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Dem Senate Candidate Dodges Questions About Ties to Communist Group

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Don't recall the last time the Wobblies were in the headlines.

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-10 06:05|| 2014-09-10 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't either, Ship.

Apparently they're still around.

Then again, so are quite a few of the SDS/Weathermen folks from the '60s.

I remember meeting a couple IWW guys at some labor relations function in the early 70's. They were pretty strange, even in those days.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-09-10 07:58|| 2014-09-10 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Donks are still scared of being openly Communists? They no longer hide the redistribution part why not admit it? Inner Party, outer party, proles, it's about it now.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-10 08:00|| 2014-09-10 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Mullah, they're not only still around one of their sould mates is president.

Posted by AlanC 2014-09-10 08:17|| 2014-09-10 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 A Democrat dodges questions about ties with the Communist Party. The Democratic Party is the Communist Party.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-10 09:58|| 2014-09-10 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 IIRC, the Wobblies aren't Communist, they're Anarcho-Syndicalist. Which means they used to get into open street fighting with Stalin's true believers, but couldn't really be called "Trotskyite". They haven't been a real threat to anybody since the Spanish Civil War, and the Wobblies neither had the money of Comintern-funded outfits, nor the intellectual cachet and the prestige of the Trots. The IWW organizes the occasional hapless food co-op, until their general idealistic imbecility drives said operation out of business. Usually on the "very slowly, then all at once" model of bankruptcy.

Posted by Mitch H. 2014-09-10 11:20|| 2014-09-10 11:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Mitch H says "general idealistic imbecility ".

Is there a better, brief description of leftism in all its varieties? The internal bickering about the number (and type) of angels that can dance on the head of a pin has been forever captured by Monty Python in Life of Brian.

Posted by AlanC 2014-09-10 12:14|| 2014-09-10 12:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Since the Socialists of America nor the Communist Party USA no longer run a cndidate for any office, but instead donate to and actively support the democrats, the goals and policys are the same. Ask comrade Obama.

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2014-09-10 16:58|| 2014-09-10 16:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Wobblies were bigtime in southeast Arizona mining town of Bisbee 100 years or so ago. The Feds put them in boxcars and unloaded them in the neighboring New Mexico desert. Not very effective anarchists (that would be an oxymoron) but highly romanticized to this day by the left.

Posted by borgboy 2014-09-10 18:40|| 2014-09-10 18:40|| Front Page Top

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