Are you now or ever been a member of the communist party

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well ?

― anthony, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nope!

― katie, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i've got a che guevara tattoo on mykleft bicep and was once a member of resistance, but I don't think i ever joined the commies...

― Geoff, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I might join when I'm 60 and cantankerous. It's something to do.

― DavidM, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a half hour conversation with a marxist at a peace vigil last week, is it catching.

― Ed, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― Comrade Fatnick, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

absolutely not, if I was radical I'd go in quite the other direction.

― maria, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

other direction = unregulated capitalism, not = fascism. (I'm not a radical though.)

― Maria, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For a short time, yes, but only because Prada was all the rage. hah!

― Helen Fordsdale, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

most communists i knew were guilt-ridden children of privilege. i particularly enjoy the farcical idea that 'communism in its pure form has never been tried for when employed it has always been bastardized', as if the system is without flaw. perhaps it is the system that has a hand in corrupting those who stand behind it'? the american communist party platform is a good read, especially the bits about suspending the bill of rights until poitical dissent has been gotten under control. charming.

― keith, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think the system itself, without bastardisation, is wrong. I could say unjust or immoral or unfair, but i'm not sure what my concepts of those ideas are, so i won't. i'm with rand on this one though.

― Maria, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i find any rand evil. w/o mercy and compassion . im sorry maria , i like you alot but a life of rand causes misery

― anthony, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't think she's right on everything. but i think that a lot of people will not acknowledge the points she does make because she goes so overboard with it, and that's too bad. i don't think it's even possible to live a purely randian life.

― Maria, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

The American CP supports supension of the Bill of Rights? I laugh heartily at you. Do you even know how to read?

― Comrade Martin, Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My great grandfather was treasurer of the Bolton Communist Party. So that makes me one eighth Communist, right?

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The real question is, Have you ever got drunk at a communist party? And of course, whether the music was any good.

― Skottie, Friday, 20 February 2004 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

my leg hurts.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 February 2004 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

My uncle voted for the CP while he was in the navy (late 50's), the RCMP went and grilled his parents and their neigbours before finally asking to his face why he voted for the commies, he replied:
"I was testing the so-called secret ballot system."

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 20 February 2004 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Poppy, that's awesome.

Still, communism = dud

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 20 February 2004 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

they just kept playing chumbawumba until i left

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to know some members of the Communist Party in Manchester in the 80s who were nothing like that caricature of the guilty rich. They were workers who felt that they'd been sold out by their supposed political representatives in the Labour Party and the Unions. I didn't join the party because they were too blindly pro-USSR but I wouldn't say that they were stupid, as some of the comments on this thread presumes. Also, if it were a choice between taking sides with these workers or siding with the Directors of global capitalism in unregulated capitalism, I would rejoice at the prospect of joining the Commies!

― run it off (run it off), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I once worked on the election desk at the 1992 Generela Election; I had to take people's voting cards and then write the ballot number next to their name on the electoral register. I asked the person doing this job with me what this was for, and she said (having done this job for years) that the Returning Officer packed all the votes for 'extreme' parties off to Whitehall with the Electoral Registers and they noted who had voted commie or fascist.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 20 February 2004 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

did anyone check whether you put the right numbers against the name, or could you have some fun with it?

― run it off (run it off), Friday, 20 February 2004 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, did you do this right in front of them?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 20 February 2004 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yiz - right in front of them.

They could check, but they'd never know. You could only really have fun if you knew someone was going to votecommie, then put that ballot number next to some respectable member of the local Conservative party hierarchy and then MI6 would think they were a Russki spy etc.

I was kind of shocked, since this was also the first time I had been in a polling station; it had the mystical coming of age ritual of a pub or porn shop, but much more alluring (yes, I'm menko).

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 20 February 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to a communist party and got denounced for playing this band.

― Jole, Friday, 20 February 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, this band

― Jole, Friday, 20 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Beauty.

― Skottie, Friday, 20 February 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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