The Medusa Fora

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:58 am**

Curious why the hammer and sickle logo on Andrew's kick drum?

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:08 am**

FAY wrote:Curious why the hammer and sickle logo on Andrew's kick drum?

Don't tell Homeland Security, but Andrew's a Commie. Ooops!! I named him. :shock:

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:07 pm**

philipchevron wrote:
FAY wrote:Curious why the hammer and sickle logo on Andrew's kick drum?

Don't tell Homeland Security, but Andrew's a Commie. Ooops!! I named him.

So was James Connolly, but he's safely interred now. :wink:

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:01 pm**

So were Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:56 pm**

If he actually was...
that'd be wicked

Posted: **Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:02 am**

http://flickr.com/photos/roebot/268091190/

hammer and sickle & teddy bear.

Posted: **Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:54 am**

This symbol is very, very far from being cool in any case. (Poor teddy bear which found itself in such a disgraceful company...)

Posted: **Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:47 pm**

what are you talking about???
uncoool?

i have a red star beret that i often wear
all of those commie symbols are so fucking wicked looking

Posted: **Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:21 pm**

Benno wrote:i have a red star beret that i often wear
all of those commie symbols are so fucking wicked looking

You should go for treatment to Belorussia before your disease becomes chronic...

Posted: **Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:28 pm**

Benno wrote:what are you talking about???
uncoool?

i have a red star beret that i often wear
all of those commie symbols are so fucking wicked looking

Whilst I too labour under the allure of Red nostalgia, take care my young Canuck friend. Those Medusans, like our beloved Agent Z and her countrymen (and many others besides), who have actually languished, laboured, lived, loved and lost under the oppressive hobnailed boot of Stalinist state tyranny do not share our Western less-informed fascination with said symbols. Hence Zuzana's response.

Posted: **Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:09 pm**

well stalin was lame
and some of his lameness rubbed off on his symbols...
70s and 80s russian red stuff wasnt too great

my favourites actually come from cuba
che guevara!

Posted: **Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:19 pm**

Stalinism and Maoism are in no way real communism.

Posted: **Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:11 pm**

GunsOfBrixton29 wrote:Stalinism and Maoism are in no way real communism.

Basically, yup.

Posted: **Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:47 am**

Fintan wrote:
GunsOfBrixton29 wrote:Stalinism and Maoism are in no way real communism.

Basically, yup.

May I humbly ask a question? What is "real communism" according to you? Can you give an example of its functioning in real life?

Posted: **Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:39 am**

Zuzana wrote:
Fintan wrote:
GunsOfBrixton29 wrote:Stalinism and Maoism are in no way real communism.

Basically, yup.

May I humbly ask a question? What is "real communism" according to you? Can you give an example of its functioning in real life?

We've ahd a few tentative stabs at this conversation before Z, remember? Sadly, there are few, in any, examples of a truly 'functional' communist society that I can find. Doesn't totally invalidate the idea, intellectually or idealistically speaking, however. I will dig up more info on the mad attempts at a 'New Australia'; established, from memory, in Paraguay in the late 1800's. A Utopian socialist experiment; that ultimately failed, of course, but a bold effort for it's day. When I spoke before, I was agreeing with you re: your distaste and disdain regarding Soviet paraphenalia.

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