Confession and apology thread

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

This thread is for self criticism. Basically if you feel that you've done wrong then say it here. The whole purpose of this thread is so we can admit what we are doing wrong and try to improve on it. So for this purpose you are allowed to criticize the behavior of other members but remember that it is for the purpose

I for one admit that I am too dismissive of Trots. Many of the Trots here are actually pretty good people and despite my disagreements with them I should try even harder not to be sectarian and to engage them in honest debate. Also alot of people around here seem to be pretty devoted to the Kaufskite line, despite the fact that I don't agree with them I think it would be good of me to read this supposed "pre-revisionist" kaufsky that every one here seems to love. So if any of you have any recommendations to give me then I'd be welcome

Well that's it, if anyone else has any constructive criticism to give them I'm all ears. Otherwise you can post your perceived faults here and hope that the input of others will help you improve your conduct.

[Ostrinski]

This will probably turn into another PYHO but I cannot for the fucking life of me motivate myself to get my driver's license. I'm in college and my mother drives me to school (CC) but I'll be going to a university further away in a couple years and I need to get my license. I also want to get politically active and be able to go places but damn. Also cannot get job.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

This will probably turn into another PYHO but I cannot for the fucking life of me motivate myself to get my driver's license. I'm in college and my mother drives me to school (CC) but I'll be going to a university further away in a couple years and I need to get my license. I also want to get politically active and be able to go places but damn. Also cannot get job.

Yea I used to have that problem with drivers licence as well. The thing with me is that I have a few cognitive disorders associated with dyslexia so whenever I took a drivers tests I would always mistake what the tester said and do the complete opposite, which is kinda bad when you turn left on a red light.

It can be discouraging I know, but if you keep on trying then eventually you'll get it. Failing sucks but something that you have to realize is that driving testers tend to follow a strict guideline for their requirements that aren't applicable to real life. So if you're like me who failed 3 times you still might be a perfectly good driver who isn't that good at the test.

And I really need to get a job as well. I tried last year but admittedly I should have tried harder. This year I've got 4 AP classes so I don't really have time for a job but lately I've been trying to support my family by cutting wood so we don't have to pay for heat. Unfortunately my Maul broke a few days ago so I'm going to need to buy a new one before the storm comes on wensday.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

Excuse me for using Marxist slurs to describe my personal life, I'll probably sound like a nerd here, but I feel like in my love life I'm being a bit of a blanquist. I ask girls to go out with me for something to eat but I don't tell them that I mean it as a date, and then when they say yes I get all excited and tell all of my friends about the date I'm going to have. It's going to bite me in the ass eventually. I justify it by telling myself that my local (as in my neighborhood and the people who live in it) see the concept of a "date" as not really implying any formal relationship, thus making my usage of the word correct in that context. But I've got to start being honest with myself, my town is big and when I go to school I am exposed to people from all around the town and I know what most people think of when they hear the word "date", so culture isn't a valid excuse to any extent.

[Avanti]

in may 1991

i hit a girl in my class in the head

with a baseball bat

i did it because i wanted

to see what would happen

[Ilyich]

This is a relatively old thread but I'm thinking about "coming back" to RevLeft.com and I though I'd post here. I know I've posted a lot of dumb things in the past but, instead of me proclaiming my faults to you, I would appreciated if you would proclaim my perceived faults to me in a constructive way. In this way I hope to improve myself as a user (though, to improve myself, as a person will likely require more than an internet forum).

Kudos to YABM for this thread, btw!

[Bostana]

I don't kill spiders in my house because somewhere, I still think I can become spider-man

[MarxSchmarx]

This is a relatively old thread but I'm thinking about "coming back" to RevLeft.com and I though I'd post here. I know I've posted a lot of dumb things in the past but, instead of me proclaiming my faults to you, I would appreciated if you would proclaim my perceived faults to me in a constructive way. In this way I hope to improve myself as a user (though, to improve myself, as a person will likely require more than an internet forum).



Frankly I find posts like this egotistical in the extreme. If you want other posters to care about what you say, engage them and actively participate in developing this board not only on your own terms but in terms that others appreciate as well.

You are far from being the only user who operates like that but I think that kind of self-promotionalism can only hinder the leftist movement as a whole.

PS as far confessions/apologies go, I am less inclined to stroke other's egos.Should I play along more? Perhaps. But ulimately I htink the left has more than its share of little Napoleons/Lenins who think what they have to say is so unique it has never been said in the last hundred years by any one of the billions of leftists around the globe.

[Landsharks eat metal]

Confession: Even though I try to always be nice to everyone here, there are some people I really dislike and really piss me off and I hope it never shows but sometimes certain users are just so annoying I want to tell them how much I dislike them.

Sorry for maybe being more of an asshole than people thought :crying:

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I am too accepting of maoists and anarchists.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Frankly I find posts like this egotistical in the extreme. If you want other posters to care about what you say, engage them and actively participate in developing this board not only on your own terms but in terms that others appreciate as well.

You are far from being the only user who operates like that but I think that kind of self-promotionalism can only hinder the leftist movement as a whole.

PS as far confessions/apologies go, I am less inclined to stroke other's egos.Should I play along more? Perhaps. But ulimately I htink the left has more than its share of little Napoleons/Lenins who think what they have to say is so unique it has never been said in the last hundred years by any one of the billions of leftists around the globe.

^^yeah, this. I stopped taking this thread seriously (no offence, OP) when I saw 'self-criticism'. Reminds me of some cultists sitting around telling some poor guy/girl who they can marry, have sex with, what they should eat, who they should give their money to etc. Fuck that.

[Brutus]

Confession: Even though I try to always be nice to everyone here, there are some people I really dislike and really piss me off and I hope it never shows but sometimes certain users are just so annoying I want to tell them how much I dislike them.

Sorry for maybe being more of an asshole than people thought :crying:

Moi?

[Landsharks eat metal]

Moi?

Not going to say who, but I will assure you it is not you. Well, you do annoy me once in a while, but I don't hate you.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

I am too accepting of maoists and anarchists.

You forgot to say it was sarcasm!

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

You forgot to say it was sarcasm!

If I say that what I said was sarcastic, that would kind of defeat the purpose of sarcasm.

[Brutus]

If I say that what I said was sarcastic, that would kind of defeat the purpose of sarcasm.

That was sarcasm? You are too lenient to anarchists!
As long as there are still anarchists, we must not move away from our keyboards!

[Fourth Internationalist]

As long as there are still anarchists, we must not move away from our keyboards!

Lol :laugh:

[JPSartre12]

I'm too dismissive of Marxist-Leninists, Maoists, and Trotskyists. Even though I think that there may some philosophical points that I disagree with them on, they've had the opportunity to try to put of their ideas in practice. They've created a historical circumstance that we can look back on and educate ourselves.

I should start disregarding them less and start listening to them more. It would probably help me develop into a better socialist if I was able to put aside some of my own bias and pay better attention to what my comrades think.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I'm too dismissive of Marxist-Leninists, Maoists, and Trotskyists. Even though I think that there may some philosophical points that I disagree with them on, they've had the opportunity to try to put of their ideas in practice. They've created a historical circumstance that we can look back on and educate ourselves.

I should start disregarding them less and start listening to them more. It would probably help me develop into a better socialist if I was able to put aside some of my own bias and pay better attention to what my comrades think.

If we are to disregard materialism and say that they have made the circumstances and had the chance to put their ideas into; is it then not also so that the stalinists, trotskyists and maoists completely failed, and is it then not so that instead of being more accepting we should attack their failures every chance we get?

[GerrardWinstanley]

A lot of my posts are superfluous and sometimes have more to do with filling a silence than making an interesting point, so I need to rein that in.

I really should do more to defend my arguments on here too, instead of moving onto another topic when a discussion gets heated. It's only fair on my opponent.

[Akshay!]

I used to be an anarchist. :crying:

[evermilion]

I sometimes continue arguments far past the point at which I've realized I'm wrong because I get afraid I'm not as smart as I think I am.

[roy]

I used to be an anarchist. :crying:

Like a day or two ago? Welcome to the enlightened hard nosed authoritarian club!

[Akshay!]

Like a day or two ago? Welcome to the enlightened hard nosed authoritarian club!

It was a slow transition - took about 1 year - got the final push 2 or 3 days ago.

[Questionable]

Can we "self-criticize" for things not related to politics?

I dumped my two-year girlfriend to chase a new lady, but I didn't tell her that. I just cited some vague stuff about needing to "see life" as my reason.

Things fizzled out with the new girl, and I realized that no one ever loved me the way my ex did, and probably never will. So now I'm trying to make amends and get back together with her.

She still has no clue that the other girl even exists, and I'm too scared to tell her because what little trust she has left in me will evaporate if she thinks I'm one of "those guys."

[Luís Henrique]

I'm always suspicious that this kind of thread will degenerate into a witch-hunt against those who confess too much or too freely.

Now you are free to try and witch-hunt me.

Luís Henrique