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Fnord
7th January 2013, 18:40
Lately I've been having alot of political frustration that has been making it difficult to hold on to an ideology, or any at all for that matter.
I was wondering if I could get some help organizing my thoughts and if there was any label that fit me.

I agree with anarchism that society must be non-hierarchical as possible in socialism, but I disagree that this can be achieved immediately after revolution and instead a minimal state should be used as a placeholder until after complete global revolution has taken place.

I support most of participatory economics and I am critical of time-based currency such as labor notes, but I have my own concepts outside of parecon such as the idea of class evolution and eternal revolution as well. Though I also identify with a large portion of Situationist concepts and find there is much to learn from Marxism as well.

What I'm finding difficult is that most of my political ideas come from outside of any ideology so I can't find anything that matches it so far, I am beginning to become critical of ideological labels as well but I'm not sure if I should still use it so it's easier to tell people what I think.

Brutus
7th January 2013, 18:50
I would say you fall into the libertarian communist category, there is a group here on rev left where you could ask more questions about it.
This comes from someone who knows practically nothing about libertarian communism, but I thought I would attempt to be of some use

Clarksonist
7th January 2013, 19:34
Well by the sounds of it, it seems like you fit in pretty well with Libertarian Socialism given your sympathy for anarchism and support of decentralization. I think Robin Hanhel has even referred to participatory economics as a variation of libertarian socialism. Its kinds of a general blanket term covering anything from like anarchism to council communism (which are all pretty similar i guess). That being said, i dont think having a specific label is actually necessary and its not worth conforming to ideologies you don't entirely agree with all for the sake of having a label. If you havent an ideology that goes along with a specific label just do your own thing I guess, nothing wrong with that :)