On 8/17, the local anarchist soccer team Kronstadt FC faced off with the local communist soccer team, Left Wing, in the first of a three game tournament. The score was tied 2/2, when the police shut down the game in the last quarter called by disgruntled members of the Piedmont School board. Ever since Marx expelled Bakunin and the anarchists from the First International in 1872, the tension between the camps of anarchism and communism has built up considerably, notably during the Bolshevik seize of power in Russia in the early 1900's and the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's. These historical conflicts and philosophical incompatibilities have persisted over the years and it remains to be seen whether it will be resolved on the pitch during this tournament. Time and date of next game is TBA.
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