Anyone else who was always a commie? I was an anarkiddie who naively voted for Obamas first term and then read marx after he started breaking campaign promises and never looked back.
Anyone else NOT have a libertarian phase? I don't trust these slippery liberal socdems.
Was an an-cap before going leftist. I think everyone who either goes to the Right or Left undoubtedly had a libertarian phase because ultimately it's grounded in Liberalism, the dominant ideology.
Parker Gray
i was nothing before being a socialist, literally nothing
Bentley Wright
I went from liberal to anarchist to Christian ML in about 4 years. I flirted with right wing reaction but found it to be ultimately anti-christian in spirit.
Thomas Stewart
Well I mean fuck you too if you don't want to accept more people into the people's revolution. I left my Zig Forumstard face after I met some far rightists IRL and realized that they were a edgy hate group who just want to kill people. I dislike the left but at least yall can discuss and debate actual ideas and not just genocidal fantasies
Jonathan Ramirez
Did your values change or were you misinformed about how you thought your values aligned with that ideology?
Did you think that your beliefs would help everyone? Like slaves would be happy working for masters? Everyone has there place?
Or did you think degenerates needed to be culled from the genepool so the worthy could flourish? Producers and leeches?
I'm trying to understand how this develops. Why communism now? How grounded are your beliefs? Were you just angry and misdirected? What if you get angry again?
Josiah Moore
I have always been left-leaning since I started caring about politics because my mom was a hard-working single parent earning minimum wage and life was hard for us. I remember scoffing at the idea of the "invisible hand" during my basic economics classes in high school. When I read the chapter about M-C-M' of Capital a couple of years later, it made total sense to me still have to read the rest of it though. After reading Debord, I realized you can be a Marxist without being a ML and stopped believing in crypto-liberals. I must admit I like Nick Land though, but primarily because he is the most intelligent adversary we currently have, compared to the usual neoliberal frauds and braindead identitarians.
Xavier Watson
all david sherratt type guys are slimy motherfuckers and not to be trusted
american anarquistas really be like that sometimes and by sometimes i mean most of the time
Hunter Russell
Was apolitical before getting mixed up in a socialist youth party when I was like 13 or so. Then I became a slimy succdem for 8 or 9 years, before realizing that our species is on a train-ride towards self-destruction and that the train is called capitalism. Now I've embraced socialism with depressive characteristics: capitalism is ruining us and only socialism can save us but it won't happen until it's too late
Adam Edwards
since i was born in russia, i studied soviet history at one point and got into socialism, and after one year (i think) i became an ML. Before that i knew jack about politics
Brody Nelson
post big russian hand for proofz
Henry Bell
I was young and it was my first election I thought that we lived in a democracy and if we got a reeeealy liberal president they could make a positive material impact. Or are you saying a 'real' anarchist today wont even vote Bernie for damage control?
This is a key reason why I'm asking. Land is 'correct' that a hyper techno fascist empire could enslave the proles for a million years. This would be comfy for those on top but would limit the total potential of humanity by continuing to reproduce malnourished uneducated automatons. I like Deleuze but can't see going from marx->postmodernism->dark enlightenment unless you take away the temporal aspect and do some hedonistic individualism or you actually think sections of humanity are trash to be discarded both of which I find to be unoptimal given statistics. This cuts off an entire potentiality for humanity and slows progress exponentially for the species while maintaining stasis for the individual.
What stops our new 'comrades' who reactionaried right and are now reacting left and falling into bad theory. If you choose YOLO as a core value Land is right so persons looking into communism to improve their own material conditions will be just like the hippies in the 70s who turned right as soon as they signed a mortgage will into eco-fascist-accelerationism.
Xavier Rodriguez
I was a generic Democrat (when I was like 9 to like 14/15) then a right "Libertarian" who was a registered Republican until I was like 24/25 and became a generic socialist around 2015. I would say last year I started calling myself a MARXIST-LENINIST COMMUNIST to anyone who asked my political views.
I started down this road because of Ron Paul and his pseudo-anti-imperialism that the liberals also called "isolationism".
Evan Wilson
I had a libertarian phase for like a couple of days in high school, but then I read some anarchist literature and realized how shit libertarianism is. Before that, I was just a generic apolitical liberal.
Then I moved to Marxism.
Jordan Wilson
Not really right wing but I was kind still am a burger civic nationalist and a STEM nerd. I became a leftist when I realized that the market is an irrational system that is inefficient, wasteful, and straight up retarted. One event that radicalized me was the flint water crisis and in general deindustrialization due to offshoring. (I’m from the midwest)
All I wanted was a compy high paying union job in a factory that left me with enough time to do my hobbies, and enough money to own a house.
Jonathan Williams
Being an anarchists and voting for the opposite of anarchism is cognitive dissonance
John Morris
I was never rightwing. I first learn what right and left were when I was 14. After that I considered myself a socdem. Now a non-sectarian communist.
Leo Allen
So people in swing states should spoil votes to uphold idealism?
Jaxon Kelly
They should vote either Green or Libertarian. But tbh it doesn't matter at fucking all. Yes they should "spoil" their votes. Porky wants you to vote.
Nicholas Robinson
be me in high school
VIVA LA REVOLUCION
Dominic Barnes
Last election I was interested in Gloria La Riva of the PSL (party for socialism and liberation) and then became a Bernie supporter and saw him as really the only viable option in the race. Would anyone like to propose a more viable option than bernie in the 2020 rat race, without saying “don’t vote” as an option? I’m genuinely curious. Voting green or libertarian doesn’t seem like a viable option either. Bernie seems like the most likely to be able to give us a stable transition into the next stage of development, that being socialism. Thanks in advance, I’ll be sure to not vote and kill myself.
Daniel Moore
Was a lolbert growing up.
Now I'm a leftcom.
Oliver Baker
I’ve been socialist since I knew anything about politics
You realize Bernie would get couped the second he tried to do anything remotely socialist right? Even if he does win the election, I doubt more than half the country would support him if he were to become more radical, assuming he even would. Anyway the answer to your question is not being born in the US. Thankfully I managed that.
Anthony Hill
sure but I'm talking about today no 100 years ago
Julian Bailey
Bernie is just a liberal though
Jace Sanchez
I was 9.9/10 going to vote for bernie regardless of whether or not I got roasted by chat and how meaningless my vote is in the electoral college. I didn’t vote last election to be completely honest. I’m just curious who people are actually supporting. Besides the guillotine.
Christian Mitchell
That's besides the point. I know he is, but assuming he would do anything slightly socialist he'd get couped immediately.
Adrian Green
sure but thinking he would is silly
Camden Jenkins
You'll become a neocon in 3-4 years.
Anthony Lee
I already said I’d go kill myself but thanks again bb
Dylan Williams
in the US thats the only non idealist position
Hudson Butler
Wow you’re so NON- conformist and counter-current. Wish I was as woke tier
Jordan Evans
you're just shitposting now
Ethan Clark
What does that even mean? What is liberal other than a vaguely defined buzzword at this point. Would you mind clarifying what you mean by Bernie is just a liberal? I googled the definition of liberal and it says nothing in relation to political or economic ideology. Liberal could just mean 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧Californian avocado eater🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 to you for all I know.
Brandon Richardson
No, I love people who offer criticism but no solutions. If my idealism is so laughable, what are your suggested alternatives to the current system in place? Besides boom boom, blow it all up and hang all the bourgeoisie. I’m serious, what does your non-idealist world look like? Enlighten me, good fellow brother of this Earth.
Wyatt Rogers
My first political stance beyond 'technocratic enlightened despotism lmao' was unironic jacobinism, fervent anti-aristo sentiment and the idea of the universal republic founded on liberty and virtue as well as the necessity of revolutionary terror really struck a chord with me and are still foundational to my politics. Just that when i familiarised myself with marxism and soviet history i quickly realised Bolshevism was the real deal of Jacobinism in the flesh and now feel secure having a materialist basis and understanding for my absolute goal.
I really don't give a shit. If voting has an impact and other leftists don't vote because both parties are shit then fine that's their choice, not voiting is a vote. If voting does not have an impact and other leftists do vote then why should you care?
What I'm interested in is whether newly converted comrades are coming from a reactionary ideology invested in their self interest and if this is temporary and they will turn again later.
Everyone keeps saying "i was a reactionary shitlord label A" and now I'm not.
What changed? Were you fundamentally wrong and you corrected a misunderstanding? What was it? Or does it just feel better to call yourself a communist?
Luis Brooks
to put it another way what was your 'red' pill
Nicholas Watson
Holy shit the nation count during the civil war must've fucking exploded
But that would also be implying that any of those nations would be recognized
Adrian Collins
anything other than legitimatizing bourgeois democracy
Cooper Allen
idk how its a buzzword it is pretty clear today what a liberal is
socdem, welfare capitalist democract etc.
so you're either ignorant of the current political semantics or arguing in bad faith
Nathaniel Price
That was as specific an answer as I expected. Way to go off on limb, dude.
No, I’m not arguing in bad faith. Google the definition of liberal. I did so myself before firing my twitter fingers. Sure, I have a general idea of what people imply when they use the word liberal to describe a politician: probably something to do with pro-gay marriage, probably pro- abortion, and those things you mentioned. But liberal is such a subjective term and as hijacked as the word progressive, I need to know what it means to you before commenting to be real. It’s at best a loosely generalized blanket term that mostly tells you about someone’s social views and that they’re most likely in favor of big government and investing in government programs. That’s the best I got.
Samuel Green
And? I was simply pointing out the cognitive dissonance of wanting no government yet voting to expand government. Even if you accept that it doesn't accomplish your goals why you still somehow believe that it doesn't actively work against them is beyond me.
In language we have colloquial terms that don't always have a hard definition. This doesn't mean its "such a subjective term" "hijacked" loosely generalized etc
Like I said you're either ignorant of current political terminology or arguing in bad faith.
I don't care to argue semantics so do you have an actual point?
Hunter Allen
Was always pretty left leaning. My mother is Salvadoran so I was always told since I was a kid stories about how much extreme inequality there was between the rich and poor,and helped me opened my eyes to how it is in the U.S.
Benjamin Cruz
If you believe that this retard is honest, you probably also believe that Contrapoints is a woman.
Nolan Long
I fucking knew you were a burger fascist piece of shit. Every fucking thread you're in decrying russia and china was obviously a cover for your reactionary views.
Fucking perfect.
Jackson Young
I'm red diaper baby. I was born middle class into a long line of working class, atheist Communists. The only avenue of rebellion for me in early teen age years was to be a patriotic, conservative Christian.
I really tried to believe all that shit, but every time I thought hard about my values, it made me sick to my stomach. What really made me hate my world view was medting others who heldit. Funny enough, what made me flip was right wing history class in highschool. I read how horrible the Commies where, I heard their "unreasonable" demands, and I kne right then on which side I really belong.
After highschool I tried to forget politics, but I was always hard left. Then I got poor and my rightist friend pummeled me with endless suppmy videos of Yale students screaming about idpol.The old itch came back, and I became something close to a "classical liberal". I even read Hayek. But again, what snapped me out of it was looking at the sewer rats that now were my "comrades".
I started for the first time reading Lenin, and now I'm ideologically pic related. Funny enough, I've found that despite my pampered beginnings, I'm fairly good at handling both poverty and the right wing idiots. What really gets my hate up is seeing what's come of my parents. They came from no money, when they had money they never betrayed their class, and now that the money's gone there's no one to help them. When we were kids and my crippled brother needed a nanny, they exclusively hired reformed criminals and other outcasts, shared their fortune with their friends, but now they're back on square one they got no friends.
Calm down, no need to get your nickers in a twist. I already explained myself and have as general an understanding of what the word liberal implies as you do. It’s okay, all I asked is that someone elaborate to me what they mean by “Bernie is just another liberal.” God forbid I asked someone to elaborate a loaded statement for my own education.
Nathan Adams
he is a liberal, a welfare capitalist etc. not left in the slightest
Cooper Taylor
I have no idea what you’re responding to in relation to this whole cognitive dissonance thing, but I never said anything about wanting no government while also simultaneously voting for government expansion at the same time. Think you’re responding to someone else.
Well fuck me dude, if you’ve known what liberal means this entire time and I’m clearly the only confused here then by all means please, don’t just leave me standing here looking like a retard while everyone just watches. What does liberal mean then since I’m such a ruhtard? I’ll gladly take the fall if you can increase my Autism Level to functioning mollusque
Ayden Green
Oh I was replying to the anarchist who said he voted for obama
well you're shitposting in place of an actual argument.
Lucas Bennett
When I was 16 I voted for the greens and got disappointed because they supported the right wing candidate later and became anarkiddie. Around a year later I met the immortal science of the proletariat reading stuff on the web, FB groups, lurking boards, etc. Then I spent around an year at a bulshit pseudo-hoxhaist youth organization until some further debate got me to disagree with their line. Now I'm here, illuminated by the red sun.
I say "pseudo" because at least here they don't claim to be hoxhaist but their international network was founded by Hohxa himself and i used to read lots of his material back then.
John Howard
Nationalism is nationalism you gay retard
Henry Thompson
Look I'm going to make this simple for you, a liberal is a Capitalist. It doesn't matter if you are a social liberal or a conservative liberal, if you support Capitalism you are a liberal. Bernie is a liberal, Trump is a liberal, AOC is a liberal, Ben Shapiro is a liberal.
Charles Sanders
I was a retarded ancap. Then I read The Ego and Its Own.
Yeah, that’s a definition we can 100% aggree upon. A liberal being anyone who came from John Locke’s school of thought during the enlightenment. Like the French and American revolutionaries. Anyone who believes in a free market, representative democracy, equal rights, freedom of speech, to name a few. He’s a socdem, just like he says he is. Just like he popularized in the mainstream. In the liberal welfare state, Bernie wants to allocate benefits based on citizenship just like all the Scandinivian countries. A quote on quote liberal liberal wants more market reliance and less governent intervention.
Christian Edwards
Sorry for late response, I was being wage cucked by the boss. I'll try to answer with rambling too much hopefully I was misinformed particularly on what leftism or what in general communism was or meant. I thought communism was mass execution and death due to brainwashing in the burger school system and thinking that leftists want to destroy American freedom or some shit. My values were always about self-preservation and self-defense. I felt that every person had the right to self-determination regardless of skin tone or "race". I was originally a libertarian that gradually became more and more nationalistic (aka fascist) as I descended into esoteric philosophy about the nature of man. Read a bunch of Nietzsche and Evola. Natural selection and ubermensch shit basically. I believed that a revitalization of our values was necessary to progress us away from the decadence that is modern day America. I thought liberals and conservatives were not going far enough to change society for the better. So I got into radical politics via conspiracy theories because radical policy action was needed against the 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧elites🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧. I had a master morality complex in where the stronger deserves to conquer the weak. Might makes right. I felt that leftists were weak slave moralist because they always identified with the oppressed. Hierarchy in my mind was justified by domination with force. Natural selection would make humanity more evolved via death and conflict. The people would derive there power from people from the bottom once the evil elites are overthrown. It was more about the individuals than the systemic critique itself. Get rid of the evil people! Not the system! It lacked any material analysis Never went full Nazi masturbation fantasy just thought that natural selection would determine who was the strongest and breed the most and therefore be the dominatrix. I always thought going full kill all niggers and kikes was kinda retarded and unrealistic. I knew people of color who were cool to me and had sex with some of them too, and frankly I don't want to see them die in a Nazi masturbation fantasy. Hell even a shitton of white people will die in a Nazi masturbation fantasy too. I then realized that what Zig Forums was preaching wasn't about self-preservation but dominating and suppressing the arbitrary "other." That other can be anything that goes against our cultural values. Whether it be religion or race. They can be there, I can be here. Blood and soil type shit basically. Civilization arose from the struggle of nations. Syndicalism kinda talks about this, Sorel especially. I always thought it was important to fund public education, welfare, and works to keep the underclass in place. Those who contribute to society deserve to have the rewards. Any form of theft backed up by violence is legitimate. I realize now that humanity needs to unite to save our fucking planet because right now we are fucking the Earth over and if it takes communism to stop climate genocide then so be it. Capitalism is destroying the planet I still struggle with reactionary thoughts everyday but then I realize most of it is feels>reals bullshit anyway. I thought that if I wanted to own the lefties I had to read at least some of the literature. Ended up agreeing with what most of Marx said and started getting into anarchist library and marxists.org Fascism feeds on anger and misdirection (especially with young white guys). Go on Zig Forums, that shit is all rage porn. Everything from cuckshit to liberal retardation to leftist hottakes on twitter is design to make you feel alienated and angry. They see that white America is collapsing in on itself and they are trying to resurrect the good ol days through reactionary nihilistic violence. America is on a crash course for destruction. I think workers are too divided to unite because idpol and alienation has led to extreme atomization in American society. Start the extreme gay communist revolution Hope I don't sound too retarded but it's too late I typed out all that bullshit
i was an apolitical teenager in a third world shithole, who studied in a public university a stem career, and that hated his country with pasion, it was only going to be so long until i realised that marx existed and came here, i still hate nationalism with all my might, but now belive a socialist world republic is the solution
I was originally a National Conservative along the lines of Oswald Spengler, and I really liked "Decline of the West", but then I realized his end goal was fundamentally autistic. So I reexamined my views, and came to the conclusion that Marx's works held up to reality better than anyone else. However, when I was right wing, I actually thought all the meme-tards were stupid, so I never identified as a rightist.
Use the term patriotism. It's not as charged as nationalism and I'm assuming you believe them to be the same (unless you actually believe your nation is the best and superior to all other nations) which is pretty homosexual behavior.
Luke James
Nationalism has always been pushed by the rulling classes as a means of suppressing communists through class collaboration. There's no reason we should cling to this dumb concept.
Levi Cruz
I use to listen to the Penn Gillette podcast on my ipod classic when I was 13-14. This was more an atheist stage than an ancap stage. But some of his libertardian nonsense damaged my brain. These ideas went unchalleneged on this show so it seemed more common sense and anti government than any fundemantal theoretical understanding of scientific / geopolitical / economics / philosophical aspects. I moved more left as part of my unconscious class-consciousness as it was in my class interest. Wasn't until I read some medical related health outcomes of class stratification that I was attracted to marx and from there it has been a fun ride into my own realisation that because of this systemic violence and other atrociticies perpetuated against working class people that I will have a considerable harsher existence in life than neccisarry. Bitter sweet. But I would prefer knowing that I have the equivalent of a terminal disease that will take 10 years off my life than not understanding why and not trying to change it.
Don't Marxist-Leninists support the integrity of nation-states?
Michael Rodriguez
I am a mixed German, facism or nazism was never an option. Was a hard ☭TANKIE☭ & satanist (yes rly) when I was like 16-18, later I became an "elightened centrist". I am not 100% sure who has the answers for mankinds problems but only a socialist world can create the foundation to tackle them.
I used to browse half/pol/ daily and ended up somewhere between a paleocon and an armchair neonazi. Once I realized I had taken the ultimate bluepill I started looking into anarcho-nihlism and primitivism. However after a couple more years of interacting with those types and people in my local activist scene I've gotten kinda disillusioned again. Moved more towards Marxism and started taking certain right-wing ideas more seriously as well. Not sure where I'll be in 6 months if we're being honest
How would burgers feel about a politics education course? You guys have a lot of things upside down and don't know what words like liberalism, libertarianism mean. What is neoliberalism, classical liberalism and why republicans are liberals. It would be as much as 5 bucks for 5-10 hour course.
Matthew Wilson
Alright, genuine Not Socialist here. I've been lurking this board for a little to see what makes you guys tick, and to challenge my own views. What I've found so far is that the a lot of the foundations of our beliefs are fundamentally different and I see little way people from either group could change their alignment. I started my interest in politics as a commie 14Yo, but I won't really count that. For example I see no way I'd ever just drop the blood attatchment I have to my people and the cultural attatchment I share with my nation, no matter how "spooky".
But it does happen, and it has happened historically. I remembered hearing that by the end of ww2 something like 70% of the Wehrmacht were ex-communists.
Essentially what I'm asking is that you post your best "Red" (get it) pills. Don't waste too much of your time, just flex your convincing the masses muscles. Consider this practice.
Another thing I've noticed? Your filters make it hard as shit to discuss anything. I've seen plenty of other stumble into them too.
At least the BO is getting a laugh right?
Gavin Russell
abandon this pit, nazism is fucking cancer but any legitimacy Zig Forums had was swallowed by the trannie and reddit cancer wave that was brought here by Zig Forums & /l.pol/ during the war (same as how you got swallowed by reddit) and after the red liberals were mostly purged it was just retarded tanks that split bad into revisionism and good into not revisionism. There are a few of us not retarded but it is a minority and I don't see them on here anyways. Zig Forums is okay for class questions but they are sticking to marxism too hard when a lot of shit he wrote isn't relevant anymore, despite being relevant at the time, with the exception of the LTV, theory of imperialism and theory of alienation, those are still correct. But anything concerning nationality or natality is cancer, because they are mostly westerners they have these westerner social politics as well, hurrr just let 5 gorillion migrants into your country, lmao what do you mean it is bad to not be ethnically homogenous, le ebin international, and full support for the trannie/gay shit, even if it might hurt the wider movement.
Logan Ramirez
Literally no way you could be a communist then. Internationalism by default means fags like you are not allowed in our clubhouse.
Nazis and communists will be mortal enemies until the end of time.
I abso-fucking-lutely guarantee that you have not read a single lick of marxist theory. You know all of those pdfs we keep dropping here? maybe actually try reading one of those instead of getting all your political education from a fucking imageboard.
Colton Ortiz
I used to be an ayncrap but in the wake of the 2016 election, when other lolberts started merging with nazis en masse, I took refuge on Zig Forums because it was the only part of the internet where you could make fun of aut-rightists. I absorbed some of the memes and became some kind of vague edgy Stirnerite. Then I started reading actual theory and slowly went full ☭TANKIE☭.
I used to be a nazi too, but it was a long time ago when I was a teenager. I just grew up eventually, cronge at myself and moved on. It's really funny to me because I believed literally in the same shit as today's aut-rightists, and Zig Forums wasn't even a thing back then. Jews are corrupting white women so I don't get laid etc. Gives me a decent look into the mind of the average Zig Forumsack.
Interesting that there are so many ex-lolberts here but it makes sense.
Jason Thomas
Daily reminder that you are all useful idiots, and you will all be killed whether you win or lose.
If you win, your middle-class lifestyles and white skin (ask me how I know you're all white and middle-class) will make you targets for murderous "redistributionism".
And If WE win, we aren't going to let you live either.
Except all those times it didn’t do that like in Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Ireland, etc.
Cooper Cook
And remember that time they never built communism
Isaiah Collins
Neither did anybody else. Are you seriously going to tell me that they failed because of nationalism? Hell the most successful example of socialism is Cuba, whose revolution literally began as a natlib movement.
Owen Sanchez
fuck you too if you're ever retarded enough to give into this horseshit. good if you turn around, but fuck you.