Yeah I was researching Trotsky's life today and he made his living writing articles. When he was exiled from the USSR The Saturday Evening Post gave him $40,000 to serialize one of his books The...
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Yeah I was researching Trotsky's life today and he made his living writing articles. When he was exiled from the USSR The Saturday Evening Post gave him $40,000 to serialize one of his books The...
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Actually the guy is Argentine but a real right-wing prick, still that statement he made is interesting. If it were true Castro is a as smart as a fox.
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I'm intrigued by this statement made by a newspaper columnist hostile to Castro (It's a pretty cynical statement but interesting and smart of Castro if it were true):
"• The trial-balloon...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkaGbQRTuWM...ndante%20Marcos
Another different interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR2k8hC6rDc...ndante%20Marcos
Part 1
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Were they dependent on expropriations or on family members? Stalin helped the party by robbing banks, right?
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4 pages long
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/IraqCovera...=2265742&page=1
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Sounds like W.W. III is just around the corner. What the hell does Bush think?--- that Jesus Christ is going to return and usher the faithful into the Golden Age? That Bush is using Israel to wage...
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What about Emma by Howard Zinn (a play about the anarchist Emma Goldman).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL4YTM1NR6s...=noam%20chomsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heMTlvNBp_0...=noam%20chomsky
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She wasn't a servant at that time. Shit, Castro was a grown man--- 32 years old! Do you think his mother was a servant from the time Fidel was conceived until he came to power?
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I saw it and it was so boring. McNamara sucks.
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I saw a documentary on PBS-- where they say this--- that his mother never forgave him and then they show film footage of his mother driving a jeep through Las Manacas cane fields looking very pissed....
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Castro's mother never forgave her son, eh? When he gave that land to peasants after he won political power?
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What a bunch of pussies in that Chicago City council----mid 2010!!!!!!!!
Fuck, that is 4 years from now. No wonder people are disillusioned with the political system. I'll bet Walmart will move...
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I meant "austere" in terms of providing material comforts, pecuniary gain--- the proletariat will offer little or nothing in the way of "compensation" to prostitutes or to the lumpenproletariat...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bMD5wfg2c4&search=evita
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I said it tends toward anarchism. Do you know what the term "tends" means? The proletarian state is not a true state in the conventional sense of the word, but a mini-state, a semi-state---Lenin says...
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The L.P. are a mixed bag at best. Take drug addicts for example---they are hardly the most dependable people in the world. They will betray the revolution for one crack rock. And prostitutes?---- do...
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Haven't seen it, only read it in print. Pretty short. But pretty good.
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From William Blum's latest Anti-Empire Report
"In addition to doing away with the Hamas government, the current military blitzkrieg by Israel, with full US support, may well be designed to...
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Marx saw them as a counterrevolutionary force.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat
Some writers like Fanon (who wrote The Wretched of the Earth) say the lumpenproletariat should be...
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If you look at that Spiderman intro. again you will see that the thieves have four bags altogether. Does a worker-who is the boss.
The two thieves are small retail thieves stealing from big...
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Has anybody seen the two great films Napoleon and Marat/Sade? Outstanding pieces of art wouldn't you say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5n0Oyb9oo4&search=danton
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Pardon my ignorance but isn't there a communist/anarchist super hero anywhere?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJV4KqK0LpY&search=spiderman
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13952922/?from=ET