Hey comrades

[DontTrickleDownOnMe]

Kinda new here. Name's Zaida, 18 yo, MENA (middle eastern/north african) American trans woman, who is an anarcho-communist who borrows from marxist, luxembourgist, maoist, leninist, and castroist principles. My maternal side of my family is Iranian, and my paternal side is Egyptian/Libyan. I also highly regard the writings of Kropotkin. Despite being flawed leaders and ideals, I do respect Gamal Abdul Nasser, Muhammad Mossadegh, Salvador Allende, Bolivarism, and Jacobo Arbenz. My writibg is all over the place, I have several mental disabilitirs that might hinder me in areas such as depression, Borderline personality disorder, autism (or asperger syndrome, not sure which), and anxiety. I will try to post onto here as often as I can and I will work out the kinks later on. In the meantime, please get aquainted with me, I don't mind at all. Ask me questions, what my opinions are, but most importantly, please be respectful and civil. Thank you.

[Q]

Welcome :)

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[Armchair Partisan]

Hello! Wow, right wingers just adore you, don't they? :)

Given your ancestry, I guess I can understand why you have a soft spot for Nasser or Mossadegh, given that they were lesser evils compared to whatever alternatives the West wanted to impose. I hope you are aware, though, that both of them were anti-communists in their own right.

[DontTrickleDownOnMe]

No, don't worry, I am COMPLETELY aware of their anti-communist backgrounds, but despite that, they took a stand againsy british imperialism and colonialism and in mossadegh's case, he was a nationalist but more in the sense he was against the rising colonialism and imperialism happening in Iran. Not saying they get free passes, I'm just saying they were different than your usual nationalists. Actually in Iran, I highly respect Khosro Rouzbeh. He was an anarcho-socialist who was a literal martyr and revolutionary. The tudeh I am mixed about. There are several factions within the party and now its kinda half-dead. Some members are reformists, Kianoori supported and was later double crossed by Ayatollah Khomeini who was a pure reactionary leader who wiped out any left opposition (I recommend the film Persepolis for more info). But yes, I am completely aware that those men were anti-communist, but I respect them for their struggle against british colonialism and imperialism.

[hashem]

Khosro Rouzbeh was never an anarcho-socialist. what makes you think he was?
he was a communist and believed in teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin.

also, Tudeh party was never a communist party. in its early days it was broad democratic front and communists were a faction in it. latter, when it got corrupted, communists abandoned it and organized independently.

[DontTrickleDownOnMe]

yes, you are very right. i am much more well informed about this than i was when i made this thread. im not sure what made me think roozbeh was an anarchist, he was described as such by others. either way, i see him as a hero of the proletariat whom everyone should look up to.

[Thirsty Crow]

Hi and welcome! Hope you'll find this place worth your time and effort.

And I should say, that's one of the best usernames I've seen here :lol:

[RedWorker]

autism (or asperger syndrome, not sure which)

The way you say this makes me wonder: have you actually been diagnosed this? If it's self-diagnosed (or diagnosed by non-experts), then it may be completely wrong. If the average, mentally healthy person took up a book on mental illnesses and started self-diagnosing, they'd match the symptoms for a bunch they don't have at all.

I don't mean this as offensive, rather the opposite, sorry if it comes off as that.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Yes, unfortunately a lot of people who do not have any form of autism are led by silly Internet "information" to believe they are on the spectrum. Generally, avoid self-diagnosis like the plague, it might seem silly but it can wreck lives (when someone becomes convinced they have some sort of disorder and go to doctors until they get the diagnosis they want - or they become upset - and then start ingesting chemicals that are not appropriate to their condition).

Otherwise, welcome. I don't think you can really be an anarcho-communist and borrow from Castroist principles - it doesn't sound that coherent. My advice would be to take it easy and not pressure yourself into finding an ideological label right now; wait until you have a more comprehensive understanding of what these labels mean.