Josef Halar
12th March 2012, 05:56
Hello there, comrades (I feel funny typing this word. I am very much used to the Hollywood Cold War-pinko-stereotypes with it, but I nevertheless feel proud to say it in its true sense and dignity).
I am a Canadian. I was raised in a quite comfortable working-class family in Southern Ontario, and my political views have been shaped more from self-education and a sense of moral obligation than of personal resentment or disenfranchisement. I am a fourth-year university undergraduate studying Classics, but my interests are much, much broader than just dead languages.
I am without a doubt a leftist and a humanist and have always been so. This is however really the first social step I have taken in acting out my beliefs and I feel ashamed to have waited until so late in my life (for me, I'm 21) to do so. I want to make up for lost time and wasted energy.
I suppose that I can say my deepest sympathies lie with the anti-authoritarian left, such as Anarchist Communist, anarcho-syndicalist, &c., although I consider communists and mainstream socialists to be ideological allies. Really any person with a capacity for critical and reflective thought ought to be thought of as an ally, as well as the unlearned, ignorant, and brainwashed--we are all in this together.
What I hope to gain in being a member of this community is the oppurtunity to engage in serious debate regarding the path our world is taking, as well as to work together with people from around the world (and if I can arrange it, fellow leftists in my own area whom I don't know) in opposing and resisting the psychotic forces which are making a mockery of the most elementary expectations of human decency for the vast majority of the planet, and who are slowly pressing those artifically free, first-world bourgeois members of humanity (like myself) into the miserable condition of the average human being, while raping the biosphere and plundering/squandering the Earth's precious resources, thus endangering not only hope for human happiness but human existence.
I want to see, before I die, a worldwide revolution that would ensure freedom and justice for every living person on the planet. I want to see a world where people are free to live and work and to pursue their curiosities and best aspirations, where to love is the only law, where all forms of oppression are destroyed utterly and finally. I am not so naive an idealist, but I see no reason to wish for any less than as free and just a world as possible, whatever that may be.
If I am privileged enough to live in the age where this revolution takes place (and I don't believe we can afford for it to be any other), I want nothing less than to be a part of it and die having left a better world for our children.
I am a Canadian. I was raised in a quite comfortable working-class family in Southern Ontario, and my political views have been shaped more from self-education and a sense of moral obligation than of personal resentment or disenfranchisement. I am a fourth-year university undergraduate studying Classics, but my interests are much, much broader than just dead languages.
I am without a doubt a leftist and a humanist and have always been so. This is however really the first social step I have taken in acting out my beliefs and I feel ashamed to have waited until so late in my life (for me, I'm 21) to do so. I want to make up for lost time and wasted energy.
I suppose that I can say my deepest sympathies lie with the anti-authoritarian left, such as Anarchist Communist, anarcho-syndicalist, &c., although I consider communists and mainstream socialists to be ideological allies. Really any person with a capacity for critical and reflective thought ought to be thought of as an ally, as well as the unlearned, ignorant, and brainwashed--we are all in this together.
What I hope to gain in being a member of this community is the oppurtunity to engage in serious debate regarding the path our world is taking, as well as to work together with people from around the world (and if I can arrange it, fellow leftists in my own area whom I don't know) in opposing and resisting the psychotic forces which are making a mockery of the most elementary expectations of human decency for the vast majority of the planet, and who are slowly pressing those artifically free, first-world bourgeois members of humanity (like myself) into the miserable condition of the average human being, while raping the biosphere and plundering/squandering the Earth's precious resources, thus endangering not only hope for human happiness but human existence.
I want to see, before I die, a worldwide revolution that would ensure freedom and justice for every living person on the planet. I want to see a world where people are free to live and work and to pursue their curiosities and best aspirations, where to love is the only law, where all forms of oppression are destroyed utterly and finally. I am not so naive an idealist, but I see no reason to wish for any less than as free and just a world as possible, whatever that may be.
If I am privileged enough to live in the age where this revolution takes place (and I don't believe we can afford for it to be any other), I want nothing less than to be a part of it and die having left a better world for our children.