Queen Mab
18th November 2013, 06:37
I've been on Revleft for a while, but never got round to introducing myself. So I thought I should.
I'm 22 years old, male, living in London. Been unemployed for quite a while. I'm a huge lover of history and that's how I got into Marxism a few months ago, through Hobsbawm, Thompson (The Making of the English Working Class is utterly brilliant btw) and others from the Communist Party Historians Group. Reading Marx is like suddenly finding out you can see, in a way, it's amazing having such a coherent and developed critique of society that can tells you exactly what's wrong and how it can be fixed.
Politically I'm drawn to Left Communist positions and I've been chatting to the ICT. Not sure if I really want to commit myself to a party though. I've also recently been reading about the Situationist International and May 68, which is absolutely fascinating, then watched a Godard film about it which got me into French New Wave cinema! And German expressionism and Russian constructivism during the 20's is starting to fascinate me as well. I just can't help but be filled with wanderlust at how incredible it is that in the age of the internet there's so much information out there to digest, so many things to learn about. You could spend an entire life and not even come close to having a general knowledge of human existence. History, art, politics, economics, there's too much to understand. It helps me appreciate people like Marx who had the intellect for such a deep understanding of different disciplines like philosophy, economics and sociology and then somehow weaved them together into a coherent whole.
Er, sorry if I rambled a bit. Hi everyone. :)
I'm 22 years old, male, living in London. Been unemployed for quite a while. I'm a huge lover of history and that's how I got into Marxism a few months ago, through Hobsbawm, Thompson (The Making of the English Working Class is utterly brilliant btw) and others from the Communist Party Historians Group. Reading Marx is like suddenly finding out you can see, in a way, it's amazing having such a coherent and developed critique of society that can tells you exactly what's wrong and how it can be fixed.
Politically I'm drawn to Left Communist positions and I've been chatting to the ICT. Not sure if I really want to commit myself to a party though. I've also recently been reading about the Situationist International and May 68, which is absolutely fascinating, then watched a Godard film about it which got me into French New Wave cinema! And German expressionism and Russian constructivism during the 20's is starting to fascinate me as well. I just can't help but be filled with wanderlust at how incredible it is that in the age of the internet there's so much information out there to digest, so many things to learn about. You could spend an entire life and not even come close to having a general knowledge of human existence. History, art, politics, economics, there's too much to understand. It helps me appreciate people like Marx who had the intellect for such a deep understanding of different disciplines like philosophy, economics and sociology and then somehow weaved them together into a coherent whole.
Er, sorry if I rambled a bit. Hi everyone. :)