Sacrificed
29th May 2007, 06:37
Hello there. I stumbled upon this forum while looking for politically radical circles on Google, and this one struck my interest.
I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Benjamin, a nineteen-year-old student from Illinois. I've always felt a little different about myself, and naturally gravitated to the less conventional social circles. I suppose it was only inevitable I become a dedicated left-winger.
I am not a Marxist, but I am a Communist. My qualm with Marxism is a qualm with the dialectic process inherited from Hegel, nothing more. Odd as it may sound, my favorite philosophers are Friedrich Nietzsche (I hope that doesn't get me banned immediately - I interpret him in a 'post-modern' light, as a forerunner to Foucault and his heirs) and Georges Bataille. Max Stirner was another influence on me, though I do not interpret him as a traditional individualist anarchist - for me, his writings herald the dissolution of the liberal subject, a sort of chemical-psychological reaction which breaks it down into its component pieces.
My primary interest is psychology, more specifically the relationship between religion, guilt and sacrifice in a material context. In all other respects my goals and beliefs are identical with those of the Communists, though I do reject the concept of liberal 'human rights' as something that requires a static self to be realized.
Perhaps my stance might be labeled psychological socialism. I've never met anyone else who shares my ideas, though this seems to be more or less the idea that Bataille held to. I am a materialist, but not a 'Being'-ist, a disciple of Parmenides and his atomist followers. If all this sounds like hogwash to you, then you're not alone - I don't really understand it myself. It isn't something I really have a cerebral grasp of just yet.
And now onto more mundane things: my favorite 'intellectual' film is J. Ellias Merhige's Begotten, which seems to me to be a summary of my entire ideological system; when I just want to relax, the Star Wars films are nice. I like rock music and classical and electronica, and I have a particular place in my heart for David Bowie. I like art, but have no talent of my own to produce it, though I wish I had. And I'm a fairly avid gamer.
That seems to be it for now, my introduction, full of big, flowery quasi-intellectual words that mean nothing in the end. I have my differences with many of you, but I hope they're minute enough to allow us to be allies in a common cause.
I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Benjamin, a nineteen-year-old student from Illinois. I've always felt a little different about myself, and naturally gravitated to the less conventional social circles. I suppose it was only inevitable I become a dedicated left-winger.
I am not a Marxist, but I am a Communist. My qualm with Marxism is a qualm with the dialectic process inherited from Hegel, nothing more. Odd as it may sound, my favorite philosophers are Friedrich Nietzsche (I hope that doesn't get me banned immediately - I interpret him in a 'post-modern' light, as a forerunner to Foucault and his heirs) and Georges Bataille. Max Stirner was another influence on me, though I do not interpret him as a traditional individualist anarchist - for me, his writings herald the dissolution of the liberal subject, a sort of chemical-psychological reaction which breaks it down into its component pieces.
My primary interest is psychology, more specifically the relationship between religion, guilt and sacrifice in a material context. In all other respects my goals and beliefs are identical with those of the Communists, though I do reject the concept of liberal 'human rights' as something that requires a static self to be realized.
Perhaps my stance might be labeled psychological socialism. I've never met anyone else who shares my ideas, though this seems to be more or less the idea that Bataille held to. I am a materialist, but not a 'Being'-ist, a disciple of Parmenides and his atomist followers. If all this sounds like hogwash to you, then you're not alone - I don't really understand it myself. It isn't something I really have a cerebral grasp of just yet.
And now onto more mundane things: my favorite 'intellectual' film is J. Ellias Merhige's Begotten, which seems to me to be a summary of my entire ideological system; when I just want to relax, the Star Wars films are nice. I like rock music and classical and electronica, and I have a particular place in my heart for David Bowie. I like art, but have no talent of my own to produce it, though I wish I had. And I'm a fairly avid gamer.
That seems to be it for now, my introduction, full of big, flowery quasi-intellectual words that mean nothing in the end. I have my differences with many of you, but I hope they're minute enough to allow us to be allies in a common cause.