**Welcome! Say hello and introduce yourself on this thread**

Welcome Casseur.

Sorry we missed you too - have we met before?

Hey rkn,

No we haven't but I meant to change that last Sat; unfortunately got their a bit late and ended up trying mostly unsuccessfully to get to seminars whilst tearing myself away from the bookfair part!

Hi,
I just heard about this forum last weekend (international @ meetings can be instructive...) and here I am.
I'm from Grrmoney but spent a year in Manchester waaay back in the 70ies and consider this my second home town. I'm also a member of Grrman Forum of German speaking Anarchists.

wilkommen aswad!

welcome to the boards (there's a fair few people on here from manchester)

Hello, I am from Stockport near manchester, i would identify myself as an anarcho-communist, although i am fairly new to the ideology compared with others. I certainly couldn't go back to any statist ideology. I am a second year college student studying politics, sociology and film studies. I look forward to discussing some political events with you all later. Peace and happiness.

Hey all,
I've known about libcom for a fair while and saw some of your stuff at the recent A Bookfair.
I'm not too good at discussing theoretical politics as I'm more used to just getting on with what I believe makes a difference on a day to day basis.
However, recently I feel I am becoming increasingly obliged to justify my position just when I feel most isolated from my usual support. So I've come here to, hopefully, gain some strength

i don't think i've said hello on this thread yet.

hello.

Hi all! I've been reading this board and the library at this site since I stumbled across it googling for information during the Student revolts in France last year.

My tag is named after my favorite Chinese poet from the T'ang dynasty.

I really stumbled across anarchism when I walked into an anarchist bookstore and bought "Kropotkin" by Brian Morris in an attempt to disprove the anarchist I was talking to. Well, after actuall reading anarchist literature, instead of just the marxists' interpretations of it, I've been on a quest to fully understand Marx and Anarchism in much more depth.

I fully believe that Marx's dialectical materialism is fundamentally a philosophy of anarchist communism. That anarchist communism is the fundamental dialectic of a communist society. You can't have a struggle for communism without anarchist methods, and you can't have anarchy not burn out into petty rebellion without communism as the goal.

I love this article, as it is one of the few that I've read that really gets to what my position on anarchist communism is. http://www.marxists.org/archive/rubel/1973/marx-anarchism.htm

I'm working on a book in my spare time to illustrate the dialectics of Anarchist Communism. It's tentativley titled Anarchist Communism 101 "Anarchism for Marxists".

So, I took a pretty long path to get to Anarchism, but yeah, that's the pretty long story short of it.

Excellent! Welcome to LC.

Hi,

I used to be involved in eco protests in last decade and for various reasons I've had to retreat from active politics. They were pretty much on a starting point and pretty fuzzy then but at least it gave me time to soak up more theory and information and have my politics more defined and rooted. I'd like to get more active though therefore I searched for a place to shout out to comrades in the area and found this place and found myself here. I like what I have seen so far and would try to contribute in any way I can.

Within the theory, I'm more heavy informed via Marx. Within the practice, I'm more heavy on the anarchist side.

hello. i thought i'd say hi. i'm from the north of england, a "normal" family bloke been anarchist since about 1980 when I first heard Crass and all that stuff. Was involved in stuff years ago but family stuff taking priority at the moment. do as much as I can fit in at the mo. just want to hear what other people are up to and not feel so isolated.

Hello, I just joined the forums and thought that I ought to introduce myself.

I'm a Wobbly, originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada, but currently living in Leicester. I'm a first year Phd student in the politics department at Loughborough Uni. I consider myself an anarchist on the libertarian communist side of things.

I've known about Libcom for awhile now, mostly through reading articles in the fantastic on-line library, but hadn't considered joining the forums until moving to England.

Welcome all

And hello to any lurkers out there thinking of joining up!

Sounds good to me )

after saying that i wasn't one to introduce myself on forums on another thread i changed my mind. libcom seems like more of a community than other forums i've been on before so i thought it might be bit rude not to...

anyway, i'm just a young'un still. considered myself a lefty of sort in school although i didn't really have any real knowledge of all the different forms of ideologies etc then. got into anarchism since i found out my dad was a syndicalist back in the day (i had no idea of what anarchism really was until then, just the vague impression of bomb throwing you get from here and there ) and all the things that i read seemed to make a lot of sense. been reading various things since then (two or three years) although mostly along a critical theory line. i'd like to get a better understanding of some sort of practical enactment of theories now. also not entirely sure what i would call myself, anarchist, libertarian communist etc. i suppose i'll just have to read more.

i'll probably take more of a backseat in here and learn what i can for now

cheers

I'm new today - just found the site... good stuff.

From an apathetic adolesence I've been inspired by academic studies in History, Economics and Human Geography, particularly emphasis on Marx, and now Chavez (as well as the historic giants). Out of the classroom further encouragement towards a socialist perspective came when our non league close nit community football clubb was fucked over by a builders company, who managed to steal public funds as well as destroy the club... other issues such as the destruction of community services and amenities within Rugby (Warks), where a friend has stood in elections have also cleared the haze of a pathetically biased school based 'liberal' ways of thinking and living. Environmental issues are a biggy, as well as the more general topics of social justice/redistribution of wealth, provision of services, discrimination etc...

I'm currently an undergraduate at University of Northampton (previously at Leeds Metropolitan University), studying Human Geography. I live with my partner and 2 children...

Looks like this thread hasn't been getting much love recently so I'll keep things ticking over by introducing myself.

I came upon Anarchist thought via another internet forum and this inspired me to go and learn more about it myself. Ironically, despite being a History student I can't be bothered to read books very often, so most of what I've picked up has been from internet sources (mainly forums) and a couple of books I bought and subsequently skimmed through. I'm very aware of the fact I'm a complete armchair Anarchist right now and I'll probably spend most of my time reading and occasionally chip in. Hopefully I'll get physically involved at some point in the future, but I'm always very concious that I don't really know 'the rules' of being an Anarchist, (yes, I recognise how stupid that sounds, but hopefully you understand what I'm trying to say ) having come upon it from a theoretical angle rather than a social angle.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to being the internet message board equivalent of the guy on the tube that stands too close and breathes heavily while reading your paper over your shoulder. Fondling is optional.

hi bugbear, welcome to the boards!

(and try to keep the fondling 'til after 9 o'clock yeah, there might be kids watching )

Hi, Im rosa. I don't spend a lot of time on line but I've been browsing the forums here as i've had the chance and I also think that libcom has the most fantastic library I've seen. There is a very engaging quality to the discourse here, one well worth indulging in, so i'll pipe in when I can.

Cheers to the class, and thanks.

Hello! I'm a Kuwaiti libertarian socialist. I'm 18 years old and I'm in my final year of high school. Nothing much to say really.. ask me anything.

alright all, am an anarcho communist, with an emphasis on eco issues, though not a primmo, no way, not me! am from worcestershire but currently staying on the hebrides for a while. tend to use the site more for the excellent library, but might dip my toes into the thought and organise forums hopefully. am not really a member of any group, tend to do my own thing, although i want to rejoin the IWW when i get back to blighty as it would be good to get a west midlands local going. all the best, pinenut.

hello all, i am a spanish anarchist. i have been reading for a whole day on these forums verry interesting, the best anarchist forum i have seen so far.

salud!!

Hey, yes i form part of the local CNT, and proud of it.

ah, and john, i pm´d you about making a video library alsow on libcom i thought it might be a good idea.

salud

Hello all

I'm Faithless

I'm vegan stright-edge (xVx), and gender-queer.

im into veganism, nihiliism, queer/ smashing gender, disrupting the patriarchy, anticapitalism, and some other fun stuff.

Im curently wondering why this fourm has no Animal liberation/ vegan section

hey Faithles, welcome

this is a class struggle site, so that's the focus of the forums rather than other issues that tessellate (or not) with anarchist politics. we're not without a vegan/straight edge contingent on the boards though

hey everybody,

i haven't given a hello on this forum yet. I've probably been using libcom for about a month maybe. I was born in eastern wyoming (usa), and now live in western montana. I've been using anarchist forums to debate theory for about a year and finally came across this one. Libcom is fucking great, so many people and viewpoints. So many people totally unafraid to put their views at there and get them destroyed or defend them, its really refreshing. I live amongst the mountains and the rivers, so I enjoy backpacking, fishing, and the outdoors in general. The best thing in my world is reaching the summit of an unnamed peak, and looking about the world. The worst thing in my world is the local police (they all know my ass). In about a month I'm taking off to visit eastern europe and see the sites. Me and two friends land in athens, greece we will start our journey. I'm excited to meet comrades involved in the struggle throughout eastern europe. If you have any suggestions for places to visit let me know please!