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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2012-04-24 11:25 am
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Really?

"leftist SF critic James Nicoll"? Leftist?
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[identity profile] joenotcharles.livejournal.com 2012-04-24 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, from what I gather one of your criticisms of the CPC is that they're not communist...

[identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com 2012-04-24 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
More, they changed their acronym from CRAP (no, I'm not joking) to CPC without checking first to see if there already was a CPC.

There already was a CPC - the Communist Party of Canada.

So now there are two CPCs, and there needs to be a way to distinguish between them. It would be unfair to insist that a disclaimer be added to the original CPC to distinguish them from the johnny-come-latelies who are trying to steal their acronym, so the new guys get the clarification: There is CPC for the Communist Party of Canada, and the CPC (non-communist) for the OTHER CPC who aren't communists but for some reason wanted to be associated with the letters CPC.

[identity profile] joenotcharles.livejournal.com 2012-04-24 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That is true.

Now read my post again, pretending I already know that, and see how it reads...

[identity profile] refugee50s.livejournal.com 2012-04-25 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
I am shaking my head here. What a bunch of maroons. Get the Dip.

Just like the big-R-Republicans down here: The Stupid Party.

[identity profile] doc-lemming.livejournal.com 2012-04-24 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I like that idea.

However, in case it was not meant jovially, I offer the fact that we had and may still have the other CPC, the Communist Party of Canada, which in fact had to be distinguished from the next CPC to come along, the specifically Marxist-Leninist communist party, and which went by the initials CPC(M-L).

(I recall one of my first non-arts reporting jobs at the university paper was to interview the local CPC(M-L) candidate for municipal office. I volunteered because real reporters were interviewing the other candidates. The paper had a rather antagonistic history to the CPC(M-L).)

So when James refers to the Conservative party as the CPC(non-communist), he's merely distinguishing them from the other two parties with those initials.

Really, they should have stayed the Conservative-Reform Alliance Party: CRAP was, at least, unique.

EDIT: Ah, it was sardonic. Well, I'll leave it up; perhaps others might be educated by my and theweaselking's postings.
Edited 2012-04-24 19:43 (UTC)
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