No, no, I lost my glorious "comrade" designation some considerable time ago, due to the numerous times I have viciously attacked the policies and record of Joe Stalin, Soviet Russia, post-Soviet Russia, Communist China and the Khymer Rouge, among others...

I just can't seem to please anybody! Those guys now refer to me as a "capitalist running dog", while their bitterest opponents on the Right say I'm a communist. :-)

My disparagement of both corporate capitalism and state communism has made me an international pariah!!!

The fact is, if you are genuinely in favour of freedom for everyone, and equality of opportunity for ordinary people, and economic independence for small countries, the Hard Left and the Hard Right in this world both regard you as a shit-disturbing radical who threatens all that they stand for and work toward. They figure you must belong to the other side... I say: a pox on both their houses. They are oppressors, dupes, and liars.

My actual motto might be better put as: "Venceremos!" (We Shall Overcome)

- LH