Nov. 7th, 1917

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[rug]

1. "Let us know begin to construct the socialist order."

[rdharma]

2. I know the history.......

But I've never seen that movie......

[socialist_n_TN]

4. Not a bad flick at all. It was however......

mainly a love story with a revolutionary backdrop. Still a pretty good movie.

I think there's a thread on here somewhere about "Reds", the movie.

[Starry Messenger]

6. It's interesting.

Like S_n_TN says, it's largely a love story, but Beatty got lots of interviews from people who were around at the time of events that are interwoven with the film . It's kind of amazing that the film got made in 1980, right at the dawn of the Reagan years.

[socialist_n_TN]

3. Yep. 96 years ago........

Also Trotsky's birthday . And mine. As Trotsky said, "Let the numerologists make of that what they will."

[Starry Messenger]

5. It's your birthday too?

Happy Birthday socialist_n_TN! What an auspicious day to have a birthday on! (I'm assuming you weren't actually born in 1917. )

[socialist_n_TN]

8. Nope, not THAT old Starry.........

I was born a few decades later. I'm not sure I had much of a choice in my politics though.

Thanks for the happy birthday wishes. It's been a good day. My BFF and his wife called me about 7:50 this morning singing "Happy birthday to you" and it went on from there.

[PETRUS]

7. Happy Birthday!

[socialist_n_TN]

9. Thanks Petrus........

As I said above, it's been a good day.