Or, how about a nice chat about the role of vanguard parties on the Bolshevik model in 2007? That could raise the levity level too, esp right after the split/nonsplit in Respect. Or, to put it in Oxford/ Yale Political Union debate style: "Resolved: If the left is ever to revive, all the vanguard parties on the Bolshevik model must go extinct."
Doug
^^^^ CB: I'll take the negative.
The Bolivarians have this Bolshevikian feel about them, and the Bolivarians are a big left revival. And then the Cuban vanguard has been vivacious straight through. And we mustn't utterly discount the Chinese vanguard's claim to be on the road to socialism without bypassing capitalism.