Jim SpearsSanta and other Communists
May 19th 2008 14:11
Swaggy Sickness. Should Australia have been Communist? Federated in 1901 just before the Russian and well before the Chinese revolutions falling for communism was always unlikely. Australia lacked the historical circumstances it requires. All that class warfare stuff is meaningless in a country “without classes”. Marx said [t]his theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." YOU try and sell that to the Australian public. Property ownership unites Australians across time from the convicts yearning to be “freed men” to the Hills Hoist generation up to recent boom.
Communism is red, bearded and distributes resources equally. A lot like Santa Claus. Claus has a red coat and that beast of his with its blinking red nose. He also has a beard and distributes resources equally. There is no need to widen the analysis to include Santa’s morals or his infamous List.
Another famous Commie, or “Pinko”, is Jack Mundy. Jack travelled down to Sydney from Northern Queensland to play rugby league (for the mighty Eels) in the fifties. By 1957 he was a Communist. Childhood experiences like losing the family farm, living as a share farmer during The Great Depression would create Mundy Super Unionist. A strong belief in the will of the collective made him a tenacious fighter to be feared. He could throw too. The young Mundy was a boxing champion crucial to any political success in a union. In 1968 he was Secretary of the NSW Builder's Labourers Federation. The first world-wide Green Ban was established in 1971 to protect Kelly's Bush in Hunters Hill. Of course there were threats and counter-threats but no ladies chained themselves to trees and bulldozers went unmolested. The ban was a classic Communist propaganda victory; this time a conspiracy of residents and labourers were the key to success. This took place 21 years after Chifley broke a coalminers strike with the army. Ah good times.
For over 30 years Mundy has argued for considered development and heritage preservation whatever political motivations ascribed or admitted. Perhaps we should pump up his profile so when Al Gore *shucks* “I couldn’t possibly travel first-class to Australia to re-present the facts from my DVD and books” We can say “No worries mate. We got Mundy.” And the people…they will still come
Santa Claus: Benevolent gift giver or Commie mind raper?
Communism is red, bearded and distributes resources equally. A lot like Santa Claus. Claus has a red coat and that beast of his with its blinking red nose. He also has a beard and distributes resources equally. There is no need to widen the analysis to include Santa’s morals or his infamous List.
Another famous Commie, or “Pinko”, is Jack Mundy. Jack travelled down to Sydney from Northern Queensland to play rugby league (for the mighty Eels) in the fifties. By 1957 he was a Communist. Childhood experiences like losing the family farm, living as a share farmer during The Great Depression would create Mundy Super Unionist. A strong belief in the will of the collective made him a tenacious fighter to be feared. He could throw too. The young Mundy was a boxing champion crucial to any political success in a union. In 1968 he was Secretary of the NSW Builder's Labourers Federation. The first world-wide Green Ban was established in 1971 to protect Kelly's Bush in Hunters Hill. Of course there were threats and counter-threats but no ladies chained themselves to trees and bulldozers went unmolested. The ban was a classic Communist propaganda victory; this time a conspiracy of residents and labourers were the key to success. This took place 21 years after Chifley broke a coalminers strike with the army. Ah good times.
For over 30 years Mundy has argued for considered development and heritage preservation whatever political motivations ascribed or admitted. Perhaps we should pump up his profile so when Al Gore *shucks* “I couldn’t possibly travel first-class to Australia to re-present the facts from my DVD and books” We can say “No worries mate. We got Mundy.” And the people…they will still come
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BUT I concede I skimmed a lil.
In Mundy's case his father's philosophy that encouraged obligation and the behaviour of farmers during the depression seemed to have made him a commie before he knew it existed. From his experience it seems that farmers would regularly work as a collective during the depression to ensure that their families were fed. They would barter with other farmers for what they would need....Kind of like the invisible hand of Marx? Mundy's father had a herd of dairy cattle that he would move around from farm to farm.
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