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[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]]}} | [[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]]}}[https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Evolutionary_Socialism Evolutionary Socialism] is my current ideology. | ||
You probably wonder how I got here. | |||
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 the core policies that ML entails, I know the philosophy that underpins it. | |||
Dialectical Materialism. | |||
I remembered how they talked about how objects tend to evolve by repeating the first step periodically but at a higher level, thus moving in a spiral. That is used to justify historical materialism, which states that society moves from primitive communism, slavery, to feudalism, then to capitalism, socialism, and finally, communism. | |||
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 the nature of our Communist Party when my teacher talked about his life before Reunification in the South. 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 completely 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 learned how unregulated capitalism tends to monopolize, destroying competition at the 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 enterprises. You know the stuff. And so from mid-2020 all the way to early 2021, I was a (modern) Social Democrat. | |||
Even though I believed in liberal democracy, my mindset in debates 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. Although I thought of Social Democracy as a compromise between Socialism and Capitalism, I'm not willing to go that extra mile since I thought of Socialism as the planned economies that you would find in the old Soviet Union and pre-1986 Vietnam. | |||
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 on 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. | |||
Thus, from early 2021 to the present, I'm a Market Socialist. Not a strictly revolutionary kind. | |||
I'm an Evolutionary Socialist. | |||
Revision as of 00:30, 5 July 2021
Evolutionary Socialism is my current ideology.
You probably wonder how I got here.
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 the core policies that ML entails, I know the philosophy that underpins it.
Dialectical Materialism.
I remembered how they talked about how objects tend to evolve by repeating the first step periodically but at a higher level, thus moving in a spiral. That is used to justify historical materialism, which states that society moves from primitive communism, slavery, to feudalism, then to capitalism, socialism, and finally, communism.
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 the nature of our Communist Party when my teacher talked about his life before Reunification in the South. 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 completely 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 learned how unregulated capitalism tends to monopolize, destroying competition at the 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 enterprises. You know the stuff. And so from mid-2020 all the way to early 2021, I was a (modern) Social Democrat.
Even though I believed in liberal democracy, my mindset in debates 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. Although I thought of Social Democracy as a compromise between Socialism and Capitalism, I'm not willing to go that extra mile since I thought of Socialism as the planned economies that you would find in the old Soviet Union and pre-1986 Vietnam.
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 on 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.
Thus, from early 2021 to the present, I'm a Market Socialist. Not a strictly revolutionary kind.
I'm an Evolutionary Socialist.