Comments on: Who said this?

By: Harry Hutton

Harry Hutton — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:42:00 +0000

Thanks. A friend was doing a thing about tourism to socialist countries. I wouldn’t fancy Eritrea.

By: jamie

jamie — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:21:00 +0000

There are quite a few places that are nominally people’s things without being exactly communist, I think. Eritrea for one. Myanmar maybe. Hey Harry, maybe you should have a "people’s things" category.

By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:03:00 +0000

Someone on Normblog called Canada "socialist." Will that do? And isn’t Libya nominally some kind of People’s thing?

By: lenin

lenin — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:01:00 +0000

The Ethiopian government is formally communist too, I believe. Also, Alex Jones assures me that the US government is communist.

By: jamie

jamie — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:53:00 +0000

Well, I think Moldova is formally communist, though their communist government was elected. Does that still count?

By: Harry Hutton

Harry Hutton — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:26:00 +0000

By the way, I kinda need to know in about the next 45 minutes.

By: Harry Hutton

Harry Hutton — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:25:00 +0000

Can you boys help me with something? How many communist countries are there left? So far I’ve got China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Is Zimbabwe supposed to be communist? Are there any other African countries? What is happening in Belarus? And what do you know about that place Transnistria?

Thanks if you can help. If not, the curse of Cromwell on you.

By: lenin

lenin — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:29:00 +0000

It was Trotsky. Google "Permanent Revolution". Better yet, take the last sentence and replace "Islamic" with "socialist".

Tsch! Don't you kids read Trotsky any more?

By: Jezza

Jezza — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:14:00 +0000

Karl Marx

By: Pearsall

Pearsall — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:05:00 +0000

Foucault? I know he was hot for Khomeini.