Peer Pressure

[spoonmon]

How do people, in a sense, become communistic, capitalistic, right wing, left wing?
Are we born with these ideas, or are we influenced into believing them instead?
Or do we chang our ideas depending on the situation that many of us are forced into?

[Fidelbrand]

i guess the formation of it is both from our innate character and from outside influence. Outside influence does not necessarily, hmmmmm... actually, only in rare cases,... is linked to peer pressure.

[Purple]

i think its mostly how you have grown up, what you are used to, when you do things or see things its not always you see the definition of those things before youre elder...

[emmissary]

I have to agree that it is an opening of ones owns eyes. I became a communist after seeing the stuggles of people trying to live in a caoitalist society. How the rich become richer and the poorer poorer. There is a lot of wasted talent out there and communism can bring it forth.

[spoonmon]

So what you are basically saying is that it depends on both our own cultuarl upbringing and our views on the world in it's current state.

[Pawn Power]

i am not shur
i think the communsit life style is basically the life most people want but dont relize

[Bolshevist]

Most people are influenced by their family, friends, teachers etc... As an example, I learned about Marxism by a teacher, and a year later (after reading marxist material) I started to call myself a marxist

[pandora]

Teachers, that's an interesting thought.
Observed high school kids studying Nic today and liberation theology
SOme teachers totally rock.

[Raisa]

I would hear references and jokes about it and go "....whats communism?"
And I couldn't really get a fair answer. So I would look in my school books...."communism: a totalitarian system of government" There is no substance to that definition. If I had to make a soup out of that to survive I'd be better off on my own piss. :lol:
I hate not knowing what words mean, and whats really sad is that i realized this was going to be something I was going to have to figure out for myself.
It was really hard to read Karl Marx in the sixth grade, but no one was going to do it for me.