- 20 Dec 2016 18:35
#14752507
Hi everyone. 
A friend of mine on Reddit recommended this place, so I decided to check it out. I'm an American female college student, raised in the hilly forests of Northern California.
I'm a supporter of workplace democracy, a staunch feminist, a hardliner on combating climate change, a supporter of Danish-style universal healthcare, being bi myself a supporter of LGBT rights, and believe something really needs to be done to solve MAD. These are positions that would align me with the left. In theory I'm sympathetic to Marxism, I see value in his class/historical analyses and believe the trend towards automation of labor must be coupled with increased democratization lest it lead to an underclass of "useless eaters" at the mercy of ever more technologically savvy elites. However, Marxian ideologies have an orthopraxis as well as an orthodoxy. In terms of praxis, frankly I'm best described as a democratic socialist, and that's charitable. FDR-style social democrat frankly fits better in some ways despite open support for workers' self-management, mostly because I'm culturally somewhat alienated from even the Corbynista demsoc left.
There are also areas where I'm better aligned with the right today, though a few decades ago my stances would be read as moderate. On questions of nationality and identity that seem to predominate here, I think the newly-emergent global world system needs to find a balance between economically necessary and genetically beneficial in small doses migration of labor, and preservation of the indigenous values which sustain a culture plus their unique phenotypes along with maintaining the prevailing wage for native workers. As such, I think movements pushing for tightening immigration controls through mechanisms like increased border policing and mandated employee legal status checks when new migrants come in unassimilable waves are a healthy response in a democracy which balances out capital's desire to meet basic economic demands. That said, for those who have already spent their whole lives in a given country, I don't think deportation is humane and would support a conditional pathway to citizenship. I'm a foreign policy realist, I stand strongly against rapid democratization efforts in areas with no cultural background of liberalism and despite calls from the naive left (most online communists) and right (most Trump fanboys), think the era of "great game" realpolitik is unfortunately far from over as we're in ever-greater competition over increasingly expensive resources like petroleum. I also support as localist and decentral a government as feasibly possible, though this is only a distinctively "right-wing" stance in America and the realities of modern nation-state competition mean the most decentralized a state can be to thrive probably isn't significantly greater than Western states are structured today.
In recent political upheavals, I supported Brexit as replacement is likely the only viable way to restructure the EU in a less parasitic direction, reluctantly supported Clinton over Trump on the grounds that his temperament is risky and his stance on climate change is severely dangerous which doesn't balance out his slightly better (though more extreme than I'd like) immigration stance, and supported Renzi's referendum to make Italy governable.
Also I'm a hipster indie music snob, English literature aficionado, a Disney fanatic, and a member of Tri Delta sorority which on my campus is a group of theater geeks. My name is a reference to my status as a proud ginger.
P.S. I can't seem to change my avatar to anything but a great pube-bearded ex-President.
A friend of mine on Reddit recommended this place, so I decided to check it out. I'm an American female college student, raised in the hilly forests of Northern California.I'm a supporter of workplace democracy, a staunch feminist, a hardliner on combating climate change, a supporter of Danish-style universal healthcare, being bi myself a supporter of LGBT rights, and believe something really needs to be done to solve MAD. These are positions that would align me with the left. In theory I'm sympathetic to Marxism, I see value in his class/historical analyses and believe the trend towards automation of labor must be coupled with increased democratization lest it lead to an underclass of "useless eaters" at the mercy of ever more technologically savvy elites. However, Marxian ideologies have an orthopraxis as well as an orthodoxy. In terms of praxis, frankly I'm best described as a democratic socialist, and that's charitable. FDR-style social democrat frankly fits better in some ways despite open support for workers' self-management, mostly because I'm culturally somewhat alienated from even the Corbynista demsoc left.
There are also areas where I'm better aligned with the right today, though a few decades ago my stances would be read as moderate. On questions of nationality and identity that seem to predominate here, I think the newly-emergent global world system needs to find a balance between economically necessary and genetically beneficial in small doses migration of labor, and preservation of the indigenous values which sustain a culture plus their unique phenotypes along with maintaining the prevailing wage for native workers. As such, I think movements pushing for tightening immigration controls through mechanisms like increased border policing and mandated employee legal status checks when new migrants come in unassimilable waves are a healthy response in a democracy which balances out capital's desire to meet basic economic demands. That said, for those who have already spent their whole lives in a given country, I don't think deportation is humane and would support a conditional pathway to citizenship. I'm a foreign policy realist, I stand strongly against rapid democratization efforts in areas with no cultural background of liberalism and despite calls from the naive left (most online communists) and right (most Trump fanboys), think the era of "great game" realpolitik is unfortunately far from over as we're in ever-greater competition over increasingly expensive resources like petroleum. I also support as localist and decentral a government as feasibly possible, though this is only a distinctively "right-wing" stance in America and the realities of modern nation-state competition mean the most decentralized a state can be to thrive probably isn't significantly greater than Western states are structured today.
In recent political upheavals, I supported Brexit as replacement is likely the only viable way to restructure the EU in a less parasitic direction, reluctantly supported Clinton over Trump on the grounds that his temperament is risky and his stance on climate change is severely dangerous which doesn't balance out his slightly better (though more extreme than I'd like) immigration stance, and supported Renzi's referendum to make Italy governable.
Also I'm a hipster indie music snob, English literature aficionado, a Disney fanatic, and a member of Tri Delta sorority which on my campus is a group of theater geeks. My name is a reference to my status as a proud ginger.
P.S. I can't seem to change my avatar to anything but a great pube-bearded ex-President.
If you mean mutually assured destruction it was its existence that saved the left for many decades. Without the Soviet Union's large nuclear arsenal it is likely the Americans and their puppets would have bought the Soviet people "freedom" far earlier than 1991. A well armed revolutionary state is a safe revolutionary state.
Also I'm big on fantasy, I'm a humongous Harry Potter fan and Thronie. In terms of classics, I adore Victoriana.
- By skinster