nopasaran
14th May 2013, 07:51
18yo student, former factory worker, from Parramatta in Western Sydney.
I joined the socialist alternative in Jan 2012 due to being sickened by the Australian govt's (and media's) treatment of our indigenous comrades and of refugees. I started reading Marx whilst working at a factory and gradually grew VERY disillusioned with the socialist alternative due to their methodology and latte-sipping, placard-waving, dogmatic and comfortably middle-class approach to radical politics. (I may be wrong here but as a member who went to protests and meetings, this is what I saw)
More recently I have become interested in the Spanish civil war, the CNT, Chomsky, Makhno, Goldman, Kropotkin and anarcho-communism/syndicalism. I have just finished reading 'Now and After - the ABC of communist anarchism' and the way I see it "liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality".
However every day I seem to realise new heights of how much I am still yet to learn and often I am riddled with self-doubt in the face of the aggressive right-wing or divisions among the left.. I'm looking for bulletproof ideas and practical, effective ways of fighting for them.
So, if you've a lesson to teach me (or a book to point me towards) I'm listening, ready to learn.
no pasaran!
I joined the socialist alternative in Jan 2012 due to being sickened by the Australian govt's (and media's) treatment of our indigenous comrades and of refugees. I started reading Marx whilst working at a factory and gradually grew VERY disillusioned with the socialist alternative due to their methodology and latte-sipping, placard-waving, dogmatic and comfortably middle-class approach to radical politics. (I may be wrong here but as a member who went to protests and meetings, this is what I saw)
More recently I have become interested in the Spanish civil war, the CNT, Chomsky, Makhno, Goldman, Kropotkin and anarcho-communism/syndicalism. I have just finished reading 'Now and After - the ABC of communist anarchism' and the way I see it "liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality".
However every day I seem to realise new heights of how much I am still yet to learn and often I am riddled with self-doubt in the face of the aggressive right-wing or divisions among the left.. I'm looking for bulletproof ideas and practical, effective ways of fighting for them.
So, if you've a lesson to teach me (or a book to point me towards) I'm listening, ready to learn.
no pasaran!