A Recent Converts Introduction

[Forli]

Hello,

As my thread title would suggest I am a very recent convert to the Marxist/Socialist cause. I am currently living in the country of my birth, the United Kingdom. However, I am first and foremost an Internationalist.

I was introduced to Marx and Engels very recently and I am currently familiarising myself with their texts; having not ventured into the volatile world of tendencies yet!

Ah, I am also Straight Edge too. But try not to hold that against me!

Look forward to speaking with you all.

Forli.

[Q]

Welcome :)

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[chase63]

Ah, I am also Straight Edge too. But try not to hold that against me!


sXe brother. Stay clean and clear minded for the revolution!

[a_wild_MAGIKARP]

Welcome, comrade.:):hammersickle:

I'm just wondering, what were you before? Did you just not care much about politics..?

[Forli]

sXe brother. Stay clean and clear minded for the revolution!

Cheers man! Glad to know I'm not alone. Though I'd be in for some stick, doesn't usually go down well.

[Forli]

Welcome, comrade.:):hammersickle:

I'm just wondering, what were you before? Did you just not care much about politics..?

I've always been political. I was a member of the Labour Party (UK). But once I had read Marx, and the prism through which he viewed capitalism, I knew there was no way I could subscribe to capitalistic politics again. For me the Communist Manifesto is the most powerful and beautiful piece of political writing I have ever read.

[Q]

I've always been political. I was a member of the Labour Party (UK). But once I had read Marx, and the prism through which he viewed capitalism, I knew there was no way I could subscribe to capitalistic politics again. For me the Communist Manifesto is the most powerful and beautiful piece of political writing I have ever read.

There are quite a few Marxist groups in the Labour Party though. Labour Party Marxists (http://labourpartymarxists.org.uk/) being one that comes to mind.

Not to say you have to rejoin per se of course.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

Well if you are new then I suggest that you read Fredrick Engel's Law of Value and Rate of Profit, it's a short text but it's a pretty concise introduction to Marxist economics.

[Forli]

There are quite a few Marxist groups in the Labour Party though. Labour Party Marxists being one that comes to mind.

Not to say you have to rejoin per se of course.

Are they what is left of the Militant Tendency? Although thinking about it I think they go by the name of 'Socialist Appeal' or something similar. To be fair it is a moot point because I left. Just not sure where I stand on the whole entryism/vanguard party situation yet.

Cheers Though! :)

[Forli]

Well if you are new then I suggest that you read Fredrick Engel's Law of Value and Rate of Profit, it's a short text but it's a pretty concise introduction to Marxist economics.

Ah, thanks man. I was going to try and delve into Capital for the economic side. But I have been advised that it is a tough read. Maybe this will be a nice bridge?

[Q]

Are they what is left of the Militant Tendency? Although thinking about it I think they go by the name of 'Socialist Appeal' or something similar. To be fair it is a moot point because I left. Just not sure where I stand on the whole entryism/vanguard party situation yet.

Cheers Though! :)
Yeah, Socialist Appeal is the small group that is left after they splitted from Militant. Labour Party Marxists is another group.


Ah, thanks man. I was going to try and delve into Capital for the economic side. But I have been advised that it is a tough read. Maybe this will be a nice bridge?

I disagree and advise to go for Capital wholeheartedly. It is not as difficult as is often claimed. It's pretty much the first few chapters that set you in a certain contextual thinking that's getting used to. After that, it's smooth sailing.

Marx wrote it with a potential audience in mind that was the proletariat after all!

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

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