Comments on: The revolutionary young https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Dave https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221567 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:23:31 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221567 I personally look at anyone carrying a Che sign or wearing a Che shirt, as more than likely very misinformed. Che Guevera was a thug, a murder and a racist. Like the line in the song revolution “if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao” or Che then I am likely to put you on mute.

]]> By: Denise https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221374 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:49:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221374 As an American and a believer in democracy, I truly hope that the mass actions in Tunisia and Egypt lead to the democracy. This is my hope even if the short-term interests of my country suffer.

As a student of history, however, I am not optimistic. I note that posters of Che were carried by some of the Tunisian activists. Hasn’t Castro been in power longer than the rulers of either Tunisia or Egypt? Do people see these contradictions?

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221353 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:34:16 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221353 I think some are just born afflicted by the “grass is always greener” gene. All that’s needed is a bit of life’s discontent and suddenly the baby and bath water both need tossed for the possibilities of the unknown.

]]> By: DirtyJobsGUy https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221316 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:35:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221316 The romantic thing is right on. As P.J. O’Rourke noted in his “Holidays in Hell”

“Trouble is fun. It will always be more fun to carry a gun around in thehills and sleep with ideology-addled college girls than to spend life behind a water buffalo or rotting in a slum”

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221315 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:32:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221315 The ding-a-ling factor seems exaggerated by the sense of the ding-a-ling’s superiority.
We’re so smart, we couldn’t possibly be wrong. Besides, all those rednecks think the opposite, and so we must be right, besides, who’d want to think the same as a redneck.
Sounds like a college sophomore who never grew up, which was undoubtedly the goal of some of the professors.

]]> By: Genericson https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221306 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:52:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/the-revolutionary-young/#comment-221306 Namazie went on to join Salman Rushdie, Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and others in this Manifesto against the “New Totalitarianism”

http://www.workablepeace.org/Cartoons/manifesto.pdf

That said, it is interesting that she remains a communist.

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