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18th December 2009, 00:24
Hey there fellow revolutionaries of the left-wing. My name is Ali, I am 16 years old and I hail from a developing country steadily forging alliances with the capitalist front and painfully turning its back on its own people. As well as being agents for the all-powerful American government, the government of my country is painkilling its people and sedating their very miniatures of aspiration and dreams by artistically allowing them to imbibe themselves with as much religion and as much football as they can possibly get. You can get the point that I am shattered to tell you that these people have gotten as close to being politically conscious as Homer Simpson has to losing 5 pounds but yet, I feel that there must come some hope from these masses, some sort of trigger to ignite them into sheer mayhem and frustration. But with such, there also lies ignorance, no moral compasses, no education, no political awareness and a withholding capitalist front that has disallowed any hope for the progression of these people. I say all of this because it is this out of a number of reasons that has motivated me to join the left-wing.
I first got interested in communism when I had found myself questioning my religious beliefs. However, it couldn't be said that my reaching of any political interest in communism was an act of rebellion. It is well noted in my country that communism is very well much equated with atheism, and that is why I started checking up Karl Marx on google; to see why this man hated religion so much considering that the idea of any religious suspicion based on reason and evidence seemed atrocious to me. Although many of the people in my country know communism to be anti-religious, that is as far as they pretty much know about it. This was only a short phase however as I had only been invoked to search about communism for the reasons it was thought to be religiously synonymous. I then watched the movie Zeitgeist, and as much as I know people on this board would think about this movie, it still remains that you must take into consideration that to someone with very little political knowledge, the idea of a failed monetary system, or the ills of profit-based societies, or the corruption that lies within the capitalist system, would seem very astounding. To me, the possibility that all the hardships of the poor and inequality of humans would be a result of a world governing political ideology was very much unthought of.
Yet, this did not necessarily push me towards communism. The influence of punk rock bands and my admiration for the band Rage Against the Machine were a prime reason for me to consider any real political motivation or tendency. RATM were like gods to me, and after much research, I found the lump of all these influences was this lovely political ideology RATM also held to. I began seriously getting into it and tried to understand as much of the theory as possible. The greek riots sparked my interest into Anarchism and I was motivated to read into its theory. I would consider myself to lack a ton of required political theory which is why I came on here; to learn as much as possible and to get involved with discussions which would allow me to try and strengthen my political beliefs. I guess I would be labeled Libertarian socialist, or Anarcho-communist however, I've got a lot to learn. I hope I can :)
*Sorry about the essay* :D
I first got interested in communism when I had found myself questioning my religious beliefs. However, it couldn't be said that my reaching of any political interest in communism was an act of rebellion. It is well noted in my country that communism is very well much equated with atheism, and that is why I started checking up Karl Marx on google; to see why this man hated religion so much considering that the idea of any religious suspicion based on reason and evidence seemed atrocious to me. Although many of the people in my country know communism to be anti-religious, that is as far as they pretty much know about it. This was only a short phase however as I had only been invoked to search about communism for the reasons it was thought to be religiously synonymous. I then watched the movie Zeitgeist, and as much as I know people on this board would think about this movie, it still remains that you must take into consideration that to someone with very little political knowledge, the idea of a failed monetary system, or the ills of profit-based societies, or the corruption that lies within the capitalist system, would seem very astounding. To me, the possibility that all the hardships of the poor and inequality of humans would be a result of a world governing political ideology was very much unthought of.
Yet, this did not necessarily push me towards communism. The influence of punk rock bands and my admiration for the band Rage Against the Machine were a prime reason for me to consider any real political motivation or tendency. RATM were like gods to me, and after much research, I found the lump of all these influences was this lovely political ideology RATM also held to. I began seriously getting into it and tried to understand as much of the theory as possible. The greek riots sparked my interest into Anarchism and I was motivated to read into its theory. I would consider myself to lack a ton of required political theory which is why I came on here; to learn as much as possible and to get involved with discussions which would allow me to try and strengthen my political beliefs. I guess I would be labeled Libertarian socialist, or Anarcho-communist however, I've got a lot to learn. I hope I can :)
*Sorry about the essay* :D