re: #22 Killgore Trout

Good points but I will take exception to this…

Of course the wingnuts have been abusing the socialist thing for years but there are real socialists. OWS has served as a reminder to me that real Marxists, communists etc are still around. Most of them are quite open about it so I usually try to reserve the term for people who identify themselves as being Marxists, (etc).
I still use the terms moonnbat, hippie, wingnut fairly loosely but they’re pretty vague terms anyways.

You do remember that Anders Breivik murdered 70 children at the Norwegian Labour Party’s annual AUF youth summer camp in Utya, Norway correct? The Norwegian Labour Party is also a part of the Red-Green Coalition and a member of the International Socialists. AUF, or Worker’s Youth League of Norway is a part of International Union of Socialist Youth. Norway’s Labour Party is led by Jens Stoltenberg who himself dabbled in what you might call radical Marxism in his youth.

Stoltenberg’s first steps into politics came when he was in his early teens and was influenced by his sister Camilla, who at the time was a member of the then Marxist-Leninist group Red Youth. Opposition to the Vietnam War was his triggering motivation. Following raids of heavy bombing against the North Vietnamese port city Hai Phong at the end of the Vietnam War, he participated in protest rallies targeting the United States Embassy in Oslo. He threw stones at the building and broke several windows. He escaped arrest by the police, though several of his friends were caught.

Yes. Why in fact the leader of the party that was directly targeted by this madman Breivik, Stoltenberg, had his roots in the very same type of radicalism that you define as “Marxism”. It is also part of the pathology, fear and paranoia that led to Breivik’s terrorist act beyond his education under the infamous Fjordman. That “enemy” that you fear is in fact the same “enemy” that Breivik feared in his deranged and warped mind.