Lisboa
22nd February 2012, 15:02
Brazilian member presenting!
Never knew what to write when people ask me to write about me, but, let's give it a try. I'll try to follow the steps on the guide for introductions.
I'm finishing high school this year, and I'm trying to go to medicine school. I'm thinking about subscribing to ELAM (Escuela Latino-Americana de Medicina) in Cuba, but I think that in Brazil they only accept people from social movements and etc.
Well, as I said, I'm from Brazil, and the leftist scene here is very weak, socialism wasn't never a mass movement here, anarchism is even weaker. The workers in Brazil never had contact with those ideologies. Those ideologies are kind of "restricted" to college students. You can only find a "strong" marxist presence in Brazil going to universities, but nothing compared to Greece for example.
Well, I don't subscribe to any kind of branch of socialism. Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, I don't condemn any of them. I don't think that Stalin was such that terrible murderer, but I also don't believe that Trotsky was that pig that allied with fascism. I'm kinda suspicious with both of them. And Mao, just like Stalin, I think that's nothing more than anti-communist propaganda all that bullshit about both of them killing hundreds of million people and blablabla Stalin ate children blablabla.
And about the way I became a leftist, it was a strange way. Even before I started studying ideologies, and became a socialist, I got familiarized with the Palestinian cause, and I started to realize that every site that defended the struggle of Palestinians were leftist, and every Zionist site were related to the right-wing. I didnt know what was that, but I started to consider myself a leftist, and for a long time I was a leftist but without knowing shit about any ideology. But someday I decided that I would know what the fuck was the so called socialism and why Karl Marx was so famous (I knew him already, but had never read anything from him) and them, here I am, almost 2 years later... :D
Never knew what to write when people ask me to write about me, but, let's give it a try. I'll try to follow the steps on the guide for introductions.
I'm finishing high school this year, and I'm trying to go to medicine school. I'm thinking about subscribing to ELAM (Escuela Latino-Americana de Medicina) in Cuba, but I think that in Brazil they only accept people from social movements and etc.
Well, as I said, I'm from Brazil, and the leftist scene here is very weak, socialism wasn't never a mass movement here, anarchism is even weaker. The workers in Brazil never had contact with those ideologies. Those ideologies are kind of "restricted" to college students. You can only find a "strong" marxist presence in Brazil going to universities, but nothing compared to Greece for example.
Well, I don't subscribe to any kind of branch of socialism. Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, I don't condemn any of them. I don't think that Stalin was such that terrible murderer, but I also don't believe that Trotsky was that pig that allied with fascism. I'm kinda suspicious with both of them. And Mao, just like Stalin, I think that's nothing more than anti-communist propaganda all that bullshit about both of them killing hundreds of million people and blablabla Stalin ate children blablabla.
And about the way I became a leftist, it was a strange way. Even before I started studying ideologies, and became a socialist, I got familiarized with the Palestinian cause, and I started to realize that every site that defended the struggle of Palestinians were leftist, and every Zionist site were related to the right-wing. I didnt know what was that, but I started to consider myself a leftist, and for a long time I was a leftist but without knowing shit about any ideology. But someday I decided that I would know what the fuck was the so called socialism and why Karl Marx was so famous (I knew him already, but had never read anything from him) and them, here I am, almost 2 years later... :D