makhno.

And Paris Commune, of course.

And Paris, 68.

And years 30-33 (or so) to see Christ or to prove he didn&#39;t exist at all.

[Sankara1983]

These are just the top three...

1. mid-1980s Burkina Faso
2. the Algiers Casbah during the War of Independence
3. 1956 Hungary

[travisdandy2000]

I would like to live in Republican Spain, and fight and die in the struggle to save Madrid from the Facsist. I bring that up randomn times throughtout my work day, everyone I know knows when I wish I could have been alive. They Shall Not Pass&#33;

[Zero]

...

I&#39;d rather be right where I&#39;m sitting right now in time. The past may have shown some intresting things. But the point of our fight is for the future.

[godisdead]

1. coastal peru - wari (huari) period 700-1000 c.e.

2. central mexico - teotihuacan 250-350 c.e.

3. el salvador - fmln revolution 1980s.

[Vladislav]

1960s/1970s S.U so I can get properly educated and brainwashed with pro Lenin propaganda. Yay&#33;

[Coggeh]

Ireland 1916 -Easter Rising with James Connolly

Spain 1936- International Brigade

California 1960 - For the Black Panthers

[piet11111]

i would love to go into the future and see post revolutionary society.

[YKTMX]

Kronstadt, 1921 ;)

[Led Zeppelin]

Would you hold Trotsky&#39;s hand while he&#39;s leading the troops?

[YKTMX]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 12:47 PM
Would you hold Trotsky&#39;s hand while he&#39;s leading the troops?
Nah, I&#39;d be storming the pogromists on the front line, obviously.

[Enragé]

i would want to live in no other time than now. In my opinion, we stand at the beginning of a new revolutionary era. We are in a period in which the first revolution, the perverted revolution, has come to an end (just as for the bourgeosie the french revolution failed), we live in a time when the restoration of capitalism is in full swing (just as the kingdoms were restored after the napoleonic age), we live in a time when the true revolutions are on their way, where the realisation of communism is infact closer than it has ever been since the movement is no longer corrupted by Soviet influence.

[skooma]

hobbiton, middle earth. at the turn of the third age.
i like farming.

[Free Left]

Ireland 1916 -Easter Rising with James Connolly

And convince him to stay out of it cos we&#39;re gonna need him in the future.

[RaiseYourVoice]

Originally posted by The [email protected] 14 2006, 05:40 AM
I would go forward in time. I don&#39;t want to go back and share in the dissapointment of failure. I want to see our victory with my own eyes, it would be stunning. A global communist/anarchist society. The pinnacle of civilisation, that would be something to be involved in.
i totally agree, progression in time should make it better hopefully xD

[Aurora]

Spain during the civil war,join true comrades and kill some fash.

[Everyday Anarchy]

Ukraine, 1918

[YSR]

Originally posted by Xero
Ukraine, 1918

omglolz anti-semite&#33;&#33;11one&#33;

EDIT: Right, as for me: 1936 Catalonia, develop with the struggle and do some good.

1919 Seattle General Strike. Short but sweet. Maybe we could&#39;ve shut the AFL up so success would have been longer.

And 20 years in the future, to see if we won.

[Phalanx]

Judea, 63 BCE to resist the Romans&#33;

[Fawkes]

Early 1900s so I could kill Lenin and Stalin.

Spanish Civil War

Or 1990 in NYC so I could assassinate Kahane before Nosair could, because I wouldve loved to haved killed that Zionist bastard.

[Everyday Anarchy]

Originally posted by Young Stupid Radical+Jul 28 2006, 08:49 PM--> (Young Stupid Radical @ Jul 28 2006, 08:49 PM)
Xero
Ukraine, 1918

omglolz anti-semite&#33;&#33;11one&#33; [/b]
:lol: Saw that one coming.


Just thought of another one
Seattle, 1999 - battle of seattle, hell yeah

[Morag]

1 1960s. I mean, yeah. Free love, radical politics, and great music.

2 Immediately post-Roman Britain. Just cuz.

3 1930s Canada. Yeah, baby&#33; See my grandpa beating up some RCMP officers in Regina. And the rest of it, the depression and lead-up to WWII.


Seattle, 1999 - battle of seattle, hell yeah

It rocked&#33; :)

[C_Rasmussen]

Southern US 1950s....

XD j/k

Nah actually I&#39;d like to live in the era from 1960-1990

[Sadena Meti]

Key West Florida, during the American Civil War. Long Live the Conch Republic&#33;

Seriously though, I&#39;d like to have been born in the year 2000 in the USA to parents right-wing enough to make me into a leftist radical. I&#39;m way too old now, but if I was born then, I&#39;d be just the right age for when I think things are really going to happen. 2030&#39;s should be fun, hope I last that long.

[1984]

Do you mean with the knowledge we have now, like if we had an time machine, or to be a common citizen from the time...?

[CCCPneubauten]

The Civil War of China or Russia, either on eof those would be a good time...I&#39;d like ot live in the DPRK, just to see what it&#39;s like.

[chimx]

I would travel to either May 31st, 2006, so i could kiss my girlfriend goodbye once more before she left, or August 11th, 2006, so i could give her a hug for the first time in 10 weeks.

:-(

or i would goto september 2, 1885 to watch marty save doc brown.

[More Fire for the People]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2006, 09:57 PM
or i would goto september 2, 1885 to watch marty save doc brown.
This is officially the coolest post ever.

[Socialistpenguin]

Russia, 1917 (pretty obvious, I know.)
The earliest possible time Hitler gave a speech. (Nothing fancy, just a quick push over a ledge ;) )
The Battle of Cable Street, 1936 (Commies vs Nazis, BRILLIANT&#33;)

[Enragé]

Genova, &#39;01

seeing that shit on tv made me become more and more left, eventually revolutionary

for all who were there
you changed my life :wub:

:lol:

[Wanted Man]

Originally posted by Hopscotch Anthill+Aug 3 2006, 04:01 AM--> (Hopscotch Anthill @ Aug 3 2006, 04:01 AM)
[email protected] 2 2006, 09:57 PM
or i would goto september 2, 1885 to watch marty save doc brown.
This is officially the coolest post ever. [/b]
Quoted for truth.

[chimx]

did you guys know that in the filming of back to the future 3, marty mcfly offered to actually hang himself by sticking his hand between his neck and the rope, instead of being propted up. but he fucked up where his fingers were to go and he actually hung himself and passed out. people had to run up and save him.

http://www.martinwildig.com/pictures/martymcfly_1.jpg

hard to the core.

[Global_Justice]

Originally posted by Chinghis [email protected] 29 2006, 03:13 AM
Judea, 63 BCE to resist the Romans&#33;
:lol: what did the romans ever do for us

[Gryphon]

711 AD to defend Spain from the invading Muslims (Moors) that came from North Africa and try to prevent more than 6 centuries of Islamic domination in Spain.

[skooma]

...fair enough.

i&#39;d like to skip foward a few hundred years to see america collapse. then another few hundred years cause of the radiation poisoning etc

[Marukusu]

...a few hundred years to see america collapse? I would give the shithole 150 years, max. It&#39;s collapse has already begun.

If I could travel through time and space, I would have travelled to Rome in 73 BC to help Spartacus win the Third Servile War and become president over the Roman People&#39;s Republic. Sic semper tyrannis&#33;

[Monty Cantsin]

When i was a kid i used to love history because i thought my own epoch i.e now was boreing. i realise now though that&#39;s there&#39;s plenty going on and to be done. so i&#39;d stay right here where i belong.

i&#39;d like to go sailing though, havent done that in years and i loved it.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by Monty [email protected] 5 2006, 10:48 AM
When i was a kid i used to love history because i thought my own epoch i.e now was boreing.
Same here my philosopher buddy.

We are the same.

[Gryphon]

Originally posted by Monty [email protected] 5 2006, 10:48 AM
When i was a kid i used to love history because i thought my own epoch i.e now was boreing. i realise now though that&#39;s there&#39;s plenty going on and to be done. so i&#39;d stay right here where i belong.

i&#39;d like to go sailing though, havent done that in years and i loved it.
Good for you, I like sailing too.

[SFRJ]

Yugoslavia 1980&#39;s.

Socializam at its peak, try to prevent break up.

[Lings]

Even though its not exact and scientific, the crisis in capitalism on world basis comes aproximatly every ninth year, the last one being 2000, thus leading up to the occupation of afghanistan and iraq, but i dont belive people will be prepared to take power in any of the european countries or north america withing the next couple of years, so i&#39;ll say right where i am now (well, not in front of my computer, but in the streets in my home town) in and around 2018.

In the past? Mexico, 1846-47, St. Patricks battalion perhaps.. I dont know.
Hard to choose... i&#39;d very much like to experience every act of resistance, every act of defiance, every act of solidarity between opressed people in the history of the world.

But all in all, i&#39;m pretty happy about living and fighting every day, right here, right now.

[Eleutherios]

In the halls of Congress, next time Bush and Cheney are speaking to them. That is, provided I can bring some grenades and machine guns with me in the time machine.

P.S. To the FBI agent reading this post: I&#39;m just kidding.

[Viva Fidel&#33;&#33;]

Mayan Civilization 324-625 A.D

Cuba- 1933-Now So I could have witnessed Batista&#39;s regime and then over throw him along with the 26th of July Movement.

100 years from now.

[Labor Shall Rule]

Barcelona, Spain: 1936 (for obvious reasons)

Arawak Hispaniola (200 B.C.-1515)-Communal native land that practiced free love, direct democracy, and atheism.

St. Petersburg, Russia: 1917 (also for obvious reasons once again)

[The Rover]

India, 1916 - 1945

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

No Time better than the present, but I&#39;d prefer to have lived closer to a city...

[RedAnarchist]

It would be amazing if we all lived for 100 years, one in every century within a millenium (like 1520, 1673, 1790, 1804, 1917 etc). With every year we would see huge differences in almost every aspect of life.

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

I read somewhere that the maximum human life span should be 120, but we all do stuff in our life that accumulatingly chips that away

[D_Bokk]

Italy, 73BC for Spartacus.
Spain, 1936 for the Civil War.

[Comrade J]

Germany, 1920&#39;s... try rally the people against Nazism.

Or maybe Medieaval England, fascinating time, I&#39;d love to have seen what it was like, though not sure I&#39;d like to have lived then&#33; In poverty anyways, but still would be interesting to see.

[exotica*en*cuba]

Cuba, Pinar del Rio in 1960.

[Ian]

Sedna, present.

[Rollo]

The moon so when everybody &#39;splodes earth I&#39;m relatively safe.

[Zeruzo]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 12:30 PM
The moon so when everybody &#39;splodes earth I&#39;m relatively safe.
except the fact that you choke...

i&#39;d choose the USSR 1921

[Dyst]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 07:47 PM
except the fact that you choke...
Lol&#33;

I&#39;d choose my current location in about 63 years.

[Vargha Poralli]

1) Paris during french revolution
2) Leningrad 1945.Defending the city against the Nazis.
3) Havana January 8, 1959.Waving to che and fidel. ;)

[Rollo]

Originally posted by Zeruzo+Aug 27 2006, 11:47 PM--> (Zeruzo @ Aug 27 2006, 11:47 PM)
[email protected] 27 2006, 12:30 PM
The moon so when everybody &#39;splodes earth I&#39;m relatively safe.
except the fact that you choke...

i&#39;d choose the USSR 1921 [/b]
Your absolutely right, in the age when people can spend months upon months under the ocean without the natural air, when china can finally bring a man home from space and when george bush can become president I will choke in space.

[LoE]

2300 in a neo-communist world in which people do nothing but art and machines do all the work

[*[email protected]*]

Id go back to 1920&#39;s Paris and be a painter and Communist Party member.

Or 1930&#39;s Cuba to live in poverty and join Fidels movement later on and be a wicked commander of a death camp for people of Religious belief :lol:
(Big surprise :rolleyes: )

But I think its important that we change the present rather then reminece of the past to make this world a better place, so future generations can say theyed love to live in our time.
(which with Bush for President is an unlikely thing :D )

[Labor Shall Rule]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 02:17 PM
Havana January 8, 1959.
That is the day of my birthday&#33; :o

[Akira]

Heian era of Japan.

Or in general anywhere before the industrial revolution.

[Physco Bitch]

I would choose ancient Greese or Egypt. Sitting around contemplating life and it&#39;s meanings and understanding way much more then we now and understand now, what we understand now is infant compared to the wisdom and great knowledge they possed. I wish more than words that i was living in that era now. :D

[The Grey Blur]

Ireland in the 1910&#39;s and hear Connolly speak

[Zeruzo]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 02:33 PM
Your absolutely right, in the age when people can spend months upon months under the ocean without the natural air, when china can finally bring a man home from space and when george bush can become president I will choke in space.
Months is not forever, the China thingy doesn&#39;t prove anything and Bush is the prove of the opposite :P.

[DISTURBEDrbl911]

One of my top choices would definately be the 1960&#39;s in California, and all throughout the states, especially at Abbie Hoffman&#39;s "levitation" of the Pentagon

[Labor Shall Rule]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2006, 04:08 AM
One of my top choices would definately be the 1960&#39;s in California, and all throughout the states, especially at Abbie Hoffman&#39;s "levitation" of the Pentagon
Why would you want to go back to that time period? I hate yippies with all of my heart.