Mashaka
24th August 2011, 11:59
Hello all,
It being always polite, and typically advantageous, to introduce yourself, I suppose I will.
As for my background, I lived in Tennessee, USA, until I was fifteen, at which point my father's work took us to Indiana, where I finished high school and went to university. I've been a few odd credits short of my bachelor's, with majors in Economics and Philosophy, for a couple years now.
I tend to self-identify with - and to think in terms of - broad ideologies and schools of thought, or spectra thereof. I'm an anarchist and a socialist. There are many and varied trends that fall under the banner of socialism (and here I mean genuine revolutionary socialism), leaving a great wealth of material to explore and digest. At twenty-four years old, I have much to learn, and as such it might be hasty to fall into a particular, narrow strain of revolutionary socialism.
My strongest interest is in 'raw' theory - the philosophical foundations of various socialist theories, and the manner in which higher-level ideological and practical considerations arise from and relate to the philosophical underpinnings of a theory or ideology. I've gone on for a while here already, so I'll refrain from giving my opinions on any particular writers, revolutionists, or schools of thought.
I would be overjoyed if anyone else has a similar background in studying capitalist economics from a sterile, uncritical (pro-capitalist) academic standpoint, and would like to discuss matters in and related to that field. I have had little opportunity to work with others in the analysis and criticism of capitalist economics from a socialist perspective.
I'll see you all around
- Mashaka
[email protected]
It being always polite, and typically advantageous, to introduce yourself, I suppose I will.
As for my background, I lived in Tennessee, USA, until I was fifteen, at which point my father's work took us to Indiana, where I finished high school and went to university. I've been a few odd credits short of my bachelor's, with majors in Economics and Philosophy, for a couple years now.
I tend to self-identify with - and to think in terms of - broad ideologies and schools of thought, or spectra thereof. I'm an anarchist and a socialist. There are many and varied trends that fall under the banner of socialism (and here I mean genuine revolutionary socialism), leaving a great wealth of material to explore and digest. At twenty-four years old, I have much to learn, and as such it might be hasty to fall into a particular, narrow strain of revolutionary socialism.
My strongest interest is in 'raw' theory - the philosophical foundations of various socialist theories, and the manner in which higher-level ideological and practical considerations arise from and relate to the philosophical underpinnings of a theory or ideology. I've gone on for a while here already, so I'll refrain from giving my opinions on any particular writers, revolutionists, or schools of thought.
I would be overjoyed if anyone else has a similar background in studying capitalist economics from a sterile, uncritical (pro-capitalist) academic standpoint, and would like to discuss matters in and related to that field. I have had little opportunity to work with others in the analysis and criticism of capitalist economics from a socialist perspective.
I'll see you all around
- Mashaka
[email protected]