Hello comrades!

[Tuggback]

So... new here. I am a 30+ years old swede, equipped with male genitalia. I have been lurking here for som time now before I finally decided to register.

I am not sure of what to write about myself (and I am honestly not that used to writing in English). I started off my political "career" in the swedish anarchosyndicalistical youth club in the 90´s and i was active there for a couple of years. After that adolescense ended and I had to get a job, so I joined SAC but due to always being the only syndicalist at every workplace I wasnt very active there. A few years later my first child was born and I didn´t have a lot of time for anything political since I was working half-time and at the same time studying to become a teacher.

The last couple of years I have started to become more active. I joined the swedish Left Party after the disastrous election of 2010 when the fascist party Sverigedemokraterna entered the parliament and I have been quite active in my local party affiliation. Lately though, I am becoming more and more disillusioned with the Left Party. It is a reformist party and that is not likely to change. True change will not be achieved through reforms. I have lately started re-reading Lenin, Trotsky and Luxemburg, so I guess we will see what happens...

[Q]

Welcome :)

We have some other Swedes on board and we have a Scandinavian subforum (http://www.revleft.com/vb/skandinavisk-f35/index.html) too.

You say you've been re-reading Lenin, Trotsky and Luxemburg, does that mean that you've been moving away from syndicalism or are you combining the two? Trotskyism, as a current, has also been pretty trade unionist for example.

[Tuggback]

Yes I think so. The constant bickering and the infighting in the syndicalist movement (SAC isn´t really anarchosyndicalist) led me to believe years ago the for some sort of unified movement and democratic centralism. I would probably have joined one of the trotskyist groups years ago if it wasn´t for the ridiculous amount of splinter groups. I still haven´t decided what to do really, all that I know is that I want to be a part of a movement for socialism, not a movement for a somewhat nicer keynesian capitalism.

[Tuggback]

Given all this, I do think that the SAC has done an admirable job in organizing illegal immigrants, and their role as a militant union is a very important one. But I have come to the conclusion that we will never see the Bourgeois State toppled and replaced by a workers state without a vanguard revolutionary communist party. And without that we will never see socialism. So I guess you could say that I am still searching for what could be the embryo of that party.

[Fourth Internationalist]

Welcome to RevLeft! :D