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elstongunn39

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I want to start a thread for the leftists on bluelight to introduce themselves and get to know each other. What political label would you say fits your politics the closest, how did you come to that conclusion, was it influenced by your family or circumstances, etc?
I would consider myself an anarcho-communist or Situationist. I started off as a liberal and then started having doubts about my financial future and thinking seriously about class struggle. I started reading post-structuralist stuff in college but came around to marx and marxist thinkers. Fav book right now is "heroes--mass murder and suicide" by franco berardi. close second: "24/7--Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep" by jonathan crary

We could start a reading group too
I'm curious to see people's thoughts on drugs and politics and if that influenced anyone to start thinking about consumption and desire.
 
"[h=2]1. Economics is Not a Science[/h]It is the end of summer 2011 and the economic newspapers increasingly warn that there will be a double dip. Economists predict a new recession before there can be a recovery. I think they are wrong. There will be a recession—on that I agree—but there will be no more recoveries, no return to the process of constant economic growth.
To say this in public would be to invite accusations of being a traitor, a cynic, a doomsayer. Economists will condemn you as a villain. But economists are not people of wisdom, and I do not even consider them scientists. They are more like priests, denouncing the bad behavior of society, asking you to repent for your debts, threatening inflation and misery for your sins, worshipping the dogmas of growth and competition.
What is a science after all? Without embarking on epistemological definitions, I would simply say that science is a form of knowledge free of dogma, that can extrapolate general laws from the observation of empirical phenomena, and that can therefore predict something about what will happen next. It also a way of understanding the types of changes that Thomas Kuhn labeled paradigm shifts.
As far as I know, the discourse known as economics does not correspond to this description. First of all, economists are obsessed with dogmatic notions such as growth, competition, and gross national product. They profess social reality to be in crisis if it is does not conform to the dictates of these notions. Secondly, economists are incapable of inferring laws from the observation of reality, as they prefer instead that reality harmonize with their own supposed laws. As a consequence, they cannot predict anything—and experience has shown this to be the case in the last three or four years. Finally, economists cannot recognize changes in the social paradigm, and they refuse to adjust their conceptual framework accordingly. They insist instead that reality must be changed to correspond to their outdated criteria."
 
What I would like to see is an end to this left vs right paradigm, stick to things that work and solve real issues, all we want most of us at the end of day is a decent country, decent society, healthy decent people, good morals, good family and friends, good ideas, good progress and a government that creates jobs for the people. But often I don't see that these days in my country uk. I dunno if Jeremy Corbyn is going to create all that if he gets power in 2020 but doubt it. I really don't know who to vote for in 2020!
 
I am a hardcore leftist democratic socialist. I don't believe parties should be allowed. Too many people vote only because of a D or R next to a name.
 
Corbyn will never be prime minister he's a fuckin pussy.
No one want a pussy runnin the country. He wears sandals to parliament ffs lol
 
Think he be in his 70s by then.
That's not the reason he won't be prime minister though, it's because he wants to relax immigration laws. The only reason ukip dos so well is because most the UK don't want relaxed immigration laws.
 
Ideally we want a prime minister that is in his 40s. Over 70s won't be fit enough really.
 
Declaring a party is freedom of speech. Voting for a person because of their party is also a freedom of speech issue. Tell me more about freedoms you would limit.

noone1 said:
I am a hardcore leftist democratic socialist. I don't believe parties should be allowed. Too many people vote only because of a D or R next to a name.
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I don't like to put myself in a box, but I'll generally hang on the left side of it.


I can't say any more than that because ban hammer.
 
I'm just an american observing UK politics, but I like corbyn a lot for a couple reasons: a) he's a socialist b) the press is trying to shit on him all the time and destroy him and he still keeps getting elected
 
the piece above is an ethico-aesthetics of drug use curious to see what drug users think of it
 
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