Friday, October 10, 2014
Class Act
Monday, March 19, 2012
Favourite quote of the Left Forum weekend
He attributes it to someone else but I heard it from the lips of the DSA's Michael Hirsch:
"There is no such thing as spontaneity. It just means someone else has done all the organising."
I would have claimed that quote as my own, but that's just me.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Someone in Allston, Massachusetts owes me a chocolate biscuit.
A poignant quote from 'A Month In The Country'.
Friday, May 16, 2008
A killer quote to bite me in my SPGB arse
A quote staring back at me at the bottom of an email newsletter:
"Pity the revolution that devours itself in order to obtain victory.Pity the revolution that waits for a final triumph to put its ideals into practice." - Jose Peirats.
Where's the sitcom tendency when you need them?
Sunday, September 30, 2007
You know the type. Those "completely demoralized elements, wearing showy bell-bottom pants and sporty haircuts."
Not sure if Jim D over at Shiraz Socialist is blogging with a straight face, but he's unearthed a quote from James P. Cannon for those of you who are sick and tired of always having to fall back on that old George Orwell quote from 'The Road To Wigan Pier'. You know . . . that one.
Yeah, I know the Cannon and the Orwell quotes are not like for like, but they both boil down to the same sentiment. To paraphrase Jean-Paul Sartre: "Hell is other party members."
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Shit, I wish I'd thought of that Quote of the Day
"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Expropriate the fishing boat, and he and his community will eat for life."
Martin Schreader, SPUSA.