Favourite democratic socialist from wikipedia's list of notable democratic socialists

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What a curious list! There are some exemplary people here, also some less exemplary people

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Rosa Luxemburg	5
Martin Luther King, Jr.	3
Billy Bragg	2
Clement Attlee	2
Eugene V. Debs	2
Bertrand Russell	2
Albert Einstein	1
Erich Fromm	1
George Orwell	1
Olof Palme	1
Tommy Douglas	1
Léon Blum	1
Nelson Mandela	1
Michael Manley	0
François Mitterrand	0
Salvador Allende	0
Evo Morales	0
José Mujica	0
Jawaharlal Nehru	0
Bernie Sanders	0
Kshama Sawant	0
Norman Thomas	0
Cornel West	0
René Lévesque	0
Jack Layton	0
David Ben-Gurion	0
Tony Benn	0
Rómulo Betancourt	0
Aneurin Bevan	0
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto	0
Leonel Brizola	0
Hugo Chávez	0
James Connolly	0
Rafael Correa	0
John Dewey	0
Barbara Ehrenreich	0
Mary Harris Jones	0
Helen Keller	0
Naomi Klein	0
Howard Zinn	0

― Dolly Dilly Dally (soref), Sunday, 26 January 2014 12:14 (eleven years ago)

Attlee did some stuff that has directly improved my life, so I have to vote for him.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 26 January 2014 12:46 (eleven years ago)

Going for what is probably the corny choice: Rosa Luxemburg.

― emil.y, Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:07 (eleven years ago)

Clem A and Rosa L obvious ideological twins

― schlager top (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:13 (eleven years ago)

why is rosa luxemburg the corny choice? she's my choice too.

― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:15 (eleven years ago)

Strange list. Rosa L definitely the best of these these naive do-gooders, traitorous sellouts, and bourgeois liberal capitalist lickspittles

― oppet, Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:33 (eleven years ago)

there are other good ppl on here. i almost voted bertrand russell because his "history of western philosophy" is secretly one of the funniest unreliable autobiographies of the 20th century

― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:34 (eleven years ago)

Worst on the list is obv Billy Bragg.

― oppet, Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:41 (eleven years ago)

just edging out Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

― Dolly Dilly Dally (soref), Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:49 (eleven years ago)

I'm sure he would agree

(not sure abt Mitterand v Bragg)

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:50 (eleven years ago)

I was weighing that one up when Sexuality started playing in my head, which sealed the deal.

― oppet, Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:54 (eleven years ago)

sexuality was playing in a different head on Francois, amirite

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 January 2014 16:02 (eleven years ago)

i like rosa fine but voted mlk, the cornier choice

― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 26 January 2014 17:34 (eleven years ago)

a while back anne applebaum casually included allende in a list of 'murderous communist leaders' of the 20th century, which made me furious. fucking cold warrior twit.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 26 January 2014 17:38 (eleven years ago)

objective best is either mandela or MLK, but might vote debs just for the hell of it. my gut-reaction 'worst' vote goes to zinn.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 26 January 2014 17:39 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 31 January 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Billy Bragg 2

smfh

― regret it? nope, said it? yep (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:34 (eleven years ago)

Wish I'd voted for Aneurin Bevan in retrospect.

― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:37 (eleven years ago)

margarethe von trotta's rosa luxemburg film is on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiR0MmxB2qU

― soref, Saturday, 1 February 2014 07:10 (eleven years ago)

was her hannah arendt film any good? I didn't see it

― soref, Saturday, 1 February 2014 07:11 (eleven years ago)

http://d.christiantoday.com/en/full/18120/mandela-long-walk-to-freedom.jpg?w=380&h=285&l=40&t=46

― soref, Saturday, 1 February 2014 07:18 (eleven years ago)

http://www.franceinlondon.com/media/pictures/FilUserFiles/Image/DVD/3D%20packshot350x494.jpg

― soref, Saturday, 1 February 2014 07:18 (eleven years ago)

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIwMTc2ODg3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjEyNTUxMQ@@._V1_SY317_CR5,0,214,317_.jpg

― soref, Saturday, 1 February 2014 07:19 (eleven years ago)

http://i.yai.bz/Assets/62/705/l_p0003870562.jpg

― soref, Saturday, 1 February 2014 07:20 (eleven years ago)

last one was meant to be walter matthau in IQ

― soref, Saturday, 1 February 2014 07:21 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

finally joined the DSA!

can't wait to engage in conspiracy

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 July 2018 16:15 (six years ago)

be sure to tell us all about it

― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 July 2018 16:17 (six years ago)

LOL Billy Bragg.

― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 6 July 2018 16:19 (six years ago)

also i expect to win this re-poll in four years

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 July 2018 16:19 (six years ago)

Wtg morbs

― Simon H., Friday, 6 July 2018 16:33 (six years ago)

Thorvald Stauning got robbed.

― Frederik B, Friday, 6 July 2018 21:24 (six years ago)

i'm seeing sen sanders at... first avenue in mpls (?) with keith ellison at 9am on a friday. gonna be weird and great

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 6 July 2018 21:26 (six years ago)

I Would Die 4 U Niversal Healthcare

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 7 July 2018 04:12 (six years ago)

No Chomsky, no credibility. jk but really he should've been included.

― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 7 July 2018 04:52 (six years ago)

He's an anarchist!

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 7 July 2018 11:44 (six years ago)

good timing for Bret

Excellent pic.twitter.com/VcFMQG4pXA
— Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 (@Econ_Marshall) July 7, 2018

― Simon H., Saturday, 7 July 2018 12:14 (six years ago)

two years pass...

lather, rinse, repeat

https://medium.com/@jaspergreywilde/step-back-shahid-buttar-the-left-needs-feminist-leadership-5e71fb89741f

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 August 2020 21:36 (four years ago)

I never knew till recently that Leon Blum's brother decided to gamble on his chances of survival in Vichy France and ended up dying in Auschwitz.

― calzino, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 21:41 (four years ago)

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