How old are you?

[Property Is Robbery]

It seems to me the majority of people on this site are teenage boys. Like myself although I'm 17 and I've talked to a lot of 13/14/15 year olds.

[Sasha]

If enough people filld in the chitchat awards survey youll get an kind of answer soon enough, although the results will be meaningless anyway as there is an significant correlation between age and posting in chitchat. except for an few masochists like me most 20 something and up revleft'ra don't put an foot in chitchat.

[Jazzratt]

If enough people filld in the chitchat awards survey youll get an kind of answer soon enough, although the results will be meaningless anyway as there is an significant correlation between age and posting in chitchat. except for an few masochists like me most 20 something and up revleft'ra don't put an foot in chitchat. I'm not so sure, I think this graph shows that the cut-off is more around 30 than 20:
http://i48.tinypic.com/2m7dhkj.jpg

Part of the same survey that gavce us the most depressing chart on revleft:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2dbulck.jpg

[Os Cangaceiros]

22

[Jazzratt]

Explosive: I was thought you were older than me, by a fair margin too. Mind = blown.

[Widerstand]

19.


pretty graphs with petty numbers

Not surprised at all, but depressing indeed.

[Weezer]

14

[Ninel]

Well you'll probably find that majorily the younger people here like me are here for support and explanation, luckily you'll find that most teens interested in politics know how to act maturely.

[Ele'ill]

25-29

[Magón]

25-29

This.

[Lobotomy]

18 here, what what

[Burn A Flag]

17 , Male

[RED DAVE]

I'm probably the oldest one here.

RED DAVE

[Who?]

I'm probably the oldest one here.

RED DAVE

So... what was it like to meet Lenin?

[Bilan]

20.

[The Douche]

22, 23 soonish.

[Sosa]

almost 26

[gorillafuck]

17.

[Unclebananahead]

29

[Kuppo Shakur]

I am 6.:)

[Devrim]

So... what was it like to meet Lenin?

I doubt that there is anybody here who is old enough to have met Lenin. I have met people who met and discussed politics with Lenin though.

Devrim

[Magón]

I doubt that there is anybody here who is old enough to have met Lenin. I have met people who met and discussed politics with Lenin though.

Devrim

It was a joke on how old he was.

[Tablo]

19.

[#FF0000]

It was a joke on how old he was.

I think Devrim just wanted to brag about knowing people who knew Lenin.

*Is still jealous*

20 btw

[Devrim]

I think Devrim just wanted to brag about knowing people who knew Lenin.



Not really, no. I was sort of making a point about how it wasn't a big thing. I think to people your age the events of the revolutionay wave after WW1 seem like something out of history books. The generation who linked us to those events has now passed on. To people of my age and older though, it was something that people we knew, people in our own families ( for example my grandfather who died when I was 22, so I knew him as an adult had joined the CP in 1920).

Devrim

[La Comédie Noire]

21, arrived at this board when i was 16 woaahhhhhh.

[Q]

almost 26

This. Three more days.

[Sosa]

This. Three more days.

:thumbup:

[Q]

:thumbup:

:wub:

How much longer for you?

[Ovi]

22, 23 soonish.
Me too

[Jalapeno Enema]

21 March 1986

(see that, I'm a non-conformist and I made you think!)

[Quail]

Part of the same survey that gavce us the most depressing chart on revleft:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2dbulck.jpg
Not altogether unexpected. I don't think I can actually think of 10 women who post on here.

I'm a 20 year old female.

[Cane Nero]

19, transvestite

[Unclebananahead]

You all are making me feel like an old man here on the revolutionary leftist site, 'RevKids!'

[Il Medico]

19

[Raúl Duke]

21 going to 22

I got in the site between the age of 17-19.


14

:bored:

[RED DAVE]

So... what was it like to meet Lenin?He had garlic on his breath and smoked a lot of dope. Karl, though, was a very clean old man.

RED DAVE

[Q]

He had garlic on his breath and smoked a lot of dope. Karl, though, was a very clean old man.

RED DAVE

Kautsky, Liebknecht, Marx, other, all?

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

23 years old

[Red Future]

17 here

[RedScare]

20, seems I fit the dominant demographic here.

[Bandito]

24 years of living in Serbia. I deserve a medal.

[Bardo]

22

[Zeus the Moose]

I doubt that there is anybody here who is old enough to have met Lenin. I have met people who met and discussed politics with Lenin though.

Devrim

I met Esteban Volkov briefly at a conference, so I can't quite claim your degrees of separation. Does this mean Lenin is turning into a communist Kevin Bacon? Because that's rather disturbing to contemplate.

Also, 22.

[Sosa]

:wub:

How much longer for you?

3 months

[cb9's_unity]

20

And here I am thinking I'm still young on this board.

[Sentinel]

I'm 30, just turned. It still feels a bit weird to say or type it.

[RED DAVE]

[Lenin] had garlic on his breath and smoked a lot of dope. Karl, though, was a very clean old man.
Kautsky, Liebknecht, Marx, other, all?There is only one "Karl," and anyway, you didn't get the cultural reference.

A copy of the collected works of Kim Il Sung in Korean to the first person who does.

AND WHO THE FUCK CLAIMS TO BE OLDER THAN I AM AROUND HERE? MUST BE JACQUES ROUX'S BROTHER.

RED DAVE

[RED DAVE]

I doubt that there is anybody here who is old enough to have met Lenin. I have met people who met and discussed politics with Lenin though.I've met several people who knew Trotsky. Plus I met a woman whose father had been expelled from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party by Stalin. I greatly regret that I missed a chance to meet Trotsky's wife.

I once got into an argument with an old SPer named Sam Estrin. In the middle of the argument, I said, "Sam, you're such a fucking Menshevik!" Sam replied, "Damn right I'm a Menshevik! I joined the Menshivik Party in 1910."

On the other side of the fence, when I was an undergraduate at NYU, Kerensky was teaching at Columbia. I regret never have seen him, just so I could say I had seen him.

RED DAVE

[Magón]

I've met several people who knew Trotsky. Plus I met a woman whose father had been expelled from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party by Stalin. I greatly regret that I missed a chance to meet Trotsky's wife.

I once got into an argument with an old SPer named Sam Estrin. In the middle of the argument, I say, "Sam, you're such a fucking Menshevik!" Sam replied, "Damn right I'm a Menshevik! I joined the Menshivik Party in 1910."

On the other side of the fence, when I was an undergraduate at NYU, Kerensky was teaching at Columbia. I regret never have seen him, just so I could say I had seen him.

RED DAVE

Damn, you are old.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Not altogether unexpected. I don't think I can actually think of 10 women who post on here.
I could if I could remember how to spell all their names.


I'm a 20 year old female.

Nice to meet you, a 20 year old female. Is there a nickname for that since it's a really long name.:laugh::lol::p

[Tablo]

I feel like our site is lacking in older members...

[John "Eh" MacDonald]

16 going on 17 at the end of March.

[Jazzratt]

I'm certainly old enough to know better.

[Property Is Robbery]

I feel like our site is lacking in older members...
How old do you mean?

[MarxSchmarx]

I am somewhat curious the drop off in membership as the ages go up. I wonder if it is a reflection of how many people leave the movement altogether or just get sick of revleft (as I'm sure it's not a mortality thing). Or is revleft perpetually growing, seeded by ever more young members every year?

[Property Is Robbery]

I am somewhat curious the drop off in membership as the ages go up. I wonder if it is a reflection of how many people leave the movement altogether or just get sick of revleft (as I'm sure it's not a mortality thing). Or is revleft perpetually growing, seeded by ever more young members every year?
Probably less older people wasting their time on the internet

[9]

I once got into an argument with an old SPer named Sam Estrin. In the middle of the argument, I said, "Sam, you're such a fucking Menshevik!" Sam replied, "Damn right I'm a Menshevik! I joined the Menshivik Party in 1910."

lol, that's awesome.

EDIT: Also,


I am somewhat curious the drop off in membership as the ages go up. I wonder if it is a reflection of how many people leave the movement altogether or just get sick of revleft (as I'm sure it's not a mortality thing). Or is revleft perpetually growing, seeded by ever more young members every year?

I may be totally off, but I would assume maybe it has more to do with the general demographics of internet forum users? I'm sure it varies from place to place and organization to organization, but in my experience, middle aged and older people tend to be much better represented among broadly 'left' groupings than they are on revleft (albeit still generally a minority).

[Spawn of Stalin]

I am 23. Now I wonder how many people here are wage slaves?

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I am 23. Now I wonder how many people here are wage slaves?
I was if turning tricks counts. I don't do that anymore because I fell in love and he treats me like his princess.

[Aloysius]

15.
Glad to know I'm not the youngest person here.
That is, of course, assuming the 4 people that said they were between the ages of 12 and 14 weren't lying.

[TC]

I'm 30, just turned. It still feels a bit weird to say or type it.

Lol wow - I thought you were much younger (not by posting style but by how you looked when we met that one time - though that was quiet a few years ago - I wouldn't have guessed you were in your late twenties then - I'd have thought early or mid twenties)

[Fawkes]

19 mofuckas

[gorillafuck]

Not altogether unexpected. I don't think I can actually think of 10 women who post on here.
I just tried and I could only think of 9 female users:laugh:

[Buitraker]

18, next month 19 xD

[Fawkes]

Really? I would've thought you'd be turning 24 after 18

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Really? I would've thought you'd be turning 24 after 18
No, you turn 6 after 18.

[Jazzratt]

I just tried and I could only think of 9 female users:laugh: I got to 10 but it took a while.

[Ninel]

15.
Glad to know I'm not the youngest person here.
That is, of course, assuming the 4 people that said they were between the ages of 12 and 14 weren't lying.
I wasn't lying, I was born on 29th June 1996.

[Quail]

I got to 10 but it took a while.
Let's see:

kayl
***** X
Palingenisis
Leftace (although I haven't seen her post in ages)
Esperanza Xochitl
Iseul
Rosa Lichtenstein
Smurfette

...and I can't think of any more at the moment.

[Il Medico]

Let's see:

kayl
***** X
Palingenisis
Leftace (although I haven't seen her post in ages)
Esperanza Xochitl
Iseul
Rosa Lichtenstein
Smurfette

...and I can't think of any more at the moment.
Smufferette and ***** X are the same person, now called Children of the Revolution (again)

[Il Medico]

As for me, the ones I can come up with off hand:
TC
Esperanza
Kayl
Isuel
CotR
Rosa L
Module
leftace
Palingeneis
Mari3l
EneNme (or how ever you spell it)
Marsella (former member anyways)
Mujer Libre (also former)
9
Knights of Caydonia (?)

[Quail]

Smufferette and ***** X are the same person, now called Children of the Revolution (again)
Ahh I thought they might have been the same person, and I was wondering who Chidren of the Revolution was :lol:

Also I don't know why I didn't think of Mari3l.

[Impulse97]

18 Male here what what.:hammersickle::trotski::hammersickle:

[Jazzratt]

As for me, the ones I can come up with off hand:
TC
Esperanza
Kayl
Isuel
CotR
Rosa L
Module
leftace
Palingeneis
Mari3l
EneNme (or how ever you spell it)
Marsella (former member anyways)
Mujer Libre (also former)
9
Knights of Caydonia (?) KoC is female, yeah as are Hannah Kay, Prairie Fire and salabara whom both of you forgot despite two of them being moderators. If we're counting former, banned and inactive members I can think of a fair few more than 10. The above list but with the addition of:
kelly (she might have had numbers after her name)
girl_no_13 (she posted an introduction thread and in an argument about the word ****, is also a close friend of mine)
leftisttransgirl
Girl_A
jasemine (thank fuck she's gone)
Rascolnickova

There were a few more including a Bukharite that Dimentio introduced to the site but there's still only as many female members as I can count on my fingers (counting binary, admittedly, but counting on my fingers nonetheless) vs the thousands of male members we have, so yeah.

[Pirate Utopian]

20. Since last tuesday.

[Quail]

KoC is female, yeah as are Hannah Kay, Prairie Fire and salabara whom both of you forgot despite two of them being moderators. If we're counting former, banned and inactive members I can think of a fair few more than 10. The above list but with the addition of:
kelly (she might have had numbers after her name)
girl_no_13 (she posted an introduction thread and in an argument about the word ****, is also a close friend of mine)
leftisttransgirl
Girl_A
jasemine (thank fuck she's gone)
Rascolnickova

There were a few more including a Bukharite that Dimentio introduced to the site but there's still only as many female members as I can count on my fingers (counting binary, admittedly, but counting on my fingers nonetheless) vs the thousands of male members we have, so yeah.
I thought of a couple more while I was making tea, but I'm too new to know all of the former ones. Still, at least there are more women in the movement in general than on Revleft.

[Thirsty Crow]

23....
(am I supposed to say something after stating my age?)

[Weezer]

14


:bored:

What did I do?

[Il Medico]

KoC is female, yeah as are Hannah Kay, Prairie Fire and salabara whom both of you forgot despite two of them being moderators. If we're counting former, banned and inactive members I can think of a fair few more than 10. The above list but with the addition of:
kelly (she might have had numbers after her name)
girl_no_13 (she posted an introduction thread and in an argument about the word ****, is also a close friend of mine)
leftisttransgirl
Girl_A
jasemine (thank fuck she's gone)
Rascolnickova

There were a few more including a Bukharite that Dimentio introduced to the site but there's still only as many female members as I can count on my fingers (counting binary, admittedly, but counting on my fingers nonetheless) vs the thousands of male members we have, so yeah.
How the hell did I forget them???:blink: salabra is slightly more understandable, but still sad I forgot her.

[Misanthrope]

15

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

KoC is female, yeah as are Hannah Kay, Prairie Fire and salabara whom both of you forgot despite two of them being moderators. If we're counting former, banned and inactive members I can think of a fair few more than 10. The above list but with the addition of:
kelly (she might have had numbers after her name)
girl_no_13 (she posted an introduction thread and in an argument about the word ****, is also a close friend of mine)
leftisttransgirl
Girl_A
jasemine (thank fuck she's gone)
Rascolnickova

There were a few more including a Bukharite that Dimentio introduced to the site but there's still only as many female members as I can count on my fingers (counting binary, admittedly, but counting on my fingers nonetheless) vs the thousands of male members we have, so yeah.

Also, don't forget Lenina.

[kitsune]

23 / f / living room / zafu / cheongsam / odango / green tea with lemon / no preservatives / keep warm / do not use while operating heavy machinery / void where prohibited

[Martin Blank]

A copy of the collected works of Kim Il Sung in Korean to the first person who does.

Sigh! Dave, it's been a hard day's night around here, and I don't have much time for old Britcom trivia. :D


AND WHO THE FUCK CLAIMS TO BE OLDER THAN I AM AROUND HERE? MUST BE JACQUES ROUX'S BROTHER.

I'm not older than you, but I've met a few interesting political people in my time. I've met Gus Hall, know Sam Webb personally, met founding members of the SWP (as well as some of its more recent leaders, like Barnes and Waters), argued with Mandel, and Lambert, and Broué, and Maitan, and North, and Slaughter, and Wohlforth, and Robertson, and Le Blanc, and Weinstein, and ... hell, I've fought with nearly every leading figure on the American (and some international) "left" from the last three generations. I'm dying to get an opportunity to talk with Avakian. That would complete my set.

[Manic Impressive]

I'm 27 but wanted to say I'm surprised with some of the comrades ages just because of how mature and knowledgeable you come across. I honestly wish I'd been as motivated to learn as some of you are.

[Thirsty Crow]

Also, don't forget Lenina.
Where is she?
She's one of my favourite posters :(

[Ninel]

I'm 27 but wanted to say I'm surprised with some of the comrades ages just because of how mature and knowledgeable you come across. I honestly wish I'd been as motivated to learn as some of you are.
^.^

[Il Medico]

girl_no_13 (she posted an introduction thread and in an argument about the word ****, is also a close friend of mine)

One of my best friends has an account here under the name fiddlesticks. Not sure how I could forget her, probably cause she never post here anymore.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Where is she?
She's one of my favourite posters :(
Idk. I miss her. She was cool as icecream! She should come back and post here more.

[PilesOfDeadNazis]

20

[Forward Union]

19.



Not surprised at all, but depressing indeed.

Why? what's wrong with having a lot of youths interested in Politics? The average age of a trade unionist is over 50, now that is a depressing statistic.

Also, older teenage boys are on internet forums more than any other demographic anyway, im not sure why revleft would be much different.

[Widerstand]

Why? what's wrong with having a lot of youths interested in Politics? The average age of a trade unionist is over 50, now that is a depressing statistic.

Also, older teenage boys are on internet forums more than any other demographic anyway, im not sure why revleft would be much different.

Was more talking bout the sex distribution.

[Sentinel]

Lol wow - I thought you were much younger (not by posting style but by how you looked when we met that one time - though that was quiet a few years ago - I wouldn't have guessed you were in your late twenties then - I'd have thought early or mid twenties)I think I was about to turn 27 or 28 at that time -- it was in the autumn, I think. So thanks! :)

I guess I still look young enough, as in I don't have (that) many wrinkles, but unfortunately I'm losing my damn hair.

[Ele'ill]

I am glad to see some 25-early 30's on the forum. There should be more.

[scarletghoul]

20 now :crying:

[scarletghoul]

Im surprised we dont have more old people here, what happened to all the old communists ?? I know they use the internet less, but still.. Seems the majority of us were born after the end of the cold war

[Sentinel]

I am glad to see some 25-early 30's on the forum. There should be more.Indeed, especially as we definitely belong to the internet generation -- we were young enough to whole-heartedly embrace it when it came. Even though we also remember the time before it, we were very young back then...

I think perhaps us growing up right when the USSR collapsed, on the other hand, probably had a negative effect on the number of people born around 1975-85 becoming leftists. Whatever the socialist bloc was, it's defeat was a huge blow to leftism.

[Ninel]

We should have enough elders to educate the youth, but also enough youth to feed the movement and keep it thriving.

[Manic Impressive]

We should have enough elders to educate the youth, but also enough youth to feed the movement and keep it thriving.
Sometimes the youth have to educate their elders.

like WTF is dub step? :p

[Ninel]

Where music is considered I have no idea why todays youth listen to what they do nor do I have any idea what it is, lol. I probably listen to stuff similiar to around the time your music comes from.

[Widerstand]

like WTF is dub step? :p

Minimal Techno with dirtier sounds, more focus on bass and drums.

pretty much.