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Marxism 2006 is shaping up as the biggest Blair’s Law conference Australia has ever seen! Speakers include:
* Greenpeace elf Danny Kennedy
* University of NSW historian Sarah Gregson
* Socialist Alliance picket muppet David Glanz
* CFMEU wrangler Andrew Ferguson
* Historical Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen
* Rozelle Branch Secretary of the ALP Paul Mear
* “Socialist since the 1970s” Judy McVey, and ...
* The Islamic Friendship Association’s Keysar Trad.
What might Marx have made of a religious spokesman addressing a Marxism conference? Or that tickets for this debacle run to $55, which you may purchase via Amex, Visa, Mastercard, or Diners Club?
(Reader challenge: locate the source and background of the image used in Marxism 2006’s online promotions. Could be very non-Marxist.)
Sarah Gregson looks pretty much like you’d expect.
Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2006 08 16 at 01:45 PM • permalinkYou think they would have invited Harry Belafonte for the entertainment. He could sing L’Internationale for the opening ceremony.
BTW….I see that a Paul Mear, “Rozelle Branch Secretary, Australian Labor Party” is a speaker. Is this like Howard Dean (Chairman, US Democratic National Committee) going to an ANSWER rally?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 16 at 02:44 PM • permalinkDavid Glanz is eponymy in action, too. Here’s a little limerick I wrote a few years back that uses that word. Forgive me for posting it, but it’s one of my best:
A horny inventor named Sands
Thru misfortune lost both of his hands
So he whipped up a motor
With a soft velvet rotor
Which he promptly affixed to his glans.Maybe that should be “Glanz.”
Check out the program:
Forums and debates include:
Iraq to Lebanon: Resisting Bush’s War
WorkChoices: Can unions bring down Howard?
the Great Nuclear Debate
Is this China’s century?
Islam, Culture & Racism
Hollywood’s Swing Left
The future for Palestine
Latin America’s modern Revolution
Women, the Market & the Movement
The Making of White Australia
Darwin, Evolution and Creationism
Prospects for Revolution
Where does neo-liberalism come from?
NGOs: Enemies or allies?I’d rather stick needles in my eyes.
Doesn’t it just seem wrong somehow for Marxists to charge $55 for tickets? Capitalist running dogs.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 16 at 03:21 PM • permalinkSexism here in the drop down menu! Ms (OK, it’s before Mr as it should be but..), Mr, Miss, Mrs.
Miss!!! Hello Marxies, Misses ceased to exist years ago.
But what of Prof or Dr? Fuck it, I’ve got a PhD, why can’t I attend? Maybe I should become an intellectual like most of the contributors at Leftwrites and write my own entry in the Australian Public Intellectual Network. The last time I checked, there was a well respected tacher listed. Who knows, he might be at the Marxism 2006 conference. I would willingly trample Jewish children to hear him speak.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 08 16 at 03:25 PM • permalinkPer the application for tix:
I was not previously familiar with with the terms “waged” and “unwaged”. I’m No. American
Do these mean “gainfully employed” and
“layabout parasite” ??TIA
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 08 16 at 03:29 PM • permalinkHey, how come our favorite well-respected tacher wasn’t invited?
I don’t know who or where those depicted are, but I’m willing to bet they’re chanting “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now.” (Always remember to punch the word “now” with a black power fist.)
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 16 at 03:31 PM • permalink(Reader challenge: locate the source and background of the image used in Marxism 2006’s online promotions. Could be very non-Marxist.)
I was going to say that they look like a line up of victims of Winnie Mandela’s “Football Club”.
Posted by Major John on 2006 08 16 at 04:45 PM • permalink#12.Whale Spinor, as someone who has never been married, I much prefer to call myself MISS Nilknarf as opposed to that revolting MZZZ.
I’ve always found it rather silly and pointless, so make a point of highlighting the MISS part on applications. For those that don’t include it, the form gets amended by me.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 16 at 05:33 PM • permalinkWhat is the “Rozelle Branch” of the ALP, and why does the Australian Labor Party have a branch that’s named after a deceased National Football League commissioner?
Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2006 08 16 at 05:35 PM • permalink“Hollywood’s Swing Left”!!!!
Gosh, when did that happen? I must’ve been asleep—I thought Howood was always Left.
Why do presenters at these frightfairs always look so…deliberately unattractive? I mean, even if they were dealt a low hand by mum’s and pap’s genetics to begin with, they appear to go out of their way—by several hundred miles—to emphasize their untastiness.
The Islamic Friendship Association’s Keysar Trad. One question has crossed my mind guys. Hope people can help. When was this “Friendship Association” formed before 9/11 or after? Were there other friendship groups for Buddist, Hindus or Christians around. If not, does that not say mountains about what Muslims themselves thought may be a problem.
Hell if I were into conspiracy theories and this friendship group started before 9/11 or Bali I could say they are a misinformation machine?
SO does anybody know when it was formed?
Posted by The Big Fish on 2006 08 16 at 06:21 PM • permalinkAnd next year they can all attend “Flat-Earth 2007 (nutters, raving lunatics and genocidal maniacs section)”
Posted by Chris Harper on 2006 08 16 at 06:32 PM • permalink#2 “You got your Marxism in my Islamism!”
“You got your Islamism in my Marxism!”
“Don’t argue, boys. Now you can have both Marxism and Islamism together in the new Anti-Jew Nutter Cups. A Marxist-shell coating an Islamist centre—and 100% nuts!”
[Brought to you by Chavez Industries. The makers of Watermelon Suckers for Enviros: Green on the outside; Red on the inside.]Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 16 at 06:49 PM • permalinkwhy is david glanz wearing arafats table cloth whilst protesting centerlink? and why are they biting the hand that feeds?
Nexus magazine must have missed their invite as well.
5. She looks just plain wrong! Does she bite the balls off newborn pyppies to get that bitter an expression in her face??
Will there be authentic Tibetian throat music, followed by an apology to the previous inhabitants of this land. Then out will come the tofu and garlic dip on lebanese bread, followed by 5 miutes of silence and non denominational prayer (facing mecca to show solidarity brothers)for the swift recovery of comerade Fidel.
Unwaged are still $30.00? Surely they should charge on a sliding scale where the unemployed pay $1.00, and bloated uni-for-life academics and socalist millionares pay $10,000.00?
Up the revolution comerades??
Comerades??
/cricketsPosted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 08 16 at 06:58 PM • permalinkSorry to the organisers, but my credit card finally maxed out after I purchased tickets to an arty theatre performance called I Am My Own Wife (recommended, except for the actor’s tendency to spray saliva every two minutes) and the Andrew Bolt/Robert Manne debate.
As a poor member of the working-class (well, I have a job), I am assuming I could go along to Marxism 2006 for nothing anyway. This should be doubly so since I am a “victim” of a major bank giving me a credit card when I can’t keep up the payments.
Marxism 2006 is kind of an oxymoron isn’t it?
Ah yes, Humphrey McQueen…I’ve had professional dealings with Humphrey in the past, and like so many historical champions of the downtrodden working masses, he is, in person, a pompous bully towards ‘little people’, especially those in service positions. A classic ‘don’t you know who I am?!’ prima donna.
No discussion of Blair’s Law would be complete without a picture of Islamic convert Mike Tyson’s tat job. Featuring prominently is Mao Zedong, who turned mosques into pig stys during the cultural revolution.
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/7478/tysontattoos1xxz8.jpg
#28Big Fish, if you check out their website it doesn’t actually say, although with speeches and items going back to 2003, I’d suggest that it was after 9/11.
Before that, our favourite taqiyya-merchant was the official translator for Sheikh al Hilali until the sheikh made a few too many supportive remarks of suicide bombers and terrorists and copped a caning from bolta.
Trad is a parasite.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 16 at 07:36 PM • permalinkOn Saturday night join in some great food and brain-teasing trivia.
~ Marxism 2006 ~Presenter: Well now we come on to our special gift section. The contestant is Karl Marx and the prize this week is a beautiful lounge suite. Now Karl has elected to answer questions on the workers’ control of factories, so here we go with question number one. The development of the industrial proletariat is conditioned by what other development?
Marx: The development of the industrial bourgeoisie. (applause)
P: Yes, yes, it is indeed. You’re on your way to the lounge suite, Karl. Question number two. The struggle of class against class is a what struggle? A what struggle?
M: A political struggle. (tumultuous applause)
P: Yes, yes! One final question Karl and the beautiful lounge suite will be yours… Are you going to have a go? (Karl nods) You’re a brave man. Karl Marx, your final question. Who won the Cup Final in 1949?
M: Uh… The workers’ control of the means of production? Uh… The struggle of the urban proletariat?
P: No. It was in fact Wolverhampton Wanderers who beat Leicester, 3-1.(Cut to stock film of goal being scored in a soccer match. Roar from crowd. Stock footage of soccer crowds cheering.)
~ Monty Python’s Flying Circus ~
I just clicked on Mr mcqueens photo. is it my imagination but is he a slightly shopworn versionm of this character?
The paranoia version of the communists seems fairly apt as well.
Communists: Real Communism was as dead as disco before the Computer was even programmed. This secret society was formed because, if the Computer hates Communism so much, then there must be something to it. Their knowledge of historical Communism is spotty at best, leading to many Alpha Complex Commies carrying pictures of Groucho Marx and listening to the ‘revoloutionary’ songs of John Lennon
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 08 16 at 08:07 PM • permalinkMarxism 2006, eh? And with a fair focus on Iraq, Palestine etc etc.
All that’s missing from this Leftbollah get together is an appearance by Cindy Sheehan and Robert Fisk.
Tony Jones: Robert Fisk, it’s been said that the theories of Marx, when put into practice, have caused the deaths of millions of people. How do you respond to that?
Fisk: Well who is Marx? The West made Marx as some sort of anti-hero that we could intellectualise against. Is Marx Marx? That really is the question. Do we understand why? Or what? I’m sure he was a nice person. We’ve made him into a monster. Surely? Surely not? Isn’t it profound to think about? And where are these millions? Show me one. I’m very suspicious of the motives of people who blame Marx. What would he have thought? He might have been upset. Couldn’t we avoid that? I think. Yes.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 08 16 at 08:18 PM • permalinkMy blind stab in the dark regarding the Reader’s Challenge:
Going by the demographic, the L.A. riots? Didn’t realise the Marxists were behind that one….
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 08 16 at 08:59 PM • permalinkSo over at Crikey, Glen Dyer says:
“And will Tim Blair the conservative blogger clamber aboard the new Sunday gravy train at Nine now that he’s spat the dummy and resigned from The Bulletin?”
What gives bloghead? Are these the twilight days of a glittering career in “mainstream journalism”? Or are our screens to be graced with your ugly mug?
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 08 16 at 09:06 PM • permalinkJust had a look at the program -> https://marxism.qnetau.com/docs/Marxism2006_program.pdf.
You KNOW how some of these sessions are going to turn out…Can the unions bring down Howard? - the reality is that only effective opposition at a federal level is within the Liberal party. Despite this, the conference will determine that Howard is the devil incarnate.
The future for Palestine doesn’t mention Hezbollah, Lebabnon. Probably to be expected given the timeframe, but no mention of the wall, suicide bombers etc.
The wording around Australia’s new colonialism implies that helping free East Timor was a bad thing… But wasn’t it a revoloution (See Prospects for Revolution: 1905 to today) ? Too confusing…
and don’t get me started on the emotive responses and poor science that will come out of The Great Nuclear Debate.
I need a cheat sheet to become a lefty..
Posted by martin.english on 2006 08 16 at 09:14 PM • permalinkAndrea, I agree with Dave S. I really don’t read Miranda’s comments much, but when I do they’re usually annoying, not thought provoking.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 08 16 at 09:35 PM • permalink#24 Nilk
I prefer Ms. I was married and it annoyed me to be known as Mrs Hisname, why would I want anyone thinking that I had part of my brain removed? (Just how some people think after you are married, you become an extension of the spouse, and it’s still happening!!) I was me for 33 years and then he got all uppity because I hadn’t changed my name to his. All my working life, my work history had been in my maiden name, and he got all offended and hurt that I hadn’t changed my name. I did. Big mistake.
I always preferred Ms for myself. But that’s just my opinion.
I don’t really care how anyone addresses themselves, I use Ms if I am unsure, to be safe, so don’t be offended. I don’t like being addressed as Mrs or Miss.
#35
What’s with the multi-language signs for the greens on the triangles in the background?
and
Why don’t they try applying for jobs in Centrelink? They’d have inside info about benefits wouldn’t they?#41
Whaddya expect from a boxer? Not the sharpest tool in the shed, probably from being punched around the ring.Marxist, Hezbollah supporter and serial horse-tormentor David Glanz has recently been appointed Media]http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,20011760-661,00.html]Media and Communications Advisor to Melbourne’s RMIT University[/url].
#5/#27. Um, I don’t think there is much incentive for something as borgeouis as appearance or personal hygiene as the lyrics to this old tune suggest:
And if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao…
you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhowww….Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 16 at 10:09 PM • permalink#5- I think that photo has somehow been mistakenly exchanged with one from Rugby League Week- it’s really of a prop from Penrith.
There’s no way that an Australian feminist lefty academic could have such a challenging visage- after all, in the hornbag stakes they’re up there with union leaders, members of the press gallery and socialist senators.
Have you ever wondered why there are so many gay male lefties?
Res Ipsa Loquitor.
What might Marx have made of a religious spokesman addressing a Marxism conference?
“Nevermind, they’ll swallow it.”
—Stalin, dismissing an underling’s fear about how Western progressives would react to a particular Soviet atrocity.Posted by The Sanity Inspector on 2006 08 16 at 10:39 PM • permalinkStop picking on Miranda Divide! Some of us don’t like trawling through the sewers to keep up with what the moonbats are thinking and doing. I don’t mind the occasional
Miranda Divide commentturd deposited on the screen; although odious, they don’t smell.Germs like Miranda are good for you; they keep your immune system healthy.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 08 16 at 11:00 PM • permalink#11, Kyda Sylvester,
Is this China’s century?
Islam, Culture & Racism
Hollywood’s Swing Left#27, ushie,
Gosh, when did that happen? I must’ve been asleep—I thought Howood was always Left.
My thoughts exactly, ushie. And I agree that many of those who make it their life’s work to try to run everyone else’s life, seem to resent being alive so much that they aren’t satisfied with the ugliness nature imposes, but must actively add to it. They aren’t satisfied with imposing themselves upon the senses, either, but extend their vision into all areas of art. Instead of art that uplifts and shows us the possible, modern art either refuses to represent the human form at all, or presents us with man the debased and mutant. They wipe out beauty in the cause of the debauched, stunted, atavistic—and most important, helpless—remnant of a human mind. All paid for with your tax dollars, of course. It is the whole point of “leveling the playing field” that “social justice” demands. There never would have been enough money handed over voluntarily to put this bunch into their custom made suits, Land-Rovers, and the top hotel suites around the world without the money taken by force.
Marxism 2006: Challenging global capitalism
Okay, so they want to challenge the global spread of economic freedom ? Challenge people having the freedom from governments deciding how they should live their lives ? Challenge the one force that has caused living standards to skyrocket ?
Keep on challenging, wingnuts !
Agreed they are idiots, dipsticks, scum and total, total, human garbage. But they do things. Shouldn’t our people be putting on a few competing events?
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 08 16 at 11:40 PM • permalinkIt takes a special kind of idiocy to look over the last 100 years and conclude that the world needs more Marxism.
Posted by Billy Hollis on 2006 08 16 at 11:51 PM • permalinkQuite so, Billy Hollis, but I heard Francis Wheen on Radio National last night and he was giving it a pretty good try.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 16 at 11:56 PM • permalinkThat festival, by the way, sounds like those hippy gatherings that Jim Cairns was known for attending.
Jim Cairns - tell me now, what ever happened to him? Didn’t he die and become a figure of ridicule? Nah, I must have that wrong, he spent the last thirty years of his life as that.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 17 at 12:00 AM • permalinkTimbo and I have had our disagreements over the many weeks I have been posting here, but I will always draw the line at using his website for groundless speculation about his career and other personal matters. For this purpose, I use email.
One thing I do know, however, is that widely respected world expert, Bob Ellis once said that he would destroy Blair’s career - a chilling prediction that appears to be rapidly coming to fruition.
Ellis has since gone on to write occasional columns for the Byron Shire Echo, while Blair’s byline has been conspicuously absent from this publication. Ellis has also fathered a child out of wedlock, while according to the best internet research available, Blair would appear to still be a virgin.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 17 at 12:03 AM • permalinkTim, is that true? You’ve never been published in the Byron Shire Echo?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 17 at 12:06 AM • permalink#66- Try scoring funding*, venues etc if you want to put on a RWDBfest; what’s more, most of us are too busy with creating wealth, laying waste to the environment, using far more resources than we need for a subsistence existence, crushing dissent and organised labor (and forcing the disenfrachised and dispossessed into serfdom), encouraging xenophobia, racism, misogyny and discouraging dissent and alternative views, and getting on the pop and squashing small global footprinters on ecologically sustainable bicycles with out huge, small-penis compensating SUVs.
And if there’s time, plotting the destruction of public broadcasting, thus stifling the lone voice of reason and rebellion, before crushing the welfare state and rendering the vunerable into the workhouse, or the fertilizer plant.
then cocktails.
Oops, left out the qualifier *- it would also be highly hypocritical for avowed free marketeers to try to rent-seek public funding for a weekend pissup cum yabberfest.
But then again, we could rationalise it as tax reform, putting swiped consolidated revenue to work for the benefit of the masses, or at least the messes who attend; it would also generate employment opportunities for bar and wait staff, carparkers skilled in dealing with exotic foreign transmissions and a whole army of cleaners to mop up the sea of vomit, spilled Bombay Sapphire martinis and oyster shooters, and plucking spitted stuffed olives from the chandeliers.
Ahhh, I haven’t purchased The Bulletin for ages.
Mind you, I haven’t purchased Crikey for ages, and I still get it (not today, however). Thanks Miranda Divide for that feedback, although I’m sick to the back boot of people who don’t use their own names to express an opinion.
Of course, Dick, one could just drop the last five letters and call Marxism 2006 an oxy. Errr, doesn’t work really.
#73 Sounds like any other night at the Neo-Con Club. Except we usually feed a baby harp seal into a wood chipper for laughs.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 17 at 12:57 AM • permalinkJust received notification of a sociology conference coming up at UWA. Check this out:
The conference theme is ‘Sociology for a Mobile World’.
Conference Streams…
Gender, sexuality, family and youth
Health and ageing
Urban and rural sociology
Law, politics, crime and deviance
Education, work, stratification and class Indigenous issues, race, ethnicity and migration Theory and methodology Leisure, tourism, sport and everyday life Culture, media and communication Open section
The entire caring-sharing-nurturing industry, together in one room. Oh, the temptation!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 17 at 01:14 AM • permalinkAgreed they are idiots, dipsticks, scum and total, total, human garbage. But they do things. Shouldn’t our people be putting on a few competing events?
Can’t. Too busy working and creating wealth, a portion of which gets siphoned to support “the unwaged” who use their abundant free time to indulge in hippie circle jerks.
Looking at the McQueen photo it is really hard to avoid the conclusion that he is actually not of this Earth.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 08 17 at 03:54 AM • permalinkHabib
Speak for yourself on the small penis mate! I had a new one fashioned from the genitalia of about 15 orange bellied parrots.
With the narwhal nose insert it comes up a treat. Ladies seem to not like it much but bugger them, its for my enjoyment not theirs.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 08 17 at 04:11 AM • permalinkAgreed they are idiots, dipsticks, scum and total, total, human garbage. But they do things. Shouldn’t our people be putting on a few competing events?
We’re too busy working and having lives.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 08 17 at 06:47 AM • permalinkAgreed they are idiots, dipsticks, scum and total, total, human garbage. But they do things. Shouldn’t our people be putting on a few competing events?
Having meetings and massdebates is not “doing something”. its what you do when you are going to do nothing but winge.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 08 17 at 07:29 AM • permalinkAs to whether a conference on Marxism has a place for religion: well, yes, but not another religion. Most rusted on marxists probably have as much chance of explaining coherently Marx’s insights into the role of capital as most regular churchgoers in the 1960’s had of elucidating the deeper theological implications of the Holy Trinity.
Humphrey McQueen? Hmmmm…..
Is he any relation to Troy McClure??
And as for Marx Fest 2006: Will there be a seminar on Gummo, the “forgotten” brother??
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 08 17 at 08:35 AM • permalinkWhy are they predictable? Because they’re rooted in fact, gson.
Damn.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 08 17 at 12:21 PM • permalink#95. Yes, the “ad hom” (Huh? “Ad homo” perhaps?) comments about McQueen are cheap and predictable.
The only thing really wrong with McQueen is that he is a slimy little turd who writes villiany-justifying drivel. His natural home is up Mao Tse-Tung’s smelly and decaying arse.
A charming insight into his character is his ancedote about his hero Manning Clark recounting to him, no doubt with appropriate giggles, Sir Zelman Cowan’s alleged fear of being called “Jewboy.”
I further refer you to Ray’s comments in today’s Achewood.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 08 17 at 12:39 PM • permalink#95- Humpy is a smug, self-important polemic ideologue who should be buried* in the Kremlin wall with his hero John Reed.
*I make no stipulation on the wizened old pinko poo-pirate actually being deceased when interred (as opposed to in turd).
#92- refer to numbers 5 and 60; Sha’ria and the accompanied head-to-toe coverage of females would be welcomed by this particular demographic, it’d save a bucketload on welding goggles, doubled paper bags and cornea surgery.
#93 - Crash, was it Crystabel Chamarrette?
Sack of potatoes with a fright wig.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 17 at 08:04 PM • permalink#73 Sounds like any other night at the Neo-Con Club. Except we usually feed a baby harp seal into a wood chipper for laughs.
I still remember the good old days, when we used to toss the baby harp seals at the chipper, in lieu of dwarves…
Ah, there were giants in those days.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 17 at 08:45 PM • permalink
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I don’t know where that image came from, but I can guarantee that the white-people-to-people-of-color ratio at the actual conference will be higher than the photo’s by a factor of, oh, a thousand or so.