Communist/Socialist/Anarchist Inspiration

[Comrade Raz]

This may seem a little stupid to you, but i'm just really interested to know who inspired you to become a communist, a socialst or an anarchist. Because of the fact that only ten slots are allowed the options are limited but i thought i put the best spread i could.

The decsision was real tough for me. I would vote Marx because without him there may not have been any of the others but he has no guerilla warfare credencials so it was between Che, Ho and Mao but Mao really fucked up towards the end of his lead.

I choose Ho because his battle was against the home of the evil empire the USA and he did not live long enough to fuck it all up for himself.

[liderDeFARC]

well, it really wasn't any of those people that inspired me to become or have a point of view of a communist/socialist/whatever. I mean the people on that list that i have read about have done some great deeds, and im glad and thankful for it. But just because i like these people and what they did isn't the reason i "became" a communist, or like i said before a whatever. What inspired me was the injustice and poverty everywhere, you know? I saw the face of hunger and the results of corruption and exploitation, and that inspired me to change... (hopefully that made some sense)

[Umoja]

I suppose it was African leaders in the middle of the 21st Century. Notably Nasser, and Kwame Nkrumah, that led me to look into Socialism.

[Hampton]

Malcolm X.

:cool:

[Durruti]

Che lead me to communism, then later to anarchism...

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

my mother taught me the ways of communism and the most basic and obvious reasons why capitalism is a faulty and oppressive system. Marx, though, taught me more in depth about communism, he is the reason why I believe so strongly in communism, as opposed to before, when I just called myself a communist, but knew little and had no strong beliefs.
I voted Marx. :marx:

[BOZG]

No single person. No single event even. I can't remember the exact time I considered myself a socialist even, it just grew out a detestation of racism and further developed from there after looking at the situations racism creates and what its cause is.

[ComradeJunichi]

Che Guevara led me to communism, if that's what you were looking for. However, to my current ideology I would have to say Marx, Lenin, and Stalin.

[BOZG]

Poor misguided Joon :D

[nz revolution]

Durruti, che led you to anarchsim?

I voted Che. Led me towards the light, communism, I'm not gonna say I strictly follow one one sucka, take a the best from everyone, learn from their mistakes and develop them and so on.

I would have thought anarchists would have been pissed that Goldman isn't on the list...

[il Commy]

I voted Lenin. Reading his works made me familiar with communism and anti-imperilism and convinced me that communism is the way. Ofcourse Marx, Engles and Trotzky (who's not on the list btw) also made me understand things, but the first works I read were by Lenin.

Oh, and yes, he was the leader of the first communist revolution. That's important too ;)

[praxis1966]

I voted other. The Communist Manifesto first introduced me to the ideology, but it wasn't until I read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere that I started to claim socialism.

[elijahcraig]

I voted Lenin, although those who "radicalized" me were the Black Panthers.

[Lardlad95]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2003, 07:35 PM
Malcolm X.

:cool:
Thank you...why isn't Malcolm on here?

He and CHe influenced me alot, Huey P. Newton too

even though my current beliefs differ a great deal from their's

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2003, 04:16 PM
I voted other. The Communist Manifesto first introduced me to the ideology, but it wasn't until I read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere that I started to claim socialism.
do you mean Paulo Freire? Yes, he was a great socialist. Like many leftists of Brazil, he sufferend from the tyrrany of the military dictatorship in the 60s to the 80s supported by the U$, damn imperialists :angry:
He, along with many others such as Luxemburg, Chomsky, and lenin expanded my socialism greatly.

[elijahcraig]

I'd also add Chomsky to my list of people. I read "What Uncle Sam Really Wants" and it helped "radicalize" me. I also emailed him like 30 times, and we had some little debates through that. He's nice to even answer. 100+ emails/letters a day.

[Umoja]

Malcolm X wasn't technically a leftist, because he died to soon. The same with MLK. Now the BPP is a different story....

[elijahcraig]

"Capitalism can't exist without racism."
-Malcolm X

[Saint-Just]

I don't need to say it considering my username. It is Mao.

[Politrickian]

Josip Broz Tito

[Lardlad95]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2003, 12:56 AM
"Capitalism can't exist without racism."
-Malcolm X
you are absolutely right...Malcolm X was an advocate of socialism

[Umoja]

He never declared himself a Socialist, if I recall correctly. He identified with it, as reflected in Malcolm X speaks, but he never actually become a full fledged socialist like other black leaders, such as Dubois.

[CompadreGuerrillera]

Che Guevara got me into socialism, and the fact that he led all these campaigns into all sorts of countreis, and was a martyr for the revolution.

[FistFullOfSteel]

che led me to communism...im a member too :hammer:...hava nice day everyone

[ComradeJunichi]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2003, 08:26 PM
Poor misguided Joon :D
How am I misguided?

[truthaddict11]

Other: Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and Noam Chomsky

[elijahcraig]

Have you ever emailed Chomsky?

[Bianconero]

Adolf Hitler. I really wanted to be the complete opposite of Adolf, and well, here I am. :lol: Seriously, it was more that I tried to learn about the roots of things such as poverty, starvation, racism ...

[Umoja]

I've emailed Zinn.

[Durruti]

Originally posted by nz [email protected] 14 2003, 08:42 PM
Durruti, che led you to anarchsim?

....

I would have thought anarchists would have been issed that Goldman isn't on the list...
I did a report on Che for my Spanish class in High School, that's where I first learned about his interest in the the Spanish Civil War... which logically interested me. I learned more about Spanish Anarchism and thereby became an anarchist.

I think Rudolf Rocker should be on the list... but then again, ultimately my inspiration came from the workers of Spain more than any one individual.

[MikeyBoy]

Marx. He was the first socialist that I ever read, other revolutionaries were of course contributors to my views but it was mainly him. :)

[FistFullOfSteel]

salvador allende was socialist! :redstar2000:

[BOZG]

How am I misguided?

Good ol' Uncle Joe

[FistFullOfSteel]

i support almost everything that fights against USA :che: :marx: :engles: :trotski: :castro: :cuba:

[Fidelbrand]

Synergy --------> my knowing that something it's wrong in this world........ then..... i looked up and read El Che~

[ComradeJunichi]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16 2003, 09:32 PM

How am I misguided?

Good ol' Uncle Joe
So far you have made nothing but nonsense.

[FistFullOfSteel]

ches spirit lives on until world is gone :cuba: :castro: :marx: :engles: :che: :hammer: :trotski: FOREVER!

[Organic Revolution]

ho chi minh for me

[BOZG]

and Stalin.

[ComradeJunichi]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2003, 01:32 AM

and Stalin.
Do you think I did not understand that? I understood from the first post you made, but your sarcasm doesn't mean anything. I am misguided because I respect Stalin just as I respect Lenin?

[BOZG]

Sarcasm...where?

[Son of Scargill]

Like liderDeFarc and BOZG it wasn't really one person who led me"into the light".
But ,in a similar vein to Bianconero,the one person who most politicized me was Margaret Thatcher.

[ComradeJunichi]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2003, 01:50 AM
Sarcasm...where?
Alright, fuck you. I don't have the time for this.

[Elect Marx]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2003, 07:55 PM
my mother taught me the ways of communism and the most basic and obvious reasons why capitalism is a faulty and oppressive system. Marx, though, taught me more in depth about communism, he is the reason why I believe so strongly in communism, as opposed to before, when I just called myself a communist, but knew little and had no strong beliefs.
I voted Marx. :marx:
I guess I taught myself to be a communist with a little help from Comrade Marxist in Nebraska. I'm glad I have a commie buddy :)

"Marx, though, taught me more in depth about communism, he is the reason why I believe so strongly in communism,"

I share your sentiment comrade, as I think all Marxists would. I too voted Marx :marx:

ELECT MARX!!!

[RevolucioN NoW]

I voted Che as before reading about him/his writings I was not inspired to become a socialist

[EneME]

Hm...can't really say it was a day of inspiration. I grew up around it since I was a wee-lad, and my biggest inspirations are my family members. It's kinda hard to not feel some rage when its broken apart your family, you've seen the pain, and you've lived the struggle day in and day out. There was never any other choice, other ppl watched Fraggle Rock..I watched the Panama Deception lol
Born and bred lefty! :P
RIP Tio...who truly lived and died in the struggle...

[FistFullOfSteel]

marx has good texts too

[blackemma]

I would have thought anarchists would have been pissed that Goldman isn't on the list...


Indeed, some of us were...

Curious, what is Chomsky's e-mail address?

[Marxist in Nebraska]

You may be able to tell from my screen name that I am a MARXIST! As you may suspect, Marx is the best leftist theorist I have read...

[Elect Marx]

Your a Marxist MIN? Of all the time I've known you I...wait now I remember, we've both been Marxists for a while now :) My screen name too!

[Comrade Raz]

The reason i did not include many of the individuals you have suggested is that there is not space. Thinking back perhaps i shood have left out engels for Goldman or Luxemborg but i think it's important that Stalins in their even though he was a complete basturd because he is a big disgusion point within many posts on the board and im surprised at the no votes for Bakunnin.

[YKTMX]

I voted for Marx.

[IPkurd]

mine was Abdullah Ocalan (pkk leader) which lead me to communism but i do not follow his path if you no what i mean, no one person influenses me in communism anymore well not really

[elijahcraig]

Curious, what is Chomsky's e-mail address?

He might not email you back for a while, but its [email protected]

[Faceless]

Disillusionment with modern society led me to Communism a few years ago. If the pole was "your most respected revolutionary" I might have a satisfactory answer. I picked up on the theory through reading once I knew how much sense Communism makes. Reading Marx has given me a firm theoretical ground if that's a suitable answer.