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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Climbers, unTIE!
Dinger, have you considered all of the repercussions of such a revolutionary statement?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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<shiver> "Summit or plummet" cuts a little too close to home.
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Rock Monkey
Mountain climber
Thousand Oaks, California
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what else is new?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Hazel Jane Dickens (June 1, 1935 – April 22, 2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs. Cultural blogger John Pietaro noted that "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause." The New York Times extolled her as "a clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners and working people and a pioneer among women in bluegrass music."
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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I see a lot of press that could be deemed Anti-Chinese these days. Figure the root of it is the US government for whatever reason. Interesting that Obama said we were going to "pivot" to that region, then Ukraine happened so we pivoted back, now we're just pivoting around getting little done and we're getting dizzy. Here's my question, are the Chinese .gov folks considered communist or capitalist? Does the answer matter? What changes either way?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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One man's communist is a later man's oligarch.
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thebravecowboy
climber
in the face of the fury of the funk
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well put Reilly.
the problem with gov't is that it is a human endeavor, administered by fallible, self-interested human beings.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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more like "LYNCH" not "LUNCH"
By the way, CPUSA is alive and doing well.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26126325
Long live Woody, Utah, Pete, Kate (Wolf), Rosalie (Sorrels), Gemmy Bluestein (look him up in your history of California folk music), Joe Hill (may or may not have been guilty of murder, executed by firing squad 3 miles from where I grew up but 40 years earlier), Ani DiFranco
Mother Jones, Harry Bridges (San Francisco. Died 1990 age 88), Eugene Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Frank Little (WWII pacifist), Big Bill Haywood.
Some of them scoundrels and Communists. But to paraphrase Barry Goldwater "extremism in defense of the working man and woman (liberty) is no vice....and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Communism, on paper, is all warm and cuddly. It's first problem is that it presupposes one-party rule.
That brings out the A-holes and allows them to flourish un-checked. Then when their stupidity
brings it all down around their ears they re-invent their system and become oligarchs.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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...workers' councils
Gasp! You mean...soviets!?
Y'know, the anarcho-syndicalists, in that little part of Spain they ran back in the '30s, did a pretty good job of it by all accounts.
Then they got stabbed in the back by Stalin.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Get a job!
You bet, I never met a worker who wasn't eager to work for a fair wage and decent and safe working conditions. Never met one who wanted to be laid off when a factory closed (been there, done that). Some health insurance is a good idea too. Can you say OSHA without screaming Socialism?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Get a job? That's what the capitalists should do, and get off our backs! Let those parasites earn their own damn keep.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Bluering sees communists where even McCarthy would have been too blind to see them... Bluering is a quite extraordinary pattern-finder... Are there many communists among American cats, dogs and horses?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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kinda gets you to wondering, what has happened to PTC.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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The MPAA guy at 4:45 could be talking about the Bundyites
Oh the irony!
Nixon at 5:45
Moyers at the end: An irrational craving for the safety of conformity. A stampede of patriotic fervor
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2014 - 07:56pm PT
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Happy May Day, Komrades!
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