MilkmanofHumanKindness
2nd June 2010, 08:37
Hey,
Name: Alex
Age: 17, turning 18 soon.
Politics/Ideology:
For most of my life I was a Anarcho-Cap/Libertarian. My father owned this small winery in California, it was staffed by my family and some family friends who did profit sharing. So I believed that competition works, and we made the best wine so we would win and be ssuccessful. Gallo Bros. disagreed. As our small artisan winery lost sales as the economy went bad in 2007-2008, and people didn't want to pay, the Gallo Bros. With their army of exploited wage slaves won.
This crushed my father, and we ended up moving to S. Dak. where we had family. My dad began working for a monolithic corporate bank, and hated it. My mom began teaching to make some more money.
I didn't automatically become a Communist, I went to a centre-left position, then Dem. Soc, to being as Communist as one can be without advocating revolution, because they had all failed. Then after being given "Revolution Betrayed" the last barrier to Communism, my dislike of the Soviet Union collapsed.
Philosophy: Dialectical Materialism, Trotsky's "ABC's of Dialectical Materialism" did it for me.
Name: Alex
Age: 17, turning 18 soon.
Politics/Ideology:
For most of my life I was a Anarcho-Cap/Libertarian. My father owned this small winery in California, it was staffed by my family and some family friends who did profit sharing. So I believed that competition works, and we made the best wine so we would win and be ssuccessful. Gallo Bros. disagreed. As our small artisan winery lost sales as the economy went bad in 2007-2008, and people didn't want to pay, the Gallo Bros. With their army of exploited wage slaves won.
This crushed my father, and we ended up moving to S. Dak. where we had family. My dad began working for a monolithic corporate bank, and hated it. My mom began teaching to make some more money.
I didn't automatically become a Communist, I went to a centre-left position, then Dem. Soc, to being as Communist as one can be without advocating revolution, because they had all failed. Then after being given "Revolution Betrayed" the last barrier to Communism, my dislike of the Soviet Union collapsed.
Philosophy: Dialectical Materialism, Trotsky's "ABC's of Dialectical Materialism" did it for me.