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IrishAyes

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4. Quite apart from the wrong or right of your organization,
Mon Aug 4, 2014, 07:29 PM
Aug 2014

I must say that the timing of your split with the other group might not prove beneficial to your cause. Right now Putin is the face of communism for most of the world. He's no more palatable than Stalin to most people. Good luck overcoming that hurdle.

I'm an old lady who came of age in the 1960's, with a peculiar fondness for Trotsky which I've never quite understood well or delved into - or bothered to hide. It's just there. Not to worry, there's probably nothing the CIA, FBI, and NSA don't know or think about me already. No point keeping my head down now.

But after reading much of your FB page, I get the impression you are a very young man. That has its advantages but believe it or not, it also carries one significant disadvantage - the lack of long-range personal perspective. There are things you will learn over time that you might not even be considering now. It's not my place to school you on the matter; we all have to arrive at that point by our own path. Just try to believe me that with any luck you will not be quite the same person at 40, 50, or even 60 as you are now. The earlier wisdom comes to a person, the better.

Enough said. By me, anyway.

not a chance. young people are divided and dumbed down. they never read thomas paine in high school. Adam051188 Aug 2014 #1
looks like a rehash of late 60's early 70's marxist revolutionary nonsense. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #2
So please explain to me what is wrong with Marxism... AProgressiveThinker Aug 2014 #3
revolutionary marxism has lots of problems. so does marxist leninst totalitarianism. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #6
Marxism-Leninism is not totalitarian AProgressiveThinker Aug 2014 #11
Of for fucks sake yes it is and was. Right from the start the bolshevics were totalitarians. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #14
Yes, Trotsky was a Leninist so he had no problem with the vanguard party AProgressiveThinker Aug 2014 #20
The civil war was over by 1922. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #23
Answer: Hegel. beerandjesus Aug 2014 #16
Quite apart from the wrong or right of your organization, IrishAyes Aug 2014 #4
putin is not "the face of communism". he isn't a communist. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #7
In the popular mind he IS the face of communism. I never said he's actually its IrishAyes Aug 2014 #8
Sounds sort of bullshitty to me. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #13
Your reply demonstrating once again that you have ABSOLUTELY NO ANSWER TO THE QUESTION! IrishAyes Aug 2014 #15
LOL, Putin is NOT a Communist! AProgressiveThinker Aug 2014 #10
Same question and response as I gave the other guy. IrishAyes Aug 2014 #12
Putin is the representative of... AProgressiveThinker Aug 2014 #17
At last a direct, non-waffling response. IrishAyes Aug 2014 #18
He's only the face of Communism to people who don't understand Communism. AProgressiveThinker Aug 2014 #19
And when did I ever indicate the general public understands Communism? Never. IrishAyes Aug 2014 #21
Oh, I quite forgot to mention one other thing earlier; IrishAyes Aug 2014 #22
Never have believed in the swilton Aug 2014 #5
True; although social media has been the vehicle of mass social change and even IrishAyes Aug 2014 #9
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