Council Communists Come To Los Angeles
A member of the ICC, International Communist Council came to Los Angeles today and spread the word of the Communist revival. I had the privilege to hear a communist spread the gospel according to Marx without reverting to Stalinist dogmatic lines. I was impressed with the down to earth non preachy style of presentation.
Saturday we had a discussion of the 1968 revolt in France and an analysis of what could emerge today in the modern world with the system under assault from the contradictions within and the angry masses without.
I always had trouble with phrases like “contradictions”, what the heck did they mean by that. I knew it was based in Hegelian dialectics, but I was no dialectician, hell, I am barely literate. So I always pictured something like a hot air balloon that popped from too much gas, or hot air or maybe it was the sunlight or perhaps the lack of atmosphere at a certain altitude. But then for all I know some escaped balloons are still up there in the stratosphere, circling the globe looking for a chance to be lifted on the solar wind out into the cold blackness of interstellar space. But then it could be the opposite and be like Icarus on his magical journey, like Pink Floyd into the Sun.
Not likely, old hippie you say? No just tired from being up too long. I just want the world to know that I am still Blogging and will be back with my usual irascible tone in the next day or so. Until then this will have to do. Forward comrades.
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