Are you or have you ever been a communist?

[Bossy Monkey]

You know the really depressing thing? I have to say and in all seriousness, in 2005, that if your answer is yes, I strongly advise that you only vote that way in the poll but do NOT say so in a reply. Unless of course you're hopelessly insane like myself in which case it can't possibly be any risk to say, like I frequently do, that I've pretty much been a bomb-throwing Trotskyite from birth. (Well... except for the bomb-throwing part!:D)

[Fenris]

1. I think HUAC sounds like a sound you make when punched in the abdomen.

"Have you no decency, sir?":D

[Bossy Monkey]

10. Bet they drove BUICKs...

[indepat]

2. Freepers need to run parallel polls: have you ever been a fascist or are

you now a fascist?

[libhill]

4. Don't pull punches -

Make that Nazi, you'll be closer to the mark.

[indepat]

5. Touche!

[jonnyblitz]

3. i have some trotskyist friends I lost touch with

I used to read the different marx books with them but I told them I didn't believe the revolution would ever happen because the majority of people would never be with them. I loved hanging out with them and discussing stuff with them but I never became one.. :shrug:

[Spinzonner]

6. No, but I'm a Marxist

Groucho, not Karl

[imenja]

19. I use to have a teeshirt that said that

Sure, I'm a Marxist, then it had a picture of the Marx Brothers. Only then I read Marx. So now I like all the Marxes.

[AntiCoup2K4]

20. I'm a Lennonist

[Bossy Monkey]

29. I think a Firesign Theatre album cover is about to break out n/t

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Nope. I like my money as much as the next person.

I just try to be an ethical consumer, and wish that the money I give to Uncle Sam is used efficiently.

[Hardrada]

8. communist anarchist

Syndicalist. surrealist.

In winter I'm a Buddhist
In summer I'm a nudist.

-Joe Gould said that.

[imenja]

18. communist anarchist?

One of these things doesn't belong. Anarchists advocate an absence of state power, that the state corrupts absolutely. Communists see the state as an appropriate arm of the working class.

Seems to me you need to pick one.

[Hardrada]

23. No, I mean small "c" communist anarchist

Not Communist (Stalinist State Socialist) anarchist since that would be impossible. I think of the Paris Commune or Spanish Anarchist communes. Maybe it should be spelled commune-ist.

[imenja]

24. ah, ok. understood

that makes sense

[Ariana Celeste]

9. I'm a Socialist...

and greatly, GREATLY admire & respect Che Guevara.

Last night I purchased this poster on Amazon.com :



And a Lennon one- it's a face shot (from the side) and has the lyrics of Imagine on it. At least that's what it looks like, the lyrics. Hard to tell when the image is so small, but hey, it's friggin Lennon!

They are both 40x60 in. and will be going straight to my bedroom wall upon arrival. I am considering putting them in our hallway~ but I'm not sure how smart that would be, lol...

Next time I have some free cash there are a couple of other Che posters I want to buy...

[BikeWriter]

11. I'm a Yellow Dog Dem, but I have been quoted on a...

socialist worker site.

[progressoid]

12. I said Yes to reinforce the stereotpe for lurking freepers

[Bossy Monkey]

13. I think I left a "now" out of the original question. Mea culpa n/t

[vixengrl]

14. It'll sound odd, but I was a Red when I was about 12.

I blame the combination of puberty and the Reagan years. If the right was for it--I was agin' it. And vice versa.

[JimmyJazz]

15. No - I'm a socialist, which many people think is the same thing, but

it isn't :)

[imenja]

16. a Che poster definitely counts as Communist

he was as strict a communist as they come. He was entirely ideologically committed and refused luxuries offered to him when he traveled abroad as an emissary of the Cuban government.

And if you aren't down with Che ideologically, take down that poster and take off the T-shirt. People need to know about the ideology they display on their chest.

BTW, my vote was an unqualified yes, at least for my younger days.

[radwriter0555]

17. I'm not a communist, I'm a socialist, but I know some famous communists

who are friends with FIDEL!

[kedrys]

21. On the immigration form for the green card, a similar question:

"Were you a member of the American Socialist Party prior to 1938?"

Since my dad was born somewhat later than that, I wanted to leave it blank, but when I asked, they said I couldn't leave any blanks, so I said no. Go fig. :D

[Anarcho-Socialist]

22. No, I am not. I'm an anarcho s... or well you figure it out.

On a side note, my estranged father is an actual Communist. This is bizarre because he loves materialism (and spends money in a manner to prove it) and he likes to read The Times (the paper of the British establishment). Despite all this he still maintains that he's still a Communist today.

[WI_DEM]

25. "Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last, have you no sense

of decency?"
Joseph Welch to Joe McCarthy Army/McCarthy Hearings, 1954

[Radical Activist]

26. If you have a Che poster as your avatar does it count?

Actually I think communists are fine as long as they aren't in power. You need them to fight against oppressive governments, but any type of government that calls for a temporary dictatorship is bound to end up with a permanent one until another revolution comes along.

[JanMichael]

27. I'm a Socialist which is really just a testicle away from being Communist

But as the power of exploitive Capitalism grows I grow more resigned to the only power alternatives.

Basically? I've fucking had it.

[FuzzySlippers]

28. No....

but somehow I managed to land on the CPUSA mailing list.