Anarchist Party of Canada (Groucho-Marxist) was a dadaist political party based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was best known for hitting famous people with pies. Some of the people thus assaulted include U.S. president Jimmy Carter's brother Billy, the federal opposition leader, Joe Clark, future B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm and Eldridge Cleaver. The mottoes of the Anarchist Party of Canada were "vote with a pie" and "The whole world Canada". They were loosely affiliated, or shared many members with, the short-lived Rhinoceros Party of Canada branch in British Columbia.
The reference to Groucho Marx in the party's name is a parody of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).
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“The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)