jingle_bombs
22nd October 2010, 15:14
Hello from the UK. Joined this site looking for some interesting (hopefully) debate, as well as to look at different leftist perspectives.
I'm a Leninist myself, but I really hate labels. In fact I especially hate the leninist tendency to whack off over either Stalin or Trotsky and get incredibly dogmatic about everything.
Originally got interested in Marxism and leftwing politics when I picked up a copy of Banksy's "Wall and Piece" when I was 14. Since then I was a pretty wishy-washy idealistic socialist, until I found my grandmother's copy of Lenin's "the state and revolution" (she was a a communist party member back in the 40s and 50s) and decided "hey, you know what, this Lenin guy makes alot of sense." I'd come into contact with Marx before, since I'd read the Manifesto, but it was only once I read TS&R that I really got into it.
So yeah. HAI THAR. I live in the UK, so obviously there's not much to say when it comes to leftist activity. Especially here in the Midlands. (read: EDL/conservative hotbed)
I'm a Leninist myself, but I really hate labels. In fact I especially hate the leninist tendency to whack off over either Stalin or Trotsky and get incredibly dogmatic about everything.
Originally got interested in Marxism and leftwing politics when I picked up a copy of Banksy's "Wall and Piece" when I was 14. Since then I was a pretty wishy-washy idealistic socialist, until I found my grandmother's copy of Lenin's "the state and revolution" (she was a a communist party member back in the 40s and 50s) and decided "hey, you know what, this Lenin guy makes alot of sense." I'd come into contact with Marx before, since I'd read the Manifesto, but it was only once I read TS&R that I really got into it.
So yeah. HAI THAR. I live in the UK, so obviously there's not much to say when it comes to leftist activity. Especially here in the Midlands. (read: EDL/conservative hotbed)