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Donnie

26th July 2005, 14:12

My dads a Trotskyite although he's turning cynical by the day <_< . I never really talk to him about workers struggle. He thinks the anarchist tactics I have are of little significance. I think he said something recently like "You need to stop with these silly RTS!” My dad’s just a general cynical idiot.

My mother well she stays away from economics and politics etc. She doesn't pay interest to anything. She more focused on trying to survive in this society. £8000 a year is not a lot seen as she has to feed herself and my little brother and pay rent and send him to school etc. She lives in rented accommodation and so as she put it "I have no time to faf around with you're silly idea's of freeing ourselves, I've got to concentrate on more things like you brother!" Bah but she goes to church so she obviously has time to bow down to some wacky cult. <_<

Konqwest

26th July 2005, 14:13

Well I bring this up because of something that happened last night. Me and my family where talking about mariage. And I simply asked my mom and dad if they would be upset if I didint get married in a church when I am older. They simple flipped a shit on me. My parents where like you are a catholic bla bla bla. And I said a catholic not by choice, I said I was brought up this way. And now that I think for myself and dont listen to what people tell me, I dont beleive in theings in the bible and I dont believe in some of the ways of the church. So they where heated.............

Later talking on the way home my dad was talking about terrorist being animals and such. And I said I dont condome terrorism at all but isnt it messed up that when terrorist kill civilians we degrate them and such, but when the US Army does it we say we are fighting for freedom. He then proceed to try and tell me that America does not kill inicent people. So I proved to him we do now, and we have in the past and he shut up.

My mother then was saying how My grandfather faught in the USA for me to have the life I had, and I simply replied that I am thank full for that. And I dont hate America I just hate the people in charge..... My father then told me to move to Cuba becasue I am "Just Fucken Like Them". Basically he doesnt know what hes talking about. I then told them that I dont want to be like them and just believe what I hear on Fox 5 News, becaause they are pro America and are getting paid to say pos things about America. My father then told me, " your not my son, my son will not be like this". I laughed at him. My mother told me she was upset about my beliefs. And I asked why because I think for myself and have my own mind. She shut up.......Havent said a word to them since last night. My father is pissed he hasnt even looked at me. My mother will get over it...

So Basically they given me a hard time, and you no what, I love it because it gives me a chance to debate with them and prove to them that America hasnt always been the "Great place they think it is"

Donnie

26th July 2005, 14:32

Good stuff.

My father then told me to move to Cuba becasue I am "Just Fucken Like Them"
I found that quote you're dad said rather amusing if you don't mind. You're family sounds quiet patriotic. There's a tendency among patriots to create an "us" and an "evil them" in their world view.

My aunty has quiet a similar view as you're parents although she's a Methodist. Anyway my aunty is quiet Tory minded so it's very difficult to explain to her my views. I remember my aunty saying "You're as red as the Mexican sunset; you're just like them hard headed Bolsheviks in Russia". At this point I had to hide back laughter.

My dad is the only one who is left in my family. My mum doesn't pay attention to stuff so she doesn't comment.

Yes it's sad to say that most of my working class family is quiet right wing. It's a damn shame and it's something I'm currently trying to undo. But it's hard to explain to an 86 year old how communism would benefit us.

My grandmother hates my dad. It's the typical mother in law kind of issue. I have only once spoken to my grandmother about Anarchist Communism once and she nearly flipped. She said I should not be living with a "pink fairly socialist". At this point I shouted at her and was kicked out of her house. So I don't mention anything to her now about my politics.

Konqwest

26th July 2005, 14:44

^Good stuff

Thats what I dont understand about my parents...They are not very patriotic, my dad and mom dont go to church regularly....

And they support capitalism, but struggle to pay for my sister to go to college this year... Maybe when I go in 2 years, and my sister goes the year after....They will realise why the poor staying poor isnt always the greatest thing

violencia.Proletariat

26th July 2005, 16:03

yeah unless your parents are left, talking to them about politics usually doesnt go over so well. my mom has views but as others have said, shes got work and bills to worry about. after one arguement about japan and pearl harbor, i won, but i still dont talk about politics around here anymore.

Amusing Scrotum

26th July 2005, 17:03

Good on you guys for expressing your views to family members, who try to degrade them and show hostility towards you for expressing these views.

Listening to your stories I realise how lucky I am. In my house its just me and my mother and shes a Greeny. However we still have some differences. My mother still believes in "Ethical Capitalism," but gradually I think I making her a Commie.

She has real reservations about Communism after seeing how bad Poland was when she was young and went there with her father; And how her father couldn't take her to visit his parents until she was fully recognised as a British citizen. Also how the Berlin Wall went up during one of their visits.

However she did vote for Thatcher, as she disliked the Labour party of that time and thought a woman Prime Minister would be great.

I suppose everyones allowed a mistake or two. :o

Socialistpenguin

26th July 2005, 17:12

I must confess, my parents are similar, though they aren't as, ahem, "lively" as some of the people's on here (I mean no disrespect, my family is rather timid).

My father is a leftist, and in my opinion would make an excellent revolutionary. Unfortunately, he STILL clings on to the belief that "Communism is against human nature". ARGHGH! I know that the vast majority of people here have had to deal with this arguement, and after trying several various arguements to combat this (e.g. The Paris Commune (though socialist), worked brilliantly, we are so far removed from "nature" as possible, etc.) he has yet to yield. He is also one of these people who says "Immigrants can come here, as long as they work" who ignores the chavs from our own country who've never done a day's work in their life, as well as ignoring people like Rupert Murdoch who have yet to pay a pound of corporate tax in this country, and also believes the figures in papers such as The Sun, or the Daily Torygraph. Overall though, one of the more "educated" members of the working class, I feel.

My mother, though an excellent person morally, has somewhat misguided views on the world. I watched her reaction whilst we were watching a documentary by John Pilger (I forget the name of it, it was the one where the entire population of Diego Garcia was evacuated to make way for the Amerikan air base), and she possesed the rage and anger of a proletarian, enraged at what her government at did (she works as a civil servant, BTW)

Yet when discussing the bombings in London, she says we need to "get rid of all Muslims" Now, my mother has not shown any previous signs of racism, so you can imagine my surprise when I heard this. After explaining, that this was a very small cell of fundamentalist muslims (if it WAS muslims, at all), and that, by her logic, Christians should be kicked out of the country for what we did in the Middle Ages, she soon shut up. I wondered what could bring this Islamaphobia on,then again, she has a cold, and often illness impairs cognitive thinking.

which doctor

26th July 2005, 17:54

I get called a liberal wacko by my dad. Othere than that I try to stay away from any political debates with my parents.

danny android

26th July 2005, 20:31

My parents are respectable of my beliefs. But they do get angry about it sometimes. And whenever we get into an argument about anything they almost always attack me being a communist. But most of the time they don't have a problem with it, though I have had very heated arguments with them about it in the past.

Alejandro

26th July 2005, 20:32

Its bad at my house my mom walked into my room and saw this site on the screan and called me and told me i had to go come straight home when i got here i got screamed at and lectured for a couple of hours and the sad part is she isnt even political i dont even think she voted during the last election

danny android

26th July 2005, 20:36

I remember one time I was downloading some rage against the machine songs on my computer and my mom caught me and flipped out. but now i have all of there albums lol, and she doesn't get pissed about taht kind of stuff anymore.

Entrails Konfetti

26th July 2005, 22:19

I'm lucky my mom is pretty socialist,though she doesn't really practice.She just gives everyone hell;tells them off.

My dad, doesn't really understand Marxism all too well.But,hes unbiased.

I think my aunt from Galicia is a Communist,I'm not sure.

As for everyone else, either liberal or stupid-conservative.

Clarksist

26th July 2005, 23:18

My mother is really really a gigantic hippie. So she doesn't condone ANY violence. But she's down with my beliefs.

My step-dad is an anarchist. However, if someone told him, "your belief system is basically anarchism," he'd flip out.

He was telling me the other day, "I don't see why we need money, or the government. I mean people would work just to work, you can't do absolutely nothing all day."

And I was like, "I agree completely."

But he also thinks badly upon commies cause he lived during the Cold War.

spartafc

27th July 2005, 02:11

interesting thread.

Whenever it comes up my mother criticizes the left for being full of "unwashed" students and layabouts. After that the next point is usually "you want everyone to be the same!?".

It doesn't matter what I say in reply to this, she isn't listening!

That said, she's quite understanding really. For example, this one time I gave her some money and donated some cash to a revolutionary organisation with her credit-card, as I don't have one. I later told my mother, a woman that voted for Thatcher in the 80's, that her name had appeared in that paper's "supporters coloumn" that week. A revolutionary communist paper too! I found it quite amusing. I'm not sure if she did.

Redmau5

27th July 2005, 02:24

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2005, 10:18 PM
He was telling me the other day, "I don't see why we need money, or the government. I mean people would work just to work, you can't do absolutely nothing all day."
I'd much prefer to lie about all day getting drunk and having a good time.

Oldergod

28th July 2005, 03:24

my whole family is practically socialist...so its not like i was ashamed to tell them...but by no means did i become a socialist because they were...im a socialist under my own right...

the only heat i get from my parents is when i actually STAND UP for my beliefs...they dont understand that silence is defeat...and imma yap off to anyone that wants to yap back....

Clarksist

28th July 2005, 04:01

the only heat i get from my parents is when i actually STAND UP for my beliefs...they dont understand that silence is defeat...and imma yap off to anyone that wants to yap back....

That's so true, silent revolutions fall on deaf ears.

My mom gets pissed when she gets call to the school because I got in trouble for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Then she got REALLY pissed when she had to come to school because me and my friends burned an American flag during lunch. :lol:

Good times.

Ownthink

28th July 2005, 04:03

Amazing how every single one of these "My parents hate my Politics even though I disprove them and we never talk about it again" discussions popping up. It's like you're all staying at my house.

Oh, and...

"They will realise why the poor staying poor isnt always the greatest thing"

That's never a good thing buddy.

TJGallenger

28th July 2005, 04:27

Well, it came out that I was a communist thanks to a school function. A friend of mine created some Cuban Communist shirts, they are of a poster which shows a red flag (with white hammer and sickle) and 4 faces and to the left of this image it says "Workers, Farmers, Soldiers, and Intellectuals: you reinforce the ranks of the Communist Party" We wore these many times throughout the year, it came back my mum (as she used to work at the school). She preceeded to lecture me about how her generation feels that communism is so bad especially because of vietnam, and my only reply was "So the vietnamise were wrong for defending themselves against our leaders?" The discussion ended there, with her saying "Well, you still don't need to tell a lot of people." I then proceeded to open discussions in class as often as possible, as I knew they were all reported back to her.

She doesn't really comment about it, though just today she mentioned that in college I'll be exposed to new ideas, and that I shouldn't always think I'm 100% right, and I said "Just because somebody thinks they are right doesn't mean they are, it just means I must prove to them how right I am." She smiled at that.. It was strange..

destroyauthority

30th July 2005, 02:45

As far as I know, my parents are unaware of my communist beliefs. I had to read the Manifesto without them knowing. Judging by their reaction when they found out I had renounced religion and any beliefs pertaining to a sort of "higher power." It wasn't something you wanted to see. But so goes life. My beliefs will not waver under oppression.

Hiero

30th July 2005, 03:56

Same as TJGallenger, my parents are more concerned that if alot of people know i am a communist and a CPA member, people will have a negative reation and i may lose out on some opportunities. The only problem is, they tell some of their friends, who i would rather not have them know.

When i first started to get into it i would have conversation about it at school, and drew a hammer and sickle sign on my bag. Then latter on when i matured a bit more through my last year of high school, and going on to University and work where you can be judge for communist views, i started to tone it down a bit.

I will only mention any socialist tendencies when the timing is right. For instance if poeple know im in the CPA and they mention about a current issue like the IR reforms, i will mention that my party has made some pamphlets and i have to get to getting them around town. So basically what i did was bring in my politics on a issue we all agree. So the can't really argue agaisn't it, rather approve of what im doing.

I do the same with my parents, to aviod arguments.

workersunity

30th July 2005, 04:03

Now before i saw this dont insult my family. My mom was worried that im a communist, and shes like "communist, like hitler, right?", i swear it, she thinks that hitler was a communist, i almost started crying, i didnt know people could be that ignorant,

southernmissfan

30th July 2005, 04:24

You did explain to her that Hitler was a Nazi and persecuted communists/socialists, right?

Redmau5

30th July 2005, 13:49

Originally posted by [email protected] 28 2005, 03:01 AM
That's so true, silent revolutions fall on deaf ears.
"Silent Revolutions" don't need to fall on deaf ears. They could fall on any ears and no one would hear it because it is silent, after all.

:ph34r:

Samuel

30th July 2005, 21:35

My mom is somewhat left, so she supports me in believing whatever I want to believe, she just tells me to "keep an open mind." My dad is hardly ever home so I don't talk to him about my beliefs often, but he has never expressed that he is against my beliefs or anything.

Bannockburn

30th July 2005, 22:56

My entire family thinks I'm crazy for being an anarchist. they think its some kind of phase I started when I was 13. Now I'm 24. They don't understand. They think, like most people you need a ruling figure.

Warren Peace

30th July 2005, 23:15

My parents claim to be liberals, but they don't respect me or my beliefs. They were respectfull of me for a while, then they found my xanga where I quoted a punk rock song called Kill the Rich, and they flipped out.

They thought I was a delinquent, and it didn't help that they judge people by their clothes and I wear black, expressive shirts a lot. Earlier I was reading a communist article about how the sex trade should be banned, I lost it, tried to search for it, and accidentally opened this porn site that I closed right away, I'm not even sure how bad it was. Anyways after they saw my xanga they looked in my history and found that and it made things worse.

They blamed all my friends for being a "bad influence" on me. They thought I needed to be reformed and are trying to get me to conform into a prep or nerd or whatever. They made me delete my xanga and take down lots of signs I had in my room. I hope they don't make me delete my IM too. They've flipped out before and cussed me out and even kicked me out of the house once, and those were for no reason (because I ate the last cookie and stuff like that). They forbade me to tell anyone I'm a communist or even a socialist, but there's no way I'm going to hide my beliefs. And anyways now they hardly ever let me wear black, and my dad makes me go to the YMCA and jog every day because he thinks if I have less free time I'll be less of a deliqnuent. They don't even care that I'm a cool person and get all As and have never gotten a detention, It's disgusting.

So does anyone have advice for how to deal with intolerant, anti-communist parents? ;)

viva le revolution

30th July 2005, 23:30

Well my parents are pretty split on my politics. My mother knows about my being a marxist-leninist. She is religious but heard me out. She was pretty interested in communism in her youth but never really went into it. Well i convinced her to read the communist manifesto by marx and engels. She pretty much agreed with it but felt uneasy on my activism. She is a moderate wahhabi muslim. However she agrees with most of the points stated in the manifesto.
My dad, on the other hand, is a staunch capitalist. He runs his own small business and is generally intolerant of ideas like communism and anarchism. He thinks anarchism is 'foolish youth running around throwing stones' and communism is stalin.He is a stuanch capitalist. Never really went into discussion with him about politics and theory.

Djehuti

30th July 2005, 23:57

My mum is like "the communists...they are good", but she not in to politics of any kind. She is a tired working class woman with drinking problems and other sort of trouble around her, for her to have the energy to get into this stuff. She don't really now much about communism any longer, but she does vote on the left party. I actually think that she is more of a marxist-leninist...

My father was...he was not a communist, but he was some sort of socialist, probably more libertarian than my mum. Unfortunatly he got killed so I did not really got to know him as well as I would want.

I see from reading this thread that many of you have real big problems at home because of your political views. Guess must of you are from the US? I very much doubt that such behavior is common up here in Sweden.

Warren Peace

31st July 2005, 00:03

I very much doubt that such behavior is common up here in Sweden.

Sweden is cool, I live in the US but I've visited my family in Sweden for a few weeks. The only problem I have with the Swedish government is a foreign policy issue, they support embargo against the people of China. Other than that they are anti-imperialist and also have great domestic policy, especially economic. No socialism there :(, but no classes there either! :) It's sort of ethical capitalism, if you can put those two words together. Do you like it there?

Mastermind

31st July 2005, 08:22

Originally posted by Makaveli_05+Jul 27 2005, 01:24 AM--> (Makaveli_05 @ Jul 27 2005, 01:24 AM)
[email protected] 26 2005, 10:18 PM
He was telling me the other day, "I don't see why we need money, or the government. I mean people would work just to work, you can't do absolutely nothing all day."
I'd much prefer to lie about all day getting drunk and having a good time. [/b]
100% agree lol

Technique3055

1st August 2005, 03:01

I catch junk from my dad all the time about my beliefs. Honestly I don't think he minds it too much, but I think that's just because he thinks it's just a phase that I will grow out of, and I don't see that happening.

My dad is a successful business man. All my life he's told me that Republican is the way to go. Iraq is the right thing. And unfortunatly, up to a certain point in my life, I believed what was being fed to me and just went along with it, never questioning the morals on which society is based. But within this past year, I've began questioning things.

As of recently, my dad and I have gotten into some pretty intelligent discussions on current events and such. We've discussed things from the economy to war in Iraq, and recently CAFTA has been a popular subject.

So every now and then my dad will make a joke about being a "stupid commie" or something like that, but I honestly don't feel like he wouldn't accept me because of my politics. I feel like he's proud of me either way because unlike most teenagers, I've actually got the mindset to find my own beliefs.

Technique3055

1st August 2005, 03:04

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2005, 03:03 AM
Now before i saw this dont insult my family. My mom was worried that im a communist, and shes like "communist, like hitler, right?", i swear it, she thinks that hitler was a communist, i almost started crying, i didnt know people could be that ignorant,
Every single one of my friends will always say something like that. Whenever we get into a political discussion, they always say "Well Hitler was a communist."

One of two emotions takes over me:

1) The urge to throw up.
2) The urge to punch them in the face.

But more often than not, I'll simply explain that Hitler was a total opposite of a communist.

which doctor

1st August 2005, 15:41

Originally posted by Revolt Now!@Jul 30 2005, 10:15 PM
So does anyone have advice for how to deal with intolerant, anti-communist parents? ;)
Run away and join the French Foreign Legion?

Just jokin'

Lacrimi de Chiciură

1st August 2005, 20:00

I'll have to tell my dad that I'm an atheist pretty soon because he's a pastor and he'll try to "confirm" me(I think in like the 11th grade or something). Whenever I'm at his house he makes me go to church. And his wife, my step-mom, is a baptist fundamentalist from Iowa. My mom doesn't harass me about going to church anymore, although she is a christian too, but not a crazy fundamentalist. They're both democrats.

violencia.Proletariat

1st August 2005, 20:51

oh yeah, i dont know my dad anymore, but about his political side, he wanted us to live on a kibbutz in israel :P

FriedFrog

1st August 2005, 22:32

My family accept that I'm a leftist and I enjoy debating things, especially with my Dad.

My Mum doesn't really like politics, and my Dad is probably left of the centre, but not as far as I am.

He's a policeman, too, which always puts an interesting spin on discussions we have!

I'm lucky with the parents I have, really. They have even said that since I've discovered leftism that I've become a 'better person'.

My Mum is Christian, my Dad is too, but doesn't go to church much. I've been confirmed but have since practically given up religion and become Agnostic. I go to church at Christmas because I like the atmosphere of the Christmas Eve services.

So yeah, my parents are pretty easy going.

Pawn Power

1st August 2005, 22:42

Originally posted by The wise old [email protected] 1 2005, 02:00 PM
I'll have to tell my dad that I'm an atheist pretty soon because he's a pastor and he'll try to "confirm" me(I think in like the 11th grade or something). Whenever I'm at his house he makes me go to church. And his wife, my step-mom, is a baptist fundamentalist from Iowa. My mom doesn't harass me about going to church anymore, although she is a christian too, but not a crazy fundamentalist. They're both democrats.
When you tell him, post what he says.
I would like to hear.

Non-Sectarian Bastard!

1st August 2005, 22:43

Djehuti my regrets.

My story is a bit different. My mom was in her days a vicious feminist and even active in underground marxist-leninist groups. My dad was sympathetic, but never a convinced communist. My family in general, with few exceptions has been communist or sympathetic to in their days, especially from my mom's side. "Their days" is the 60's till the 80's in Afghanistan.

But they became disillusioned, because of a number of reasons;

- Soviet war atrocities in Afghanistan
- A corrupt socialist government in Afghanistan
- Enormeous hardships for the family's activism
- Collapse of the USSR
- living a prole life

You see, my family is originally from a upper to middle-class background, who were concerned for the workers and peasants. Now after the collapse of the country; almost all of them are proles. This has been pretty though for all of them. To state the case of my parents; they were once well paid, middle-classers, highly respected teachers - now they are workingclass, often racially discriminated, in a low social position. They work really really hard, but we hardly see any benefits of that. Furthermore they miss Afghanistan, the good old days and their family.

So when I first started to deep about politics, they urged me not to. When I went to my first demo, they wanted to stop me. Their world got crushed a bit more when I denounced state-education and ambition for money or high social places. I intend to stay workingclass and help to make the lives of us all a bit better and more aware. They view this as a pretty much lost fight.

They urge me to try to become middle-class :S

They screamed at me, got angry, cried, begged, threatend to throw out of house to stop my political views. They have had an political active life and met quite some hardships. They fear that I will meet the same things.

I really don't see a different way. If someone is beating you or enslaving you under the threat of beatings; you have only one real choice to even see a bit of freedom and happiness - and I am not afraid to make that choice.

I am someone who loves debating stuff and questioning. So this also brings me in collision with their conservative points. Such as their homophobism or that girls should stay "clean". It can get pretty heated.

Ow en btw my family after the total disaster of the century of Leninism have pretty much all denounced it. My uncle and aunt are still communists and marxists, but now without the leninist bit. They have become more libertarian.

Super Mario Conspiracy

2nd August 2005, 00:35

In a way, I see the fall of the Soviet Union as an actually good thing. The US may not have an opponent left to "equal out" the balance of world power, but I think the knowledge that we learned of the Soviet system is more important, so that next time, this will not happen.

As for myself, I'm a lone wolf. None of my friends or my family are really socialist, let alone communist in any way, although my friends do sympathize with the idea of a "better world" (what that may be is beyond me).

YKTMX

2nd August 2005, 01:30

Well, it's just me and my mum and she's a revolutionary socialist, always has been.

In a sense I find it difficult because I can't do anything "on my own", so to speak, as she is so heavily involved in everything, which is great, in a way.

Of course, there are loads of upsides to it as well, the main one being she made me a socialist and brought me up in the movement. This means, whether I like it or not, I'll always be a socialist. I can't imagine any circumstances under which the present way of things will ever appeal to me.

And there's always been lots and lots of books to read - I don't suppose many people grow up reading the Socialist Worker every week and trying to decipher Capital - but, hey ho.

OleMarxco

2nd August 2005, 02:11

Aha. Well. What can I say? My mother is a working-class woman, feh'sho,
REKOGNIZE! So I can't say I was directly REJECTED - Put per'haps
some sensible (And in my humble opinion, healthy) suspicion..or..should I say,
skepticism...uh, yeah. You probably get my drift <_<

She some-what supported me, but not some "friends"(?, Well, atleast we consider ourselves so), etc'. Some had the indirecte route...laughin' abit, heheheh, like, Crazy Ole....and other's (a guy named Tommy, he's in fact on the net, called for "Pizza Turbo" and is a newspaper-driver and car-mechanic)
were increasingly hostile philosophically, like, accusin' me of sittin' in the basement drinkin' red-wine and writin' lists of "re-education" on the burger-ouise. Right. And in his youth, he were a party-member of the Norwegian "Right" (That's RIGHT, that were just plainly the party's name. Atleast they're open with their idiocity, oh well).

That's all fer now ;)

sbrevcom

2nd August 2005, 02:44

My parents are pretty much exact clones of how viva le revolution described his. They're both Catholics, though, so whenever I bring up a "social issue," they drop the "moral-bomb" on me and tell me that because I'm their kid, I too should believe what they do. Everything always ends up in a big argument, so I try to read and discuss outside of the house or somewhere else they're not. It's rough at times, but we have to have our own freedom of thought.

Sugar Hill Kevis

11th August 2005, 21:09

I live with my grandparents as my dad lives in the USA and my mother works nights at an old peoples home.

My mother doesn't really care, she's a supporter of 'new labour' but in high school she said she was quite liberal and also was on drugs and ended up in a mental home. So she is in no place to criticise myself.

I was wearing a CCCP badge (shield with a white circle at the top with the red star and sickle in it and a star with a wreath around it underneath) and my nan asked what it was I said it was communist and her face dropped, she said to my grandad to look at it. So I let them peruse it at their leisure and my grandad said you want to keep out of that. So I explained that I've been reading about it a considerable amount over the past 6 months or so and I've decided that I share the communist ideals (anarcho communist actually, but I thought I better not add anything else to it) and they said I can't know anything about it unless I lived in Russia or during the cold war period...

At that point I gave some statistics and started ranting about the evils of capitalism and they left the room, so I picked up my badge and returned to my room...

I'm going to a liberal meeting tomorrow night so I'm not sure how I'm gonna break that...

Ownthink

11th August 2005, 22:27

Originally posted by [email protected] 1 2005, 09:44 PM
My parents are pretty much exact clones of how viva le revolution described his. They're both Catholics, though, so whenever I bring up a "social issue," they drop the "moral-bomb" on me and tell me that because I'm their kid, I too should believe what they do. Everything always ends up in a big argument, so I try to read and discuss outside of the house or somewhere else they're not. It's rough at times, but we have to have our own freedom of thought.
I think your parents and my parents should go to church together.

And they can leave us out of it.
:D

STABD

12th August 2005, 03:26

my mom thought that the communist manifesto was a mexican conspiracy

D_Bokk

12th August 2005, 04:24

My parents know absolutely nothing about Communism. When I ask my dad if he knew what it was this was his reply: "A government that kills it's own people." My mom knew pretty much the exact same. I corrected them, but I don't think they were listening.

I left a copy of the Communist Manifesto on the kitchen counter and asked them to read it... they didn't. My parents seem to just not care. What I find odd is that my parents are Proletarians and yet they reject a ideology that is meant for them... oh well I guess there is no helping the people who have been through years upon years of anti-communist propaganda.

Sugar Hill Kevis

12th August 2005, 16:01

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2005, 03:24 AM
My parents know absolutely nothing about Communism. When I ask my dad if he knew what it was this was his reply: "A government that kills it's own people." My mom knew pretty much the exact same. I corrected them, but I don't think they were listening.
Mine think a similar thing, they say the hammer and sickle is just as bad as the swastika...

_nin

12th August 2005, 16:07

my mother try corrupt my political veiws all the time, while my dad supports me and tells me straight (true) facts unlike my mother. my mother is quite narrow minded when it comes to comunism.
" capitalism is the right way" - my mother

last week she bought me a che shirt, i thought she was finaly accepting my veiws.

But no that ***** bought me the che shirt saying f**k the revolution with him smoking pot.

sbrevcom

12th August 2005, 18:10

I think your parents and my parents should go to church together.

And they can leave us out of it.

:D

Agreed.

BitchBrew

13th August 2005, 01:13

My parents don't know shit about me being an anarchist, non of my familey does. And I don't se any point in telling them. I just don't se the point in telling them, they would yest be shocked and look down on me. And they don't have a idea at all about what anarchism is, so if I told them they would probebly think Im a terrorist sympathiser who wiches to blow up the hole society and go back to a chaotic stone age society.

My parents are basacly academic middle class liberals. And thats just the way it is. I couldnt posibly preswaid them to become leftist :o :lol: , just the thougt of it makes me lough.