Ned Flanders
28th July 2009, 18:57
hi.
I´m an Icelandic commie, 23 years of age, inhabited in Reykjavík, the country´s capital and only city (well, maybe it´s not a city by international standards:)). I´m a university student of cinema studies at the countries state university. My political ideology is internationalist revolutionary socialism, or in other words, Marxism and Trotskyism. Herbert Spencer and his "social darwinism" is mostly to thank for me becoming a leftist. I remember feeling strong contempt and anger towards his ideas when they were tought in my sociology class in secondary school. Fortunatly later on in that same sociology class I discovered the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. I found their analysis of history and of capitalist society made a lot of sense. Having been raised by a working class single mom, I found the main ideas of Marxism fitted very well to my own experience. Lenin´s "Imperialism" made a huge impact on me later on, explaining well the mechanism of the so called capitalist "globalisation", as did Trotsky´s critisicm of the bureaucratic bonapartist "socialism" of the USSR. I think that will do for now...
I´m an Icelandic commie, 23 years of age, inhabited in Reykjavík, the country´s capital and only city (well, maybe it´s not a city by international standards:)). I´m a university student of cinema studies at the countries state university. My political ideology is internationalist revolutionary socialism, or in other words, Marxism and Trotskyism. Herbert Spencer and his "social darwinism" is mostly to thank for me becoming a leftist. I remember feeling strong contempt and anger towards his ideas when they were tought in my sociology class in secondary school. Fortunatly later on in that same sociology class I discovered the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. I found their analysis of history and of capitalist society made a lot of sense. Having been raised by a working class single mom, I found the main ideas of Marxism fitted very well to my own experience. Lenin´s "Imperialism" made a huge impact on me later on, explaining well the mechanism of the so called capitalist "globalisation", as did Trotsky´s critisicm of the bureaucratic bonapartist "socialism" of the USSR. I think that will do for now...