escapingNihilism
14th April 2012, 23:37
I've been aware of this site since about 2007, and have read it at various points of intrigue since. decided just now to register. I post at another political message board and have for almost a decade, and I am not about to stop, but I've grown tired of a lot of the discussions there -- you want 'false consciousness' to smack you in the head, watch teenage liberals and conservatives and right-libertarians duke it out over gay marriage.
so, as for who I am: 21, about to graduate Cornell University, heading to law school in the fall. (hopefully going the route of the National Lawyers Guild, serving the 'Revolution' in one capacity or another). as for the Revolution, I view it more as a spiritual or individual thing at this stage. I am a spiritual rebel and revolutionary before I am an intellectual and rational Marxist. and I think, in Left history, if we had all been in tune more towards each others' sense of spiritual rebellion, some of the factionalist tragedies may have been avoided.
also, in full disclosure, I come from a well-off background. 'upper-middle class', if you will; parents were not exploiters, but both were educated and thus had stores of human capital that they could use to draw salaries and pensions that place them well, well above struggling for subsistence, and I am the beneficiary of all that.
so, as for who I am: 21, about to graduate Cornell University, heading to law school in the fall. (hopefully going the route of the National Lawyers Guild, serving the 'Revolution' in one capacity or another). as for the Revolution, I view it more as a spiritual or individual thing at this stage. I am a spiritual rebel and revolutionary before I am an intellectual and rational Marxist. and I think, in Left history, if we had all been in tune more towards each others' sense of spiritual rebellion, some of the factionalist tragedies may have been avoided.
also, in full disclosure, I come from a well-off background. 'upper-middle class', if you will; parents were not exploiters, but both were educated and thus had stores of human capital that they could use to draw salaries and pensions that place them well, well above struggling for subsistence, and I am the beneficiary of all that.