Marburg
23rd April 2012, 17:52
Hello all, I am a leftist (consider myself a marxist, since most of the literature I've studied is Marx+Engels+ some Lenin and other socialists, and since I see it as the most neutral of the schools) from Slovenia (a small blob on the map between Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia, you've probably never heard of it :D). I've been a lurker here for some time now but figured it wouldn't hurt me to register on these here forums.
Sadly, the left is dead in our country - centre-left is all we have right now. Communism was, in my childhood, portrayed as an antagonizing demon, a horrible thing of the past if you will (this was, due to the Second World War, which helped the Communist Party of Yugoslavia to destroy the rightist government and which is still a big sore to some (read: most) of the people here - the rightists who returned to the country after the collapse of Yugoslavia. I only started getting interested in this movement about two years ago, when the crisis hit us the worst and my father lost his job in some factory due to the owner taking all of his money out of it.
The Communist Manifesto was the first piece of literature I laid my hands upon. After that, it became my quest to collect as much literature as I possibly could - a hard endeavour, since the libraries contain maybe 5 works each and all the second-hand bookstores only have some more (most I have bought and studied). Thankfully, this very forum (+ the marxist internet archive) has answered many questions of mine.
It is sad that the only communist organisation with any member (a hundrer) in our country is a group on Facebook, though it did at least host two meetings in two years.
Well, I hope this wasn't too much to read. :) I hope we can all cooperate and I will not be too much of a bother to you all with any questions regarding the Communist theory.
Cheers!
Sadly, the left is dead in our country - centre-left is all we have right now. Communism was, in my childhood, portrayed as an antagonizing demon, a horrible thing of the past if you will (this was, due to the Second World War, which helped the Communist Party of Yugoslavia to destroy the rightist government and which is still a big sore to some (read: most) of the people here - the rightists who returned to the country after the collapse of Yugoslavia. I only started getting interested in this movement about two years ago, when the crisis hit us the worst and my father lost his job in some factory due to the owner taking all of his money out of it.
The Communist Manifesto was the first piece of literature I laid my hands upon. After that, it became my quest to collect as much literature as I possibly could - a hard endeavour, since the libraries contain maybe 5 works each and all the second-hand bookstores only have some more (most I have bought and studied). Thankfully, this very forum (+ the marxist internet archive) has answered many questions of mine.
It is sad that the only communist organisation with any member (a hundrer) in our country is a group on Facebook, though it did at least host two meetings in two years.
Well, I hope this wasn't too much to read. :) I hope we can all cooperate and I will not be too much of a bother to you all with any questions regarding the Communist theory.
Cheers!