This is why I hate when people feel they have to call themselves ‘Socialists’ in political arguments. Instead of dealing with the actual issues, you end up talking about what Trotsky had for lunch at the Fist International.
First we must define the limits of various traits to firmly understand exactly what counts as a knish. I will take the anarchic position as I had to look up what a knish is and now I’d like to engage in some conquest for that bread
Yeah, unfortunately I’ve dealt with both the extremes of leftists, and I really don’t know who I find more insufferable, the overly academic navel gazers or the “only get intoxicated and smash, no read or unionize” rabblerousers
Fortunately I’ve also known plenty of folks who know Proudhon from Trotsky and recognize that the eternal struggle for justice is both intellectual and physical, that we can and should continue striving for a better society and discussing what went wrong and how to improve things as well as trying new things and doing what we can to make the world suck a little less
Tangent.
This is why I hate when people feel they have to call themselves ‘Socialists’ in political arguments. Instead of dealing with the actual issues, you end up talking about what Trotsky had for lunch at the Fist International.
That sandwich was a sign of problems to come dammit!
You see? According to the Third Volume of the Soviet Approved autobiography of Rosa Luxembourg it wasn’t a sandwich at all, but a knish!
Now we must debate the point, or be accused of revisionism
First we must define the limits of various traits to firmly understand exactly what counts as a knish. I will take the anarchic position as I had to look up what a knish is and now I’d like to engage in some conquest for that bread
The really sad thing is that I’ve heard worse unironically
Yeah, unfortunately I’ve dealt with both the extremes of leftists, and I really don’t know who I find more insufferable, the overly academic navel gazers or the “only get intoxicated and smash, no read or unionize” rabblerousers
Fortunately I’ve also known plenty of folks who know Proudhon from Trotsky and recognize that the eternal struggle for justice is both intellectual and physical, that we can and should continue striving for a better society and discussing what went wrong and how to improve things as well as trying new things and doing what we can to make the world suck a little less