General Discussion

Lettuce, yes, Turnips, no, Maoists, nope, carrots, OK, Trots too egotistical, Stalinist too dogmatic, Anarchists and Red Hot Chili Peppers too unpredictable.

Take your pick and spread the word without hurting anybody.

As for me, back in the 60s I tasted a lost of them and saw some great ideals promoted but it was too often tainted by dogmatism and the lure of violence. Now as an old man I see myself as a sort of Fabian Socialist or Democratic Socialist.

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." --Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789.




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