Hello from Canada

[bill]

Hello, friends. Long-time reader, first-time poster. I should like to express my surprise at having been able to get the username "bill".

[Redistribute the Rep]

Welcome :)

[Prometeo liberado]

Is Alan Thicke still the emperor there?

[blake 3:17]

Welcome from the Tdot!

[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.

What are your politics, if anything in particular?

[Le Socialiste]

Welcome! What spurred you to finally join our little forum?

[SovietCommie]

New guy here, I'm from Alaska :).

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Welcome Bill! What part of the country are you in?

Edit: Nevermind, I see that the answer is Hammertown. I have some friends there (and a couple more from there), and I'm quite partial to it. Been in on any of the Line9 resistance going down? Pretty inspiring, imho.

[bill]

I'm from Hamilton in southern Ontario, across the lake from Toronto. Hamilton has been a steel-mill town for over a hundred years until recently.

I joined up because of the real lack of radical discussion and ideas among my people. I hope to get in touch with comrades from around the world as we struggle in solidarity against social injustice and environmental destruction.

I'd say my political views are, I'd say cautiously anti-capitalist. There's something to be learnt from all leftist traditions, and the more we learn the better, as we're facing the most dangerous and complicated epoch in human history.

On a more personal note, I try to do artistic things which are not overtly left-wing propaganda, but nevertheless with a latent social message to spur on critical thought, or something like that. I'm writing a novel which isn't very good, but I'm hoping it'll be readable after fifty revisions or so!

I've been attempting to read Hegel whilst understanding him at the same time. I've made a little headway but it'll probably be another twenty or thirty years till I say I have grasped all the niceties of transcendental dialectics. I'm trying to re-read his Phenomenology a little bit more slowly and patiently this time.

I currently live a lonely life in a small apartment, working a horrible $11.000/h CA job as a "host" in a chic restaurant in an increasingly gentrified neighbourhood, listening to very desultory music choices, reading news, blogs, and books I'm told are supposed be important, and getting very little of the frivolous bourgeois pastime known as healthy exercise. I'm fairly intelligent but pathologically incapable of excelling in an academic setting (I have a BA in Classics, and have given up on going to grad school to read Greek and Latin for the rest of my existence). That's my life in a nutshell and I wouldn't trade it for any other!

[blake 3:17]

Have you ever been to The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre? http://wahc-museum.ca/

I just know about it because a friend is on the board. I need to get to Hamilton some time soon.

[The Intransigent Faction]

Welcome! You're pretty close to where I am. :)

[Psycho P and the Freight Train]

Hahaha that actually kind of blows my mind that you got the name "bill" as well. That blows my mind more than it should, lol. Anyway welcome.