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What happened to old commies? Mostly they died off. What happened to younger ones? They became Greens - it's another chance to display the same attitude of "I know what's best for YOU", push people around, gather their money in, "redistribute" it, and waste it on vanity projects.

The expression used is "a watermelon" - green on the outside, but red on the inside.

....or maybe the shite, hungry, insecure and disadvantaged, life styles and working conditions that most of the 'old style working classes' had to endure such as those of our most of our grandparents and great grandparents and those generations before them, gradually become better, seemed fairer and the desire to change receded accordingly leaving the CPGB with the will but no cause.

At the time, Communism, or indeed any change of status quo, must have seemed a lot better than what they had, to the vast majority.

But it's a far comment as to why those better off were attracted?..philantrophy in some cases, rebellion in others ala the current 'Trustafariansns'....or just the fear that 100,000's of pi55ed off squaddies returning from WW1 were a bit angry at what their so called betters had forced them to endure and knew that they had to bring in some real changes or face what Russia had a year or so before.

Just saying like.

Originally Posted by DavidBOC

I wonder if any current MP's, peers etc were formerly part of CPGB

Catherine Ashton, current EU foreign minister, treasurer of the CND when she took money from the Soviets via CPGB, never been elected to Guvmint but was put into the Lords and given a Gobmint job by T.Bliar. Degree in Sociology and an impeccable working class background, labour royalty really...and no.. you wouldn't, I wouldn't for certain.

Never met a Sociallist or Communist or old style trade ubnion leader who didn't love money.
In fairness New Labour have reinvented it.
You actually come from money and pretend to be working class,
A bit like rap stars who bang on about the Gheto but retire every night to their 80 room mansions with tennis court ho's and fleets of cars.
God forbid they hae to live like the people they rule and preach to.
Geldof and Bonio are another two wankers who live by that rule.

Or in the cover version of that old commie standard, "The Red Flag" - "The working class can kiss my arse, I've got the foreman's job at last"

It must have been herbal tea. All proper tea is theft.

Badoom-tish.

Originally Posted by WolvoExPunk

Speaking of communists, I'm a bit curious about a certain champion of the Working Classes. A Karl Marx fella you may have heard of. Could anybody here tell me what was his job? What pit did he toil away in? Which dockyard, steel mill, construction site, shipbuilders or collective farm did he slog his guts out at? Or maybe he was a soldier, and by that I mean not an officer, but a common soldier (or sailor even), in order to gain the life experiences and outlook of a revolutionary socialist.

I'm just a bit curious to find out a bit more about this hero of the blue collar worker. Don't all shout at once.

Karl Marx was a German academic who got his own predictions completely wrong - he foresaw his revolution by the workers taking place in advanced industrial countries such as Germany or the UK. If he'd lived long enough (he died in 1883) to see it take place in 1917 in Russia, it would have floored him!

Both my folks where in the CPGB and the CND (in fact my Dad stood as a Communist candidate for my local area)

Boy how they chuckled when i went off and joined the army

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