The 7th of November is they day of birth for Captain James Cook and Leon Trotsky, which do Aussies love more?

Most Aussies wouldn't have a clue who Leon Trotsky was ....

Capt Cook on the other hand has been immortalized on our currency so they might just recognize him ...not so sure about remembering his b'day though .

I don't think Aboriginal Australians were too happy about Captain Cook, in hindsight. Aboriginals see the date he arrived in Australia as Invasion Day!

As for Trotsky, true communists are a very, very, very small group in Australia.

So I don't think Aussies 'love' either of these two fellows.

Mainstream Australia is probably more small L liberal, that is leaning slightly more towards the left of centre. Whereas old school Labor leans more far let. Mainstream Labor in Australia today is very conservative by comparison. There's little real different between them and the Liberal party. The Greens are the ones who have a few ex-commies among their number.

Did you know that Captain James Cook was the only captain to ever

tour Australia & not play in a single cricket test match?

Trotsky was a supporter of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. From

what I know of him & that political party it is not much different to our current

Federal Government.

And yes, because they have both had such a big bearing on our lives

I must say I love them both equally - can't separate them!

If Cook hadn't planted a flag, I may now be a Cheesehead.

I feel Trotsky was once being particularly beneficiant. Liberalism, most commonly, is a problematical proposition: "What do we wish?!?" "Gradual exchange!" "When do we wish it?" "In due direction!" This technique will on no account face up to that onslaught of violence and coercion that capitalists will continuously meet challenges to their energy with. The illusion perpetuated by using liberals that capitalists can be "negotiated" with is simply that, an illusion. Liberals characterize a faction of the political spectrum that acknowledges the injustices of capitalism but who lack the braveness and can to meet the oppressor head-on. Suppose of Paris in 1968: the entire country brought to the brink of revolution most effective to sink correct back into the fame quo seeing that liberal students who should have been helping striking staff went on vacation leaving the working classification to satisfy the puppies of the bosses (that could be the law enforcement officials) by myself, with out wide aid. Liberals position themselves as mediators between the progressive working category and the bourgoise when there is no motive for mediation between the two. Individuals who describe themselves as centrists piss me off. Nothing comes from standing "within the middle of the road" besides getting run over through on-coming site visitors.

The Red Army Choir sings, the land down under...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS3-FuxnsE8

im an aussie and i have no idea who leon is so CAPTAIN COOK ALL THE WAY.

hope this helped hehehe. (:

If they don't play sport most Australians wouldn't give a fig.