Hi From Ireland

[hesaidshesaid]

Another 'Junior Revolutionary' here!

Nice to see all you folks here. Me? Im a recently evolved leftie - slow learner - but anxious to make up for lost time. Currently spend a lot of my time on media activism and am a moderator of the website Class Politics Ireland as well as editor of a media monitoring website that gives MSM in Ireland a headache about its pro corporate and establishment bias. Member of the Irish Socialist Network.

Interested in news media stuff and would love to crack a theory around which all left wingers could unite :)

[spartan]

Welcome:)

We have quite a few Irish members here already so you should feel right at home.

I hope you enjoy your time here at revleft, and i look foward to your future contribution to the forum.

[Redmau5]

Hi and welcome to the board.

As spartan said, there are quite a few Irish members on RevLeft, including myself. I'm sure you'll enjoy your time here.

[Connolly]

Another 'Junior Revolutionary' here!

Nice to see all you folks here. Me? Im a recently evolved leftie - slow learner - but anxious to make up for lost time. Currently spend a lot of my time on media activism and am a moderator of the website Class Politics Ireland as well as editor of a media monitoring website that gives MSM in Ireland a headache about its pro corporate and establishment bias. Member of the Irish Socialist Network.

Interested in news media stuff and would love to crack a theory around which all left wingers could unite


Welcome on here hesaidshesaid. This is Mike from cpi - NO! not the communist party, the other one :D

If your interested in media and chomsky's 'propaganda model'/manufacturing consent, here's a guy talking about it that I thought was pretty good- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pm7WwOn6kw

If you dont mind me asking hesaidshesaid, what sort of political views did you have before turning into a leftie - or were you just apolitical before?

And also, what was it that turned you to left politics if you dont mind me asking?

Thanks again!

[RedAnarchist]

Hi and welcome:)

Its alwasy nice to have new members, so feel free to ask questions and join in with discussions.

[hesaidshesaid]

Hi Mike
Nice to 'see' you here.

To answer your questions. Ive always been strongly against social injustice but never really queried the political status quo or saw it as being as undemocratic as it is. I'd been quite involved with Green politics in the UK at one time. Until quite recently believed a lot of left wing stuff was quite extreme - that communism was utopianism etc etc -all the cliched put downs that we are raised up on, basically. I discovered Indymedia Ireland a few years ago while campaigning for rights for people with disability and it introduced me to a whole world of people and activity that I was only vaguely aware of before that. I started reading more and then got heavily involved in a pre-election campaign aimed at persuading politicians to commit to rights for people with disability. The experience brought home how futile it is was trying to persuade political elites to act on principle - they can't and they won't. At the same time I was reading Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent and some Howard Zinn etc and it's not exaggerating to say that the scales sort of fell from my eyes - both great writers who have brilliantly set out alternative visions and perspectives. All the things they described about the political system we have were made really evident by what happened to our campaign during that general election.
How about you - how'd you get involved?

[Connolly]

How about you - how'd you get involved?


I think its a little more difficult to pinpoint where and why I became interested. From a young enough age I was brought along to demonstrations by family members. I didnt at the time know what they were about even.

I dont really know tbh. I just became interested in politics. I always questioned religion since I was about 10-11. Leftist politics just seemed to come natural. You wouldnt be right wing unless brought up in a racist household or in a middle class background.

The internet, like yourself, put me in contact with a whole new world of ideas - many of which I would have been looking at and concluding without any Marxist theory etc such as 'why arnt people equal' etc.

I cant answer your question, I just dont know! :blushing: - maybe god had something to do with it. :)