How many 'comrades' do you have?

[Blanquist]

In your area, how many 'comrades' are you close with?

I actually don't talk politics for the most part so zero.

[Blanquist]

Someday I hope to meet my Engels..:sleep:

[Bronco]

I'm a lone wolf

[Landsharks eat metal]

I've never met a fellow revolutionary leftist in my life.
It's lonely here.
If I ever manage to join the IWW, that would change, though.

[Zav]

I've never met a fellow revolutionary leftist in my life.
It's lonely here.
If I ever manage to join the IWW, that would change, though.
What are you waiting for? There's always room for more amongst Wobblies. Here, have a virtual Joe Hill-shaped cookie in celebration of May Day.

I know of three fellow Radicals in my immediate area. Two are involved in the Radical Environmentalist movement and the other I am not sure about, although I suspect is a Marxist. Then there are my numerous comrades in the Union.

[Deicide]

I don't know a single Communist in real life or anyone that's interested in politics past a superficial level.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I live in the Bay Area - lots. Still not enough, but too many sometimes:lol:.

[Landsharks eat metal]

What are you waiting for?
To move out so my parents will no longer have control over me :/

[Yefim Zverev]

I don't know a single Communist in real life or anyone that's interested in politics past a superficial level.

no surprise with this attitude

[OnlyCommunistYouKnow]

I'm certain I'm one in about three communists in my school of 600+.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Fair chunk. Got a good two dozen or so in my city, and then that number slowly rises if you start incorporating cities an hour away, two hours away, three...
Joining the IWW opened up a whole new world of amazing people to me :) Solid comrades and friends, them wobs!

[hatzel]

I live in London. Therefore I could easily find plenty of fellows, whatever my particular fetish might be. Wait what?

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I have like one "comrade". He calls himself a Libertarian Marxist, but in reality he's just your run of the mill liberal. So talking politics with him is annoying as fuck, plus his personality is shitty to and he's altogether a shitty person. So I rarely talk to that guy.

Also my cousin is an anarchist, but we were comrades before we were leftists :)

[TheGodlessUtopian]

That I am close with? Like met in real life? I have only met a few comrades in real life and it wasn't for very long so I can't really say that I am close with them.Maybe a couple online ones I have good chemistry with but in real life... that just isn't possible.

[Nox]

I've met two in a coffee shop but never spoke to them again, which was when I wanted to join the Anarchist Federation but never bothered to join.

I will hopefully meet some in university as the university I plan on going to has a leftist society but I'm pretty sure it's just gonna be some sort of liberal white guilt fest.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Zero

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

I only know one 'comrade', in real life. Then again, we spoke because he had a Che tattoo on his forearm. We only speak when we come across each-other around town. So none I guess; since I don't speak with him on a regular basis.

EDIT : Made some spelling corrections.

[CommieTroll]

None, I'm pretty much on my own politically.

[NewLeft]

I am that awkward introverted guy at demos.. I know around 5 other 'comrades,' but I don't keep in touch.

Hey, maybe I'll meet someone at May Day tomorrow.

MAY DAY 2012!

[ColonelCossack]

I know some pretentious pseudo-socialist liberals. Tons of them. But they don't count.

[hatzel]

I don't actually recognise the distinction between 'comrade' and 'non-comrade,' by the way...

[Sam_b]

Depends what you mean by 'close'. If you mean in the sense of working together on projects and having a dialogue at least a hundred, but i've been around for a while.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I don't actually recognise the distinction between 'comrade' and 'non-comrade,' by the way...

For me it is simple....

Comrade: A revolutionary anti-capitalist leftist

Non-comrade: Reactionary non-revolutionary pro-capitalist

[Nox]

I've met two in a coffee shop but never spoke to them again, which was when I wanted to join the Anarchist Federation but never bothered to join.


To elaborate on this, it was fucking hilarious, they were very shady, when I was emailing the guy he was like "meet me outside ______ at 1:00pm, I will be wearing a checkered shirt, next to me there will be stood a female with purple hair"

[The Jay]

Hmmm purple hair, the most revolutionary of all hair colors . . .


To answer the question, none IRL. It's a shame really.

[BOZG]

Too many.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

4

2 co-workers and 2 that I have been friends with since I was a kid.
Possibly 5 though because my dad is interested in this stuff now :cool:

EDIT: 2 are Stalinists, 1 is a anarchist, and 1 is a Trotskyist.

[Raúl Duke]

0-3

[Lobotomy]

I have recently made friends with a small handful of anarchists, and then I have one other friend whose politics are more similar to my own. all in all <5

[Caj]

I have one or two comrades at my school whom I converted to revolutionary leftism, but that's it.

[NewLeft]

I have one or two comrades at my school whom I converted to revolutionary leftism, but that's it.
Haha, converted?!

Yeah, I brought my friend to church once. He found Marx. :D

[TheRedAnarchist23]

I have 1, and I am actively teaching anarchism to another of my friends.

[Caj]

Haha, converted?!

Yeah, I brought my friend to church once. He found Marx. :D

Lol

For lack of a better word. :D

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Nil

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I have a few friends that think communism is good but don't really know much about it.

[Crux]

Depends on what you mean by "your area", the local left scene is pretty non-existant for the most time and our own group is pretty small, but that's just the way of some smaller towns really. Hopefully we can change that and start expanding our organization more. BUt given that some seem to have read the question as "how many self-described revolutionary leftists do I know?" uhm...many. I've moved around quite a bit as well.

[Quail]

I know quite a few. There are quite a few anarchists in Sheffield. There are quite a lot of trots too, but I don't really know any of them.

[NorwegianCommunist]

I don't know anybody who is interessted in communism. 50% of my school are close to republican and 50% don't give a shit.
So basically zero.

I would actually love to have a communist friend! =(

[TheRedAnarchist23]

I don't know anybody who is interessted in communism. 50% of my school are close to republican and 50% don't give a shit.


There must be people with liberal-like ideals, find those and teach them communism, thats what I do:D

[The Intransigent Faction]

None. :( My campus has a few self-identified "Objectivists", other right-wingers, and many liberals more than anything.

I do have one really good friend who lives up in Sudbury (Ontario) but comes down here for university, who I could best describe as a "democratic socialist", somewhere just on the border of being a fellow communist but not yet convinced a revolution would "work" and maybe just a bit too optimistic about the possibility to 'gradually reform into socialism'.

My liberal friends act all progressive and shit, and some of them are really involved in promoting LGBTQ rights or have even been down to Occupy, but then they make the occasional 'patriotic' remark and don't respond well to internationalism, dismiss communism as "too extreme", or encourage me to "vote Liberal because anything's at least better than the Conservatives".

[Ostrinski]

None, libertarianism seems to be what's in vogue amongst studentfolk nowadays.

[Manic Impressive]

My party in my area are like a second family

[Conscript]

I met a green who didn't care about my redness. That's actually pretty good considering I live in the middle of nowhere (south jersey pinelands).

[Yuppie Grinder]

I know a lot of middle class high school students who are going through the "socialist" phase to piss off their parents.

[The Machine]

i got comrades who kill comrades

we deep

[#FF0000]

a lot of my close friends have drifted towards my political affiliation over the years. They don't like, read marx or anything like that (save for a few), but they are very generally anti-capitalist.

[Agent Ducky]

I have an awesome anarchist friend who I invited to revleft... There's that one guy I converted but doesn't know much about communism in general.... There's James the Trot... There's the guy who wants to start the socialist club with me... I feel like there are more I'm forgetting about. Oh. And I've pretty much got my little brother down with my ideas.

[Rusty Shackleford]

plenty

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

I have one or two comrades at my school whom I converted to revolutionary leftism, but that's it.

Well, this is what i do.. just not in real life. If i were to talk to people in real life, and they would say something idiotic, i would probably jump up and down, grab them by their collar and make a fool out of myself. At least over the internet i can jump up and down in my chair, curse, spurt vile sentences and erase them, and no one notices. That said, i pushed my dad over one time out of anger at a discussion with me saying corporations are institutions of psychotic profitmaximization and have no morality in their existence, and him responding "nooo..." i sort of lost it and knew i wasn't up to being a marxist in real life. So i'm basically confined to only being a marxist on the internet, and i guess a violent intolerant stalinist-anarchist-smash-every-resistance-to-my-opionion-that-moves kind of person in real life. I have actually read a book on anger control, it just doesn't help;
I am though quite successful at converting stupid assholes into communists on the internet. I know i have completely cleared up what communism is and brought it closer to a lot of people, if not outright turned them to appreciate the ideas...

[honest john's firing squad]

i know a dude who lives on the other side of the country. we generally keep in touch and when he comes down to my city again im gonna get on the goon bag w/ him.

[corolla]

get on the goon bag w/ him

Get on the what with him...? Is that something homoerotic?

[honest john's firing squad]

en.wikipedia [dot] org/wiki/Box_wine

can't post links yet.

[Crux]

a lot of my close friends have drifted towards my political affiliation over the years. They don't like, read marx or anything like that (save for a few), but they are very generally anti-capitalist.
I actually find that a lot of my old friends are suprisingly, for me anyway, political these days.

[Panda Tse Tung]

Depends on what you see as close, but within a 5km range it's 6. If you mean close personally, it's 2.

[#FF0000]

I actually find that a lot of my old friends are suprisingly, for me anyway, political these days.

i remember i was walking down the street one day and this girl I hadn't seen since high school drove past, slammed the brakes, reversed up to me and leaned out the window and was like "OH SHIT #FF0000 I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN FOREVER EVERYTHING YOU SAID ABOUT CAPITALISM WAS RIGHT HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?"

[Stadtsmasher]

Since my "area" is the Internet and the world, every Comrade on planet earth is my Comrade! :laugh:

[Aloysius]

None. No Marxists, anyway. I've got a conservative friend that wants to watch the world burn, a couple friends that don't use an ass-load of conservative slogans in their arguments, and one friend on the very cusp of embracing the hammer and sickle. I just have to explain what incentive to work in a communist society would be.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

One, and he agrees with every single thing I say! We are so ideologically close that I feel like we're one person! The only problem is that he insists on only coming around when I'm standing in front of a mirror.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

One, and he agrees with every single thing I say! We are so ideologically close that I feel like we're one person! The only problem is that he insists on only coming around when I'm standing in front of a mirror.

So you would be pretty lonely if your mirror broke,huh?

That reminds me: you remind me of a young Facebook friend of mine;Hoxha loving,Trotsky hating... you two would probably make a good pair... *shudders* lol