Guardian and the Blades

[Darren]

Direct quote from Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto?

Lenin said commuinism was Soviet power plus electrification.

As the sort of lefty geeky side note I love, communism didn't really exist from around the 1850s until 1918. When Marx and Engels were writing the Manifesto, the term "communist" tended to be applied to the type of socialist who believed in working through the working class, whereas "socialist" was generally applied to bourgeois reformers trying to persuade governments to implement socialism (Owen, Fourier, St Simon and so on). In the 1850's the "Communist" term fell out of use and "social democrat" became the term for socialists of the Marxist variety.

The Russian Marxist party, founded in 1898 was the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and it was only after WW1 when Lenin wanted to distinguish his brand of revolutionary conspiratorial voluntantarist Marxism from the mainstream variety that such people started to call themselves Communists again. The RSDLP (or at least it's Bolshevik wing) then became the Communist Party and the Communist International was founded in 1919 to gather such people togerther on a worldwide basis.

 

[blade too long]

Trouble with communism is those that run it become so elevated above the masses it descends into a form of dictatorship
true socialism is great in theory , but never ever seems to work as decision making always leads to conflict
Putin wealds far more power than the true meaning of communism ever meant to put in one persons hands
China suppresses the very people its supposed to be working for, and the chance of change in either state , may only change with yet another civil war

 

[Paulus]

Where do you think Newbury really lives, Newry, Newby ..................... just wondering

Haha, Excellent stuff, surprised Mr Editor NewbyBalde didn't respond - time enough I guess.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

China suppresses the very people its supposed to be working for

Sounds like the Blades with regard to its supporters.

 

[pommpey]

... revolutionary conspiratorial voluntantarist Marxism from the mainstream variety that such people started to call themselves Communists again.

"Whatever happened to the revolutionary conspiratorial voluntantarist Marxists?"

pommpey