Greetings from NorCal

[Makhno Gestapo]

Hey there, I'm Makhno Gestapo.

I was raised in Washington State, and I now live in northern California. I've been around a few states in the South, back in my time in the Army. I was stationed in Arkansas, South Carolina, and Georgia. After I got out, I moved to cali to be with my girlfriend.

I'm an anarchist, and I recently joined the IWW branch down here. My favorite anarchist writers are Stirner and Kropotkin. I also like reading things by crimethinc, and the Bash Back! anthology was really great. Homage To Catalonia and other accounts of the spanish civil war and the free territory are very interesting and inspiring to me.

I believe in intersectionality, and I think that fighting heterosexism, misogyny, racism, etc. is just as important as organizing other working people to fight capitalism.

I'm red diaper (my father was a libertarian communist), so I got a lot of my values from him. Obviously my time in the Army and the short time I was living on the streets taught me a lot about the violent and hierarchical nature of capitalism and the state.

I look forward to participating in discussions here and becoming a part of this community.

Thank you,
-Makhno Gestapo

[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.

That's an interesting username... What's with that?

[motion denied]

I'm never welcoming gestapo, no.

[Makhno Gestapo]

Hey homies, I'm Makhno Gestapo.

I'm in northern california, originally from washington state. I recently joined the IWW branch here, but I've only been to one meeting so far. We aren't very active from what I can tell, but hopefully we can do something about that.

I'm an anarchist. I'm queer and my partner is transgender, we're into queer liberation stuff and feminism. I'm vegan as well for ethical reasons.

My father is an old hippie with libertarian and socialist values that he passed on to me as I grew up, so I sort of inherited my radicalism from him.

I used to post on revleft back when I was a teenager, so I thought I'd come back and be part of the community, now that I've experienced a lot more life and so on. Thanks for reading! :grin:

Edit:


That's an interesting username... What's with that?

It sort of rhymed and it's a joke concerning the drama surrounding the "policing" of language and stuff within leftist communities.

[Q]

Merged new intro thread into the old one.

[Makhno Gestapo]

Merged new intro thread into the old one.

oh thanks, forgot I had posted one already

[BIXX]

Out of curiosity, how do you reconcile your interest in Stirner with joining the IWW?

[Makhno Gestapo]

Out of curiosity, how do you reconcile your interest in Stirner with joining the IWW?

There's nothing to reconcile imo. Self-interest is inseparable from class interests for working people.

[The Idler]

There's nothing to reconcile imo. Self-interest is inseparable from class interests for working people.You might have a point but I have reservations about Stirner.