Non-Marxist here

[Primagen]

I'll just get this out of the way. I'm a non-Marxist, and I don't believe in anything mentioned in the following list. I'll explain why, but since I'm using a touchscreen, my explanations will be brief.

Equality: Not everyone is equal. Even if a scientist and a janitor work equally as hard, the scientist is still more valuable because their skills are in shorter supply and have more extensive applications.

Multiculturalism: Western secularist culture is superior to others, and we have the living standards to prove it.

Diversity: I don't see diversity as a bad thing, but I don't regard it in an end in itself. Hence, I am opposed to affirmative action.

Moral politics: Hitler was a moralist. I am a pragmatist. The worst things are done with the best intentions.

Respect for other religions and cultures: Honor killings, cultural terrorism, and female genital mutilation aren't culturally different, they're barbaric.

Economic planning: I don't believe that any person or group, from an autocrat to democratic votes from the entire world could devise a plan that would be good for everyone. I'm also convinced that if you all were part of a communist system, even if you agree with each other on every last detail of how the system should be set up, you still couldn't agree on which plan would be suit the needs of the workers. Your proposal would depend on your own occupation.

Conservatism: While I would be considered more right wing on economic issues, I see no reason to impose arbitrary religious values on others.

Racism: Some of you by now have probably assumed that my opposition to multiculturalism makes me a racist. I do believe in cultural superiority, but I don't believe in racism. This is why I don't believe in affirmative action. If non-whites and females are truly equal, then they don't need special treatment.

Transgender rights: I think most women would feel uncomfortable if they saw a six-foot guy with a pink dress and a stubble walking out of a stall in a woman's restroom, and they shouldn't expected to therapeute themselves into feeling differently just to avoid offending transgendered people. The majority has rights, too.

Now for some things I do believe in:

Freedom of Speech: The truth can be defended on its own merits. Thus, one should be free to say anything they want aside from slander and threats of violence, even if it's terribly offensive to someone else, including "hate speech," and I'm an ethnic Jew.

Free Market: I explained earlier that I don't believe in economic planning. The free market is my proposed solution, as everyone can make decisions on their own behalf, rather than having an autocrat who lives off their tax money order them around, or having 51% of the population push through a plan that hurts the other 49.

Israel: I'm convinced that the countries the refugees are in are to are to blame for their predicament, that Israel's militarism is a necessary defense measure for the good of their citizens, and that we would all be worse off if Palestine existed in place of Israel.

[Q]

Welcome

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[A Psychological Symphony]

Holy shit, I didn't realize so much ignorance could be spewed in one introduction!

[BIXX]

I almost just replied with pls stahp posting

But instead I will say that maybe you should've just posted this in OI, or not done it at all.

[bropasaran]

I'm not a Marxist precisely for believeing in equality and moral politics, Marxism doesn't hold those views. Also, argument ad hitlerum is a fallacy.

The comment about European culture and living standard is just plain wrong and ignorant, becasue, the shortest version possible is- the only thing that Europeans excell and ever in history excelled at in when compared to other people is in war technology and in savagery, and the living standard that we have today is the consequence of using liberaly those two in the last few centuries against basically the whole world. You need to start reading and listening lectures about colonialism and imperialism, you can begin with Chomsky, he's a fine, popular speaker that explains the basics of how the system works from a long time ago up until today.

Free market is good at very few things, the state trumps it on virtually everything, and there is also an option that works better then both. For explanation about the stat being better then the market read this: http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html , for the third option read about "Libertarian Socialism", "Anarcho-syndicalism", "Anarcho-communism", "Council communism", "Decentralized planning", e.g. start by listening to the talks "Workers' Self-Management" and "Visions of a Free Society" from here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...tIVN0O5Izah_gw

About Israel, I simply don't really know what to say, it's an imperialist country that has an apartheid regime, and that has been for decades and continues to this day to occupy, oppress, kill and expel Palestinians and other neighboring Arabic peoples. Basically, only a brainwashed idiot can support it.

[Dr Doom]

welcome, you seem nice ...

[#FF0000]

Multiculturalism: Western secularist culture is superior to others, and we have the living standards to prove it.

Thanks to a rich history of looting and plundering other places and enslaving other people to stoke their own economies, fill their own coffers, etc.

This is why I don't believe in affirmative action. If non-whites and females are truly equal, then they don't need special treatment.

Do you believe non-whites and females have access to all of the same resources and opportunities as white men do, generally?

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Boring troll. Boring, boring troll.

[Sentinel]

I am restricting your account, but feel free to contribute to the discussions in the Opposing Ideologies forum for now. Some of your opinions sound questionable even for that forum, the transgender bit for one, but we will see how you elaborate on that.

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