how did u become a commie

[Hate Is Art]

how did everyone here become interested in communism?

I bought a che t-shirt, lol, cos i liked the pic, i then wondered who he was read some stuff etc etc and well kinda turned into a leftie.

[FistFullOfSteel]

hmm i was interested in politic in the begininng of this year and i thought communism was good,so now i am a commie and i got support from Che to become a commie.. :)

[EneME]

Leftist family....Salvadoran guerrilla's. Grew up on it...

[FistFullOfSteel]

and also my parents are leftist and my whole generation

[Vinny Rafarino]

The horrible state of England in 1978 under Thatcher. I can still smell the garbage.

[crazy comie]

hate of the U.S.A installed in me by my dad been communist since i was 10 2 years ago.

[commieboy]

About four years ago i heard about fidel castro, some guy in cuba who took over. that was all i knew, then my aunt bought me "Guevara also known as Che" and then about three dozen books later, here i am.

[Comrade Ceausescu]

well i'm a devout hip hop head,so i saw my man jay-z rockin the che shirt.i had no clue who he was so i asked my mom and she told me a little.i was curious so i got a huge book on him out from the library.after i was about half way through it (a revolutionary life) i recieved it as a present and by then i was already a devout communist.i have just finished a book on comrade mao,and am reading one on comrade lenin.both are great men.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I've been a communist ever since i knew what communism was, ever since I knew what politics were, ever since I could reply "yes" to the question "are you a communist?" My mother indoctrinated me well. :D

[YKTMX]

My mum filled me up with her silly Trotskyist lies. Damn.

[commie kg]

I've always had a natural passion for leftism, before I even knew what communism was.

At around 13, I formulated my own opinions on the world. They were very leftist. Later on, when I read about Marxism, it was basically exactly what I believed in, just put to paper over 100 years ago.

[Pete]

Basically I am not an asshole.

[BuyOurEverything]

I'm pretty much the same as commie kg. I finally got around to reading the Communist Manifesto and that was it.

[chamo]

I've been a communist ever since I've been political.

And have an uncle I affectionately call "Uncle Joe", he was a sort of political guy.

[Nobody]

I've always had a natural passion for leftism, before I even knew what communism was.

At around 13, I formulated my own opinions on the world. They were very leftist. Later on, when I read about Marxism, it was basically exactly what I believed in, just put to paper over 100 years ago.

Ditto for me.


My mum filled me up with her silly Trotskyist lies. Damn.

I thought you were a Trot, or are you? Are you mad you are?

[Inti]

I dont really know if I call myself a communist, but sure many other people does.. I believe in equality, in that the state should take care of everybody, not the ones with money, I believe in that people should help people, I believe that status shouldnt be inherited, I believe that all jobs should have equal pay.. does that make me communist? Then I am.

[Anarchist Freedom]

i just as a teen had a natural fasination with politics and communism ! 8 D and now im here!




:che:

[Umoja]

I used to be a republican, and love Capitalism. Then I "found religion" (actually my parents never did anything on Sunday, so they took me to church) and I became pretty zealous with that, and started to hate Capitalism in my ultra-Christian zeal. Then I mellowed out, and started reading about Nasser, and then Nkrumah, Tore and other African leaders. As Malcolm X pointed out, a lot of them advocated socialism, so I looked into it. Here I am.

[El jefecito]

I was a full capitalist during my first few semesters at college. Once I knew of the bull shit that went on with inethical businesses and meeting of the bottom line ( cost cutting=firing hard workers). I then knew I had to start my own industrial empire in where I'll share all profits with my brothers nd sisters who work hard. I still want to start up businesses, but it'll be more like a socialist empire. My mother's family business is run like a socialist system.

[SonofRage]

There was a time that I whole-heartedly believed in capitalism. I though that those who worked hard would be prosper. Then I grew up a bit, entered college and saw what was really going on in the world. I had remembered learning about Marx in high school and I always thought he kind of made sense but it wasn't until I was in college that I really saw how right he was.

I found myself moving further and further to the Left until I defected from the Democratic Party and joined the Greens. I am now a member of both the Green Party and the Socialist Party USA.

[Legends]

I became "interested" in communism/politics after reading a che book, it mentioned Karl Marx, bought a book on him, mentioned other people and started to research and find out who they were etc

Im still only a beginner though.

[Faceless]

Communism always seemed to make sense to me. I couldn't see how the fall of the Soviet Union could be synonymous with the fall of Communist principles. I was only about twelve. My family's very right-wing though. My mother + grandfather are racists. I still love them though. And that hurts. It's real lonely being a Communist in a right-wing family.

[Marxist in Nebraska]

I started high school rather apolitically. The year before high school, I had read Animal Farm in my English class. My teacher had used Orwell's book to "prove" that communism sounds great in theory, but a Napoleon/Stalin figure was inevitable. I absorbed that uncritically and would not revisit it until my senior year of high school. To be apolitical in Nebraska basically leaves one conservative by default.

I began to become politically aware during my junior year of high school. I had a Journalism class with a left-of-center teacher who showed a film in class on the Israel/Palestine crisis, and the film gave the Palestinian point of view. Up to that point, the Israelis had always been the brave heroes battling terrorism in my mind. That is the only perspective one gets within the American mass media. That was a pretty important moment in my development. The next semester, I had an English teacher who pointed out constantly how racism had shaped U.S. history.

During my senior year, I was having frequent political talks with a great social science teacher. She had been my U.S. history teacher during my sophomore year and had even taught out of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, but I had not taken it terribly seriously at the time. I was a sort of liberal at this point, but as I took a sociology class during my last semester of high school (taught by the same teacher mentioned earlier in this paragraph) we talked a bit about Karl Marx and the Conflict Theory. I found myself more and more pulled in by the logic of the Conflict Theory.

I started watching a public access call-in show. The host, Ron Kurtenbach, is a self-described communist. I found myself siding with Ron every time he argued with a Republican, or Democrats for that matter. Over the summer after I graduated, I spent most of my free time reading. I picked up Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Manifesto of the Communist Party and read them for myself. I also started calling Ron's show to talk to him myself. The rest is, as the cliche goes, history.

[Invader Zim]

Well, I turned leftist from studying socialism in history lessons when I was 13 or so, when I should have been reading on the treaty of Versailles.

[PFP Revolutionary]

My mother has always been on the "liberal" side of things so I've always grown up knowing to question everything that doesn't seem right and whatnot. Around the age of 15 I started getting more into activism and attending protests. Through high school my awareness in general politics grew and I started conversing with politically minded folk in school. I was told different books to read and different websites to look at. From all this I began to shape (what I thought) were my own political beliefs/philosophies. Later on I came to find that my political beliefs were pretty dead on with Socialism, and here I am now, happy and commie. PEACE :ph34r:

[El Socialista]

My dad studied history, and therefor, he has loads of books on history things. This one day, I took a book from the shelf and saw this overwelming picture....
So I started reading...
I became more and more interested in the commie ways...

Now a days, I am the secretary of the commie group in our school.
There are aprox. 1500 students over here, of wich more than 200 are commie's right into the bones...

[praxis1966]

Guess I sort of inherited it.

On my father's side:

My great-grandfather voted for Eugene Debbs every chance he got. My grandfather was a member of United Electrical Workers as a young man, a union which was proud to have huge portraits of Marx and Lenin hanging from the walls of their meeting halls. My father attended the many protest marches in the 60s, including one in DC that had an attendance of over 500,000.

On my mother's side: Around the turn of the 20th century her whole family was run out of Ireland for its involvement with the Irish Republican Brotherhood. 'Nuff said.

Though there has been a long line of radicalism in my family, I sort of came to it on my own. At 10 I entertained fantasies of running away and joining the IRA. At 14 Rage Against the Machine helped me hone my anger. By 17, I was reading The Communist Manifesto, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and the Autobiography of Malcom X. Now, at 25, I am an ardent socialist in no sign of retreat.

[Dirty Commie]

I read every thing I could find since I was six, Read Lenin when I was barely 12, (Was interested in politics when I was 11) Read some Marx, then my ideas where solidifed when I saw an HBO documentary on Fidel Castro. Read Jon Andersons Che Biography last year when I was thirteen. After I read a lot of Marx (still working on Capital),My parents told me they used to be members of the Communist Party, and hosted the meetings at my house untill I was seven years old. I never knew what happened when they went on.

[RebeldePorLaPAZ]

i wanted to know more about my latin american history because i thought that that was really important to me and it is. then i came across somebody named che guevara. i read about him and learned his belifes and his hatred toward u$ imperialism. i compared it to myself and how i hate so much how puerto rico has been changed so due to this imperialism. before i began to read about him i always thought i had something in me. i always wanted to help the poor and hated the rich for who they were. rich! and i fell in a middle class hating it because somwere in this world there are hundreds of poor people dying and i was here living with nice things not helping them. i read about communism and was facisinated on how it worked, and how it was the solution to these poor. as of this year i have read a lot and can say i belive in it. as of this year i am no longer buying new clothes because there cool or new shoes because my old ones dont match anything. my town is very greedy and some of the greed carryed on to me. and i regret that a lot. no longer am i going to buy any brand name clothes to advertise it on my chest. to be a communist i belive one part is helping others. why should i buy something new, why cant i buy a homeless poor guy some new shoes. i also hate the fact that some puerto ricans are very much american. that hate toward imperialism made me read about che and his hatred. it also got me to belive in socialism and communism.


my spelling sucks today, lol :D

[workingpoor]

I guess i have always had a passion for the under priviliged in society. I have always felt that all things should be equal for people. (at least at the most basic of levels). I saw first hand how capitalism was degrading society and family values in so called third world countries. Am I a communist...i don't know...i believe that people should unite to self govern for the better of the society but i do not believe in absolute dictators. Anyways when you label me you negate me... So I will go on being me and saving the world from itself

[Yazman]

Originally posted by commie [email protected] 7 2003, 07:02 PM
I've always had a natural passion for leftism, before I even knew what communism was.

At around 13, I formulated my own opinions on the world. They were very leftist. Later on, when I read about Marxism, it was basically exactly what I believed in, just put to paper over 100 years ago.
I'm exactly the same, comrade.

[CompadreGuerrillera]

I first got interested in communism, socialism, when Bush wanted to go to war, i was anti-war, and when i went to a demo, someone as well as my freind got me into socialism and all.

Thats my story, my mom was also a commie

[mEds]

After seeing a cool pic of che (you know the big thick book biography.) I then read, already had anti-capital ideals and am now very similiar to a communist believe in God and pledge NO OATH TO ANY political party. And prod- i dont' like "parties" conglamerations of people with similiar ideals and values and morals makes sense but you don't really see those.

[rebelafrika]

I became a communist because while I was growing up as an African in amerikkka, I became inherently aware of social injustice being leveled against my people. In high school, I had an economics class and we talked about communism and although I didn't take the class very serious, I DO recall thinking to myself, that communism sounded like a better system than capitalism. I also was very much into hip hop. There is a rap group out of the bay area called "The Coup" and the rapper in the group (Boots) is a communist and his political line was pretty much identical to the political line I held so I began to question if I was a communist myself. Then in college, I stumbled upon several communist organizations, such as the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, the Socialist Workers Party, the Spartacus Youth Club and the organization that I eventually decided to join, the All-Afrikan People's Revolutionary Party. I began to study, study, STUDY all that I could about economics, politics, socialism, communism and even CAPITALISM (and I am STILL in a period of intensive studies). I began to struggle with the idea of joining the A-APRP. I struggled with the idea of joining this organization for along time. I was still allowing alot of reactionary influences to effect me. Finally...a little bit after September 11th, I realized that there is some real shit going on in the world and that (this is very important to understand) even my act of "inactivity" is an action in itself. It is an action AGAINST the people. I therefore decided that my FIRST action that was going to be FOR the people was going to be me making the conscious decision that I was a communist (I said to myself "Maaan...I'm a COMMUNIST!!!" LOL!!!) and the rest is history.

[CompadreGuerrillera]

RebelAfrika..... by any chance you were on the DP forums?
If you werent, im sorry, but i just had to check.

And, yes the Coup is cool! Have you direclty checked out the RCP? there pretty cool, and if u live in the area, go to Revolution Books, their bookstore.

peace

[rebelafrika]

>>RebelAfrika..... by any chance you were on the DP forums?<<

Yours truely ;)

Who dis be???

>>Have you direclty checked out the RCP? there pretty cool, and if u live in the area, go to Revolution Books, their bookstore.<<

Yes, I have delt with with RCP directly. I got comrades in the RCYB. I used to FREQUENT the "Revolution Books" bookstore in L.A. (Libros Revolucion).

[CompadreGuerrillera]

im not currently a member of DP forms, cause uh, when i registered there was some error and i never got the confirmation message or somehting like that, but anyways. i saw ur name there and now here&#33; aint that cool?

RCYB in L.A.? or in Berkley? Cause i got my comrades in da RCYB over here in Berkley. You have dealt with the RCP directly too huh? thats awesome, its a shame u in LA it be cool to talk to ya.

I aint a member, im just comrades with a lot of its members. I guess i dont wanna join organizations, i just wanna be loosley connected with em. I dont exactly see eye to eye wit em, but theyre still close comrades.

peace&#33;

[suffianr]

My family&#39;s exhibited socialist tendencies for many generations now. That&#39;s the best way to spread Socialism, I guess. Make it a long-standing family trait.

So, go forth and multiply. We need more of us around. :lol:

[mEds]

go forth and penetrate young wombs to make children&#33;

[cubist]

To be honest i was brought ub very liberal and humanitarian but it was a combination of my love of Rage against the machine and Punk music that i investigated, i bought the battle of mexico city a rage video it had clips about the strugles in mexico and the demonstrations against the WTO/IMF annual meeting protests and from there i researched into it.

[RED CHARO]

Growing up in early 80&#39;s Nicaragua, and my home in Mexico City being a half way house for ex Salvadorian guerillas, had a lot to do with it&#33;.......

[New Tolerance]

Well, my grandfarther was a Kommissar and a colonel in the Red Army...

... I grew up with him.