Prometheus Unbound
3rd April 2010, 23:05
I grew up in a very conservative household. I started questioning things and became an atheist about eight years ago or so. Started getting interested in politics when Bush just got into office (after 9/11, to be precise), and I guess I found all that liberal moral indignation to be convincing. I probably became a liberal by default since it was a time when leftists and liberals had a common enemy and the former isn't as accessible in times like these, I suppose. It was only three years ago that I started grasping the utter oppression that is capitalism and how liberal ideology apologizes for imperialism, the byproduct of capitalism (which it also apologizes for to varying degrees)
So here I am. I used to post in other forums, but my growing disillusionment with liberals made me leave. I just couldn't put up with their fake "post-ideological pragmatism"; an ideology that denies that it's an ideology, as John Pilger once put it. So I hope I fit among you all instead.
How would I describe myself politically? I'm a socialist, first and foremost, in that I am for workers ownership and management of the means of production. I'm also a feminist, anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian (or civil libertarian), anti-nationalist and anti-Zionist. I'm a communist in the sense that I believe that an industrial society aiming to serve human needs and improve the human condition is a political goal worth striving towards. I have strong anarchist sympathies in that I believe all authority must justify its existence and am generally highly suspicious of power.
Hi :)
So here I am. I used to post in other forums, but my growing disillusionment with liberals made me leave. I just couldn't put up with their fake "post-ideological pragmatism"; an ideology that denies that it's an ideology, as John Pilger once put it. So I hope I fit among you all instead.
How would I describe myself politically? I'm a socialist, first and foremost, in that I am for workers ownership and management of the means of production. I'm also a feminist, anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian (or civil libertarian), anti-nationalist and anti-Zionist. I'm a communist in the sense that I believe that an industrial society aiming to serve human needs and improve the human condition is a political goal worth striving towards. I have strong anarchist sympathies in that I believe all authority must justify its existence and am generally highly suspicious of power.
Hi :)