Post your favorite quote or maxim.

Sorry to have offended you, Euphen. It does sound so......Capitalistic, doesn't it? Too bad it pisses you off, but I like nice guitars and fast cars. What do you and Tark drive? Trabants? Bicycles? Those do seem the only available choice in the human ant farms you call the "worker's paradise".

Oh, yeah, I think $275 is an OUTRAGEOUS price for 14 rolls of toilet paper. But let's let the market forces decide!

One request, please post a URL link to your propaganda sites. Copying the whole ****ing thing is not as funny as you think it is.

Where did you get the happy birthday thing? That is pretty great. About the Socialist Equality Party, I don't know. It seems like all of the good parties (socialist equality party, freedom socialist party) are always so purist and have about 17 members. I guess I will support the Spartacist League, but some of their views seem contradictory and so i am a bit worried.

Anyway Stratman, I don't know if Roger would approve of you blatant misuse of his lyrics!

He said fourteen volumes not fourteen pages. That would be a lot more toilet paper if you choosed to use it that way, but the pages wouldn't be very soft. As for the web page you asked for, you can find most of the classic works at www.marxists.org, which I already posted the address to. You can also read news from a socialist perspective at www.themilitant.com. Glad to be of help.

And tarkus, I hate diet coke, but it's the only think I have to drink.

I hate Diet Cola as well.

but...thats not the topic.

My favorite quote:

And the crowd said : EAT MY SHORTS!!!

I'll let you guess where that is from.

Tarkus, your assumption may be correct, but I for one have never read Marx, Lenin, Trotsky (Here in England "the trots" does not have anything to do with Trotsky - ) and don't intend to start now.

When younger, I read Plato's The Republic and that was more than enough social philosophy for me, thanks very much.

And I have to agree with thorin that quotes and maxims is the topic, not Socialist What-not Parties.

"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." - Ben Franklin

Shine on!

Here's another of my favourites, but it's a whole serious of quotes but nowhere near as long as Das Kapital...

See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Hamlet - SCENE III. A room in Polonius' house (Lord Polonius to Laertes) - W. Shakespeare

I know he wouldn't, Tarkus. Roger can sue me if he wants to.

Euphen, thanks for using the URL's. It's much tidyier. As long as you are studying political philosophy, you and Tarkus ought to check out David Horowitz's Radical Son and Ronald Radosh's Commies: A Journey thru the Old Left, the New Left, and the Left-Over-Left. This would give you the point of view of 2 guys who've "been there, done that".
http://www.frontpagemag.org

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, here are more words to live by:
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it." WC Fields

I am also unfamiliar with the said writings. Strangely enough, the only real social philosophy I've read is Plato's Republic.

Strange...

Please, I think it's Stratman's right to use the signature he likes; irreverent as it is, I am very surptised that it would give offence to anyone...

Stratman, the books you listed are not political philosophy. Radosh is a bitter old former leftists who blames the failure of his academic career on the fact that he is no longer a leftist. I don't know much about Horowitz, but him telling about his experiences as a leftist is still not political philosophy. If I wanted to read real right-wing political philosophy I would read something by Ayn Rand or Friedman.

ORIGINAL QUOTE FROM TARKUS
The writer, old Roger, is trying to say that while these things (new guitars, more powerful guitars) may be good on the outside, evil lurks inside. An evil that corrupts a man's soul and ruins his life and the lives of those that have to be around him. Digging even deeper, one would find that in fact, buying a new guitar is dumb because everyone knows VINTAGE is in fact, the way to go.


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I think all these new people are in cahoots.

Stratman knows what he's talkin' about, ok?
Thanks for telling us what old Roger was TRYING to say 20 years ago. Were you born yet?


"Give any one species too much rope and they'll f*ck it up"-Roger Waters

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire"-Bukowski

If Belew is an idiot than Fripp must be, too. He chose him as lead singer. What an idiot! Too bad guitar playing is not like sports where you can prove who is better. A big competition instead of expressing emotion. Yeah, another ego battle! I have the Nightwatch, Red, Starless and all that. I probably listened to them more then you and your alter ego, Euphen. Is Fripp fast, is that it? Did he study harder? Is it because he sits in a chair? Do you guys ever get out of the house?


"Elephants forgot
force fed on stale chalk
ate the floors of their cages"-Pete Sinfield