hello everyone

[Lt. Ferret]

an incredibly quick intro, especially since i've already posted a few times. You can call me ferret. I'm an U.S. army officer, and if that doesn't get me banned immediately, let me go on. as a youth I was a radical leftist, I never really found my footing, but I was a stalinist, and for the briefest amount of time, a Maoist. I then dabbled in a bit of anarcho-communism, found it lacking, and as time went on I have moderated a bit.

Socially, I'm rather libertarian, in that I feel everyone should be left alone and see no reason for any laws or policies barring people based on gender, race, sexual orientation, or national origin. I'm married, but only so the army will recognize my partner and not treat me and her like shit, which they are prone to do if you are not legally binded by the state. simply a pragmatic move on our part.

Joined the army to do my three years and get my college paid for. not very interested in any other aspect of it. If nothing else, I'll get some militia training out of it.

Not sure what else to say so I will leave it at that.

[SwampRaider]

Hey dude, Im Quid!

[Sasha]

hi welcome, it might very well be we have an restriction policy for active army personel, you also dont seem to identify as an revolutionary leftists anymore so dont be suprised if your posting will be restricted

[Q]

Welcome. What are your political views nowadays?


it might very well be we have an restriction policy for active army personel
We don't and we have several users here in the army.

[Sasha]

yeah your right, that was only police huh?
there was sommething about military as well, o yeah, i think they werent alowed in the CC... well guess thats no problem anymore

[Lt. Ferret]

Welcome. What are your political views nowadays?


We don't and we have several users here in the army.


Well, I've been following politics for so long, and I got a bachelor's in political science, that I think in a sense I burned out. I just call myself a general leftist. Most of my battles lately are social issues, not economic. I don't fall into too many deviations or sectarian quibbles, if it sounds good, I'll consider it, and I haven't found any group who I agree with 100 percent of the time. I know that's vague, but I can't figure out how to make it more concise. Oh, and I'm against vanguards.

[ScurvyDude]

What's yellow socialism? Is it like a joke tendency or something?

[Widerstand]

Welcome !


What's yellow socialism? Is it like a joke tendency or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_socialism

[AK]

What's yellow socialism? Is it like a joke tendency or something?
It is an anti-revisionist tendency based on the principles of Marxist-Leninist-Big Birdist thought.

[Lt. Ferret]

yellow socialism has afew different meanings, as well as some bad connotations, especially when used by marxists against ideological opponents. i base it on, its more leftist than the social democrats, but not quite revolutionary marxism. its a gray (i suppose yellow) area. it leans towards syndicalism, and after a while some of the poeple that were accused of yellow socialism formed various offshoots of the syndicalist ideas, including more unfavorable ones like national syndicalism.


This philosophy entailed workers striving to be part of a capitalist system, forming unions that were equal with groups of companies (similar to corporatism). Workers were to share in company profits more greatly through negotiation between these two groups. The philosophy proposed that above this should lie a strong autocratic state.

However, the term was appropriated by Marxists to describe self-described socialists who were seen by Marxists as on the side of the ruling class; all non-Marxists considering themselves socialists ("revisionists"), whether they identified with the label or not. This usage included many whose ideas would later be known as social democracy and democratic socialism, very different concepts to that devised by Biétry.
History

The term "yellow socialism" was coined by a former member of the French Socialist Party, Pierre Biétry, in 1904 when he founded the Fédération nationale des Jaunes de France ("National Federation of Yellows of France"). Later, affiliated Swiss and German "yellow" groups formed. This movement was strongly opposed to Marxism.