Your least favourite bourgeois leader in modern

[Cheung Mo]

I despise Gilles Duceppe: He used to be a Marxist revolutionary and his father was one of the most radical founding members of the NDP. Now he supports NAFTA, corporate tax custs, and our adoption of the U.S. dollar. And he has the nerve to say that he'll give more rights to workers and that he opposes Washington's imperialistic wars and Star Wars II..My problem with this asshole is not that he's particularly right-wing (If anything, he's left of most American Democrats), it's that he's a traitor who consistently misreprsents himself to his supporters, who tend to be very socially liberal and very anti-American (recent polls show more anti-Americanism among BQ supporters than among NDP supporters) and somewhat left-of-centre.

His riding is funny though...The Tories came in last and the Liberals finished way behind the NDP and barely ahead of the Greens for 3rd.

[Red Scare]

prime-minister steven harper

[The Advent of Anarchy]

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Deng Xiaoping. He was responsible for the capitalist reforms in China and Tinaminian Square (doubt I spelled that right).
Anyone that says that Mao purged people from the Communist Party of China as capitalist roaders for no reason other than disagreeing with him need only know this: Mao threw this jackass out for being a capitalist roader, and look what Deng did.

[Magic Snowman]

The one who really scares me is Mario Dumont. He basically looks like the political re-incarnation Maurice Duplessis. His entre campaign was that immigrants have too much power and the liberals don't represent the (white francophone) middle class.

[Ismail]

Originally posted by [email protected] 03, 2007 09:55 am
Deng Xiaoping.
When did he become a Canadian politician?

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Deng Xiaoping. He was responsible for the capitalist reforms in China and Tinaminian Square (doubt I spelled that right).

A natural conclusion of the leninist experiment.

If it hadn't been Deng, it would have been someone else.

[Cheung Mo]

Originally posted by Magic [email protected] 03, 2007 02:58 pm
The one who really scares me is Mario Dumont. He basically looks like the political re-incarnation Maurice Duplessis. His entre campaign was that immigrants have too much power and the liberals don't represent the (white francophone) middle class.
They even have the same initials. But if you strip them naked, you'd realise that all 3 major parties support that same neocon Quebec Lucide crap...I honestly felt embarrassed for the people in Montreal who returned PQ candidates to office when QS had a viable candidate.

[Magic Snowman]

But if you strip them naked, you'd realise that all 3 major parties support that same neocon Quebec Lucide crap...

Certainly no arguement there. The reason I single out Dumont is that he has done more to promote the neocon project in Quebec than any other active politician. The most frustrating thing is that he has done it by using the exact strategy that the radical left should be using here: cutting across the national question on a class basis.

The thing about Duceppe is that he's nothing new. Sure, he's particularly aggravating because he's a turncoat and he actually represents probably the most left-riding in the county (It's basically the same riding that QS came within 1000 votes of winning in the last provincial election). But the Bloc and the Parti Quebecois have been following the same strategy since the beginning. In the 1970s they appealed to workers by opposing the anglophone bourgeoisie, but in practice they simply replaced it with a francophone bourgeoisie. The first Levesque government actually passed a law banning union affiliation to provincial parties, to prevent a real workers party from undercutting their base.