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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

An anarchist AND a communist. I guess I really am, too. I'm definitely a Marxist in the original sense of the word, meaning I believe in doing away with the notion that only a few people get to tell everybody else how to live.,

That, at the core, is what it's all about anyway. The rest is mostly analysis of how the capitalist system works, and doesn't work.

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Innomen's avatar

I like it. Carry on.

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Carina Malatesta's avatar

A rose is still a rose by any other name. Nice to meet you and know there are still people in the US who believe in freedom for ALL people.

"Rossa Palestine" (Red Palestine) is an Italian anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian song written during the Years of Lead in Italy in 1973 by Umberto Fiori. Performed here by the Edizioni Movimento Studentesco.

https://youtu.be/90AAcSvJAl0?si=5bkhY7QyLMmX66oc

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MrMickeysMom's avatar

Thank you for that song, Carina!

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Carina Malatesta's avatar

Most welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

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Pietro Wislon's avatar

I am for the revolution against the corporate conglomerate fascist state that we in North America and the Anglosphere are suffering under.

Long live the Revolution!

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Jim Ritchie's avatar

Sorry you've changed the name but that's your right! I'm an old Marxist, non-orthodox "trot" member of the Socialist Wokers Party in Britain (not to be confused with the ex-Trotskyist organisation In America with the same name). Solidarity, Jim .

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

I know definitions are important, but I admit the propaganda wore me down. I got tired of explaining my terms with seemingly every third comment in Notes.

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Uncouth Barbarian's avatar

Hahaha. Oh man, I do find so much amusement in it all. Good times man, good times.

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Shaenah Batterson's avatar

Yes, it such a shame how people conflate communism as Marx originally wrote it with Stalinism/China etc. I call myself a council communist to distinguish from the more state-control focused varieties. I like your newsletter’s new name!

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nobody's avatar

“Anarchy for the U.S.A.

It’s comin’ sometime,

It may be…”

- D. Mustaine

Fellow Ohioan here. Hoping there are more like you here. I have found few. They seem to either be asleep or they have embraced their enslavement and subjugation. God speed, sir.

👊🏻

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

I'm a native Texan who lived in Colorado for 20 years, with a stint in the Navy. When I plopped my brash self into the land of Midwest Nice, I came across as something of a barbarian. That's really where the name comes from.

Ohio's not that bad. At least the public legalized abortion and marijuana when they were given the chance. The problem is that they are so seldom given that chance.

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MrMickeysMom's avatar

Anyone who looks for labels to distinguish what your the human spirit has to say.... I say this person isn't paying attention to the words. THEY define you. I am irritated by labels, but delighted by your words, OB...

To say how important it all is, I wish I had produced the following .... (sung by Peter Gabriel):

From the pain come the dream...

From the dream come the vision...

From the vision come the people...

And from the people come the power...

From this power ... come the change

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

That's beautiful; thank you.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Good name! May it bring you many new readers.

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