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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Columbia is the personification of the United States. The District of Columbia is named after the personification

31 posted on 10/10/2019 1:13:42 PM PDT by Daaave (The children of the night. What music they make!)

Columbia is a New Latin toponym in use since the 1730s for the Thirteen Colonies. It originated from the name of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and from the ending -ia, common in Latin names of countries (paralleling Britannia, Gallia, and others).

32 posted on 10/10/2019 1:18:01 PM PDT by Daaave (The children of the night. What music they make!)

An aspect of this story that know one seems to catch is that Karl Marx hated Christopher Columbus and wrote about him being the personification of all that is evil in European Colonialism and Western Capitalism.

The reference by Cory Booker to a “Spartacus” moment is also misunderstood by many. Karl Marx praised Spartacus as an inspiration to “Workers of the World” in the revolution and overthrowing of the Capitalist class.

The people who buy into this bull crap may be “useful idiots” but the people pushing this at the Government Level - local, state and federal - are well indoctrinated Marxist ideologues.

“A Communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin. An anti-Communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

33 posted on 10/10/2019 1:24:06 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)

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