I say comrades
we should not hide from our true intent
I for one am sick of this political "mouse game "
we on the Left play. Why are we so afraid to say what we
really desire?
I have long believed the Left should be proud of what it wants
and say it like it is.......
We should adopt the political slogan of the Hugo Chavez campaign
Real Leftists who are not afraid to call it the way it should be
“Socialist Fatherland or Death”
Uh, NeoT, FATHERLAND was used more often by Fascists, not Communists. Americans have often used SHE to denote country. "God Bless America" for example. The Stars & Stripes are often referred to as SHE also.
Actually that is an actual Hugo Chavez quote
As for "FatherLand" being just Fascist, that is part of the leftist intelligentsia view pushed on the American people
in its attempts to segment itself from other statist forms of gov't.
For example
Lenin
1st All-Russian Congress of Working Cossacks on March 1. 1920
"This Russia which has freed itself, which has defended its Soviet revolution through two years of fighting and sufferings, this Russia we shall defend to the last drop of our blood.3 The power of workers and peasants, Soviet power, was established almost throughout the whole territory of the former Russian Empire in 1917. The working people of the Soviet land won their fatherland. Created as a result of the revolutionary overthrow of the bourgeoisie and big landowners from power, built on the basis of Marxist-Leninist national policy, the Soviet Union was the first multi-national state which actually became the common fatherland of all its peoples."
Stalin used it all the time
Even the Soviet Nation Athem has it in its chorus
Be glorified, our fatherland, united and free!
The sure bulwark of the happiness of the peoples!
Flag of the Soviets, Flag of the people,
Let it lead from victory to victory
!