A poem I heard last night, by Michael Dransfield:
*A Strange Bird*
it is a strange bird
this world
whose habit is
to fight itself
whose left wing
and right wing
tear themselves
bitterly apart
both on the side
of justice and violence
and whose great beak
gobbles the poor
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A
At 3:50 AM -0800 5/1/2002, Paul Murphy wrote:
>What? The history of political terminology needs some
>investigation, for instance when the Anarchist
>Militia, or their political wing POUM (not a
>Trotskyite grouping but really a party of Left-Marxist
>reconstruction, although the leader had been Trotsky's
>secretary...) were classified as 'fascists' by the
>Stalinist Left in Spain in 1936. There are many other
>examples of political mis-terminology, although
>Hitler's mis-use of the term 'Socialist' is clearly
>very interesting.
>ciao,
>PM
>
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