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 15 Jan 2009, 04:48
 By Boadica 
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 30 Oct 2007, 23:49 Ideology: Social Democracy Komsomol 18 Jan 2009, 06:18
I find this post to be offensive. Tread lightly redkruze. Not everyone considers you to be a comrade here with the way you have been acting recently.
 
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 13 Feb 2008, 15:25 Ideology: Other Leftist Politburo 18 Jan 2009, 08:04
It's not offensive, just silly.
18 Jan 2009, 19:45
Actually, it's quite offensive.
18 Jan 2009, 21:01
No, it's just silly.
"Comrade Lenin left us a great legacy, and we fucкed it up." - Josef Stalin
 18 Jan 2009, 21:56
In the context of redkuze's posting history, I'm going to have to say offensive.
The moment one accepts the notion of 'totalitarianism', one is firmly locked within the liberal-democratic horizon. - Slavoj Žižek
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 01 Mar 2006, 08:59 Party Bureaucrat 20 Jan 2009, 21:12
I find it hilarious. You gotta hand it to the "Maoist-Thirdworldist" Internet trend: They do propaganda well. In fact, I bet they would be great stand-up comedians. Their presentation of their ideology is just amenable to that. Which is rare among the far left as far as I can tell. Something we could all learn from. I mean, could you imagine a Hoxhaist or a Trotskyist stand-up routine? *shudder*
 "To know a thing you must study it." --Dagoth Ur 21 Jan 2009, 21:51
Quote: Hoxhaist stand-up would be awesome.  لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا الله مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ الله - يا عمال العالم اتحدوا 21 Jan 2009, 23:55
The US actually has the largest industrial base in the world. What is the source of its world empire? Xerox machines?
Kamran Heiss
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 01 Mar 2006, 08:59 Party Bureaucrat 22 Jan 2009, 02:54
Quote: So, Trotsky goes to the doctor. "Doctor", he says, "Have I got a splitting headache..." "To know a thing you must study it." --Dagoth Ur 22 Jan 2009, 23:52
The first world worker sells his labour and recieves a wage. The copy machine produces copies of paper. Don't really find that cartoon funny or offensive. Guess I'm more into Trot humor.
 "Don't hate on me bro" - Loz 23 Jan 2009, 00:28
I'm not sure what this cartoon is saying. Is it saying that office labour isn't as difficult/valuable as factory/physical labour? Because I can definitely say, having some experience in both, that for me my office job has been much more boring, exhausting, tedious and generally depressing than virtually any physical labour I've ever done (I get about as exhausted from 30 hours of office work as I do from 50 hours of work at a factory job I had). The pay to work performed ratio is probably the most relevant argument of Maoist Third Worldists, but that is not addressed here.
"The thing about capitalism is that it sounds awful on paper and is horrendous in practice. Communism sounds wonderful on paper and when it was put into practice it was done pretty well for what they had to work with." -MiG
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 02 Mar 2004, 15:19 Ideology: Democratic Socialism Old Bolshevik 23 Jan 2009, 17:50
I enjoyed it.
It also reminds me of Office Space. Certainly any worker whose worked in an office knows how much printers suck. I wouldn't mind seizing one myself.  Fitzy wrote: |
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