Flavius
21st August 2015, 21:06
I guess this is it. Hello, everyone.
My name is Adam, I'm a 17 years old Hungarian fellow. I don't really like my age; people tend to look down on me for it, and not take me serious. (Not that I take my self so serious, but as with other things, for example, self-hate, it hurts more when it's coming from others and not from my inner selbst.)
I'm a right-wing apostate. When I became interested in politics first, it was during the 2010 elections in Hungary. I insantly became a fanboy of the party Jobbik. Mostly because of its "cool" anti-establishment stance. And while I was a nationalist, I still considered myself democrat, and I despised capitalism.
During the years, I slowly drifted away from Jobbik and it's policies. They were anti-intellectual and basically the "rednecks" of Hungarian society. And then one thing came after the other. I already considered myself agnostic, but reading Nietzsche and Voltaire (yes, he was a deist, I know) convinced me. I embraced atheism, and since I did, I feel much more comfortable. After Nietzsche, came Ferenc Sánta. He was a Hungarian writer with harsh criticism of authoritarianism and nationalism. And then I started to read a lot of other liberal, secular humanist, and then, socialist literature.
And now, here I am. I consider myselft irrevocably leftist. I don't follow any particular tendency, however, Martov, Trotsky, Pannekoek, Kropotkin, Volin, and Rosa Luxemburg (yes, I know they believed in very different things) influenced me and my thoughts the most. This also means that (and I admit that) I don't have firm and dogmatic beliefs. I consider myself a "left-wing freethinker" If such category exists.
Rosa Luxemburg is one of my idols. Not just political, but also in a personal way. I'm fascinated with her. (I even wrote a poem about her titled Kaddish for Rosa Luxemburg. It is an Allen Ginsberg paraphrase.)
I'm also a pessimist, and I apply the "pessimism of the strong" to revolutionary socialist thought.
Besides politics and revolutionary thought, I'm interested in philosophy (mostly existentialists, and more specifically French existentialists, Simone de Beauvoir, Camus, etc...), literature (my beloved non-political writers and poets are the aforementioned Sánta, Móricz, Hamvas, Weöres, Ady, Szentkuthy - they are hungarians - and then Lovecraft, Vonnegut, Akutagawa, Faulkner, J.D. Salinger, Dostoevsky, Boris Vian, Kim Leine, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, James Joyce and many more.). I also like Shostakovich and cats.
My profile picture features Ervin Szabó, Hungarian anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary and librarian.
I hope I can fit in, and have interesting conversations, despite my lack of proper English. :)
My name is Adam, I'm a 17 years old Hungarian fellow. I don't really like my age; people tend to look down on me for it, and not take me serious. (Not that I take my self so serious, but as with other things, for example, self-hate, it hurts more when it's coming from others and not from my inner selbst.)
I'm a right-wing apostate. When I became interested in politics first, it was during the 2010 elections in Hungary. I insantly became a fanboy of the party Jobbik. Mostly because of its "cool" anti-establishment stance. And while I was a nationalist, I still considered myself democrat, and I despised capitalism.
During the years, I slowly drifted away from Jobbik and it's policies. They were anti-intellectual and basically the "rednecks" of Hungarian society. And then one thing came after the other. I already considered myself agnostic, but reading Nietzsche and Voltaire (yes, he was a deist, I know) convinced me. I embraced atheism, and since I did, I feel much more comfortable. After Nietzsche, came Ferenc Sánta. He was a Hungarian writer with harsh criticism of authoritarianism and nationalism. And then I started to read a lot of other liberal, secular humanist, and then, socialist literature.
And now, here I am. I consider myselft irrevocably leftist. I don't follow any particular tendency, however, Martov, Trotsky, Pannekoek, Kropotkin, Volin, and Rosa Luxemburg (yes, I know they believed in very different things) influenced me and my thoughts the most. This also means that (and I admit that) I don't have firm and dogmatic beliefs. I consider myself a "left-wing freethinker" If such category exists.
Rosa Luxemburg is one of my idols. Not just political, but also in a personal way. I'm fascinated with her. (I even wrote a poem about her titled Kaddish for Rosa Luxemburg. It is an Allen Ginsberg paraphrase.)
I'm also a pessimist, and I apply the "pessimism of the strong" to revolutionary socialist thought.
Besides politics and revolutionary thought, I'm interested in philosophy (mostly existentialists, and more specifically French existentialists, Simone de Beauvoir, Camus, etc...), literature (my beloved non-political writers and poets are the aforementioned Sánta, Móricz, Hamvas, Weöres, Ady, Szentkuthy - they are hungarians - and then Lovecraft, Vonnegut, Akutagawa, Faulkner, J.D. Salinger, Dostoevsky, Boris Vian, Kim Leine, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, James Joyce and many more.). I also like Shostakovich and cats.
My profile picture features Ervin Szabó, Hungarian anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary and librarian.
I hope I can fit in, and have interesting conversations, despite my lack of proper English. :)