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Matt

The victory of the revolution is the supreme law

About Me

I play Gary Numan in Airlane, the Gary Numan tribute band. I play violin too, but I'm a firm believer that you should NEVER have a violin in a rock n' roll band, unless you're T. Rex. I'm also in this rad group called the International Socialist Organization. That means that we're internationalists (we don't like wars and we think borders are silly) we're socialists (we want workers to run society) and we're organized (usually). BTW I did not post the song on my profile so I'm not responsible for spelling errors in the title.

My Interests

Things I can get angry about, and things that help calm me down.

I'd like to meet:

Kenneth Foster, Jr. Michael Scott

Music:

Bowie, Queen, T. Rex, Roxy Music, The Sweet

Movies:

Strike, Battleship Potemkin, October, Que Viva Mexico! Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible part I and II, Cradle Will Rock, Conan the Barbarian and Destroyer, Flash Gordon

Television:

I really don't watch this anymore, except the occasional Charlie Rose or Bill Moyers, cuz that's where politicians tend to say the dumbest shit.

Books:

The 18th Burmaire Of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels, State and Revolution by Lenin, Their Morals and Ours by Trotsky, Reform or Revolution? by Rosa Luxemburg, Year One of the Russian Revolution by Victor Serge, Building the Party by Tony Cliff, Revolutionary Rehearsals ed. by Colin Barker, Leninism Under Lenin by Marcel Liebman, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution by Hal Draper, Harry Potter Series by Jo Rowling, His Darm Materials Series by Philip Pullman, Black Liberation and Socialism by Ahmed Shawki, Subterranean Fire by Sharon Smith, The Meaning of Marxism by Paul D'Amato

Heroes:

Spartacus, Jean Paul Marat, Toussaint L'Overture, Robespierre, the Montagnards, sans-culottes, Babeuf, Tom Paine, John Reed, Eugene Debs, August Spies and the Haymarket Martyrs, the women of St. Petersburg in Feb. 1917, the workers and peasants of Russia in Oct. 1917, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, the Communards, Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov-Lenin, Lev Davidovich Bronstein-Trotsky, Victor Serge, Malcolm X, Joel Geier, Paul D'Amato, Sharon Smith, Arundhati Roy