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The Tolpuddle Martyrs.
The Diggers.
The Luddites.
The Diggers.
The Luddites.
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The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland -
the Haymarket Martyrs deserve an honorable mention as do the Communards and then you can't go without a good VIVA LA CNT.
On the other side its amazing how much respect Sun Yat Sen is undeservedly held in...Stop Quoting BenComment
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See my sigOriginally posted by Clear Skies
I think Gandi is definitely one of my top revolutionary-type people.
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Me...
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John BrownTutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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I´m with che (as usual...) Besides I´m to darn lazy to actually compile a list...
I love being beaten by women - LorizaelComment
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Stefu:
wonders if agreeing with Stefu so much is the ONLY reason he is an honorary Finn
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Monteverdi - The only musical revolutioner who mastered the old style better than most of the others.
Oh, you mean political?
OK, then it is what Immortal Wombat said together with that the revolution had to be peaceful (at least from the side of the revolutioners). That's why I have deep respect for the peoples of Eastern Europe. And they mostly don't have "great names".Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?Comment
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so do i for some reasonOriginally posted by Caligastia
I like Rage Against The Machine
I think of them every time I see Chegitz Guevara's name.
"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
- Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott CardComment
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Imran: in this particular thread stefu's contribution is up and away the best so far. Only nuts would disagree. Not that we aren't supplied with plenty of those here at Poly."The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
"I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.Comment
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some of them.
Mussolini was a "revolutionary" too, you know. It's all in the way you look at it. He forcefully took power, and created a new regime that was very different from the previous one. I think this is a revolution.Comment
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Then why bother with the adjective American before saying abolitionists?Originally posted by MrFun
The other revolutionaries I admire -- those American abolitionists who also believed that blacks and whites are equal.
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Just because I do not make an entire laundry list of all the revolutionaries and revolutions I admire, does not mean that I only admire American ones.
That is what the Wombat was refering to, I think.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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The Spanish National Confederation of Labour" Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism." - Emma Goldman
William Seward Burroughs
February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997 R.I.P. Uncle Bill, you are missed.Comment
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Watt Tyler.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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