Posts by mark taslov
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...including the imprisonment of homosexuals.
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Bit early to be jumping on the Swine flu death wagon wouldn't you think, it's still a fair way off racking up the body count of Che Guevara.
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You Zinged me there Giovanni. Aggressive global activism has its place within the system. However in the case of energy consumption I think progressive consumer behaviour is the answer and will not undermine the system. If we look at a source for domestic solar panels in NZ;
one the usual suspects... for better. I don't feel that political activism is somehow going to collect the suns energy, convert it to electricity and heat your home this winter while providing a little extra income by selling extra juice back to the corporations.
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rarely..
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Synonymous with "revolution"?
One day a spy amongst the rebel army was discovered. It was one of the peasants who had voluntarily joined up. The traitor was unmasked and condemned to death, but nobody was prepared to carry out the execution. Che volunteered himself and wrote about it in his diary describing the size of the wound caused by the bullet, and how the bullet entered and exited the man's brain. He wrote about how calmly he slept that night, without asthma attacks.
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With Fidel's consent, Che became chief prosecutor; hundreds were summarily executed after trial.
"Executions?" Guevara told the UN General Assembly in 1964. "We execute! And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary."
And this disputed quotation via Humberto Fontova;
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution. And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate."
...so arguably not just revolution...
Giovanni, despite my awe at your knowledge of politics (amongst many things). You do seem to overlook the unassailable truth that politicians and political parties are merely cogs in the system, they don't offer solutions, they're not trained to provide solutions and they really if ever solve anything. As Christopher quite perfectly said;
The radical re-thinking needed here requires a complete change in our lifestyles..
"We continue to support a system that demands such behaviour, and that system binds, gags and blindfolds us so that those that are within it think it a normal and natural system, but it's not terribly hard to see that it is a system created by some for the mass to the benefit of some, and if it is a system that is created, another model can be created - one that is more just, but never compeletly just. You need injustice to have justice."
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sorry, here's that link
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I liked what Andi said. I didn't think Drinnian said anything particularly interesting at all, apart from adding a little spice to beef up visibility. The thing I don't quite understand is; Why Che? Uncle Sam makes a lot of sense as a symbol of uber capitalism and resource exploitation, but Che?
The man who fought and died in the battle for the brotherhood, resisting capitalist exploitation of communal natural resources. If Che then why not John Lennon as Jesus, or Ghandi, or someone as equally ideologically opposed to the very essence of the product being offered?It's a good gag and I've no doubt in your left leanings Russell. Aptly this week Stuff published this;
http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,1809,hard_news_dear_prudence.sm?i=120
There's little doubt that kiwis are being veritably downtrowed by the power companies. And so Powershop is a lesser evil of sorts. However I'm still lost as to why Che? If people were being told to get off the grid and resist the underlying capitalist ethos, then the image may hold more weight than this simplistic exploitation of the cool iconography of a diametrical opposite(in this case). There is certainly no reverence or respect for a great man's idealism and courage being shown in this portion of the campaign.
As Che said, to his executor "I know you've come here to kill me. Shoot, you're only killing a man"
Living in a nation where developed areas receive 24/7 heating all winter for less than $200 a season at an incredible environmental cost, it's hard to judge, Powershop will keep New Zealanders a little warmer for winters to come. However maybe next time you could photoshop yourself as Santa Claus Russell.)
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Glad I came back to see where this topic ended up~
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am teaching the future inmates of Mt Eden Prison.
harsh!D