
Woocfot asks: Tell us all about that turning point in your life when it started going downhill. Yeah, that drunken conversation with my dad when he suggested I become a civil servant. Dammit, I could have been an astronaut
( , Thu 28 Feb 2013, 11:32)
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That was the Spanish POUM. They did kill people, but there was a civil war on at the time, so that's to be expected. The POUM were wiped out by Stalinists.
Allende's government in Chile had a non Leninist communist party as the largest group in parliament, but they were swiftgly deposed by the CIA, and replaced with the cuddly Pinochet.
( , Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:10, 2 replies)

but it's more interesting than Albert's mortgage.
( , Mon 4 Mar 2013, 14:26, closed)

The catastrophic failure of every single attempt at a pure socialist government has allowed capitalism to flourish - and my portfolio with it.
( , Mon 4 Mar 2013, 15:46, closed)

bologna had communist mayors for 50 years
( , Mon 4 Mar 2013, 16:11, closed)
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