My Political Birth - How do you choose the right one?

[Moondog]

In the past few months i've grown to be disgusted by my government. Reading up on lies and half truths. I am interested in learning about different political p.o.v.s, and am open to any suggestion or criticism you all have to offer. I feel an educated decision is a good decision.Please help me out.

[ComradeJunichi]

You can just let us feast on your growing brain. Go out and research and read, and then let yourself choose which sounds most appealing and right to you. Or make your own.

I myself came to the board as just a kid with absolutely no political ideology. Started off as a one of the ultra-libs, leaned the other way. Now I consider myself just a socialist. I can't say a Marxist Leninist, yet, because I'm still studying.

[Eastside Revolt]

Read stuff from all the ideals that you have grown-up being told are wrong.

[hawarameen]

welcome to the board. nobody can tell you what to think just read around the subject, get different points of view.

[Umoja]

Yeah, read both points of view. Don't become a hard-core leftist after reading only hardcore leftist literature. Go out and read some Capitalist stuff as well.

[Rodneo]

any good books thta you guys would recommend to get started ?

[MAN with a RED face]

you can start by reading the "little red book"
(according to kalakbay):)

[Hate Is Art]

read animal farm by George Orwell it's an amazing book, also where are you from?

[Sandanista]

read the communist manifesto, obviously, che guevara: a revolutionary life by jon lee anderson is quite excellent and guerilla warfare by CHE!!!

[Dawood]

When you have an opinion you control that idea . When you blindly follow and ideology is the ideés that control you.
Read all political material you can find, then base your own opinions on what YOU think, not what Marx, Che Guevarra or Lenin said in the matter, if you happen to agree with them 100% of the time, fine, then you are a communist, but very few people do that, but they refuse to admit that they disagree with something in their ideologies.

Personally I find Mao the greatest communist thinker, but I cannot apply it to my country (Sweden), since it is so different from China. That is why I take the idea of guerilla warfare from for example Che.

What I am trying to say, don't blindly follow an ideology, question everything, question Marx,, question Lenin and Trotskij question Che, question Hitler and Stalin, question the US, Cuba, Soviet, always read with an open mind, no matter who is the writer.
Otherwise you are limiting yourself.

[Sensitive]

Hehe, fun thread.

Politics has consumed the last 12 years of my life (ever since I was seven years old). I first got into politics during Gulf War I in 1991. From 1991-2000 I was VERY right-wing (although I did shift tendencies (e.g. between traditional conservative, libertarian and fascist)). Keep in mind, that I became an atheist at age nine, so the religious right part of the conservative movement always made me feel uneasy. But the Bush campaign in 2000 really started to turn me off, and at the same time Nader's "Cinderella" campaign against all odds really got me interested in the left, for the first time ever. So then began my drift leftwards. I never turned back. About a year ago I first started to consider myself a socialist. Then about six months ago I became a Marxist-socialist (communist). I could never go back to the right now. I've already rejected all of those ideas.