Jan 24

Don't Blame Me . . .

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by Ryan Oakley

I voted Communist.

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Melly

January 25, 2006 at 3:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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And why, pray tell, did you not vote for these guys???
http://www.mlpc.ca/
Ryan Oakley

January 25, 2006 at 4:02 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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Because I am not a Marxist or a leninist and certainly not a Marxist/Leninist. I am a Stalinst. Over twenty million dead in less than fifty years. That’s efficiency!
Melly

January 25, 2006 at 9:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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Actually, according to my Marxists/Trozkyst sources, they are Stalinists, but I know nothing about the differences, so for me they’re all the same…
Ryan Oakley

January 26, 2006 at 10:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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Look, when asked why he wanted to send Trotsky into exile in Siberia, Stalin said: “Trotsky drinks the wrong kind of whiskey!” Now that’s a big difference.

Don’t trust your Trozkyst sources with their heads full of wrong whiskey.

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