Stereotypical Marxist student here

[Ale Brider]

I thought I will write an introduction, honestly because I love doing these. I like to talk about myself. I'm a seventeen years old student (no, not mature for my age at all, and I don't like when people say that), which pretty much undermines my opinions, but I guess this is just how it goes. Living in a former socialist country, I have encountered with socialist ideas very early, but mostly in a negative context. Where I grew up, most people are just plain crypto-fascists, with all the components, including anti-semitism, homophobia, racism, nationalism, conspiracy theories, etc. For a time I considered myself liberal, and then drifted more and more towards the less authoritarian tendencies of the Left. Started to read Marx one and a half year ago I think, and when I started to delve deeper into theory and history of working class movements, I was just simply fascinated. But of course theory is nothing without practice, so I started to go to protests, take part in activism, and even tried to start my own activist group with some of my friends (of course it was a failure, but hey, at least we tried). Two days ago I visited and anarcho-communist meeting for the first time. It was very interesting, but honestly from what I've heard and saw, they seem just plain orthodox Marxists with a libertarian flavour. Or Kropotkin is not that important in real, actual anarcho-communist groups, I don't know. I also managed to seize a copy of The Coming Insurrection. Now I can read it without having to sit in front of my computer, huzzah. I'm still just starting to get into Marxism, though. There are bunch of authors and books I haven't read yet. I studied so far Marx and Engles (duh), Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek, some Lenin (but not much), some Trotsky (mostly just because of his critique of the Soviet Union), Bakunin and Kropotkin, Gramsci (just started), also some of the Frankfurt School (I mean I know some basic concepts of Adorno and Marcuse, but I have to look into that deeper), Debord and the Situationist International, a little Deleuze and Foucault (as with the Frankfurt School authors, I know the main concepts, but haven't looked into it deeper yet), and that's it so far. In the future I want to read more Marx (never enough), Karl Korsch (seems interesting), Ellen Meiksins Wood (worth it?) and for now that's it. Any suggestions?

Marxism aside, I also like cats, music (mississippi blues, surf punk, psychedelic stuff, some outlaw country - Townes van Zandt for example is a great favourite of mine -, post punk, popular indie stuff, and also some underground hiphop), literature (Camus, Akutagawa, Vian, etc), history (my personal favourite right now is the ciompi revolt, that's why I have Michele di Lando as my avatar) and of course I like things that most people my age do (drinking and smoking because we're worthless shit, me included, but also young, and should do irresponsible things now, not when we grow older).