Personal
- Gender
- Male
- Interests
- Reading and Writing, Playing Music.
- Favourite films
- Un Chien Andalou, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, V for Vendetta, The Take, and The Wobblies.
- Age
- 10 - 19
- Music
- Porcupine Tree, The Cure, Modern English, The Smiths, Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective, Fugazi, Crass, Devendra Banhart, Faun Fables, Seabear, Grizzly Bear, and etc etc etc.
- Dislikes
- The "Libertarian" Party, Television, Scene Kids, and Nickelback.
Networking and politics
- Political label
- Libertarian Socialist, Syndicalist, and Mutualist.
- Region
- North America
- Country and town
- United States, Vale, North Carolina
- Employment sector
- services
- Political group membership
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Occupation
- sales, general associate
- What do your politics mean to you?
A better world, where all can pursue their creative interests freely and completely. A world where we don't have to wait for the state to do things we can do ourselves. It means to develop an economy based on abundance and democratic decision making, and not money, scarcity, and wage slavery.
I believe that we don't have to rely on the state to distribute wealth equally, we can work together to come to our own agreements about the wealth we produce. I know a libertarian society is NOT a utopia, and I realize that there is no end to the revolution; However, I am a bit soft on Social Democracy. I see it as more desirable than other forms of State Capitalism, but this does NOT make me a reformist. A reformist is someone who is happy with gentler and more humane versions of State Capitalism; I am not happy with Capitalism of any form at all and I view Social Democracy as a tool to use to move society more into the collectivist mindset. Even though Social Democracy involves top-down relationships, it encourages activism and participatory democracy, and I'm down with that. I say it's okay use social democracy, but it's not okay to let it use you.
- Favourite thinkers
- Peter Kropotkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Noam Chomsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Murray Bookchin, Karl Marx, Benjamin Tucker, Emma Goldman, Utah Phillips, Mikhail Bakunin, and Eugene V. Debs.
- Favourite political books
- Mutual Aid, The Conquest of Bread, The Evolution of Capitalism, God and the State, Capital vol. 1 and 2, Community Control or Statist Politics?, and The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
History
- Member for
- 13 weeks 4 days