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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (5821)	5/19/2000 10:47:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

No, never saw Reds, didn't even know until now when i looked it up on altavista what it was about ... the life of John Reed who wrote Ten Days That Shook the World - kirjasto.sci.fi .. now i plan to see it, yes Seems to me fairly safe to say that Reed and Lenin and Trotsky and Marx and Engels themselves would very likely sing a different tune at a concert today, in light of experience in between ... so many were enthused by various interpretations of socialism and communism in those years, they seemed to provide hope for a world that was grindingly brutal for the majority of souls ... we have an ancient neighbour here who was an avid communist in the 30s, and i knew a man in the city of M‚xico who had met Trotsky in the house of Diego Rivera and ran errands for him as a young boy, he promoted socialist thought until his recent death ... hardly a sin, imho, viewed in context [which is not to say i agree, not at all] ... another thing he became very good at was extracting cash from capitalists to support artists, a friend of ours spent five glorious years making sculpture in the university because he once said the right sweet words to Echeverr¡a -g- Big garden project on, can't reply to other posts until later ... cheers