Introduction

[magesagewage]

I suck at introductions but I guess I'll try. My political beliefs would probably fall under Anarchism, or maybe Libertarian Socialism. I think that the state is an inherently oppressive structure and must be dismantled. I'm generally opposed to violence in any form and I find any totalitarian systems and apologists for those systems reprehensible, including those on the left such as Fidel Castros Cuba, The USSR, Enver Hoxha's Romania, Mao's China, etc.

[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.

As an aside, I think you're mixing up Hoxha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha) and Ceaușescu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu).

[RedWorker]

Marxism (which has nothing to do with Stalinism) also considers the state oppressive, and in communism there will be no state.

When talking about the former state capitalist states (such as USSR) one must analyse the whole situation, rather than taking any sort of emotional approach. Condemn them surely, but take a step back and think before condemning them any more than you condemn the western states.

[Q]

When talking about the former state capitalist states (such as USSR) one must analyse the whole situation, rather than taking any sort of emotional approach.
Calling them "state capitalist" is, I think, a rather emotional response that has little to do with reality. Surely it was not socialist, far from it, but that doesn't mean it therefore was "state capitalist" (http://www.revleft.com/vb/blog.php?b=18835).