Politically, what do you consider yourself as?

80% Communist & 20% Anarchist
I'm too much of a realist, you can't be an anarchist for 100%

 

100% anarchist and antifascist

 

i class myself as an anarchist, ive always hated socialists and communists nearly as much as the nazis ive encountered
Ive always been more into class war than solicialist worker or militant.

although i think i dont fit into the anarchist catagory these days either..........too much of an individualist

 

i'm glad you put "...i've encountered". we're trying to build a community here, not alienate someone who just posted two posts before you. and btw, i'm sure you do realise that the nazis by definition were socialist. neo-nazis on the other hand are just idiots.

 

yeah i know the nazis came out of national socialism, and dont worry i know dutch

I've always seen anarchism as real communism, as in the world Communism has NEVER worked, its always turned into depots and dictators running the country. and turned even more totalitarian.
We're seeing that here now in the UK with Nulabour in power, old labour used to be socialist for the working man (woman) but now its completely gone the other way and turning into a police state.

we have more and more CCTV, databases, they want id cards, more and more police checks, councils and other agencies given more and more rights to check up on us...without us knowing, bans of protests outside parliament, we cant even film soldiers and police anymore (war on terror you know)
banning things we do (smoking.......drinkings next) then its the food we eat.

its hard to explain my views on the socialist workers party and militant, all they ever seemed to do was hand out (sell) their papers and magazines, no matter what demo you were on (anti racist, anti poll tax, industrial, anti vivisection) thered be the same posh students stood shouting the same slogans and selling their wares which annoyed me, and then when we fought nazis in the streets you wouldnt find any there at all.
i suppose thats what coloured my views on the rest of the left

 

I consider myself as an anarchist.

 

looks like ive started something
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tbh i aint one of these anarchists that reads and reads theory books by bakunin etc, i aint an intellectual anarchist so to speak.
im just a normal bloke (old punk) that tries to live his life as freely and as nicely as i can

im staunchly anti facist, anti homophobic, vegetarian, anti war (although i aint a pacifist, ill try talking first but if push comes to shove i WILL shove), anti sexist etc
i also believe in recycling etc AND SAVING THE PLANET (so to speak)
and i believe not in preaching but i will tell people why i do something, if they take that on board then great

im also not sure if its an anarchist trait or just stubborness but if somebody hassles me to do something, and i feel like im being pushed, hassled or cajouled against my wishes i will dig my heels in and go the other way

 

thought id upset rather than kickstarted a debate tho

 

Anarchist-Communist, you could say Platformist as well.

 

Also, the nazis were not socialists at all. Socialism entails worker ownership over the means of production, the Corporatist economy of the nazis meant private ownership of property, and a capitalist way of managing the economy, as well as capitalist hierarchies within the workplace. They were also nationalists, which is the antithesis of socialism.

 

yeah it was national socialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

it incorpororated elements of the left and right wing, theres even some right wing thinking in bakunins work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Ba ... ationalism

 

I'm fully aware it was called socialist, but it was all around reactionary and anti-socialist. If every party practices what they preach we would have:

A Socialist UK (the Labour Party is a member of the Socialist International)
A Socialist Australia (same reason)
The Russian Liberal Democratic Party would be Lib Dems, not ultra nationalists

It goes on and on, socialism was popular among the German working classes. The FAUD numbered around 150,000, there was a socialist revolution in 1918, and the Communist Party was one of the biggest, having its own welfare programs and clubs etc. So the Nazis, with the backing of the German bourgeoisie, appealed to this by presenting them as a workers' party to gain support amongst the working class. During the Holocaust, it was all private companies (not even worker owned) who profited off the free Jewish labor and other such evils.

Bakunin dropped his nationalism by the time he became an anarchist.

 

Yes, but all of those are oxymoronic. NazBols are ultranationalist neo-nazis, unlike Stalinists who say Stalin didn't commit the crimes he did, the NazBols say he did.....and support that.

National "anarchists" are neo nazi kids trying to attatch themselves to something they see as trendy or cool. Anarchism and nationalism are contraditory.

Anarchism and religion can't be combined either, so the combinations with Zionism and Christianity are.....ludacris.

 

this thread is starting to wander away from the OPs original question.

but just to fan the flames a little...

this i disagree with. it depends which form of anarchism, and which form of religion in question. not all religions advocate the divine as being "above" us, like a master, such as the judeo-christian "big three" (xtianity/judaism/islam) do, and as do many of the popular eastern religions.

anarchism itself isn't the property of the philosophers who initiated the movement, and is not defined by them either. that would be like defining the alphabet by the letter A. indeed anarchism itself shouldn't really be defined by anyone, but it inevitably is and will be for some time.

and now, back to the OPs question.

not much. politically active yes, politically defined... impossible.

 

I'm an Ignorist