Literally cannot fathom how he got away with something so corny. If anyone did this today they would get laughed out of the movement. How did he pull it off?
Lenin (river lena), Trotsky (his jailer’s name), Molotov (the hammerer), Stalin/Koba, Kamenev (son of rock), Zinoviev (son of zinovi), che, tito, ho chi minh (lightbringer), yasser arafat, and subcomandante marcos are all adopted noms de guerre (French for war names). I don’t fully understand it, but if you’re a revolutionary you’re allowed to give yourself a badass name to conceal your identity or become a legend
if you’re a revolutionary you’re allowed to give yourself a badass {nom de guerre} to conceal your identity or become a legend
I would undo all previous norms of noms de guerre and call myself something extremely silly, one, so that it wouldn’t be a surprise when I flop, second, cuz it’ll be funny if I actually pulled off the things I did, with such a silly moniker.
And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul, the Revolution of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the guise of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and the Revolution of 1848 knew nothing better to do than to parody, now 1789, now the revolutionary tradition of 1793-95
“We gather here on the 50th anniversary of our nation’s liberation, when Comrade small x, capital x, small x, underscore sephiroth underscore small x…”
You’re allowed to give yourself a badass name whenever you want, you just have to be ready to throw down really hit somone With a chair style if anyone questions it.
I have so many names it’s a little silly and about half of them are as pretentious as “Steel Man”.
“Frank” usually means “of the Franks” and connotes a free man, but it can also colloquially mean straightforward honesty. A lot of names are bad ass if you translate them. Miles is latin for warrior or soldier. Michael means “who is like God?”. Issac is the one who laughs
.Translate your name out from its original language and you’ll often get something cool.
Mine means ‘willful guardian’, it’s rad
Translate your mother’s maiden name out of its original language and you’ll often get something cool, especially if you tack on the last four digits of your Social Security Number
This didn’t work for everyone. Mine means ‘gullible sheep’ and I’m not sure what 1234 translates as – am I supposed to look at the original Arabic numerals?
Dzhugashvili already translates as “son of iron”.
