Sup comrades!! greetings from southern californ i ay!!

[Cosmic Cavalcade]

Hi comrades!! Cosmic Cavalcade here!! i live in a border town in California USA next to Baja California Mexico. Its a small town but there are many things flowing under the radar: drug trafficking, illegal merchandise, piracy, and many illegals getting chase by the border patrol. I guess I'm saying this because theres not many left wing thought here and theres still the sin/salvation relation mentality amongst many christian catholics. So i guess this is a reason to join RevLeft. I would like to befriend other revolutionaries from other parts of the world and increment my knowledge on left wing ideology and make it my job. At first i think ill be doing some newbie questioning until ive learned enought to contribute. I welcome all criticism, and please do not hesitate to correct me on any subject ranging from language, thought, history or just anything. So all in all i hope i fit right in...

[Q]

Welcome :)

If you have political questions, you can ask them in the Learning forum. That's why it's there after all!

If you have questions about your account, don't hesitate to send me a PM or ask here.

Do you have any political ideas of your own yet?

[G4b3n]

Welcome!
What sort of leftist would you describe yourself as?

[Fourth Internationalist]

Welcome to RevLeft! :D

[Cosmic Cavalcade]

Thank you all for the friendly welcome!!! Well i don't know where i stand, i guess its anarcho syndicalism- workers self management, and co-ops. I don't see real socialism being practiced in the current socialist countries, much less communism. I also don't see Marxist-leninist political parties getting anywhere when the socialist democracy they advocate comes through a coup d'etat and revolution, in other words, democracy should be realized through democratic means (it would have superior consequences). And since current political parties trying to reach the bureaucracy through the political front door, cant expect to be trusted wholly, i think true socialism is dead.
But i do see a rise in economic inequality awareness and a tangible solution would be, i think, through coop socialism. No bosses, no external hidden agendas, simply workers taking democratic control of what puts food in their mouths. I believe its coops and workes self managed communities where socialism has been pushed to.
Old uncle Marx once said that labour is the metabolism between human existence and nature. I find these to be so important. No matter what world age or place in time, humans are going to work to live. With that in mind i think that labour should be as equal as the current idea of equality should be. And freedom and the essence of man-being universal, only comes to practice when equality is being practiced in the most needed and highest act of man-labour.
I know that socialist parties advocate this but its hard to trust them at a national level in any country, which is why i think worker's self managed factories, stores, communities etc... are a tangible gradual step towards world socialism. Now, co-op developments working with the labour theory of value in a socialist country, that just sounds about right.