Patagonia
5th October 2011, 03:14
Hello comrades! As my nickname reveals, I'm from Patagonia, southern Argentina. I've been looking around for a forum like this for a few weeks now. I read about RevLeft on 4chan's /int/.
As a young teenager I often thought about why poor people were poor (and why they stayed poor), why people rioted and stole things, why the police was so hated around here and stuff like that (I witnessed all of this because of the economic/social crisis of '00/'01). With time I found myself kinda like proposing imaginary solutions to all of the problems I found. Of course I didn't do anything about it, I did it like a mental exercise. As I grew older I stayed away from the typical mainstream activities of the youth (clubbing, partying, drinking their lives, etc) and found solace in literature, history, roleplaying games, heavy metal culture, and the such. I sorrounded myself with friends of shared interests, of course.
A few months ago I started reading about anarchism and communism. I had always felt "something" when looking at Che's famous photograph, or reading about anarchists here in Patagonia a few years ago. But I wanted to "get serious" and find out what was this all about. I've mostly read scattered stuff, Engels, a bit of Marx, some of Che's work. But I've read Kropotkin's "The Conquer of Bread" not so long ago (and re-read it 4 times now) and found that it just fits with everything I had ever thought about society, economics, government, etc; you know, "how things should be". I'm on my way to reading "Mutual Aid" now, and I just can't stop thinking about all of this stuff.
That's it, I think. Salutations (:
As a young teenager I often thought about why poor people were poor (and why they stayed poor), why people rioted and stole things, why the police was so hated around here and stuff like that (I witnessed all of this because of the economic/social crisis of '00/'01). With time I found myself kinda like proposing imaginary solutions to all of the problems I found. Of course I didn't do anything about it, I did it like a mental exercise. As I grew older I stayed away from the typical mainstream activities of the youth (clubbing, partying, drinking their lives, etc) and found solace in literature, history, roleplaying games, heavy metal culture, and the such. I sorrounded myself with friends of shared interests, of course.
A few months ago I started reading about anarchism and communism. I had always felt "something" when looking at Che's famous photograph, or reading about anarchists here in Patagonia a few years ago. But I wanted to "get serious" and find out what was this all about. I've mostly read scattered stuff, Engels, a bit of Marx, some of Che's work. But I've read Kropotkin's "The Conquer of Bread" not so long ago (and re-read it 4 times now) and found that it just fits with everything I had ever thought about society, economics, government, etc; you know, "how things should be". I'm on my way to reading "Mutual Aid" now, and I just can't stop thinking about all of this stuff.
That's it, I think. Salutations (: