Which socialist leaders inspired you? (rejecting, Moses, Earth, Buddhism)

[MidnightBlue]

I've always found Helen Keller's life and writings inspiring.

The Brooklyn Eagle says, apropos of me, and socialism, that Helen Keller's "mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development." Some years ago I met a gentleman who was introduced to me as Mr. McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle. It was after a meeting that we had in New York in behalf of the blind. At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him. Surely it is his turn to blush. It may be that deafness and blindness incline one toward socialism. Marx was probably stone deaf and William Morris was blind. Morris painted his pictures by the sense of touch and designed wall paper by the sense of smell.

[Burning Giraffe]

Originally Posted by MidnightBlue

I've always found Helen Keller's life and writings inspiring.

The Brooklyn Eagle says, apropos of me, and socialism, that Helen Keller's "mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development." Some years ago I met a gentleman who was introduced to me as Mr. McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle. It was after a meeting that we had in New York in behalf of the blind. At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him. Surely it is his turn to blush. It may be that deafness and blindness incline one toward socialism. Marx was probably stone deaf and William Morris was blind. Morris painted his pictures by the sense of touch and designed wall paper by the sense of smell.

Really? What's inspiring about Helen Keller's life? Other than dealing with being severely disabled?

[MidnightBlue]

Originally Posted by Burning Giraffe

Really? What's inspiring about Helen Keller's life? Other than dealing with being severely disabled?

She didn't just "deal with" being severely disabled. She overcame great obstacles to become a very accomplished person and an activist for peace, socialism, women's rights, and workers' rights.

[Burning Giraffe]

Originally Posted by MidnightBlue

She didn't just "deal with" being severely disabled. She overcame great obstacles to become a very accomplished person and an activist for peace, socialism, women's rights, and workers' rights.

What is inspiring about that? I mean, other than overcoming the disability? That seems to be a rather uninspiring and predictable position to take when one is so severely hampered by disability.

[GeneCosta]

Before he swang right-ward and started to defend police brutality, Rothbard's remarks towards privatization and agorism were quite beneficial towards bridging the gap between liberals, libertarians, and socialists.

[stephenw]

Joe Higgins Joe Higgins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is a contemporary socialist who inspires me.

[PureX]

I come from an art background. Pretty much every artist I've known was a socialist. Not all, but certainly most. And yet these are the most independent minded people I've ever known as well. The political right in America is always talking about how much they love freedom and want the government to go away, yet in the end all most of them really want is to hold on to their money and to get the government out of the way so they can exploit their environment and their fellow citizens even more, and make even more money doing it.

Meanwhile, it's the far left "liberal" artist types that in my experience have really lived by their freedom. It's these people who I have seen test the boundaries of social convention in a real way, and are not doing it for the money, but for their own idealistic and humanist reasons. And it's these people who the conservative right hate the most.

So I would say that the people who have most effected my thinking regarding political socialism are the many artists I've known. But listing their names wouldn't mean anything even if I could remember them all.

"Pisss Christ"

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