Politics poll

What political philosophy do you consider yourself a follower of?

First of all, in this section of the forums, there are no primitivists or capitalists. So, this should be moved to OI.

Second, why?

Agreed. moved.

I like that I'm able to pick more than one thing. I totally went with "Marxist Maoist Anarcho-Primitivist Other". I could explain but I don't think anybody cares.

I hope I don't get restricted. I'm just saying, if you'd restrict me, you'd also restrict the author of this - and it's on marxists.org! I mean, come on, we all know that marxists.org is the longterm goal of everyone on this site.

Except me. Because primitivism.

On a related note, I'm sad neither "throw-back anti-imp" nor "RAAN" made the cut.

I chose 'Stalinist Anarcho-Capitalist' ... because I can.

I chose anarcho-syndicalist. I also chose anarcho-nihilist, because it (from what I can gather from the name, which I've never come across before) sounds related to the phenomenological and existential nihilism that I subscribe to.

Also, "Stalinist" is generally an epithet; the term "Marxist-Leninist" is more appropriate. "Anarcho-capitalist" is a contradiction in terms - there is nothing legitimately anarchistic about "anarcho"-capitalism.

I am an anarcho-capitalist third worldist, the only true revolutionary ideology.:cool:

I'd be in the "other" category, none of the other options are close enough to my preferences.

Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, and Anarcho-Syndicalism.

Finally the Chinese menu of political polls. The masses rejoice.

want to pos rep you twice...

I do like the fact that this poll allows members to select more than one option. I selected both; 'Anarcho-syndicalist', (Unfortunately, the OP did not create an option for; 'Anarchists without adjectives.') and; 'Marxist.' I chose both because depending on what one means by; 'Marxism', Marx, certainly, as well as others like Pannekoek, Gorter, Luxemburg, etc., the difference is almost entirely semantic. I do believe, however that the poll leaves something to be desired. There are several options that probably should have been included; 'Trotskyist', for one, and some, like; 'Juche', that should not have been included.This, of course, is hardly unique. I would implore anyone thinking of creating polls, in the future, to exercise greater care when crafting the question, and the possible answers.

Absolutely. Anarchism has always been fundamentally anti- capitalist. Proudhon was a mutualist, and from Bakunin, to the present day, anarchism has been explicitly communist. 'Anarcho-capitalism' is an oxymoron, and anyone who identifies as such is a regular moron.

The OP also should've had syndicalist without adjectives, that way a person who is syndicalist but not anarchist (like me) could just select syndicalist, and an anarcho-syndicalist could still be included by selecting anarchism and syndicalism.

Marxist, Anarcho-Syndicalist, and Other.

Like NGNM85, I think there should have been a generic "Anarchist" option, but since there isn't I selected Anarcho-Syndicalism.

As for "Other", I think the fundamental idea behind Technocracy - that modes of production based on price systems are unsustainable in an era of abundance in materials and energy - is a sound one, and need not overshadow or supplant Marxist and anarchist critiques of the current socioeconomic order of things.

Also under "Other" I would place Transhumanism. Although primarily a cultural and intellectual movement, it is one with huge political and social implications, and as technology continues to develop those implications will become all the more important with time. But I think we should be considering those implications now, when we have the opportunity to prepare the ground so to speak, and not when such developments are already upon us.

anarcho nihilist lol

Anarcho-Primitivism will just lead to another society being built in the aftermath.

Also, I picked Marxist.

Overall probably Christian Democrat or moderate liberal.

Economics: Ordoliberal, pro-social market economy, mildly Keynesian

Foreign policy: Liberal internationalist

Social Issues: Pro-life, otherwise socially liberal, strong believe in concept of "One Nation"

Four different anarcho flavors, but no Trotskyist option, so, in keeping with Lenin's opinion that "there has been no better Bolshevik than Trotsky," I chose Leninist.

Stalinist and proud!

Anarcho-syndicalist and Juche. Because if the union makes us strong, the Dear Leader makes us stronger.

That strange spelling of Juche.

voted anarcho-primtivism-nihilism

What, no Trotskyist option? Have all the Trots been purged. So I picked Marxist (no hyphen) Leninist.

Don't be a goose, no one cares about trots.

I merely chose Leninist, as I thought it was a one option poll and that was closest to Trotskyism.

I picked marxist and anarcho-syndicalist. I consider myself a council communist and situationist.

Chose Leninist, but would've gladly picked Marxist (kinda the same). ;)

(let the shitstorm begin.)

Leninist. Had i known i could have picked more than one option, i would have picked Marxist as well.

I picked Stalinist, because it sounds koowl. Nah, I picked Marxist and Leninist.