Another disaffected worker

[hemlock]

Hello all!

I only recently found out about this web community, and am glad I did. It seems like a great place for reasoned discussions, rather than the new-age-dixiecrat/tea party conservative blather I see on a good deal of other forums.

Anyway, glad to be here.

[Q]

Welcome :)

What are your political ideas, if any? Are you politically active?

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Welcome!

[Peter The Painter]

Hey, where are you from mate

Glad to have you here

Dont let the leninists mindfuck you

[hemlock]

Welcome :)

What are your political ideas, if any? Are you politically active?

I am pro union, progressive, I vote democrat but I have lost all faith in the democratic party (that doesnt mean Im a neocon-now-libertarian bushy or another bigoted republican/tea partier). I am a bit green, but not hardcore (though the name could imply otherwise).

Im a guy who did all the right things he was told to that should make a man born to a poor to lower working class at least successful enough to care for himself and his family. Worked my way through college, then law school, at grad school. Havent been able to find anything but debt, several unpaid slave-labor style go-nowhere volunteerships and a near full time job working for another right wing run anti-union nationwide department store at near minimum wage. Ill openly admit, I'm bitter.

I am also a fan of the study of peoples/workers rights hero's of the past and present. The wobblies, the old ANC, the ACP, the Bull Moose Populists, Rooseveldt, Johnson, Brown, Debs, Biko, Fanon, Trotsky, Malatesta, Rouseau, Hegel, Khrushkev, Newton, Tito, Hampton, the AIM, Geronimo, among several others.


Hey, where are you from mate

Glad to have you here

Dont let the leninists mindfuck you

The Pacific Northwest (the south originally). Also, dont worry, I know the difference between real workers/peoples rights and brutes/frauds who claim to be but are either autocrats (Lenin, Stalin, Mao) or corporatist (sadly Obama, Clinton, Hoover).

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I've been though a very similar situation. Even with an advanced degree I've been close to homelessness at times. Its very obvious the system is not working. At all.

Most socialists would see the Democratic Party as part of the problem, perhaps the main part. The Dems historic purpose has been to co-opt and marginalize dissent. What Obama has been doing, bank bailouts, his horrible health insurance, continuing the devastation of Pakistan and Afghanistan, etc. was predictable. The GOP is vile but the Dems are far more insidious. Last year I mentioned to a friend how passive the US working class is in comparison to that of Europe, Greece and France for example. My friend said, "that's an eloquent testimony to the influence of the Democratic Party"

The way forward is a working class alternative. Its not easy but there are a lot of good activists doing work around the country.Class struggle is heating up world wide. The US working class will probably be among the last to move, but it will move.The next 20 years of world history will be scary but may also be exhilarating.

I fully understand your bitterness though, believe me.

Welcome!

[NecroCommie]

You are very welcome!

Tell me though, how is Trotsky a hero if Lenin is "authoritarian"? Don't get me wrong, I am not a very passionate anti-trotskyite. Even so, their politics are near-identical.