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  • in reply to: The Dark Future of the USA #243437
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    Similarly with homosexual and feminist etc. activists. They support armed forces and join them.

    Today, Quentin Crisp could not have adroitly used his sexuality to avoid the draft!

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    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243396
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    In The Laughing Man, Victor Hugo calls the heirs to the British peerage ‘a troop of brats.’

    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243360
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    in reply to: The Dark Future of the USA #243321
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    The U.S. militarization of law enforcement and the threat spiral.

    https://www.magzter.com/stories/culture/The-New-Yorker/HOME-FIRES

    “[McVeigh] joined the army, where he remembered being made to scream “Blood makes the grass grow! Kill! Kill! Kill!” twenty times a day during training until his “throat was raw.” “

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    in reply to: Film #243265
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    “Someday you (the ruling class) will be gone. Someday true society will begin.”

    Gwynplaine’s speech.

    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243254
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    Article on Charles III in this week’s New Yorker (May 8th): “King Me” by Rebecca Mead.

    Of interest.

    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243223
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    The Christian who is a socialist? Hm, that would be Thomas More (the original one, that is).

    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243198
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    I’m going to open a new thread on Sade, because this has gone seriously off topic.

    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243194
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    Must We Burn Sade?

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    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243191
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    Thank you, but i’m housebound.

    Horrifically, I did in fact desert to the King’s side, from Devereux’s regiment to Sir Bevill Grenvile’s! (Oh, horror!)

    Yes, I had a pash for the three pretty sisters who ran the royalist regt, and preferred being with them to being with beer-bellied middle-aged roundheads.

    Not all bad news though. At least I signed up for the rebel side in the 1985 Monmouth re-enactment, and got kicked in the groin by a royalist colonel on Glastonbury Tor.

    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243189
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    Next you’ll say Alexandre Dumas was a reactionary for making his musketeers try to save Charles I. in Thirty Years After.
    An admirable novel. You’d do well to read it, to give you some “pluck” and buckle your swash a little.

    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243188
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    No I do not. But if it gives you pleasure to say so, so be it.

    The overthrow of Charles I. was an essential stage in the English bourgeois revolution. There, I said it, and I acknowledge it.
    I still like him for his pluck, and I still oppose his execution.
    There! 🙂

    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243178
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    Who then grew up and became a sound and coherent materialist thinker and writer.

    Are Socialists Sadists?

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    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243175
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    Weren’t the Highland Clearances and the various indigenous genocides around the world also progressive in marxian terms? Does that mean I should support them?

    in reply to: Our chance to forswear allegiance #243174
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    I do like the first for certain things. He was a thorn in the side of the bourgeoisie. He stopped enclosures. He stopped witch-hunts.
    I never read of the parliamentary side stopping witch-hunters. In fact Hopkins flourished with roundhead protection, and had to flee when the King’s forces gained ground.
    I do commend Cromwell for outlawing bear and bull-baiting, but I suspect it was more on religious grounds than anything else.
    Rather than the forerunners of socialism using the revolution, wasn’t it more the revolution using them? And then packing them off to kill Irish people?
    I like to think I would have kept my head down, and therefore on, whereas you would have either been hanged by Cromwellians, or hanged, drawn and quartered by Charles II for signing the death warrant.
    Coppe kept his head down, and on.
    I like him too.

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