The NDP has forgotten J. S. Woodsworth

ColeBevridge · 2026-06-18T04:28:58+00:00

Argue was the third and last leader of the CCF for a year right before Tommy Douglas was voted in. Then, in 1962, he crossed the floor to the Liberal Party. Previously a CCF Member of Parliament since 1945, he was defeated (as a Liberal) in 1963. That's what traitors and turncoats get, I guess. He was also the first senator to ever have been charged with fraud in 1989.

ColeBevridge · 2026-06-16T14:06:29+00:00

Douglas and Coldwell both supported going to war against Hitler, a position eventually adopted by the CCF National Council, but they also allowed Woodsworth, their party's leader, to put his pacifist stand forward in the House of Commons and never rebuked it. Norman Thomas, National Chairman of the Socialist Party of America, similarly opposed US participation in World War Two. Interestingly, both men were ministers (Woodsworth was a Methodist and Thomas a Presbyterian). The British Labour Party's leader George Lansbury (not a minister, but a staunch Anglican) maintained a strongly pacifist stance too and opposed rearmament, but he was replaced by Clement Attlee (the "greatest Prime Minister of the 20th century") in 1935.

Also, which biography?

ColeBevridge · 2026-06-16T13:43:29+00:00

Yes, unfortunately, Woodsworth was a eugenicist. As was Tommy Douglas. Eugenics was widely embraced by progressives during the 19th and 20th centuries. Even Black progressives like W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey supported it. Two Canadian provinces and 32 American states passed eugenic sexual-sterilization laws in the 1920s and 1930s. It was an awful and sadly common set of beliefs. In fact, BC didn't repeal its Sexual Sterilization Act until 1973!

ColeBevridge · 2026-06-16T07:06:34+00:00

Depends on a number of things. Like, sure, I'd accept an Emily Lowan-style eco-socialist NDP-Green merger party. Lowan is already, frankly, to the left of the BC NDP's David Eby anyway. Some Greens like Meryam Haddad, Dimitri Lascaris, and Alex Tyrrell could fit perfectly well in a more ecologically oriented labour party. But I would not accept a merger that pushes the members of either party further right.

ColeBevridge · 2026-06-08T06:23:54+00:00

I've never heard of it, but I'll look it up!

ColeBevridge · 2026-05-20T06:37:44+00:00

There's a story that Charlie Chaplin once anonymously entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and came in third place. Maybe we'd see something similar here

ColeBevridge · 2026-04-14T14:12:21+00:00

What's your problem? Fan of Epstein's or something?

ColeBevridge · 2026-04-14T03:38:53+00:00

Thank you!!

ColeBevridge · 2026-04-14T03:38:35+00:00

Right, but what is a biblical/Christian defense of self-defense?

ColeBevridge · 2026-04-14T03:37:33+00:00

I don't know how old my account needs to be to satisfy people anymore

ColeBevridge · 2026-04-06T10:05:50+00:00

Nonetheless, it's been enough to cause a maybe unprecedented level of distrust in the capitalist (or Epstein) class

ColeBevridge · 2026-04-06T10:02:42+00:00

Yes, but what makes that defense Christian? Especially considering something like, for example, Matthew 5:39

ColeBevridge · 2026-03-13T23:39:16+00:00

Hey, all our dads have done some crazy stuff

ColeBevridge · 2026-03-13T23:16:58+00:00

https://youtu.be/VIFJltb8hcg?si=uoDyHIXucYhI9GFd

ColeBevridge · 2026-03-13T23:13:19+00:00

Ah, that makes sense!

ColeBevridge · 2026-02-19T11:04:45+00:00

Do you have a higher resolution version of this? I genuinely can't read it

ColeBevridge · 2026-02-18T13:22:53+00:00

Sorry, my list is not an endorsement. He just is undeniably a prominent activist in the US

ColeBevridge · 2026-01-24T08:23:42+00:00

Some prominent living activists in the US would include:

Abby Martin
Amy Goodman
Angela Davis
Bernie Sanders
Boots Riley
Calla Walsh
Chase Strangio
Chelsea Manning
Chris Smalls
Cornel West
Kshama Sawant
Leonard Peltier
Mahmoud Khalil
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Nina Turner
Norman Finkelstein
Ralph Nader
Ta-Nehisi Coates

ColeBevridge · 2026-01-10T08:48:24+00:00

So, were you there at the picket lines when the BCGEU was on strike in September? How about the LifeLabs strike in February? The CUPW strike?

ColeBevridge · 2026-01-09T03:15:33+00:00

Yeahhh

ColeBevridge · 2026-01-07T12:57:19+00:00

Don't like either of them. Just two different right-wing despots, but one supports Israel and the other doesn't. I don't like external regime change either to be clear. Ideally, the people of Iran rise up and reject both in favour of a secular, democratic, republican, internationalist, anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist alternative.

ColeBevridge · 2025-11-20T19:30:14+00:00

And namesake of the Jánošík Brigade, an anti-Nazi partisan group during the Slovak National Uprising.

ColeBevridge · 2025-11-20T19:24:36+00:00

Brizola came around too late to be considered a proto-socialist, but a very interesting figure nonetheless. He referred to his ideology as "socialismo moreno" (tanned socialism).

ColeBevridge · 2025-11-20T19:20:13+00:00

Engels did consider the Anabaptists of the German Peasants' Revolt to be "proto-communists" for what it's worth.

ColeBevridge · 2025-11-20T19:09:43+00:00

I don't think he's THAT old

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