My leftism
I'm new at all this and don't really know whereof I speak. I got that white boy confidence that my lived experience is broadly applicable and I'm working on that.
That being said --
I primarily identify as a Libertarian Socialist. I'm not necessarily anti-state but I do believe the state should be absolutely no larger than necessary to improve its citizens' lives AND I believe that there needs to be a way to opt out of that state.
I have read a little bit about Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and I think they have good ideas. I don't think I'm a tankie, I don't think the Soviets and Chinese were beyond reproach, I don't support the government of the DPRK, but so far I haven't found much disagreement with MLM principles.
I think that there is no reason the vanguard party cannot (and indeed really very much should) incorporate anarchist organizational principles, and am reading more on anarchism to see if this is in fact possible.
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Belated introduction
Hi, I'm a middle-aged autistic layabout dilettante. My special interest hashtags include:
#rpg
#religion
#sex
#hamRadio
#communications
#language
#sailing
#starTrek
#starWars
#linux
#cooking
#permaculture
I'm a vocalist who is just starting guitar (again), a writer who has never published anything, a gnostic heathen druid. I'm in an mono-ish pairing and working on buying a sailboat to live aboard and sail round the world whilst writing.
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so around a century ago, there was a comic strip called The Outbursts of Everett True, where the titular character saw people being rude jackasses and decided to deal with this harshly and folks a lot of these still hold up perfectly in modern times
but i am delighted to announce
somebody's found the comics about mask-wearing
and They're Good, Folks
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101 level post here, but remember that the prioritization of individual liberty is a product of the capitalist mode of production and its ideological justification for exploitation, racial oppression and colonial genocide. And yes, I'm aware that this ideology inspired Marx and informed his early work, but Marx also made it thoroughly irrelevant. It's funny when liberals and libertarians accuse us of being stuck in the past while they desperately cling to an ideology, mode of production and political system that's dying.
Behold! Spider-Dog-Worm Theory! Thanks to my comrade and colleague @NormalPopsicle for assistance making it, and the original idea in the first place.
"I used to think politics was like driving: to go backward, put it in R, and to go forward, put it in D. I still think politics is like driving, but now it's like NASCAR: if we don't keep turning left we're all going to die spectacularly."
Lenin: Down with the liars who are talking of freedom and equality for all, while there is an oppressed sex, while there are oppressor classes, while there is private ownership of capital, of shares, while there are the well-fed with their surplus of bread who keep the hungry in bondage. Not freedom for all, not equality for all, but a fight against the oppressors and exploiters, the abolition of every possibility of oppression and ... https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes4/#quotenr8483
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Running to the left as hard as I can