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[–] axont@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Liberals reclaiming Mandela has got to be one of the weirdest ones. What do they think he was in jail for? How do they ignore him literally claiming to be a Marxist and being friends with Fidel Castro?

Also Bertrand Russel was incredibly wishy-washy when it came to socialism. He would call Marxism a religion, and said things like "Communism is a doctrine bred of poverty, hatred and strife. Its spread can only be arrested by diminishing the area of poverty and hatred." He didn't seem like a bad guy though, just kind of useless in political terms, and personally I'd call him a liberal. But he was about as good as you can get for an upper class British professor born in the 1870s. He went to jail for opposing WW1, opposed Edwardian social mores, and was outspoken against racism. But that's all he really was, a professor who said stuff and he knew the kind of stuff he could say to still be a respected western intellectual. I guess you could compare him to Noam Chomsky.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

so the FDR type, who wants to do welfare to avoid revolution.

[–] WildWeezing420@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I doubt Chomsky would be principled enough to go to jail to oppose an American war.

edit: i was wrong

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

I too have some critique of chomsky, but to be fair opposing american wars is all he did all his live and while he didn't go to jail, he was arrested for it multiple times.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Chomsky was arrested in 1967 at a protest against the Vietnam War, and this was at the Pentagon itself. He was also one of the names on Nixon's enemies list. Also he was one of the co-conspirators in the "Boston five trial" aka the Spock draft resistance trial.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On the topic, does anyone have the pic like this with all the beloved communists that says "Tankies"?

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

the hexbear group photo? it's hidden in the PBB link

[–] WildWeezing420@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I know the meme of which you speak, instant argument winner. Leaves chauvinists stuttering and stammering. Let me search my phone, I think I have it saved.

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks! Just saved it too.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Is Hellen Keller on here?

NVM I see her in the bottom right.

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

my uncle when he introduces me to someone

[–] Beetle@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Anton de Kom

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone who can list all the names? I recognize most of these, but not all of them.

[–] SockOlm@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

from left to right, then top to bottom

  • Herbert George Wells
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Harry Belafonte
  • Maria Skłodowksa-Cuire
  • Albert Einstein
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Stephen Jay Gould
  • Mark Twain
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Martin Luther King
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Frida Kahlo
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Malala Yousafzai
  • Helen Keller
  • Upton Sinclair
[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago
[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Maria Skłodowksa-Cuire?? Proofs??