Arilou Lalee'lay
1st April 2011, 21:24
Hi! Everyone calls me sandwich artist but you can call me Councilist. I had some more creative usernames picked out (weltanschauung achieved! was one) but the verification emails for those accounts died somewhere in the tubes. The only ones that seem to escape some invisible spam folder are the ones sent to my yahoo email, so Councilist it is!
Needless to say, I agree with much of what the council communists of the mid twentieth century had to say. I know about them mainly through situationist readings, however. I have been more influenced by the situationists than any other group.
Here's my intellectual genealogy: in high school a certain charismatic post-scarcity anarchist won me over from the mainstream "everything but capitalism is evil tyranny" line after very extensive arguments. If I have a hero, it's that anarchist, for his unyielding patience and kindness. If you are interested in that person's writings to see what works with convincing gullible high schoolers, PM me.
Then I went to college and my profs introduced me to lots of reformist, but very useful, stuff. One of my professors recommended that I read After Capitalism, by David Schweickart. After reading this I realized that Marx and the socialists shared most of the anarchist ideas that I liked, but that they made much more sense in the Marxist framework.
A couple years later I came across the Wikipedia page for hypergraphy. I was mildly interested and found my way to the SI page. "Holy crap!" I thought, "this is it! This incorporates all the critiques I've made and all the thoughts I've been having lately! Why don't more people know about this?!?"
Since then I've been planning several pamphlets, meetings, pranks, etc. But I've been wilting in isolation, so I came here, where I was overjoyed to find a situationist group.
So, again, greetings comrades! I'm glad to finally have some like-minded people to talk to. Oh, and the first line was a Miss Lonelyhearts reference if you were wondering. I wrote most of the wikipedia page on it if you're interested in the novel. It's an excellent read and can be found on the Australian project Gutenberg.
Needless to say, I agree with much of what the council communists of the mid twentieth century had to say. I know about them mainly through situationist readings, however. I have been more influenced by the situationists than any other group.
Here's my intellectual genealogy: in high school a certain charismatic post-scarcity anarchist won me over from the mainstream "everything but capitalism is evil tyranny" line after very extensive arguments. If I have a hero, it's that anarchist, for his unyielding patience and kindness. If you are interested in that person's writings to see what works with convincing gullible high schoolers, PM me.
Then I went to college and my profs introduced me to lots of reformist, but very useful, stuff. One of my professors recommended that I read After Capitalism, by David Schweickart. After reading this I realized that Marx and the socialists shared most of the anarchist ideas that I liked, but that they made much more sense in the Marxist framework.
A couple years later I came across the Wikipedia page for hypergraphy. I was mildly interested and found my way to the SI page. "Holy crap!" I thought, "this is it! This incorporates all the critiques I've made and all the thoughts I've been having lately! Why don't more people know about this?!?"
Since then I've been planning several pamphlets, meetings, pranks, etc. But I've been wilting in isolation, so I came here, where I was overjoyed to find a situationist group.
So, again, greetings comrades! I'm glad to finally have some like-minded people to talk to. Oh, and the first line was a Miss Lonelyhearts reference if you were wondering. I wrote most of the wikipedia page on it if you're interested in the novel. It's an excellent read and can be found on the Australian project Gutenberg.