File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9912, message 520


From: "benav" <benav-AT-one.net.au>
Subject: Re: Another Marxist Bitches About Anarchism
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:31:29 +0800


this is news?.........all the best fascists started out as marxists.......

uri
-----Original Message-----
From: Janskrit Virdee <lorax-AT-inet.net.nz>
To: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Cc: anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
<anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Date: Thursday, 9 December 1999 17:56
Subject: Re: Another Marxist Bitches About Anarchism


>
>
>Jamal Hannah wrote:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:46:09 +1300
>> From: Philip L Ferguson <PLF13-AT-student.canterbury.ac.nz>
>> To: marxism-AT-lists.panix.com
>> Subject: Re: Anarchism; more popular than marxism?
>>
>
>Blah blah blah, anarchists are stupid, blah blah blah, I have no sense of
>humour
>and foam at the mouth, blah blah blah
>
>Hey, this guy is one of the fucking trots from Canterbury University, where
I
>used to go!  How dare he speak of me in such a defamatory fashion.  I shall
>have a word into his ear about this.  The authoritarian commies ruined the
>anti-Kosovo demos down here in Christchurch, NZ.  I went along to one in an
>outdoor shopping arcade that runs up the middle of the city centre.
Sitting on
>one side of the boulevard was the stalinists from the Communist League or
>whatever the fuck they call themselves, resplendent in their combat
fatigues
>and holding up unbelievingly irrelevant pictures of Che Guavara and Fidel
>Castro, and trying to sell copies of their newspaper that always seems to
>somehow relate everything back to Cuba.  These are the same guys who once
>turned up at a demo outside the spy base in the north island waving banners
>demanding the right for "worker's states" to bear nuclear arms (!)
>Sitting across from their table glowering at them were the SWO with the
local
>version of their rag.
>Between them they generated a lot of electronically amplified hot air,
>encrypted in the kind of boring jargon that your average joe would neither
get
>nor give a fuck about.
>I got dirty looks all round because my banner wasn't an official SWO or CL
>banner.
>"This is our sandpit and you can't play!"
>An elderly guy came up and started harangueing us, saying that we were
>insulting the memories of his buddies that died during WWII.  I started to
talk
>with him, and just as I'd started to convince him that this wasn't our
>intention, what should happen but one of the trots virtually shoving a copy
of
>Socialist Worker down the front of his jumper.
>I left in dismay after a bunch of school kids came and commandeered the
>megaphone.  They were smart kids, and definitely with us on the anti-war
thing,
>but no, they had to have fun with the issue, which to the po-faced
marxists,
>meant they were taking the piss, so the megaphone was taken off them.
>Oh, and one of them got really shitty with me on campus because I wouldn't
buy
>a copy of Socialist Worker and instead purchased a coffee.
>
>Lorax
>
>
>
>



   

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