Some people—especially liberals—think I’m Joel the blogger A.K.A: Captain Hyperbole, or Joel McCarthy; but actually, I’m just way ahead of you. Or on to you. And I call it the way it is.
Almost as if to help prove me right, which they do almost every day, the Marxists of Canada—um, and Muslims and Kyoto bible-thumpers—gather in Toronto this weekend for the four-day Marxist “Festival of Resistance”.
The National Post is covering the story, although they serve to mainstream it more than properly marginalizing the radical communists as they should any group of fringe leftist radicals and agitators who call President Bush a “terrorist”, see below, —and like the liberal media so often does to those awful “Christians”, for example, unfortunately:
Participants are totally mainstream liberals,
seems to me, as judged by this t-shirt …
National Post – Colin O’Connor photograph
Here’s some of the story from the National Post, with my highlighting of course:
Making Marxism relevant in this post-Soviet age of terror might seem like the mother of all struggles, but organizers of a four-day “Festival of Resistance” in Toronto are trying hard to pull it off—and they’ve cast their net as widely as possible to do it.
Rather than focus on the evils of capitalism, the unlikely top billing of the opening night of the festival was devoted to a discussion about building unity between Muslims and the left; the keynote speaker was the controversial Islamic thinker Zafar Bangash, director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought, who is in the news these days because he is in the midst of a heated battle to open a mosque in Newmarket—not because he wants to see a dictatorship of the proletariat.
Desperate for new brothers in arms, Marxism appears to be doing some serious social networking. If this weekend’s series of workshops at the festival is any indication, Marxism has a disparate cadre these days: green activists, the anti-war movement, the transgendered, members of First Nations, traditional Islam.
Inclusiveness is the buzzword here, where the members of this hodge-podge gathering can be overheard calling each other brother and sister. Participants call this membership drive “building unity,” a much-repeated mantra throughout the opening night. Self-proclaimed Marxist James Clark, who helped organize the event, said that while there are disparate groups in attendance, they can all still rally around a slogan like “Out of Afghanistan and into Kyoto.”
[…] “We’re looking at a new beginning,” said liberal thinker Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of sociology at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York.
[…]
Betcha they take VISA and MasterCard and American Express
at their li’l book stand featuring communism and socialism books,
and global warming books, and of course feminism books!
And hey: what self-respecting —or good ‘n self-loathing— liberal
or member of Layton’s you’ve got to be kidding party
hasn’t read Noam Chomsky’s fabulous writings?
National Post – Colin O’Connor photo
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