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A now disgraced Hollywood actor who was playing the role of a President once said “Partisan rancour and ideology have got in the way of compromise – and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful”
It’s a quote that some say came from Mahatma Gandhi – and it discusses the concession that activists thoughtmakers must accept in their march for the greater good.
A brave example of this kind of political compromise was on display for all yesterday afternoon, as several prominent Marxist-Leninists from the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales set up shop in the middle of a land rights and Aboriginal deaths in custody protest.
As has been a common occurrence since University students began trying to draw lines between the plight of Australia’s First Nations People and the often bullied on-campus socialist society, the Communist Party Of Byron have today piggybacked on yet another civil rights protest.
“Not really into it hey” said one protestor.
“How are these wine swilling old poets going to help any of the things we are talking about here today?”
However, one lifelong green-left activist disagrees with the opinion of this minority who he hasn’t really listened to.
Sitting in his Bangladeshi-made picnic chair behind a table full of pamphlets and newsletters, the patriarchal icon of alternate economic theory group of mostly uni students explained to our reporters why he felt the need to plaster a completely different political agenda across a seemingly solemn and completely unrelated rally.
“It should be quite clear to our supporters and opponents crying hypocrisy, that in order for the Communist Party Of Byron to achieve what it sets out to achieve, we must first achieve funding and membership” said their leader, Sidney Syder.
“and to secure both those things we must find other people who we believe can see a vague parallel between their cause and ours”
“Unfortunately, yes, we also have to go all capitalist and sell T-shirts made in third world countries with our logo on them. That’s also a tough pill to swallow”
“Would you like a T-Shirt?”
