User:Quangduy.phamnguyen.9

QuangDuyPhamNguyen
Personal Information
Name	Duy
Gender	Male
Orientation	Heterosexual
Birthday	08/12/2002
Ideology	Apoliticism (2002–Mid 2020) Social Democracy (Mid 2020–Early 2021) Democratic Socialism (Early 2021–Present)
Nationality	American Vietnamese (before February 2020)
Languages	English (fluent) Vietnamese (mother tongue)
Interests
Interests	Playing CSGO Touhou
Social Media and Internet
Discord	AnthonyTom#0066

My drawings

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  Communalism

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  Goulash Communism

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  Market Socialism

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  Eurocommunism

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  Socialism of the 21st Century

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  Conservative Socialism (US design)

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  Conservative Socialism (UK design)

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  Radical Democracy

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  Parliamentarianism

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  Authoritarian Conservatism

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  Democratic Confederalism

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  Progressivism (second design)

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  Progressivism (second design but without weed)

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  State Socialism

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  Person Dignity Theory (unused design)

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  Interculturalism

Ideological Evolution

Evolutionary Socialism is my current ideology.

You probably wonder how I got there.

So at first, I'm apolitical. And then, I got to 9th grade in my home country in 2016. I'm still apolitical but leaning toward Marxism-Leninism. Even though I don't know what ML entails, I know the philosophy that underpins it.

Dialectical Materialism.

In the law of the negation of the negation, I remembered how they talked about how objects tend to evolve by repeating the first step but at a higher level, thus moving in a spiral.

Primitive communism --> Slavery --> Feudalism --> Capitalism --> Socialism --> Communism

You noticed how the end-stage is very similar to the first stage, but it's superior?

In February 2020, I said goodbye to my friends and family to move to the United States. At that point, I already had doubts about our Communist Party when my teacher talked about the South before Reunification. I went to Walmart and was surprised at the staggering number of goods there. "Is that because of the market forces in capitalism?" I thought.

I got home and took a random magazine from the table. The only part that even impressed me is how they talked about the alleged superiority of petroleum, and I wasn't fully convinced even then. It was full of anti-trans propaganda, and I couldn't take it, so I put it back down.

And that's when I began to learn about politics in earnest. To counter those arguments.

I looked at the history of Eastern European countries, and that started to challenge historical materialism as I know it. If the transition of modes of production are true, how was it possible that countries made a step backward from socialism? Surely, there must be some errors that Marxist-Leninist countries have made.

I learned how unregulated capitalism tends to monopolize, destroying the competition as a result. I searched up Bernie Sanders, Secular Talk, and the Nordic Model, and I enjoyed that a lot. Progressive taxation, universal healthcare, a strong welfare state, co-determination laws, high union membership, public ownership of key industries. You know the stuff. And so, from mid-2020 to early 2021, I was a modern Social Democrat.

Even though I believed in liberal democracy, my mindset had always been to convince my opponent that I was right. In a way, that made me intolerant. I got super pissed when someone said that the Nazis were socialist. I tried to tell them that it wasn't the case, but I could never understand where they were coming from. So the arguments just got to nowhere. I'm not willing to go extra left since I thought of socialism as either the planned economies found in the old Soviet Union and pre-1986 Vietnam or good libertarian societies that couldn't keep themselves together for a long time. Even though I accepted some capitalist measures, I'm willing to defend socialism from other anti-communists, pointing to non-authoritarian examples.

That all changed when I watched Hakim's video, "How Rich Countries Rob The Poor; The Failure of Social Democracy.'

It left me disillusioned with my economic system at the time. I also started watching lectures from Richard Wolff about workers' self-management. Also, Eurocommunism in Europe. And Yugoslavia after 1950. That changed my perception of socialism completely. It was no longer something far-fetched but one that was pretty much possible in our time. However, I'm convinced that we mustn't implement complete socialism from above. When we force socialism onto the population against their will, that can weaken support for it. I imagine the transition to socialism as a long and gradual process. In this period, I started to get more pluralist, accepting different points of view from mine. I imagine many different people as having ideas that they thought would be the best for society. Because of this, I enter debates no longer with the sole purpose to win but to inform and learn in the process.

Thus, from early 2021 to the present, I'm a Market Socialist. Not a strictly revolutionary kind.

I'm an Evolutionary Socialist.