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Anarchist Bookfairs, Left-Wing Fascists, RPG Review
For the local community I've produced another issue of The Willsmere Whispers. Also locally attended the Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair and Workshops at the delightful surrounds of the Abbotsford Convent, which really is a location I must find more excuses to go to. This was a very well attended and vibrant event which included catching up with the delightful Paula (who had purchased a suitcase of books, compared to my single purchase of a study on John Anderson).
It contrasted well with the absolutely dire address at the Unitarians the following day where a handful of aging and irrelevant Stalinists engaged in a talk claiming that Kruschev and Gorbachev had betrayed the Soviet Union. The irony of running such an event on the fiftieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall was quite clearly lost on such rigid minds. The request that they at least considered the comments from the leaders of Unitarians in Eastern Europe who were repressed under such regimes didn't garner much sympathy. In way of a motivated response, I have written: Left-Wing Fascism: A Senile Disorder.
Finally, I have released a very late edition of RPG Review Issue 12. A history special issue, it almost became an item of history in its own right. Nevertheless, I'm pretty happy with the content; my own contributions include an overview of historical RPGs, the use of Pendragon for the one thousand year history of the Britannia boardgame and a review of Deadlands, the horror-western RPG. The latter will make its way to rpg.net as well..
It contrasted well with the absolutely dire address at the Unitarians the following day where a handful of aging and irrelevant Stalinists engaged in a talk claiming that Kruschev and Gorbachev had betrayed the Soviet Union. The irony of running such an event on the fiftieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall was quite clearly lost on such rigid minds. The request that they at least considered the comments from the leaders of Unitarians in Eastern Europe who were repressed under such regimes didn't garner much sympathy. In way of a motivated response, I have written: Left-Wing Fascism: A Senile Disorder.
Finally, I have released a very late edition of RPG Review Issue 12. A history special issue, it almost became an item of history in its own right. Nevertheless, I'm pretty happy with the content; my own contributions include an overview of historical RPGs, the use of Pendragon for the one thousand year history of the Britannia boardgame and a review of Deadlands, the horror-western RPG. The latter will make its way to rpg.net as well..
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The last socialist thing I read was by Orwell. Can you tell?
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Re: We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Re: We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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I would agree with that assessment, and think that the world is better for that betrayal. We are not still consciously living with the immanent threat of nuclear war (though the risk has actually only declined slightly) and if dismantling a oppressive state system is betrayal, then I think we ought to have more of that. Maybe the US Homeland could be betrayed next?
I guess they'd prefer an "Iron Man" like Stain to have kept running things. Some of that may be misplaced nostalgia for a simplistic life under an oppressive regime. Easier to be focussed on less things (survival?) under a state run by secret police than to have to many choices? I saw ONE GERMANY on SBS last week and it was all about folk there pining for Trabants and such things. It's always easier to embellish and glorify a past, athn live in the present, even if that present is "better".
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A special comment for readers who don't understand logic.
A person can be young and irrelevant.
A person can be aged and relevant.
A person can be young and relevant.