Greetings from a Latina revolutionary

[Rebelwithcause]

Hello comrades. I am glad I have finally found a leftist forum that unites and welcomes people from all branches of leftism. As for me, I don't identify as anarchist, marxist, socialist, communist, etc. I think it is enough to say that I have read literature from all of these political backgrounds and my main interest is to learn and connect with others who share similar political interests.

I was born and raised in New York. However, I am from the dominican republic. I got into leftist politics/thinking after taking a high school class with an extremely radical teacher who denounced capitalism and shattered reality for most of us. Ever since, I've really been on my own in terms of search for better tools for analyzing the current system we live in. But anywho, hopefully I'll get into some interesting discussions here and learn!

[Rjevan]

Hello and welcome to the forum! :)

[red cat]

Welcome :)

[Omsk]

Welcome!

[Thirsty Crow]

Hi and welcome to the forum :)

Don't hesitate to ask all kinds of question (the "learning" subforum would be the right place), hope you'll find the boards instuctive.

Oh yeah, and this:



I was born and raised in New York. However, I am from the dominican republic. I got into leftist politics/thinking after taking a high school class with an extremely radical teacher who denounced capitalism and shattered reality for most of us. Ever since, I've really been on my own in terms of search for better tools for analyzing the current system we live in. But anywho, hopefully I'll get into some interesting discussions here and learn!

Thanks for upholding my vision of what I could do as a teacher :D

[Rebelwithcause]

Hi and welcome to the forum


Thanks for upholding my vision of what I could do as a teacher :D

Indeed :)

[TheLeftStar]

Hey rebelwithcause good to know of your Dominican Republic ethnicity and Latin race. Great to read about your extremely radical teacher denouncing capitalism. Welcome to RevLeft!

[Comrade J]

^TheLeftStar, we generally don't consider "race" to exist other than as a social construct, to the left it means nothing :) I realise you're still fairly new and it is probably just semantics anyway, just a heads up!

Welcome to the forum Rebel, stick around, would love to hear about your teacher. There a few threads going on about education at the moment, sure you'd have some interesting points to raise.

[Commissar Rykov]

Welcome to the boards. Always good to see people eager to learn.

[TheLeftStar]

@comrade j that's your opinion, thanks anyway :)

[Comrade J]

@comrade j that's your opinion, thanks anyway :)

It is the opinion of all Marxists and Anarchists. It's not really an opinion tbh, you'll find that around here it is generally considered an absolute fact.

The key shared tenet of both Communism/Anarchism is that *class* is the sole division in society, and that a worker has more in common with a foreign worker of a different skin colour on the other side of the world, than he/she does with a member of the bourgeoise in their own country, speaking the same language with the same ethnicity as them.

'Race' doesn't mean anything at all, it is just a social construct used to create a pretense of difference between people, so that workers will blame immigrants to their country for their problems, rather than the ruling class.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

Hello comrades. I am glad I have finally found a leftist forum that unites and welcomes people from all branches of leftism. As for me, I don't identify as anarchist, marxist, socialist, communist, etc. I think it is enough to say that I have read literature from all of these political backgrounds and my main interest is to learn and connect with others who share similar political interests.

I was born and raised in New York. However, I am from the dominican republic. I got into leftist politics/thinking after taking a high school class with an extremely radical teacher who denounced capitalism and shattered reality for most of us. Ever since, I've really been on my own in terms of search for better tools for analyzing the current system we live in. But anywho, hopefully I'll get into some interesting discussions here and learn!

Second-generation Caribbean Immigrant Workers of the World, Unite! :P

I'm Cuban, btw. Good to see fellow [email protected] getting involved with the left. Have you heard of the anti-immigrant stuff going on down here in Georgia?

[ellipsis]

Hello comrades. I am glad I have finally found a leftist forum that unites and welcomes people from all branches of leftism. As for me, I don't identify as anarchist, marxist, socialist, communist, etc. I think it is enough to say that I have read literature from all of these political backgrounds and my main interest is to learn and connect with others who share similar political interests.

I was born and raised in New York. However, I am from the dominican republic. I got into leftist politics/thinking after taking a high school class with an extremely radical teacher who denounced capitalism and shattered reality for most of us. Ever since, I've really been on my own in terms of search for better tools for analyzing the current system we live in. But anywho, hopefully I'll get into some interesting discussions here and learn!

Welcome to the forum! If you haven't already, check out the newyorican(sp?) poet's cafe in NYC, some really awesome radical poets came out and go through that place.