AsozialerKommunist
16th September 2013, 00:55
Hello :) I'm new at revleft, and now they recommended me to write an introduction text, so here it is:
I'm a german radical communist. Of course I haven't always been a leftist, but my political interest began with 14. At this age, I was an Anti-Communist and I loved the USA. After watching the movie "Platoon" by Oliver Stone I got critical with the US, and later I became an USA-hater. And in all the games I played, I fought as heroic American against the bad russian USSR-communists. So i thought, that the USSR are the good ones, and the USA the bad ones (I was still young). But my dad, that lived in the statessocialist German Democratic Republic told me, that this, what Marx wrote, was not this, what the USSR or the GDR were doing. So I started thinking critically about it all, started reading works of Marx and other socialists, and yep, I became a libertarian, communist "Value-critic" ("Wertkritik" in German). Value-critic is a modern (post?)marxist tendency that has its origins in Germany. To make it short: It's critical with capitalism, but also with traditional Marxism. To overcome the capitalist society it tries to make a radical criticism against labour.
"Value-Critic" is a very small tendency in Germany. And where I come from, are just a very few revolutionary Leftists, but unfortunately many Nazis or people that do not call theirselves "Nazi" but share almost exactly the same opinions with them, lol ...
I hope I could explain it well enough and that you could understand my text. (I guess, after school, my english got a little bit bad :))
Greetings!
I'm a german radical communist. Of course I haven't always been a leftist, but my political interest began with 14. At this age, I was an Anti-Communist and I loved the USA. After watching the movie "Platoon" by Oliver Stone I got critical with the US, and later I became an USA-hater. And in all the games I played, I fought as heroic American against the bad russian USSR-communists. So i thought, that the USSR are the good ones, and the USA the bad ones (I was still young). But my dad, that lived in the statessocialist German Democratic Republic told me, that this, what Marx wrote, was not this, what the USSR or the GDR were doing. So I started thinking critically about it all, started reading works of Marx and other socialists, and yep, I became a libertarian, communist "Value-critic" ("Wertkritik" in German). Value-critic is a modern (post?)marxist tendency that has its origins in Germany. To make it short: It's critical with capitalism, but also with traditional Marxism. To overcome the capitalist society it tries to make a radical criticism against labour.
"Value-Critic" is a very small tendency in Germany. And where I come from, are just a very few revolutionary Leftists, but unfortunately many Nazis or people that do not call theirselves "Nazi" but share almost exactly the same opinions with them, lol ...
I hope I could explain it well enough and that you could understand my text. (I guess, after school, my english got a little bit bad :))
Greetings!