Can't tell if I am becoming more left or more reactionary.

  1. Zanters
    Zanters
    Let me just start off with my story, and help me correct myself or reassure me that I am still indeed a left communist.


    I joined the IWW a little over a month ago. It was awesome at first, a revolutionary workers union? Hell yea! Screw collaborating, let's organize industrially and unite for a socialist future. Then I added the members on facebook. Everyone is human, and I understand that being annoying is subjective. But holy shit, half the people here are crazy! None of them analyze situations like marxists should. I am sorry in advance if anyone from my division reads this and is offended. Besides the mindless anarchists there, the "marxists" are just slobs politically; expecting "solidarity" to carry them to their success, just looking for a chance to riot and destroy some windows.

    Let me give some examples. One man posted "I dont give a shit about the business owners that get their business destroyed at Ferguson." To which I responded... "We must remember, that while the petite bourgeois are a reactionary class and harder to make class conscious, they are capable of being revolutionaries too. The destruction of "Mom and Pop" shops only creates more hardcore reactionaries that will oppose any progressive revolutionary movement."

    To which he responded "There are no more mom and pop shops"

    Okay.


    I also seem to have a problem with "feminist" who look for any opportunity they have to either complain that white men are keeping them down; which society does favor white men, this I understand, but the solution isn't to be politically correct about every single issue with reactionaries, but to unite and change the control of the factors of production to the workers. Maybe I don't understand feminism like I should, but I cannot stand constantly being constantly put behind because I am a white male. I don't give a shit if I am white or a male, I am not proud of neither. The solution is to work together.

    What's going on with me? Maybe I am reactionary scum now
  2. Noa Rodman
    Noa Rodman
    facebook is an awful place for discussion
  3. Leo
    Leo
    I don't think you're becoming a reactionary. Rather, you seem to have a mistake joining the IWW.
  4. The Jay
    The Jay
    I agree with them that we shouldn't really care about looting or damaging businesses but I see where you're coming from.
  5. Devrim
    Devrim
    I also agree. I don't care if people burn down the property of small shopkeepers.

    Devrim