TheWannabeAnarchist
19th May 2013, 06:21
I'm Doctor Nick!:D
Sorry, had to crack that joke just once. (If you haven't watched The Simpsons, then you won't get it, so don't even try.)
On to the real business. You can call me Lucy. I'm fifteen, but I'm very politically involved. I read the news every day and try to dig out the facts about the world as best as I can. I'm neither an elitist nor w genius, but I do think about things a lot, and that's caused me to have more than my fair share of uncertainty about human beings and the way they should best organize themselves. For several years, you could call me a libertarian. I believed that laissez-faire economics was the base of a free society and the best way to protect the people from abuse.
My God, I was wrong. As time passed, I realized to a greater and greater extent that diminishing the power of the state merely increases the power of corporations. Just look at the factory building that collapsed in Cambodia several weeks ago. That happened because the heartless fiends who ran the facility (or, as the wingnuts like to call them, "job creators") were empowered to create a squalid, horrific death trap of a building with pathetic working conditions. Capitalism gave them the right to oppress innocent working-class civilians. The "free market" does not free anyone, it just creates privatized tyranny of the rich over the poor. The infrastructure of the U.S., the world's most aggressive promoter of capitalism, is based heavily on the suffering of factory workers in foreign countries that labour in silence, hidden away from the eyes of the public.
And so, in short, I became disillusioned with libertarianism. I didn't know what I stood for anymore--anarchism, socialism, communism, I don't know, but certainly not capitalism. That's why I've joined Revleft--to help me figure out exactly what it is I believe in.
Hope my rambling tirade wasn't too hard to decipher; I'm writing this at 1: 00 A.M., so what do you expect? Either way, I'm excited to be joining this community and can't wait to make some new friends! Ciao!:lol:
L.M.
Sorry, had to crack that joke just once. (If you haven't watched The Simpsons, then you won't get it, so don't even try.)
On to the real business. You can call me Lucy. I'm fifteen, but I'm very politically involved. I read the news every day and try to dig out the facts about the world as best as I can. I'm neither an elitist nor w genius, but I do think about things a lot, and that's caused me to have more than my fair share of uncertainty about human beings and the way they should best organize themselves. For several years, you could call me a libertarian. I believed that laissez-faire economics was the base of a free society and the best way to protect the people from abuse.
My God, I was wrong. As time passed, I realized to a greater and greater extent that diminishing the power of the state merely increases the power of corporations. Just look at the factory building that collapsed in Cambodia several weeks ago. That happened because the heartless fiends who ran the facility (or, as the wingnuts like to call them, "job creators") were empowered to create a squalid, horrific death trap of a building with pathetic working conditions. Capitalism gave them the right to oppress innocent working-class civilians. The "free market" does not free anyone, it just creates privatized tyranny of the rich over the poor. The infrastructure of the U.S., the world's most aggressive promoter of capitalism, is based heavily on the suffering of factory workers in foreign countries that labour in silence, hidden away from the eyes of the public.
And so, in short, I became disillusioned with libertarianism. I didn't know what I stood for anymore--anarchism, socialism, communism, I don't know, but certainly not capitalism. That's why I've joined Revleft--to help me figure out exactly what it is I believe in.
Hope my rambling tirade wasn't too hard to decipher; I'm writing this at 1: 00 A.M., so what do you expect? Either way, I'm excited to be joining this community and can't wait to make some new friends! Ciao!:lol:
L.M.