Comments on: Whatever happened to the heroes? http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:29:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Andrew Berry http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18016 Andrew Berry Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:56:36 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18016 Jim L It was the Northen Star Jim L It was the Northen Star

]]> By: Andrew Coates http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18015 Andrew Coates Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:22:12 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18015 Lobby, You wuz right and I wuz wrong. I am still, nevertheless, the only Pabloite in the village. Having just watched it my heroine of the moment is Marjane - in the animated film Persepolis - the kind of gal who stands up to Islamicist reaction. Mind you that must make her hated by the Islamophiles who think they are leftist. Lobby,

You wuz right and I wuz wrong.

I am still, nevertheless, the only Pabloite in the village.

Having just watched it my heroine of the moment is Marjane – in the animated film Persepolis – the kind of gal who stands up to Islamicist reaction. Mind you that must make her hated by the Islamophiles who think they are leftist.

]]> By: Jim L. http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18014 Jim L. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:51:49 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18014 Andrew Berry - I name that Chartist in one! Interesting character Harney, stood against the then Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston in Tiverton in a general election. Despite being very popular with Tiverton workers he got no votes in the election (due to the property qualification). I think he edited a chartist paper also, can't remember which though. Andrew Berry – I name that Chartist in one!

Interesting character Harney, stood against the then Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston in Tiverton in a general election. Despite being very popular with Tiverton workers he got no votes in the election (due to the property qualification). I think he edited a chartist paper also, can’t remember which though.

]]> By: Andrew Berry http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18013 Andrew Berry Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:05:12 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18013 My hero is George Julian Harney, somehow suspect he's not in the top ten My hero is George Julian Harney, somehow suspect he’s not in the top ten

]]> By: Eddie Truman http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18012 Eddie Truman Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:55:59 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18012 Spot on Andy Newman. Hero of the hour, Muntazer al-Zaidi. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LhrKbgbRQuQ Spot on Andy Newman.

Hero of the hour, Muntazer al-Zaidi.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LhrKbgbRQuQ

]]> By: Andy Newman http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18011 Andy Newman Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:05:03 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18011 Surely there is a self evident case for Napoleon Bonaparte. Not only one of the most dashing and sucessful soldiers of the revolutionary Grand Armee, but his coup consolidated the economic and social gains of the revolution for the peasantry; at a time when the revolution was foundering and rivalries were tearing it apart. And then, not content with resting on his laurels, Bonaparte continued to spread the revolution across Europ - abolishing feudal legal and social formalities, and breathing the fresh air of revolution into Germany and Italy, and ill-fatedly, Russia. Napolean remained a hero of britsh republicans throughout the nineteenth century, and when he was briefly brough to Portsmouth on route to st helena (never setting foot ashore) he was greated by thousands of supporters in small boats celebrating him. Surely there is a self evident case for Napoleon Bonaparte. Not only one of the most dashing and sucessful soldiers of the revolutionary Grand Armee, but his coup consolidated the economic and social gains of the revolution for the peasantry; at a time when the revolution was foundering and rivalries were tearing it apart.

And then, not content with resting on his laurels, Bonaparte continued to spread the revolution across Europ – abolishing feudal legal and social formalities, and breathing the fresh air of revolution into Germany and Italy, and ill-fatedly, Russia.

Napolean remained a hero of britsh republicans throughout the nineteenth century, and when he was briefly brough to Portsmouth on route to st helena (never setting foot ashore) he was greated by thousands of supporters in small boats celebrating him.

]]> By: prianikoff http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18010 prianikoff Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:33:40 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18010 A woman hero who deserves more recognition is Tilly Shilling. A woman hero who deserves more recognition is Tilly Shilling.

]]> By: runia http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18009 runia Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:27:13 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18009 In no particular order: Nye Bevan, Christopher Hitchens, Charles Darwin, Viv Richards, Charlie Brooker, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Sylvia Pankhurst, Keir Hardie, Johan Cruijff. In no particular order:

Nye Bevan, Christopher Hitchens, Charles Darwin, Viv Richards, Charlie Brooker, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Sylvia Pankhurst, Keir Hardie, Johan Cruijff.

]]> By: CharlieMcMenamin http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18008 CharlieMcMenamin Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:45:03 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18008 So how are you going to fit Orwell, EP Thompson, Emma Goldman, Marx, Mozart, Tom Waits, Hobsbawm, Gramsci, Aretha Franklin, Mandela, Gandhi, Pele,Frank Lloyd Wright, Shakespeare, Darwin,Einstein,Mary Wollstonecraft and so on into into your top ten places? So how are you going to fit Orwell, EP Thompson, Emma Goldman, Marx, Mozart, Tom Waits, Hobsbawm, Gramsci, Aretha Franklin, Mandela, Gandhi, Pele,Frank Lloyd Wright, Shakespeare, Darwin,Einstein,Mary Wollstonecraft and so on into into your top ten places?

]]> By: Entdinglichung http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-18007 Entdinglichung Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:24:51 +0000 http://www.davidosler.com/2008/12/whatever-happened-to-the-heroes/#comment-18007 Henk Sneevliet! Henk Sneevliet!

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