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[2009-04-13 02:43:49 +0000 UTC]
"Anti-realist about everything"
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 245; Deviations: 1; Watchers: 22
Watching: 20; Pageviews: 13802; Comments Made: 6460; Friends: 20
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Dali, or Raphael. For animation: Rintaro, Shinchiro Watanabe, and Katsuhiro Otomo.Favorite movies: Mulholland Dr., Tetsuo, City Lights, Vertigo
Favorite TV shows: Mad Men, Sopranos, Community, Parks+Rec
Favorite bands / musical artists: At the moment: Black Tape for a Blue Girl, The Residents, Melvins, Lustmord, Deerhoof
Favorite books: Being & Time, Philosophical Investigations, Hegel's Logic, Of Grammatology, Das Kapital (naturlich :P)
Favorite writers: Gillian Rose, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Raya Dunayevskaya, Kant, Moishe Postone
Favorite games: Morrowind omg
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: Philosophy, 'Pure Reason' (Sorry, Kant..) XD
Other Interests: Reading B-) Holidays, Music, going to conventions, learning things!
# About me
Hello I'm Josh and I don't post any art but I am a communist cutie and used to be active on the forums here.. my girlfriend is very beautiful she's called Elisa (that's the lady snuggling on my shoulder in the picture) and is v v v v v talented at drawing:Current Residence: Southampton
Favourite genre of music: Jazz/Goth/Punk/Prog/Indie/+everything+
Favourite style of art: Expressionism, Futurism, other Modernist styles
Operating System: 7
Favourite cartoon character: Spike from Cowboy Bebop
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"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established , an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
- Marx & Engels - 'The German Ideology', 1845
# Comments
Comments: 341
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NNNGGGGHHHHHH I'M STILL MELTING OVER THIS OH GOD MGHG <3 <3 <3 <3
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hello I just wanted to remind you that you'rE A FUCKING NERD BYE
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Hey, I've been wondering about what kind of Communist you are. I heard you say that you were a Libertarian Marxist somewhere, but I was wondering what form of it that you specifically adhere to, or which philosopher or belief do you feel the closest to. (Like a Council Communist or Luxemburgist for example.)
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Eh I kind of am, but I don't really buy into the industrial-era categories like "anarchist" and "state socialist" anymore. I would say that I am a Marxist, or at least a post-Marxist. I reject the centrality of working class struggle to changes in the capitalist system, though such struggle is still important: But necessary innovations in capitalism itself bring it closer to its own destruction, and no support for bourgeois parliamentary politics on the left or the right can fundamentally alter the direction of Capital's development.
Of course classic hero figures like Luxemburg, Karl Korsch and Trotsky etc have influenced me, but I'd say they are almost totally irrelevant to 21st century capitalist production. MY influences are people like the Frankfurt School, Moishe Postone, and autonomists like Antonio Negri. Check 'em out.
Sorry for the complicated answer!
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Did not hear from you after my last message reply... Any comments?
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Sorry for the late reply, but I finally responded
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What video is that? Sorry, it said it had been taken down :/
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Do you have any recommendations for market socialist or mutualist literature? Both of those ideas have piqued my curiosity.
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There are some guys who write for mises.org, but the best places to check are the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog: bleedingheartlibertarians.com/ the Center for a Stateless Society: c4ss.org/
And the blogs of my favourite guys, Roderick Long aaeblog.com/ and Kevin Carson mutualist.blogspot.co.uk/
Carson in particular has done some fantastic theoretical work on political economy, capitalism and anarchism synthesising Locke/Marx/Rothbard/Proudhon and others. His books are all free online (links on the latter website) and are quite long, but absolutely worth a close study. In particular, "Studies in Mutualist Political Economy" is one of the best and most original books written in recent decades on market economics and theories of value. I could summarise it if you want, because it's quite a hefty read.
He's also written a book on a "New" Industrial revolution based on artisan production through 3D printing, and how it could be possible to organise federations of small producers without the state or its monopolies. He borrows a lot from Proudhon, Tucker and American 19th century anarchism and a lot of these ideas have gone ignored for way too long!
www.mutualist.org/id47.html
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YES OMG sorry I haven't properly checked my comments in forever. Absolutely, there's a lot of great stuff to read. Can I ask first - what do you know about market socialism/left libertarianism/mutualism etc?
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Basically, I know that it doesn't revere property (especially not land) as highly as right-libertarianism (ever since reading Tolstoy's How Much Land Does a Man Need, I don't either), it's more unionist (assuming, of course, that these unions are voluntary association), and cares a bit more about civil rights. I also know that Lysander Spooner and (contrary to popular belief) Murray Rothburd were huge proponents of it.
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Also, it's not so much that Left Libs don't revere property, they just oppose monopolies as being the point where productivity and markets break down.
A great place to start is with Tucker's Four State Monopolies: Money, Land, Tariffs and Patents. Carson makes this a crucial point of his analysis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin…
All of these inhibit entrepreneurship and place artificial limits on free markets, and are constructed by state authority and imposed ON the market - none of them arise through free competition. It's not that money or land ownership is in principle bad (both are necessary) but state granted monopolies of money, protectionism and rents are anti-free trade.
Also he followed Locke in using scarcity as the basis for property (which is why ideas can't be property) though other individualists disagreed: Lysander Spooner and AFAIK Herbert Spencer.
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Rothbard kinda went back and forth. In the 60s, because of the influence of the New Left, he came down hard against government-invented monopolies, rentiers and so on but reverted to a fairly generic paleolibertarian position afterward: mises.org/daily/2099
It's rents, monopolies and debts from government money that left libertarians oppose, they claim that monopolies/big businesses aren't possible without government intervention.
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I don't know much about it, but he's certainly attracted a lot of support from libertarians!
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Plenty of REAL Americans support him.
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What's a fake American? Can non-Americans be one?
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Liberals of course.
Non-Americans can become citizens and decide if the want to be REAL American's or not.
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What exactly is a fake American? If you're a citizen of America you're a real American. Though I will say most Americans are shitty, delusional, and ignorant.
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Which parts of America do you hate,the Conservative ones?
Sorry,but i honestly think most Libs are Sub Human.
I do speak for thousands of REAL Americans because we share the same belief/goals.
Yes,I do know who America's enemies are and the most dangerous ones are Liberals.
Whoever said I supported the current Government? Certainly not me.
Sigh... You support Street Trash and Welfare Bums,no doubt.
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Stop making foolish assumptions. I do not support welfare leeches and street trash. You do not speak for the people you attack. You do not know the mind of every liberal, socialist, and communist so stop acting like you fill their shoes. Also, honestly, liberals aren't doing anything any worse than anyone else. Stop attacking innocent people. It makes you look obnoxious. It seems the only Americans you share goals with are the ones that are blinded by the media. People who have actually opened their eyes can see past the bullshit. Instead of attacking someone for being part of a particular political party how about we just open someone's eyes to what is happening around them. The part of America I dislike is it's government, not it's people. I only have a problem with conservatives who turn a blind eye to real world problems. We cannot assume everyone acts the same. America's most dangerous enemy is the ignorance of it's people and the spread of hatred amongst us. Drawing lines isn't going to bring us closer together so please be more mature. We not to stop turning the knife toward one another and realize the only enemies are the individuals keeping us bound in the dark. You are promoting these enemies of the mind by promoting social dividing lines that should not exist. Supporting this regression of knowledge only further perpetuates a lack of progression. Your overly aggressive generalization toward assuming all people in a group acting identical which they do not is disturbing. Stop treating people like a unit and start treating them like they are individuals because they are. I speak for myself and for the health of all intelligent people when I say that if we spend more time uniting and educating and less time going on blind bashing sprees people wouldn't lack so much knowledge in the first place. Don't perpetuate the stupidity. Don't contribute to the problem.
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Do you support or believe in the following:
1. Abortion
2. Gun Control
3. Gay "rights"
4. Man Made Global Warming
5. Amnesty for Illegals
6. The U.N.
7. Animal "rights"
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I believe all animals are equal. People are animals too. I don't believe in gun control. I do believe that abortion in some cases is necessary (the woman would die if the baby wasn't removed and the baby won't make it anyway). I don't believe in man-made global warming. I don't believe in amnesty for illegals. The UN is kind of a joke. I do believe in gay rights, or rather, equal rights. Why should I repress someone for the way they were born. It's not hurting anyone.
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Well,I'm glad we can agree on so many things,but,folks aren't born gay,there is NO gay gene.
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Gay isn't a gene, but people are born gay. Sexuality has many variants and homosexual behavior has been observed within thousands of species. Let's also bear in mind pansexuals, polysexuals, bisexuals, and demisexuals. I don't really consider myself hetero either. Never did. I don't really fall into a particular category. Someone who is born that way will definitely tell you it may take some time to discover who you are or what you like, but it is something you are born with. None of us wake up one day and decide we like a particular gender or set of genitals. Sexual orientation is caused by hormone levels in the uterus. So, it's the mother's internal environment that determines the baby's sexual orientation. We also have romantic orientations which can differ from sexual ones as well. I am pan-romantic, but not pansexual. Point is, same sex attraction is just as natural and has been around just as long as opposite sex attraction. They're both a part of nature and history. Gay people who aren't attacking or harassing anyone should have the right to do what they wish behind closed doors safely. Don't be ignorant.
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Sigh...We can agree to disagree on this,I'm not buying anything the Libs are trying to sell about sexuality.
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I'm not a liberal. I'm an anarchist. It has nothing to do with political beliefs. It's science. It's hormones.
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So is any sexual attraction. All sexual forms of attraction are lustful. Straight people are no exception nor are they special. There are also romantic orientations though. You can be homo-romantic and not even feel a sexual attraction to that person until you establish something more with them. I never really felt much sexual attraction to anyone unless I established feelings with them. That includes my husband. Lust is the nature of all animals. So long as we have self-control, what is the issue? Gays can love just like straights. We are all people here. Stop worrying so much about a word. You're starting to sound like a repressed homosexual yourself. Only someone who is insecure would be so worried about something completely harmless which does not affect your life. There are promiscuous people in all sexes, genders, and colors. Why pinpoint just one group?
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It's perverted lust,it's unnatural and it's all about getting off and doing drugs.
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Lust is 100% natural. Over 2,000 species observe homosexual behavior. The only thing unnatural is homophobia. Sexual orientation is biological. Being gay has nothing to do with drugs. You sound so ignorant it's almost painful to read your comment. As someone who is pan-romantic I find your remarks unnatural and disgusting. Heterosexual sex is about getting off just as much as any other form of sex. I bet you masturbate, don't you?
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Yes,heterosexual lust is natural. I could care less about lower lifeforms sexual habits. Gay men use huge amounts of dope.
I have plenty of 1st hand knowledge of the Homosexual DEATHSTYLE.
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Can you just...learn how to think. Yeah, that would be great.
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You read my mind! I was just thinking that about you!
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