I was originally a demsoc
but then I saw a post about shills getting elected and stuff
how about you?
I was originally a demsoc
VIEWS THAT WERE COMPLETELY CHANGED BY LEFTYPOL I MEAN
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Used to like anarchists.
Now I hate them.
I've also grown to hate MLs, Trots, Leftcoms, SocDems and Maoists with increased vigour.
Fuck all of you guys, your saving grace is that you're a hundred times better than any poster on reddit.
Eat the rich tbh
I realized I was much closer to a Marxist than a SocDem.
I realized the humanities were important tbh ._.
In my defense a lot of the dank ones have been ruined by positivism or hijacked to be more marketable.
I learned that Holla Forums is just a misunderstood kid in need of love
I've always had a dislike for racism, nationalism and other sources of ill will.
Holla Forums gave me faith back in the people of the Internet, and showed me that not everyone is a racist Youtube commenter or Holla Forums person.
It also showed me that there's more to life than selling your labour. You don't have to become a monk.
It opened my eyes to the fact that capitalism encourages over-indulgence in sense pleasures, which only drives one further into desire. Every thing you purchase accelerates the process.
Also provided a springboard for my interest in humanities like philosophy and informed me about the concept of idpol.
Tanks man
T.ML
nice meme
Politics can be fun.
This.
It's probably zeal of the convert but it's enraging when you figure out that you've pretty much been lied to about something for your whole life.
Though I do hate American academia now for butchering Marxism until it became untouchable and left a vacuum for pomos to fill
Fascist>Ml'er>Leninist>Platformist>Nihilist>Post Left.
Theory changes a man.
But always was anti-morality tbh fam.
This.
Leftypol med me move from liberalism to mutualism to anarchism to marxism to Hegelian communism.
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Enlighten me or maybe do a video on your political/idealogical progression.
I thought I was the only person tbh
I figured I was losing my mind because it feels like most of the Internet is turning into Stormfront aside from tighter knit communities that I won't be welcome in, with a lot of the exception becoming Tumblr
Though I did realize that stormkeks and ethnic nationalists in general think everything they don't like is "Marxist" because the radical left blows them the fuck out and they still have PTSD from the Manifesto being published (and unread by them)
Look up death of god theology
I used to describe myself as a Trotskyist, but now I don't. My views on Trotsky haven't changed.
You change ideologies every month.
Can I ask why the change in self-labelling then?
what does this actually even mean?
Before Leftypol
After Leftypol
I like that.
I understand that id-pol and neo liberalism have a connection
i'm not alone
Trotskyists seem okay, I'll join them to protest and stuff
Trotsky was just Stalin without a country, Stalin wasn't as bad as they say.
Still not a Stalinist, but I've found myself defending Stalin from people who compare him to Hitler
left-liberal>market socialist/demsoc>libertarian Marixst>ML
This place had the same effect on me that Holla Forums did, it shifted me further to the left after I realized how batshit insane opponents of my current beliefs are.
Holla Forums made me appreciate anarchist thought more. I wouldn't identify with it entirely, but Goldman and Bakunin are great leftist figures regardless.
since other people are doing it
fedora left-liberal > ancom > social democrat > generic marxist > trotskyist > demsoc/market socialist
so i've never been right of american liberalism, but otherwise all over the map
I litteraly use godwin's law, but replace Hitler with Stalin.
Stalin was not same as Hitler.
HE WAS WORSE! At least Hitler fucked up what he, himself created.
Eversince I became a commie, when I was 14 (because my father told me "why not dictatorship of the many, then?) I'm only becoming more and more a Leninist, even if all my IRL friends are anarchists.
minarchist -> anarchist without adjectives
I learned that I didn't really understand politics, and I was much more socialist than I thought I was. I believe the last one there can apply to just about all of those an-cap and such radical capitalist peoples, they think very socialistic however believe that it can be achieved under capitalism.
Here's mine:
apolitical -→ anarchist
anarcom->anarcom
conservative mormon -> anarchist
what the fuck are you then?
Nothing i believe has changed as a result of leftypol.
If anything it has just continued to enforce my own beliefs and made learn to hate Marxist's and Leninist's, but now i can actually articulate why i hate them even better than before.
Holla Forums contributed to change my mind on guns, I know think that citizens must be armed for the revolution. Also this board made me less sectarian towards non-anarchist types of leftism.
When I first found this place, back in 2014, I called myself an ancom that was suspicious of marxism and all non-anarchist kinds of socialism.
Now I'm a Marxist. I still have a lot of sympathy for my anarchist comrades, provided they aren't totally retarded, but I can't really call myself an anarchist anymore.
I considered myself a communist before coming here, but it was without being too knowledgeable. I only had a basic grasp of Marx's critiques of capitalism. After spending the years lurking here and /freedu/ I know a lot more and consider myself a Luxemburgist.
True.
Oh, it also ironically led me to becoming a christian.
Why?
Memes, the DNA of the soul
Idk, It's probably just a coincidence actually.
I meet a lot of new people all the time on leftypol with different opinions so my opinions often change when I find new opinions
You should read Stirner cause of reasons.
Also a qoute of the holy book of saint Max for you.
Whether what I think and do is Christian, what do I care? Whether it is human, liberal, humane, whether unhuman, illiberal, inhuman, what do I ask about that? If only it accomplishes what I want, if only I satisfy myself in it, then overlay it with predicates as you will; it is all alike to me.
Perhaps I too, in the very next moment, defend myself against my former thoughts; I too am likely to change suddenly my mode of action; but not on account of its not corresponding to Christianity, not on account of its running counter to the eternal rights of man, not on account of its affronting the idea of mankind, humanity, and humanitarianism, but — because I am no longer all in it, because it no longer furnishes me any full enjoyment, because I doubt the earlier thought or no longer please myself in the mode of action just now practiced.
As the world as property has become a material with which I undertake what I will, so the spirit too as property must sink down into a material before which I no longer entertain any sacred dread. Then, firstly, I shall shudder no more before a thought, let it appear as presumptuous and “devilish” as it will, because, if it threatens to become too inconvenient and unsatisfactory for me, its end lies in my power; but neither shall I recoil from any deed because there dwells in it a spirit of godlessness, immorality, wrongfulness. as little as St. Boniface pleased to desist, through religious scrupulousness, from cutting down the sacred oak of the heathens. If the things of the world have once become vain, the thoughts of the spirit must also become vain.
No thought is sacred, for let no thought rank as “devotions”;[Andacht, a compound form of the word “thought”] no feeling is sacred (no sacred feeling of friendship, mother’s feelings, etc.), no belief is sacred. They are all alienable, my alienable property, and are annihilated, as they are created, by me.
Read Kierkegaard tho