Salutations

[9riffin]

Salutations.
I am 9riffin, 19 from that glorious section of England which used to be the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire. I am currently at college doing A-levels and look forward to engaging in debate with my fellow lefties. I have a particular interesting in political philosophy and the social implications of technology. I have a serious problem with borrowing library books and a disturbing fascination with penguins. So, in closing, hello. :D

[Lord Testicles]

Welcome to the board, im sure you'll enjoy the Sciences and Environment and Philosophy forums, enjoy.

[More Fire for the People]

Welcome. Do you consider yourself a socialist or specifically a Marxist?

[9riffin]

Thank you both for the warm welcomes, I appreciate it.

Hopscotch, I wouldn't like to say where to place myself on the broad spectrum that is the left. Which is partly my motivation for joining this forum, to better educate myself on the varied politics of the left. What do you consider yourself?

[More Fire for the People]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2006, 03:12 PM
Thank you both for the warm welcomes, I appreciate it.

Hopscotch, I wouldn't like to say where to place myself on the broad spectrum that is the left. Which is partly my motivation for joining this forum, to better educate myself on the varied politics of the left. What do you consider yourself?
I consider myself a Leninist-Marxist but I take far more influences than just Marx and Lenin, especially from third-wave feminism and the New Left movement. A simple introduction to my ideas are The Communist Manifesto (http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm), The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution (http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1938-tp/index.htm), and The Take (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CCD1X4/qid=1147904163/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4075051-5076623?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130).

[bolshevik butcher]

Welcome to the forum, the take's fantastic I highly reccomend it. Hands off venezuela did some film showings of it at the unieversity here.