quote:Originally posted by Daniel J*:quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:
I wish you wouldn't keep referring to Scargill and his fellow Marxists and Trots.
Scargill was doing a job representing the Union. I say again, he wouldn't know the difference between a Marxist, a Leninist, a Marxist Leninist, a Trotskyist, or a Stakhanovite, though to be fair I'm not sure about the latter either.
He was a member of the Communist Party at one point and had strong Marxist views as far as I can tell. He certainly talked the talk about the working class and the ruling class and he was clearly a revolutionary. He was also instrumental in bringing Kinnock down and putting Tony Blair in power in the longer term, ironically.
How many times did you go to hear him talk? There was a big difference between what he actually said in speech, and that which was reported in the press.