Re: boom!

On 9/03/2025 10:21 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:53:59 -0800, john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
 

On Sat, 08 Mar 2025 22:34:38 +0000, Cursitor Doom
<cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:36:05 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
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https://emrtc.nmt.edu/media/pdf/EMRTCPromotionalBrochure.pdf
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That's cool, a little university department with a 40 square mile lab.

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The kind of job I'd actually look forward to getting up in the morning
to do! And that's saying something at my age.

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It would be cool to get into the detonator business.

 Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad wrote a novel called The Secret
Agent in which one of the chief protagonists is an Anarchist/Communist
agitator who's in the quest to develop a so-called "perfect detonator"
for the bombs he plans to hand out to whoever's dumb enough to throw
or plant them in the cause of sweeping aside the hated Capitalist
system and ushering in a Commie utopia and 'government by the
Proletariat' in Edwardian Britain. Kind of reminded me of Bill Sloman
or Bitrex.

Of course it would.
In reality the Anarcho-Syndicalists Conrad was writing about were utterly opposed to the communists.
Mikhail Bukanin's famous quote
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-revolutionary-vested-him-in
was aimed at Karl Marx and his demented ideas about "the leading role of the party".
They wanted political control to be local, and started  the Co-operative Movement. The psychopaths who liked building bombs and blowing people up - like Stalin - weren't too particular about the ideology they supported. You suffer from the same ignorance.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney