um, gradus, sorry, but it isnt stigmata, that is the bleeding and such like jesus, the word i think you mean is stigma, notice the lack of 'ta' at the end.
not intending anny evilness, but i have seen this word used in this way heaps lately, and yeah...
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Perhaps portraying ourselves next to others that would be more readily accepted, yet who align themselves along the same basic thought process, we can also reduce our villain image.
in other words, you wish us to stand in line with those who are less left, making us appear less left, and thus attract people? that is the most open opportunism i have seen here, ever!
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Because, after all, we can't forget what people have been brought up believing. People see us on the forums and they don't think progressive, well-meaning, etc. No, we're communists and, thus, we are the enemy.
that is right, and until real, practical circumstances and events, for example, union activity, or student strikes, propell them to the left, they will stay where they are.
we can only convert the most concious layers of the people here to communism, and the most concious layers of the gaian population is actually here, in this guild, however, it keeps getting diluted by new recruits, just as soon as the bunch from 2 recruitments ago just became fairly marxoid.
how are we meant to raise conciousness aboove petty leftism if we ourselves arent very councious?
i mean seriously, how many people have a decent knowledge of marxism here? (in no order)myself, gallenger, tank, ferret, merewyn? and there is still a great difference between the left and the right of this spectrum.
if the most concious elements cannot reach a concensus(and thus show their own lack of conciousness), how are we meant to raise concuiousness?