Posted on 03/27/2005 1:18:58 PM PST by SmithL
Thousands of like-minded souls with a taste for state smashing, patriarchy toppling, government defying, feminism, punk, radical politics and children's books with titles like "Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon" came out in force for the 10th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair.
They snatched up books by Noam Chomsky and Emma Goldman, greeted old friends, bought "Bomb the mall" T-shirts and DVDs about "imperial democracy" and happily lay in the sunshine with their anarchist dogs and wild-plant food pamphlets.
By midafternoon, the San Francisco County Fair Building and the lawn outside were packed with everyone from bookish brainiacs leafing through dense texts to green-haired punks with pierced septums and a distinctive, musky scent.
"This is Christmas," said Eileen Rose, 43, hands full of books. "The hardest thing about coming here is that there's so much of what I feel is critical tools to have."
She showed a friend her finds, including "Anarchism and Other Essays" by Emma Goldman and a "F -- your fascist beauty standards" patch.
Indeed, the F-word was especially popular at the fair: "You don't have to f -- people over to survive" and "F -- all boy bands" were among the slogans on the ubiquitous T-shirts, pins and patches. Hungry radicals -- who arrived from all over the country -- were salivating as they wandered among CDs and books, from Woody Guthrie's "Struggle" and Malcolm X's speeches to "The Enemy Is Middle Class" and "No Gods No Masters."
The book fair has grown exponentially since a small group of far lefties and San Francisco's Bound Together Anarchist Collective Book Store staged the first one in 1995.
This year, 75 vendors from near and far poured into town for the event. The slate of speakers included graphic artist Eric Drooker, feminist activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and the star...
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Mind you, I am a LIBERTARIAN socialist!
(Hastily looks up definition of the word "libertarian" in his Merriam-Webster Dictionary.)
I never said I was a "libertarian socialist." Really, I don't know where you're getting this crap from.
Chomsky has the same quality and quantity of intellectual integrity as Bobby Fischer. ;')
Hey, didn't I see you at the libertarian socialist convention? :*D
"The hardest thing about coming here is that there's so much of what I feel is critical tools to have." [said Eileen Rose, 43]
Maybe Strunk's?
It's not an uncommon pattern - in India there's a Marxist Party, but they don't cause much grief because they spend most of their time fighting with their mortal enemies: The Indian Marxist-Leninist Party
Only because of the bulk discount.
According to my brother, there isn't much that is funnier than a meeting of organized Anarchists. :P
:&)
My sister...my daughter...my sister...my daughter...
Libertarian socialists gotta have a real internal struggle figuring out some way to compromise two completely at-odds philosophies. Must be like rooting for the Yankees and the Red Sox at the same time.
One of my favorites. Roman Polanski may be a sexual predator, but he sure directed the **** out of that.
"Unite against the common enemy!" "The Judean People's Front?" "No, the Romans!"
:)
LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
REG: People's Front! C-huh.
FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
REG: He's over there.
Labisse: If you ever come back, I will have you thrown out.
Toddy: Don't make it sound like such a threat. Being thrown out of a place like this is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
"SPLITTER!"
Larks' tongues! Wrens' livers! Chaffinch brains! Jaguars' earlobes! Wolf nipple chips! Get 'em while they're hot! They're lovely! Dromedary pretzels, only half a dinar! Tuscany fried bats!
These socialists who are pretending to be anarchists.
These ARE socialists who are pretending to be anarchists.
Let's be fair; they're IDIOTS pretending to be anarchists.
Socialists know that they're socialists. Most of these twits would have a difficulty enunciating their politics beyond 'George Bush sucks' and 'I dunno, what'd they say on DU?'
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