Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Devils Dictionary Redux


Originally published on my page at Bloglines

With apologies to Ambrose Bierce who had the original idea.


My definitions of some popular words and phrases.

Devils

Dictionary

Redux



Alberta: See One Party State


Anarchism: marxism without marx


Anarchist: feline domesticus


Anarcho-Capitalism:
Feudalism by any other name


Athiest: Squatter (See GOD)

Calgary: largest American City north of the 49th Parallel

Capitalism:
see slavery

Capitalist: a merchant/banker with mercenaries who steals
common property to make it their own

Capitalist Planning: cutting your nose to spite your face


Capital Punishment:
'legal' murder of those who oppose the capitalist.

Communism: a good idea whose time is to come

Consumer: a worker suffering a commodity fetish

Creationism: the belief that the earth is flat and Alley Oop is a historical character


Cynic:
a suicide that doesn't know they are dead

Democracy: will that be Coke (tm) or Pepsi (tm)

Economists: if you lined up all the economists end to end they still would not reach a conclusion. (George Bernard Shaw)

Endangered Species: A socialist in the USA

Europe:
The Holy Roman Empire

Existentialism: Marxism with Hope

FreeMason (AAFM): An upperclass Englishman pretending to be a Scots Tradesman

GOD: The Landlord of the universe

Knights Templars: gods bankers, says it all (also see capitalist)

Maoism: Stalinism with a human face

Marx:
I'm no marxist.

Moron:
A perjorative used by Warren Kinsella to refer to someone smarter than he is.

One Party State:
a country or region ruled by one political party and its leader, Cuba, North Korea, Alberta

Opportunism;
Buzz Hargrove



PC: Progressive Conservative,

Unless you live in Alberta where it means Party of Calgary


Plagarism: Ayn Rand (noun, improper) whose 1938 novel Anthem reads suspicously like an english translation of WE by Yevgeny Zamiatin published in Russian in 1920. Rand was Russian.




Plagarist: Premier Ralph Klein of Alberta


Political Economy:
them that has the gold makes the rules


Piracy:
proletarian resistance to capitalist colonialism

Pirate: a motely crew of anarchists, rebels and freethinkers


Science:
Magick made respectible


Social Democracy: socialism for liberals


Socialism: "state capitalism with electricity" V.I. Lenin

Satan: " the First Rebel " Michael Bakunin

Satanism: Catholicism without guilt

Slavery: the origin of capitalism

Stalinism: meet the new boss same as the old boss


Strategic Voting; See Opportunism


Syndicalism: the heretical idea that workers can run society themselves without bosses or the state.


Technocracy
: Engineers rule!

Trotskyism
: 4 people are on an island, one creates a central committee and the other three form factions.


Wage Slave:
I Owe, I Owe, it's off to Work I Go


Witch: heretic and anarchist (Chapter 1, The History of Witchcraft, by Montaque Summers)

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