tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post2944634550633171095..comments2023-08-16T12:07:22.995+00:00Comments on The Daily (Maybe): Alexandra KollontaiJim Jeppshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-35170380353694551262009-04-20T10:47:00.000+00:002009-04-20T10:47:00.000+00:00I'd like to advise everyone to clean their rim bef...I'd like to advise everyone to clean their rim before... drinking, cough.<br /><br />Lenin also wrote a newspaper article complaining that young people were more interested in having sex with each other than the revolution... which for someone with a wife and girlfriend on the side was probably a bit rich.Jim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-28964152123542396882009-04-17T17:25:00.000+00:002009-04-17T17:25:00.000+00:00Lenin made a nasty quote about free love which he ...Lenin made a nasty quote about free love which he aimed at Alexandra Kollontai, I cannot remember it exactly but it was something like, Sex may be as necessary to a human as drinking a glass of water but you do not deliberately drink from a glass with a dirty rim. {or some such]<br /><br />Cathy Porter wrote a pretty good biog of Alexandra Kollontai, well worth a read. Interesting that Stalin left her alone as he killed off a good many of here friends and partners, including militants like Shlyapnkov and Dybenko, both of whom she had a close personal relationship with.<br /><br />How she stayed working for the monster is beyond me.Organized Rage.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07627288401631451362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-51522818955844062762009-04-13T20:20:00.000+00:002009-04-13T20:20:00.000+00:00Interesting - I've just written a post about Mauri...Interesting - I've just written a post about Maurice Brinton, whose Solidarity group republished a lot of Kollontai's writings....<BR/><BR/>http://anglobuddhistcombine.blogspot.com/2009/04/maurice-brinton-christopher-pallis.htmlMatt Sellwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03065263755893515703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-80920757239260414722009-04-13T09:25:00.000+00:002009-04-13T09:25:00.000+00:00Thanks for that; I hadn't heard of her either.Thanks for that; I hadn't heard of her either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-70782507194759616502009-04-12T23:49:00.000+00:002009-04-12T23:49:00.000+00:00Kollontai was indeed an amazing women who found he...Kollontai was indeed an amazing women who found herself consistently marginalised throughout her time in revolutionary politics (ultimately being marginalised probably saved her life!) But you're right, she's one of the greatest revolutionaries and deserves to be remembered as such.<BR/><BR/>Doubt she would have endorsed the Green Party though :)Vickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15275560997065901132noreply@blogger.com