Socialism's Foutain of Youth

[Correa]

I became enlighten with Marxism during my freshman year of college (1998). Sociology was the class that started it all. In the United States (where I have been educated) socialism/communism is disscused breifly and discarded as a negative inhumane economy. This brings me to point out the amount of teenagers on this board! I can't belive how many of you are active leftist! You must surely not be from America, and if so I would like to know how you guys woke up from the capitalist brain washing. This is amazing! My theory that the younger generation leans towards the left seems to be correct! :hammer:

[Carmen]

Hello! Well i'm 16 years old and i'm from the UK. I got 'into' Communism first when i was younger because some of my family were in the Communist party here and in other countries. So i already kinda knew what it was, but i only really signed up to it when we started learning about it in history class. I preferred it. My older brother is also a commie and he taught me quite a bit about it, and my dad, although he isn't Communist knows a lot about it cause Armenia (where he is from) was part of the Soviet Union, and he was able to teach me some Soviet history. So uhm, yeah ^_^

[RedAnarchist]

I'm 19 and also from the UK, and i've been Communist for a few years now. I gradually got angrier at the state of the world, and as this happened, i moved leftwards.

[Ownthink]

I'm 15 and I do live in America. I have always been a leftist, but just recently (past few months) been greatly into Communism. One day I just found this board, and was extremely interested. Since then, I have read and watched and done everything I can to make my knowledge of Communism greater. Hell, I even have a 2.5GB "Communist Library" of text files, writings, videos, books, pictures, etc ALL on Communism. I love this ideology, and I will probably be a Communist all my life, because I have been exposed to the horrors of Capitalism, Consumerism, etc.

[Enragé]

im 16 and got interested in "the cause" when i was 11/12 after watching the genua 2001 protests on tv.

[Lord Testicles]

im 15 from the UK . My familly is left leaning so i quess thats a kind of good and im working class. I developed my own ideas which were simular to communism (so i was told) so i cheaked it out and it seemed like the right ideas and so it went on from there. I think all that is needed is for people to stop being so ignorant and lisen more.

[Fidelbrand]

from Hong Kong here, where leftism is not bashed, but worse yet, not even regarded with any sense of degree because it is simply disregarded AT THE FIRST INSTANCE. :D

An illiberal undemocratic cosmopolitan city, imagine that.

I jumped out with the help of some Leftists scholars i read at university.

[Ollie]

I'm 18 from UK and can definitely say some young people are fed up with capitalism. However, the majority seem to be passive and follow the system as they really do not think about it. I guess marx would call it "false class consciousness"

The war in iraq is what kicked off my revolutionary spark! Alot of people who thought about it and were angered have joined socialist organisations.

[Dark Exodus]

I'm sure a lot fo young people lean towards the left because their teachers and parents don't. It is a way to rebel.

[guerillablack]

And that's exactly what we don't need. Your not my comrade if you wanna rebel against your parents or society.

[OleMarxco]

OH!? IS THAT SO!? WELL, I'LL BE DAMNED! ;)
First of all, that's exactly what we need! We only need to learn away, that, it's just not about rebelling against your parent's, which is okay anyway's, since Marx says; "Abolition of the (nuclear-)family" so we should applaud all rebel against superior's, even if it's of teen angst...it can quickly be "used" (some would say abused, but it's their choiche to approach us) to teach them the true lore of Communism, and they'll definately be my comrade if they can calm themselves and mature them to a pro-Working Class basis and not a selfish "Rebel withouth a Cause"-level, albeit claimin' leftism. Do not loose faith in human's.`

And what's wrong with rebelling against society!? It's the fuckin' point of our entire ideology! Are you nuts? If we're not your comrades in fight because of that, then you are not leftist because of that. Sorry, but it's true, I think it's been a misunderstanding :lol:

As fore'e young people believin' in Socialism's fouNtain, it's 'cuz it's so "aggressive" and "powerful" appearin', crushin' in the ass of everything "them old generation" BURGER-OUISE :D

[enigma2517]

Yeah really

Having shitty parents (I wouldn't know mine are pretty cool) can definetely be reason enough to rebel, its just one more coercive hierarchy that you're subjected to.

And rebelling against society? Fine vote democrat.

May '68 showed some promising beginnings. People weren't only rebelling against capitalism as an economic system, they were also rebelling against the grotestque and BORING society that it produced.

One of my favorite slogans from that time is "Power to the imagination!"

Somewhere down the road you need to know what you will use to replace whatever it is that you're rebelling against. Teen angst can become effective if you present teenagers with viable alternatives.

So why's it wrong to rebel?

[Che1990]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2005, 02:44 PM
I'm 19 and also from the UK, and i've been Communist for a few years now. I gradually got angrier at the state of the world, and as this happened, i moved leftwards.
Same here really. I can't remember how I got into Communism, just seeked an alternative to the shitty system the world operates in and found Marx! Almost like someone searching for God...(sorry, bad example)

[Kez]

Well, both my parents were originally left leaning (also being from Armenia), and i generally listened to them lambast the news when i was a little kid.

Then i did a little research myself, found out what they were saying was true, and capitalism must be abolished if we want to end all injustices

One of the biggest kicks in the arse for me was that horrific scene when that Palestinian son and father were murdered by Israeli soldiers when they were cowering for their lives behind a barrel presenting no threat at all, sickening.

Ironically now my parents are centre-right wing and i joined a revolutionary organisation the Committee for a Marxist International (http://www.marxist.com)

in struggle,

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

And that's exactly what we don't need. Your not my comrade if you wanna rebel against your parents or society.

It's right to rebel.

What would your "comrades" rebel against?

[Iepilei]

A lot of the younger parts of the generation tend to be largely left-leaning. Sadly, as many grow older they buy-in to the way things work and cast everything they've learned aside. It's been that way for a long time, now. The difference between the past generations and the current is the ability for people of all ages to learn, en masse, about the struggles of the world and methods in which could be employed to empower it.

:ph34r:

[comradesteele]

i was interested in history , got a book on revoulutions learn about russian revoultion, got interested in soviet history, to learn about soviet history you have to learn about communism, from there i became a communist.

[Warren Peace]

And that's exactly what we don't need. Your not my comrade if you wanna rebel against your parents or society.

What the hell? What kind of rebel is against rebellion?

First, if you support capitalist society then why haven't you been banned? Second, don't give me this "respect for parents" bullshit, you obviously have no idea what it's like to have a screwed up family. When your own parents have cussed you out and kicked you out of your house, then you can tell me "it's wrong to rebel against parents", and you'll still be wrong. If your parents were racists, would you rebel or follow them just because they're your parents?

[enigma2517]

He's right...I think you're looking at this from a very limited perspective.

Like I said, I'm one of the lucky ones. I feel as though my parents respect me and want the best for me.

However, I'm sure that many out there aren't like that. In fact, some of my friends got it pretty bad.

Just because there is some biological connection there doesn't mean that they will always do whats best for you.

That being said I can completely see the need to dissolve the nuclear family as a legal unit.

[Axel1917]

I am pretty young myself (I will be 20 in a few days). I have been anti-capitalist for quite some time (since the age of 14), but I started off with a faulty analysis, as I was a Stalinist until I was about 16. I was then Utopian Socialist, then Ultraleftist, and I finally got into scientific socialism around the time I turned 18.

I also believe that Liebknecht (sp?) once said "The youth are the flames of the Proletarian revolution."

[restin256]

I'm 17, and got into it about a year ago. I saw something wrong in high school when everybody was taught to buy into bullshit products to be cool, and wondered what had to be done about it. My speculation was that if people owned both the state and the economy collectively, there wouldn't be a pop culture to be bought into, or at least an unreasonable one. So, I looked into Libertarian Socialism and thought it kicked ass.