User:Tri16
Personal Information
Gender
Non-Binary
Orientation
Bi-Sexual
Birthday
February 24, 2005
Ideology Influences
Council Communism
Marxism
Pirate Politics
Post-Genderism
Progressivism
Impossibilism
Anti-Authoritarianism
Irish Republicanism
Nationality
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The United States
Notable Influences/Their Effect
Mark Fisher
Nathan Berger
JT Chapman
Paul Mattick
Interests
Likes:
- Direct Democracy
- Decentralized Planned Economy
- Workers Self Management
- The IRA
- Philosophy
- Jazz, Hauntology, Irish Republican Songs, and J-Pop.
- Cultural Anthropology
Dislikes:
- The British Army
- Capitalism
- America
- Conservatism
- Transhumanism
- Country Music
- Vanguard Parties
Foundation of my Views
I grew up in a small Oklahoman town, this is the most important fact in understanding my bringing up. As a child I was surrounded by right wing populist politics but despite it all being around me all the time, homophobia, racism, capitalist realism, I managed to remain "apolitical". Why I put apolitical in quotation marks is because in reality I had began to harbor those same homophobic and racist views as I entered middle school, eventually becoming a white supremacist without officially labeling my views as political. Both my parents are right-populists and made sure I grew up in an all white country town where we went to a Nazarene church every Sunday which only added to my right wing views. Throughout my childhood I remained completely ignorant to politics and it remained as such until late in high school.
Fixing the Indoctrination
As I grew up and out of middle school I started to become more aware of my social political axis, I watched liberal YouTubers and the idea of homosexuality and political correctness overtook my previous views. At this point I was a Social Liberal, but still didn't know of the existence of economic politics or ideology's, and as such I didn't have pro-capitalist views from the start of my journey aside from the stock standard capitalist realism that comes with growing up in America.
The biggest turnaround point for my political journey was found in a friend I would meet in my junior year of high school.
Detroit: Becoming Socialist
This friend had from a young age been exposed to a far different and advanced political teaching then I had. He was a socialist and was very outspoken for his support of Irish Republicanism (a belief that would shape my first political alliances). At first I found his love for politics and history odd, "Ignorance is bliss, politics are stupid so why follow them" is what I would say. But as I learned more eventually not only did I get more socially left wing but I caught his love for Irish nationalism and Irish Republicanism. Through him I began learning many things; Democrats aren't left wing, why regulations are healthy (my introduction to economics and Social Democracy), and that liberals aren't left wing either like my right wing friends had told me.
And eventually I was hooked. I looked into ideology after ideology and term after term. Marxist-Leninism, Social Democracy, Socialism, Democratic Socialism, Union, Fascism, Stalinism, Orthodox Marxism; my political knowledge had started to break out of its narrow Americanized politics. I moved away from reformism and Social Democracy (still without labeling myself as such) and into my first self proclaimed ideology, Democratic Socialism. I stuck with this ideology for a long while but a problem nagged at the back of my mind, the problem of my ideologies view on revolution. Early in my political journey I realized that reform was futile in our society but I could find no label that was both democratic and revolutionary. As a note during this period I also attempted to join the Socialist Alternative party due to its revolutionary views but ultimately backed out.
So after all that, I disassociated myself from my reformist comrades in Democratic Socialism and looked everywhere for a new ideology. Trotskyism, Left Communism, and Luxingbourgism all seemed appealing despite me still not being a communist myself. And then I found an ideology that I had previously rated very high on an ideology tier list, Council Communism. I shaped it into my current ideology of Council Socilaism.
