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    Hello,

    I am a Greek Marxist from Chicago who has been lurking around this forum for quite some time now. I would describe myself as a Marxist-Leninist with Trotskyist leanings.
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    right on, i would describe myself as Marxist-Leninist also but also borrow from several others (some trotsky), also i'm a neighbor to your north in Minneapolis, Minnesota .....

    good to see someone else in the midwest and welcome.
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    Welcome.

    Please use the link in my signature. I'm having a "survey" on this forum .
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    Well hello cross town comrade. I'm over here in the south side.
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    Thanks for welcoming me

    I'm from the north side of Chicago
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    Message me, we should get a cup of coffee.
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    Originally posted by Organic Revolution@June 05, 2007 04:44 am
    Message me, we should get a cup of coffee.
    Sure thing
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    Comrade, welcome here, and know that I was born in "Ill"-waukee, yes, because it is "iller" than Chicago. I moved to Cali though.

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    I am a Greek Marxist from Chicago who has been lurking around this forum for quite some time now. I would describe myself as a Marxist-Leninist with Trotskyist leanings.
    You ever heard of Aghis Stinas, comrade?

    If not:

    http://www.geocities.com/antagonism1/stinas/StTOC.html
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    Thanks for the link. To answer your question, no, I have not heard of him, although I am reading the document you sent in that link. I like the resistance fighter Aris Velouchiotis, who fought on even after the occupiers left in order to bring socialism to Greece
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    Aghis Stinas was quite different from Aris Velouchiotis imo. One was an internationalist, opposing every bourgeois faction and calling for proletarian revolution, the other was a... well Stalinist, sort of at least.
    "Communism, as fully developed naturalism, equals humanism, and as fully developed humanism equals naturalism; it is the genuine resolution of the conflict between man and nature and between man and man – the true resolution of the strife between existence and essence, between objectification and self-confirmation, between freedom and necessity, between the individual and the species. Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution." - Karl Marx

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