The Communist Party and the Marxist-Leninists split during the Sino-Soviet split, with the former cheering for the Khrushchevites and the latter becoming the Canadian home for Maoists. Considering Mao's support of Pol Pot during the Khmer Rouge days, and his own crushing of intellectual dissent after the Hundred Flowers Campaign, as well as the CPC-ML's recent support for the DPRK, your analogy seems eerily spot on.
Incidentally, the leader of the BC wing of the (Soviet) Commies, George Gidora, ran in my riding in 2000 and 2004.
They'd probably have you and me shot for our "regressive" and bourgeois views. Remember, the bolsheviks viewed the family as a bourgeois institution. The FAMILY. What a bunch of sociopaths.
Posted at 2006-01-18 18:04:05 [PermaLink]One riding in my city has a Grade-A jackass named Julian Ichim running for the Marxist-Leninists; you may remember him as the guy who threw chocolate milk on Stockwell Day.
Posted at 2006-01-18 18:38:43 [PermaLink]They were always fighting each other so hard they never could take time enough to explain to me the differences. One thing I do know, by whatever ghods you pray to (Allah to Zeus, take your pick) do not mention Trotsky.
Posted at 2006-01-18 18:57:12 [PermaLink]Seed is an interesting character who has obviously spent most of his life living in an alternative universe:
"The destruction of the nation of Palestine and the forcible dispersal of its people to the four corners of the earth is one of the monumental crimes of the 20th century."
Must have been all that acid at a young age. He also writes:
"The Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada actively defends the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, as it does of all peoples, as part of its program of vesting sovereignty in the Canadian people."
Well, all people except the evil Joooooooos, of course. I wonder if he has any idea how much he sounds like David Duke?
If we get proportional representation it would be nice to unite the Libertarian and Freedom parties and see if we could get a few seats out of it. Did anyone notice that the head of the Libertarians appears not to be running?
Posted at 2006-01-19 07:12:35 [PermaLink]I, along with thousands of others, was a card-carrying, vote-supporting, vice-president of the Rhinoceros Party. Then the Mulroney Conservatives, with the support of the other major parties, effectively banned them in 1993 by changes in the Elections Act.
Maybe the new Conservatives will change the Act to allow a badly-needed revival. The DNA is still there.
Mark
Ottawa