Estragon
23rd March 2013, 01:50
Hi all,
I've been lurking for about a year. I'm 32 years old, educated but underemployed, and I'll be honest-- I've not always been sympathetic to left-wing thinking. For a number of years I was a libertarian, and for the past few I've been your garden variety liberal with Nordic socialist tendencies. Emotionally I can't help but appreciate how Capitalism goads innovation, but when you look at how the Developing world is exploited to bankroll the West's toys, the degradation of the environment, the erosion of Democracy in the U.S. and so on (all the dreary afflictions of wealth), my intellect cannot deny the human and ecological cost.
So I'm an anti-capitalist, but an unmoored one. The idea of violence disturbs me, and by temperament I don't much like much agitation, but intellectual honesty compels me to take a stand. And so I do.
May I ask an honest question? I notice that a lot of the commenters on various threads have been banned. The little I've read of these folks isn't especially egregious-- I don't recall any fascistic spouting, republican posturing, ad hominem attacks, etc. What are the grounds for banning? I worry that I might fall to the axe myself just by working out a coherent position.
Thanks!!
I've been lurking for about a year. I'm 32 years old, educated but underemployed, and I'll be honest-- I've not always been sympathetic to left-wing thinking. For a number of years I was a libertarian, and for the past few I've been your garden variety liberal with Nordic socialist tendencies. Emotionally I can't help but appreciate how Capitalism goads innovation, but when you look at how the Developing world is exploited to bankroll the West's toys, the degradation of the environment, the erosion of Democracy in the U.S. and so on (all the dreary afflictions of wealth), my intellect cannot deny the human and ecological cost.
So I'm an anti-capitalist, but an unmoored one. The idea of violence disturbs me, and by temperament I don't much like much agitation, but intellectual honesty compels me to take a stand. And so I do.
May I ask an honest question? I notice that a lot of the commenters on various threads have been banned. The little I've read of these folks isn't especially egregious-- I don't recall any fascistic spouting, republican posturing, ad hominem attacks, etc. What are the grounds for banning? I worry that I might fall to the axe myself just by working out a coherent position.
Thanks!!