Zanthorus
25th October 2009, 23:09
Hi Komrades :)
I hail from the south-west of england and the leftist scene here is pretty crap at least as far as I can see. Although I'm still a student in college and I haven't really had a chance to get involved in anything.
Ideally I'm an anarcho-communist although I think that goal is still a long way off. At the moment I have strong Syndicalist/Collectivist tendencies and recently I've been reading and loving 'Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century' by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel.
I became an anarchist after deciding to read up on politics. The mainstream stuff seemed like a load of crap to me so I started digging deeper. I read a bit of the manifesto but I didn't really take it in. What turned me was watching Noam Chomsky discussing anarchism on youtube and his writings on the subject.
The main reason I'm an anarchist is because I'm skeptical of a socialist party ever taking power since to do that they'd have to appeal to the middle classes to gain votes and thus lose their revolutionary ardour as evidenced by the development of the British Labour Party. If the option was given to me though I'd gladly put my name next to a socialist party with a chance of victory on the condition that they were at least moderate civil libertarians.
Look forward to discussion with you guys :)
I hail from the south-west of england and the leftist scene here is pretty crap at least as far as I can see. Although I'm still a student in college and I haven't really had a chance to get involved in anything.
Ideally I'm an anarcho-communist although I think that goal is still a long way off. At the moment I have strong Syndicalist/Collectivist tendencies and recently I've been reading and loving 'Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century' by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel.
I became an anarchist after deciding to read up on politics. The mainstream stuff seemed like a load of crap to me so I started digging deeper. I read a bit of the manifesto but I didn't really take it in. What turned me was watching Noam Chomsky discussing anarchism on youtube and his writings on the subject.
The main reason I'm an anarchist is because I'm skeptical of a socialist party ever taking power since to do that they'd have to appeal to the middle classes to gain votes and thus lose their revolutionary ardour as evidenced by the development of the British Labour Party. If the option was given to me though I'd gladly put my name next to a socialist party with a chance of victory on the condition that they were at least moderate civil libertarians.
Look forward to discussion with you guys :)