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[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

Hey all. I go by Philanchez on the net. I guess I'm a non-traditional Trotskyist, making my home in the International Socialist Organization. I got radicalized early, merely through the sheer amounts of information at my fingertips, being a child of the internet. I've only recently become more solid in my political views, previous to working in the student movement here in Georgia, I was more of a non-doctrinaire Marxist/anarcho-communist.

[crazyirish93]

welcome :)

[Q]

Welcome :)

How are you "non-traditional"?

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

State capitalism and all that jazz. Although, I see that's quite the contentious topic on the board. The amount of hostility on here actually kind of surprises me. I've had more friendly conversations with Thatcherites than some of the threads of seen on here. :blink:

[MarxSchmarx]

Greetings comrade and those falcons are great fun to watch. And it's news that there's room in the ISO for an anarcho-communist!

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

That's just how I started out. They had a nifty semester kick-off meeting called "The Case for Socialism" which I attended and I mostly attended meetings thereafter for education but I found myself agreeing more and more as I read some of the literature they had and better developed my understanding of Marx's original works. Prior to being with the ISO I had only read The Communist Manifesto and no Lenin to speak of so my understanding was miniscule and based on sectarian generalizations. I wouldn't say I'm an anarcho-communist anymore.

[¿Que?]

So it's socialism in one country that you are against, right? Obviously, not communism in one country, cuz that's just silly. Sorry, I don't know much Trotsky and I have noone to talk to right now.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

Yes. I fundamentally disagree with the idea of "Socialism in One Country".

[Zanthorus]

Welcome to our layer of backtalking and sectarianism :)

I am interested as to why you have a quote from Helen Keller on why she became a wobblie if you are a member of the ISO?

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

We can find inspiration from all struggles for the liberation of the working class. I like looking for mine close to home and am really interested in labor struggles, but it doesn't change the fact that I believe in the revolutionary vanguard or the use of an organization such as the ISO and the process of party building as a way to make sure that the struggle moves on no matter the ebbs-and-flows of radicalism in the labor movement.

[ZeroNowhere]

State capitalism and all that jazz. Although, I see that's quite the contentious topic on the board. The amount of hostility on here actually kind of surprises me. I've had more friendly conversations with Thatcherites than some of the threads of seen on here. :blink:We have very friendly conversations here. If it doesn't seem like such, perhaps it is simply because you are too much of a petit-bourgeois Trotskyite to see things straight. Do not worry, however, there are many here like you, sitting high and mighty in their ivory towers and effetely criticising the crude brown people below. In fact, we may draw the following deductions about them:

1. Trotskyites oppose socialism in one country. This is a purely Eurocentric and racist viewpoint. This is because it excludes the proletariat from its viewpoint, and therefore can only gaze at things from a petit-bourgeois standpoint. As a result of this, Trotskyites are fascist.

2. Trotskyites have never successfully carried out a revolution. This is because they are unable to engage the working class, and are disconnected from it. As such, according to trigonometric laws, Trotskyists, being the opposite of the working class, are the sine multiplied by the hypotenuse. As such, they are assigned by the bourgeois hippopotamuses to obstruct the working class.

This means that Trotskyists are obstacles, and what one does with an obstacle is to remove it. Therefore, Trotskyists must be removed from the world in order for revolution to proceed successfully. Fortunately, pending more advanced technology in the field of spacefaring, this shall have to mean annihilating them. This must be engaged in all confrontations, which ultimately have the end of the end of the Trot. Therefore, you must die.

So yes, not unfriendly. Welcome. :)

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

Effective satire. I like it. Also, I'll have you know that when I was in my "anarcho-communist/searching for an ideology" phase I read quite a bit of Daniel De Leon and Rudolf Rocker. :)

[Impulse97]

And I see Zero is yet again bashing the Trots. Are they misguided? Yea, but, so is your average DeLeonist.

No need to further divide our ranks. If the revolt occurs I bet you'd be glad to have a trot in the foxhole next to you rather than a Cappie.:hammersickle::che::hammersickle:

[NoOneIsIllegal]

DeLeon rules.
Welcome to the board.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

¡Gracias!