^^^^ CB: Actually, before I was a Commie, I was a hippie. One of the things about Commies is that they don't subscribe to hippyism, as I learned.
So, you seem to be thinking of Communists as Hippies, but they are not, so not adhering to hippie principles would not be a reason not to call oneself a Commie. See ? It wouldn't be hypocritical because, evidently Communists don't believe what you think they do.
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Also, I've made a point of never meeting Angela Davis,
^^^^^^ CB: So you've never met a Communist because you are avoiding them ?
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and I suspect that she's very much like Mike Rotkin,
^^^^^ CB: That's questionable.
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currently mayor of Santa Cruz, "Marxist" lecturer at UCSC, and a politician known for harrasing the homeless through municipal lawmaking (mostly unconstitutional). He's also one of the people responsible for stonewalling the Santa Cruz bus drivers when they were on strike.
In case it isn't clear from my postings, I have grave misgivings about folks who discuss it, intellectualize it, or politic it, but don't DO IT.
^^^^ CB; Actually, Communists are very big on the unity of theory and practice, not sitting around discussing and bs'ing about stuff, action, action, action . Sort of "activistists" , like Liza and Doug wrote about. Actually, the Communists came up with this before you did. See below by Marx on practice, i.e. doing it.
Theses 2 on Feuerbach by Karl Marx The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Man must prove the truth - i.e. the reality and power, the this-sidedness of his thinking in practice. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking that is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question.
Theses 11 The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. ( i.e. do it)