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glad to announce we have an avowed Marxist-Leninist on our hands -- this I can confirm after a small amount of research.  whatever comments the most of you may make, it is wonderful for the vibrancy of the Community to have a diversity of perspectives, rather than just a bunch of pussy liberals and suburban white libertarian teenagers duking it out over the Brady Bill.  welcome aboard, Comrade.

You commie bastards!

Indeed, it is good to be reminded how stupid some ideologies are, less we forget.

The name is probably a joke, given that it's an exact quote from the Simpsons (a gag where the USSR is re-created and Lenin comes back to life, uttering "MUST CRUSH CAPITALISM")

We already have plenty of people doing that for libertarianism, why not have a few for communism too!

That too.

They'll probably find some reason to ban him soon.

When they find out he's a sock/troll or gets all "insulty" when people bring facts up...yeah, you're probably right.

He ain't a sock - we already checked.

http://zombielenin.ytmnd.com/

Wonderful!

Probably, yeah.

Well this is quite an interesting introduction thread. :P Is this site all that ban-happy? It doesn't give that impression anyway.

Yeah, I'm a Marxist... leaning ML, I suppose. I was introduced to this site by a friend who used to post here. Electoral jew. I'm not a sock.

And yes the name is a Simpsons reference.

So... yeah. Hi.

People are banned for just annoying the mods.

Hello there.  I'm a left-anarchist of some sort, so we probably disagree more than a libertarian and a freeper.  But, it is nice to have another commie here.

Apparently The Revolution begins from unfinished basements in Long Island.

That's perfectly alright, it's still awesome to see other left-wingers around. I get on fine with anarcho-coms, more so than the center-left or right, anyway, lol.

So I'm imagining there aren't many Marxists here?


;) You know it.

Generally people whose views don't fit into a narrow band of inoffensive "moderate" bourgeois neoliberalism (whether because they are too far right or too far left) are hunted down and banned. Also you're not allowed to criticize the Mormon religion, but all others are for some reason fair game.

Otherwise this forum's pretty cool.

And the R[ƎVO˩]UTION! begins in a House district south and southwest of Houston and north/west of Galveston (TX-14). Revolutions typically have inauspicious beginnings, ya know (like, say, a fruit vendor lighting himself on fire).

Probably good to know.

Welcome to the forum!

I did not realize Migrendel  (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=13)had offspring...  

I accept and work from a Marxist critique in several areas, such as alienation of labor, and I'm more than willing to accept the term Marxist to refer to elements of my general outlook, but my preferred policy prescriptions are somewhat...well, they're more Ruskin and Morris than Lenin and Trotsky. I imagine I'm some flavor of vile revisionist by the standards of most Marxists.

Welcome aboard.

As you can tell by the amount of your comrades greeting you, this site is nowhere near as ban-happy as they're claiming.

Probably just blowback from the Jmfcst incident.

Jmfcst incident?

You make this forum seem incredibly dramatic. :P

It can be. jmfcst (sic) was a very long-standing, very controversial but more loved than hated right-wing member from Texas who was notable chiefly for his firm devotion to conservative Evangelical Christianity, his unusually and sometimes maddeningly high degree of intellectual seriousness about said devotion, and his mostly pretty good sense of humor. He was banned very recently after spending a very long time trolling just enough not to get banned; apparently he felt that it was time.

I echo everyone's messages of welcome :) I too am 15, but we differ greatly on economic issues :P Still, welcome :)

Uh oh, lol.

are you next up?

::) lay off him, will you. He meant well. Sure he was intolerant and a bigot, but he was nice and courteous. Jmfcst is to the Atlas Forum what Benjamin Franklin is to America.

lolwut

Let me rephrase that (as I'm about 40% awake rn)

Jmfcst is to Atlas Forum...well, he's just a pillar. He's a giant. He was one of the originals and him being gone...it just feels like something's missing. It's not right.

It's usually easier to debate with religious conservatives than libertarians and liberals.

First, I'd be interested to hear why you think this.

Second, it was actually a lot harder than you'd think to debate jmfcst, mainly because the internal (emphasis on internal) coherence of his worldview was absolutely merciless.

If it helps the Mets to keep winning with a bunch of no names, I will sing every verse of L' Internationale and Joe Hill for good measure.

More to the point though, Ive met and am friends with a lot of young, idealist lefties. The years set in and pedestrian careers follow. Dentists, Lawyers, and fund accountants.

-edit. Mind you these are good and prosperous careers, however, not exactly fighting the power.

Far too tired to credit it properly or even make sure it's right, but roughly: "jmfcst was a bigot. But he was our bigot." The jmfcst has been around since ever.

Stop hijacking our welcome thread for the new guy.  He might think we're inhospitable.

OK, final warning.  If you want to talk about jmf, there are threads devoted to him all over the forum.  This is not the place.  This is the place to welcome our new friend.

Why is this thread about jmfscst suddenly?

Also, why is this thread?

Good point

Marxists are a persecuted minority on this forum in the same way that Christians are a persecuted minority in America.

     So the forum is 80% Marxist? It's more left-wing than the left-wingers will admit, but I wouldn't go that far. :P