Why are you a Marxist?

[Apruntited]

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post this, but oh well...:D

What attracts you most to Marxism? For me, it's the fact that Marx was such a revolutionary, and a truly brilliant man.

So yeah, post why you like Marxism? :D

~Dave

[thejambo1]

cos i am an anarchist! and marx means so fucking much!:D

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

Im a communist because i hate rich people.

[el_chavista]

Several ancestors of mine were communist guerrillas.

[Idealism]

The internet.

[STJ]

Cuz i want to eat the rich.

[F9]

Please, one liners basically consist spam, except if they actually mean something, this is Learning, so please try to answer peoples questions seriously, and as deep you can.
This is the last warning!
On the thread question, im not a Marxist, so sorry, cant answer.

Fuserg9:star:

[LOLseph Stalin]

Ok, keeping Fuserg's point in mind i'm going to answer seriously. Anyway, basically i'm a Marxist because I hated seeing poverty. Having spent time living in poverty myself, I could really relate to it. As a result, I have always been a left winger, but not always Marxist. I started out as a Social Democrat, but then finally discovered Marx and really liked his ideas. I've decided it was really the only way to eliminate social inequality and oppression.

[Bright Banana Beard]

I turn Marxist in similar situation as InsertNameHere.

[Idealism]

Please, one liners basically consist spam, except if they actually mean something, this is Learning, so please try to answer peoples questions seriously, and as deep you can.
This is the last warning!
On the thread question, im not a Marxist, so sorry, cant answer.

Fuserg9:star:

Im sorry, i actually meant the internet, as it is what helped me to get into to leftist politics.

[StrictlyRuddie]

I live in a very conservative part of the U.S. thanks to the Gusanos and a large amount of wealthy land owners living in and around the wealthy parts of Miami.(Like Davie which was home to a lot of KKK and is still home to a lot of reactionary members of society..) Anyways I never was fond with the religious morality and economics being pushed down my throat by the conservative moral majority as I grew up and thought I was a democrat for a while. Since I come from a "Cuban exile" family I've been constantly bombarded by the whole "Communism Is EVIL" shit and I was constantly hearing this as I grew up. I did my own research and actually began to study marxism and I guess the constant red scare tactics had the oppisite effect on me, same thing happend with religion. :rolleyes:

I was actually an anarchist for a while after seeing how "Marxism" was applied throughout out history but later realized that these were the Marxist-Leninist party in power. I call myself a "Libertarian marxist" because I reject the 'Vanguard party' stuff and agree with the "Infantile Ultra Leftist :rolleyes:" thought like left communism, council communism, and just plain ol' Marxism which, with all terminology aside is the same as Anarchism.(Class struggle of course)

[STJ]

Please, one liners basically consist spam, except if they actually mean something, this is Learning, so please try to answer peoples questions seriously, and as deep you can.
This is the last warning!
On the thread question, im not a Marxist, so sorry, cant answer.

Fuserg9:star:
Everyother poster in this thread aswered in one sentence including yourself Mr. I am not a Marxist.You need to find yourself a life.

[Spooky]

"Therefore go and make disciples of all working classes, uniting them in the name of the Marx and of the Engels and of the Lenin."

"For Marx so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, Lenin, that whosoever organizeth under Him should not perform wage labor, but have rights to self management"

P.S. I'm not a Marxist.

Why and how do you label Marxism as being dogmatic?

[Spooky]

Basically, this is my story.

I have always floated somewhere around center-Left to far-Left during my life, depending on circumstances and current events. Mostly most sympathetic towards European Socialist or SocDem parties.

And for four years now I have been a student of political science. However, it took one theory course with a Marxist teacher and a few of the writings of Avakian to flip everything upside down that I though I had figured out.

I had always studied Marx and Marxist thinkers in sociology or gender theory and so forth. So I had a very solid basis of understanding, but it took one paper by Avakian to show that, no, class is not a thing of the past, and that our common understand of the basis of American democracy is, in fact, entirely wrong, and based upon class exploitation. Then the weight of all my previous 3 years of education started just falling in place.

Now I can't sit through some of my classes without getting annoyed at my professors, because to be such smart wo/men, I feel they are fundamentally missing the point.

[Coggeh]

When I was quite young (11/12) I was a big republican , hated English people and all that.

Not so long later I began reading my brothers books on Che Guevara , Mao and Lenin.It wasn't until the Iraq war when I was 13 that I really became a radical leftist , I attending protests , I interacted with leftist parties (SWP,SP and the WSM) reading their material . However it was the SP that influenced me the most and their widespread actions throughout the country caught my eye . So , at 15 I became a member , my politics still hazy and undeveloped but I learned rapidly about Marxism and Trotskyism , on the history of the Russian Revolution on the analysis of classes in society .

And I'm still in the SP to this day , I haven't looked back as it were :)

[Oswy]

For me it is the analytical power of Marxism, especially through the central ideas in historical materialism. Marx's ideas have been much built upon and there are some variations and adaptions of his ideas, so being a 'Marxist' doesn't necessarily mean sticking to his position on every issue. Marx's central idea, that economic organisation and power is at the root of human freedom and unfreedom in political, social and cultural life, means his relevancy will never end in our desire to explain and change society.

[F9]

Everyother poster in this thread aswered in one sentence including yourself Mr. I am not a Marxist.

:laugh::laugh::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Firstly, my post was attended to everyone posted an one liner, if it was only for you i would quote you...:rolleyes:
I "answered" because i made the warning to everyone posted, and just as a side note, said that i am not a Marxist thats why i answered...:rolleyes::rolleyes:I wouldnt post anything if i wouldnt made the warning.


You need to find yourself a life.That comes from a person who spents all of his time as of recent posting shit is forums...:rolleyes:
Please stop being an idiot!

Fuserg9:star:

[ComradeOm]

I'm a Marxist for a very simple reason - it makes sense. I remember reading the Manifesto for the first time and thinking that here was finally a framework that fitted and explained my own experiences

As for why I'm a communist, well that's an entirely different question


P.S. I'm not a Marxist.That much is obvious

[JimmyJazz]

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post this, but oh well...:D

What attracts you most to Marxism? For me, it's the fact that Marx was such a revolutionary, and a truly brilliant man.

So yeah, post why you like Marxism? :D

~Dave

Because it can't be twisted to take the focus off of class struggle toward the end of achieving socialism. Although it is a philosophy, it naturally gives rise to a movement.

Anarchism seems too open to being twisted to other meanings (from individualism to lifestylism, to primitivism, to pacifism, to ancapism).

As to why I turned toward radical/socialist politics in the first place, the internet. Mainly commondreams.org and discussion boards. The Anarchist FAQ was an early influence too, even though I never read more than than "A" section of it.