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Fantastic Anarchist

(7,309 posts)
6. Maybe we should start another movement ...
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 09:33 AM
Oct 2013

Call it the Be-baggers - and our symbol will be the guillotine.

But that would assume they have balls. Doubt they'd be scared.

On a more serious note, we could re-establish the Enragés (to focus on class struggle):

From Wiki:

Les Enragés (literally "the Enraged Ones&quot were a loose amalgam of radicals active during the French Revolution. Politically they stood to the left of the Jacobins. Represented by Jacques Roux, Théophile Leclerc, Jean Varlet and others, they believed that liberty for all meant more than mere constitutional rights. Roux once said that "liberty is no more than an empty shell when one class is allowed to condemn another to starvation and no measures taken against them".

The demands of the enragés included:

Price controls on grain
The assignat as the only legal tender
Repression of counterrevolutionary activity
A progressive income tax

They were supported by the sans-culottes. To the left of the Montagnards, the enragés were fought against by Maximilien de Robespierre and reemerged as the group of Hébertistes. Their ideas were taken up and developed by Babeuf and his associates.

Another group styling itself les enragés emerged in France in 1968 among students at Nanterre University. They were heavily influenced by the Situationists and would go on to be one of the leading groups in the May 1968 French insurrection.


The 1968 French insurrection of radical socialists and anarchists applied the following slogan to encapsulate the movement:

Be Realistic! Demand the Impossible!

No truer words have ever been spoken.

Also read Daniel Guerin who has been a chronicler and activist for economic and social justice all of his life.
And we have a policy of guillotine proven innocent. Orrex Oct 2013 #1
Guillotines don't cut people's heads off. People cut peoples heads off. With Guillotines. nt el_bryanto Oct 2013 #2
Puns, glorious puns. nt riqster Oct 2013 #16
Don't forget to boycott Tea Party sponsors. jsr Oct 2013 #3
We've had decades of treachery with the RW's dismantling of our educational system hlthe2b Oct 2013 #4
I'd be calling it "willfull ignorance", since they seem to choose it deliberately. nt riqster Oct 2013 #12
MA was a tragedy. She was a naif. WinkyDink Oct 2013 #5
Maybe we should start another movement ... Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #6
How about DE-baggers? riqster Oct 2013 #9
I like. Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #13
Your "Be-Baggers" was fun, too. riqster Oct 2013 #15
!!!!!! Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #18
Les Enragés 2.0 nt LiberalElite Oct 2013 #10
Oh, and kicking and reccing. nt Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #7
interesting website: LiberalElite Oct 2013 #8
You CAN buy anything on the Internet! nt riqster Oct 2013 #11
Yet. Don't put anything past a teabagger. nt tsuki Oct 2013 #14
i heard that M.A. never said let them eat cake anyone else hear that? leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #17
Yes, she didn't really say it ... Fantastic Anarchist Oct 2013 #19
i believe she didnt care and i feel she deserved what she got but just recently i heard she did nt leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #22
The specific words were incorrectly attributed to her. riqster Oct 2013 #21
Along with other New Jersey voters, I get to do that today. Go Booker! bklyncowgirl Oct 2013 #20
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