neogringo
11th October 2006, 22:18
Greetings, lefties. I'm an eighteen year old born in the USA, living in Santiago, Chile. Culturally, I am a Cuban, a Chilean and a US American. I am a patriot of the world.
I don't like to use labels when describing my political opinions, primarily because I'm 18 and I plan to make many mistakes and change opinions many times in my life. It's part of living in a world with freedom of speech and tolerance of opinion: sometimes, our own opinions will change. Sadly, however, most lefties seem to love labels, probably because they're so used to the world using labels against them.
My political opinions and whatever labels I identify with are drawn from my two basic beliefs: first, that all human beings deserve absolute freedom without infringing on the freedom of others. Second, that you can take your liberal, your socialist, your conservative, your communist, your Lenin, your Stalin, your Osama and your George W and put it somewhere unpleasant if there is even a single child that is not being fed, cared for, educated and protected from the horrors of violence and poverty.
I will tell you that I believe in communist anarchy, democratic and free for all. I am an internationalist. I am also a humanist and an agnostic. I also believe in pacifism. Revolution is about change, and when the majority want it, then it is permanent. When a minority wants it, as in Bolshevism and Leninism, you get Stalin. And Stalinism is worse than Nazism, worse than fascism, much, much worse than capitalism. Never were the means of production in the hands of the proletariat under Mao, Lenin or Stalin. But Pablo Neruda, Chile's greatest son, still wrote an ode to Little Joe, who caused the death of tens of millions deliberatedly and without ideology but the ideology of greed and corruption.
Anyway, that's me.
I don't like to use labels when describing my political opinions, primarily because I'm 18 and I plan to make many mistakes and change opinions many times in my life. It's part of living in a world with freedom of speech and tolerance of opinion: sometimes, our own opinions will change. Sadly, however, most lefties seem to love labels, probably because they're so used to the world using labels against them.
My political opinions and whatever labels I identify with are drawn from my two basic beliefs: first, that all human beings deserve absolute freedom without infringing on the freedom of others. Second, that you can take your liberal, your socialist, your conservative, your communist, your Lenin, your Stalin, your Osama and your George W and put it somewhere unpleasant if there is even a single child that is not being fed, cared for, educated and protected from the horrors of violence and poverty.
I will tell you that I believe in communist anarchy, democratic and free for all. I am an internationalist. I am also a humanist and an agnostic. I also believe in pacifism. Revolution is about change, and when the majority want it, then it is permanent. When a minority wants it, as in Bolshevism and Leninism, you get Stalin. And Stalinism is worse than Nazism, worse than fascism, much, much worse than capitalism. Never were the means of production in the hands of the proletariat under Mao, Lenin or Stalin. But Pablo Neruda, Chile's greatest son, still wrote an ode to Little Joe, who caused the death of tens of millions deliberatedly and without ideology but the ideology of greed and corruption.
Anyway, that's me.