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[Nicky Scarfo]

Nicky Scarfo here. Just thought I'd to a brief intro to be polite. I'm a union activist living in the great urban Northeast USA-- center of the universe (yes, I'm a regional chauvinist).

My ideology is Scarfoism :) I suppose the best description of my ideology would be the very general term "left libertarian". My beliefs encompass different facets of Classical Liberalism (orthodox Libertarianism), Utilitarianism, Anarchosyndicalism, and Marxism. I don't pin myself down to a commonly-defined ideological system, but I believe in individual freedom, collective democracy, basic fairness and social progress.

I think history shows that different ideologies, including the ones I named above, develop within a specific historical context to address these basic "progressive" concerns (for example, I believe Locke, Jefferson, Franklin and Smith were all "progressive" within their historical context). I think the effective revolutionary should glean lessons from these previous movements and systems of thought, and synthesize them into an ideological movement appropriate for current conditions (the synthesis of ideas and systems as an engine of historical progress being one of the narrow points of agreement between my own beliefs and traditional Marxian dialectics).

So that's my ideology. My interests include guns, booze, BBQ, collard greens, kinky heterosexual intercourse, and fucking around on the internet, among many other things (most relating to food, intoxicants, union stuff, politics, discourse, sex and weapons).

[More Fire for the People]

Welcome mate. I was really dissapointed with what happenend at PoFo but I'm sure you'll feel welcomed here, especially around the anti-dialectics gang.

[Nicky Scarfo]

Thanks. Who are you ever there?

[More Fire for the People]

‘Le Rouge’, it is my favourite pseudonym but I prefer not to use very much.

[Nicky Scarfo]

Okey-doke, thanks for the welcome then. That Pofo shit was fucked up, but I find it funny and ironic that they "fired" me for "union activity"-- Fox and his crew are so self-serious that they don't even realize what they did. You'd have thunk they would have had as much fun with their "union-busting" and "firing" me as I was trying to have with the "union organizing", but nope...they genuinely regarded my little tongue-in-cheek project as a personal insult and a threat for no good reason.

Oh well, not the first forum I've been banned from and likely not the last. I may even be banned here! It's just the internet after all. A fun and interesting place to discuss things and pick up info, but ultimately not the real-world. Not the place to organize and not the place for real interpersonal relationships. It's easy to forget that sometimes in this day and age where the internet and the real-world have an increasing nexus, but I learned long ago not to frustrate myself over things that happen online.

By the way, I'm not "anti-dialectical". I do in fact, subscribe to some limited and general aspects of dialectical theory, but I simply don't make Marxian dialectics the bedrock of my analysis or ideological beliefs.

Thanks again. Nice to see a familiar "face"-- anyone else from over there over here?

[Cult of Reason]

I used to visit PoFo regularly, but I did not post much. Hi.

[Nicky Scarfo]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2006, 04:22 PM
I used to visit PoFo regularly, but I did not post much. Hi.
Yep, I remember you. Thanks for the welcome.

[leftist manson]

hey welcome nicky, reading some of your posts in the OI forum really got me interested in your ideology. It seemed very very eclectic . This post only confirmed my initial impression of you.
Anyways, good going.
;)

[Nicky Scarfo]

Originally posted by leftist [email protected] 8 2006, 01:48 AM
hey welcome nicky, reading some of your posts in the OI forum really got me interested in your ideology. It seemed very very eclectic . This post only confirmed my initial impression of you.
Anyways, good going.
;)
Well thanks manson, but if you're gonna become a Scarfoist, you'll have to drop the Marilyn Manson avatar :)

But I'd keep the compliments on the QT, otherwise people will start calling you a "capitalist" and a "reformist" and politely suggest this forum "is not the place for you". Apparently there are plenty here who like to criticize Stalninists and Trotskyists of "sectarianism" and "authoritarianism" on the one hand, then turn around and engage in the same sort of leftist cannibalism, dogmatism and denunciations of ideological deviationism that the Stalinists and Trots are famous for.