BritishLeft
1st August 2013, 01:10
Hi guys, I've just joined earlier today and have recently just posted one of my articles as a thread on the Politics forum on scandalous proposals for pay rises to UK MPs.
I just thought I'd put a post on here also to introduce myself!
I'm a 17 year old student from Derby in the UK, the leftist scene of Derby is quite big with a strong Labour voting base (if you can call them leftist anymore) and also has regular presence from parties such as the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP) who propose petitions in the city centre and also try to get members of the public to join.
In all honesty, I am not as far left as many of the people on here and I would appreciate it if people respect that as I am not a pro-Capitalist by any stretch of the imagination. My political viewpoint is mostly shared by that of the very early Labour governments in the UK such as Ramsay MacDonald and also Clement Attlee as I believe in state nationalisation of large industry and in the welfare system which was so revolutionary at the time. As well as, proletariat dominance and class system liquidation (equal opportunities). I am becoming increasingly distressed in more modern times however at the series of austerity measures being introduced in the UK as well as big government spending cuts and benefits caps which deprive working class people from the support which the state not only should provide but owes the person in question.
My main political heroes are people like Aneurin Bevan (creator of the NHS in the UK and also big housing reformist who helped to increase living standards for many working class people in the UK in the post-war era), Clement Attlee (as discussed) and also agree with much of Lenin's agenda despite me not being as hardcore left as him. I am very critical of Stalin's regime and the harsh and relentless regime of Margaret Thatcher in the UK in the late 70s up until the early 90s which left a quite resounding legacy. After all, in the UK you can often find somebody's political viewpoint by simply asking if they think Margaret Thatcher was a good Prime Minister.
I have been a Leftist almost immediately since I became interested in politics in my early teens perhaps at 13/14. I became fascinated with the Soviet Union which I was not being taught wholly in my history classes. I began to understand how beneficial a society could be without the chains of capitalism and for most of my life I have been very hostile towards the Upper Class and the Elite. in society. However, I do believe in a more liberal sense of socialism as I have said and can also be quite critical of the ways in which the Soviet Union operated.
I am also quite decisive on my opinion on the European Union which arguably dominates public opinion more so in Britain than in any other European country. I believe that the European Union does promote the Capitalist theorem of economics and it is an unnecessary group of nations which is led by Franco-German imperialists who like to stick their nose into other countries affairs and we all have to abide by their rules.
I believe the UK should exit the EU and simply establish trade relations rather than be a pawn on the French chess board.
So that's basically my views in a nutshell, get in touch and say hi!
I just thought I'd put a post on here also to introduce myself!
I'm a 17 year old student from Derby in the UK, the leftist scene of Derby is quite big with a strong Labour voting base (if you can call them leftist anymore) and also has regular presence from parties such as the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP) who propose petitions in the city centre and also try to get members of the public to join.
In all honesty, I am not as far left as many of the people on here and I would appreciate it if people respect that as I am not a pro-Capitalist by any stretch of the imagination. My political viewpoint is mostly shared by that of the very early Labour governments in the UK such as Ramsay MacDonald and also Clement Attlee as I believe in state nationalisation of large industry and in the welfare system which was so revolutionary at the time. As well as, proletariat dominance and class system liquidation (equal opportunities). I am becoming increasingly distressed in more modern times however at the series of austerity measures being introduced in the UK as well as big government spending cuts and benefits caps which deprive working class people from the support which the state not only should provide but owes the person in question.
My main political heroes are people like Aneurin Bevan (creator of the NHS in the UK and also big housing reformist who helped to increase living standards for many working class people in the UK in the post-war era), Clement Attlee (as discussed) and also agree with much of Lenin's agenda despite me not being as hardcore left as him. I am very critical of Stalin's regime and the harsh and relentless regime of Margaret Thatcher in the UK in the late 70s up until the early 90s which left a quite resounding legacy. After all, in the UK you can often find somebody's political viewpoint by simply asking if they think Margaret Thatcher was a good Prime Minister.
I have been a Leftist almost immediately since I became interested in politics in my early teens perhaps at 13/14. I became fascinated with the Soviet Union which I was not being taught wholly in my history classes. I began to understand how beneficial a society could be without the chains of capitalism and for most of my life I have been very hostile towards the Upper Class and the Elite. in society. However, I do believe in a more liberal sense of socialism as I have said and can also be quite critical of the ways in which the Soviet Union operated.
I am also quite decisive on my opinion on the European Union which arguably dominates public opinion more so in Britain than in any other European country. I believe that the European Union does promote the Capitalist theorem of economics and it is an unnecessary group of nations which is led by Franco-German imperialists who like to stick their nose into other countries affairs and we all have to abide by their rules.
I believe the UK should exit the EU and simply establish trade relations rather than be a pawn on the French chess board.
So that's basically my views in a nutshell, get in touch and say hi!