What specifically made you come to the beliefs you have right now?
I'm center left/liberal, but I'm curious about dipping my fingers into things further left like anarcho communism/antifa, Marxism, Stalinism, Maoism, Juche, ect..
Also another thing I noticed among the "far left" is that it's almost majority white. How come most minorities aren't into it?
Im pretty far from white fren
Educated people in general tend to be left-wing. White people have better lives and better education, therefore tend to be left-wing, meanwhile minorities tend to be poor, oppressed, and kept ignorant to satisfy the ruling class, therefore tend to be apolitical or right-wing.
This shouldn't be surprising when you're in europe or north america given that they're majority white.
The biggest contemporary leftist movements (NPA, Naxalites, FARC, PKK) are't white at all.
If you're in Britain or Russia, no shit most leftists are going to be white.
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Non-white leftists tend to wind up dead in western countries (especially America).
I guess mostly I realized the extreme impotence of the modern left. I voted for parties more radical than Bernie tier before i became a communist, but that wasnt too odd where i'm from
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Basically I was apolitical (or default left-liberal/"socialist") until about half a year ago, then I started getting interested in marxism when I went to a few events by my local marxist party's student wing. However it was the lefty Zig Forums boards which really got me into it and helped me form more coherent beliefs. Right now I'd say I'm a regular socialist (or marxist-leninist, but I don't like how dogmatic that term sounds) who is still in the process of developing consistent political views.
seconding both and
That's a meme
I got into politics by accidentally stumbling upon the Wikipedia article for "Communism". I started reading Kropotkin; his radical, uncompromising anticapitalism and egalitarianism appealed to me, but I was left wanting because I've sort of been an outcast since I was a kid and a purely collectivist approach didn't entirely convince me. So I started gravitating towards anarchist individualists like Stirner, Palante, Novatore, Wilde or Devaldès who I felt really nailed the necessity of self-accomplishment as the end goal of human life over feel-good moral values and sacrifice. But it often got a bit too romantic if not adventurist for my tastes, so I went back to the essentials: a close reading of Marx with a focus on what I felt traditional Marxism ignored or distorted, which I guess would make me a leftcom. Eventually I synthesized my intellectual experience into the position I still hold to nowadays. Call it "Marxist individualism", I suppose?
Centre-left generic SocDem, I supported the Irish Labour Party. Voted for them in the 2011 General Election. Was against Sinn Féin because of a lack of knowledge about the origins of the Troubles (both sides were le same nonsense).
I was highly disappointed by how the Irish Labour party went into coalition with the right-wing Fine Gael and how they enacted centre-right policy together.
I was then taken in by the Ron Paul crowd. If all the centre-left are going to do is to help implement right-wing policies, why bother with Government at all? Limit the damage they can do. After he lost, I became largely apolitical for a few years.
Personal circumstances (ie: being poor) led me to start hating Capitalism and I started reading basic information about Anarchism (as I still disliked the concept of a State).
Once I became homeless, I had plenty of free time and decided to start properly researching the history of Anarchism and Anarchist theory. Once I understood why it is nonviable, and why it never took root in my area, I started thinking a State for the Left would not be such a bad idea.
Republican Socialist with a heavy leaning towards Marxist thought. The Provisional IRA were largely justified in their goals and actions, and the main thing they got wrong was not accomplishing their aims.
James Connolly was correct in his predictions of a Bourgeois Nationalist state, and characters like Seamus Costello and Ruairí Ó Brádaigh continued his good work. Today, the Irish Left is stronger than ever.
Bring on the 32 County Socialist Republic.
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Had same thread awhile back
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Most people in the english speaking world are white, thats why you see mostly white people in the far left.
It's embarrassing really, but I was a generic "apolitical", heard a song with Proudhon's name in the title, looked him up, realised "hey I agree with pretty much all of this shit, why did nobody tell me about this before" and got into anarchism for like a year and a bit, then sort of gravitated towards Marxism after actually reading a bit of Marx and some Lenin out of curiosity. I think State and Revolution was the thing that really sold me on the state, perhaps unsurprisingly. Held on to a bit of ultraleft-ish (not REAL socialism etc.) baggage for a while but now I guess I'm more or less an M-L? I dunno. I do like Cockshott, though.
Well, this one time…
Don't even get started on ESL.
India isnt the english speaking world, they speak hindi. Just because they can speak english doesnt mean they do or that they use the same online spaces as the english native speakers or europeans. Their language is large enough for them to form their own bubbles, just like spanish speakers and chinese speakers.
cmon now Pretty sure they got better things to do than shitposting about leftism online, like trying to survive or build up their dirt poor nation.
clearly you're missing out on nairaland top bantz
Please provide links
Life experience. I was an anarchist and a communist without realizing it, because where I live (America) had done such a good job propagandizing what these things were about that I never bothered to look into Marx or Bakunin or Kropotkin etc. until much later than I should have. When I finally did, it was immensely relieving to see that there were whole schools of thought on the subjects that I felt like only I was acknowledging.
who the fuck wrote this crap, this is one of the saddest attempts at pretending to be antiimperialist i've seen for a while, it reeks of something between anti-interventionist libertarianism and turd positionism
If one examines postmaterialist desituationism, one is faced with a choice: either reject the textual paradigm of consensus or conclude that discourse must come from communication. It could be said that the subject is contextualised into a neocultural textual theory that includes truth as a paradox. The textual paradigm of consensus implies that society, perhaps paradoxically, has significance, but only if sexuality is equal to reality; otherwise, we can assume that language may be used to oppress minorities.
However, the subject is interpolated into a Sartreist absurdity that includes narrativity as a whole. Von Junz suggests that we have to choose between the textual paradigm of consensus and deconstructive objectivism.
Thus, if Sartreist absurdity holds, the works of Spelling are an example of neotextual nihilism. A number of narratives concerning the textual paradigm of consensus exist.
The characteristic theme of the works of Spelling is the defining characteristic of dialectic sexual identity. It could be said that the subject is contextualised into a neocultural textual theory that includes truth as a paradox. The example of Sartreist absurdity intrinsic to Spelling’s Charmed emerges again in Beverly Hills 90210, although in a more self-referential sense.
Bingo. It was these goys:
unz.com
Nairaland political section, like most of the internet, reeks of Zig Forums
Watcha doin Zig Forums
Are you me?
Hell, I might be.
Wingnut Dishwashers Union?
I'm an American. All true Americans are Communists.
Distaste for exploitation.
Well, in the western world, most of them are going to be white, obviously. AIRC Japan has a fairly large communist party, and there's been a lot of socialist movements in Africa and South America.
Nationalism and my love for soviet military history
Depends on country