Came across a topic I'd never heard of: The Workers Olympiad of 1931, in Vienna
Organized by the Socialist Workers’ Sport International, the games rejected the nationalism, commercialism, and elitism of the official Olympic Games
Search it sometime. Interesting history
@briebriejoy Contra is a Lib. Thats what she is. She's not on the 'left'. She's not an anti-capitalist.
As an anti-capitalist....i can't stand listening to Libs.
Thats just me, though.
@sciencegirl “The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.” Franz Kafka
@aaronjmate Chomsky's message was this: The US is a leading terrorist state and remains in power through a propaganda system. Thats the message.
As for the man himself. Sigh.
Just a man.
MLK had a great message. But just a man.
No heroes out there.
@briebriejoy Very true, Bri.
And for the love of god, can we stop calling
ANYone in the Democrat Party a person
'on the left'.
Can we allllllll agree on that?
@briebriejoy Is Noam one of Rockhill's 'compatible lefties'?
Probly.
But young leftists need to read widely, anyway.
Noam's still worth reading, along with Parenti, and Fanon and Rosa, and dozens of others.
@benegotherit Vegetables. Parrots.
Indeed...you have been missed.
"and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you...Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
Pablo Neruda
@zei_squirrel I dunno, zei. I respect your view, and i understand it. But, as for my own, i can only say...I'm very troubled but still processing.
I 'do' know that the CIA and forces of imperialism will use this to discredit all of his anti-imperialist arguments.
sigh