Greetings Comrades!

Allow me to introduce myself.

I'm known as Zingu on some other political forums. I was invited by American_Trotskyist to here. I chose the name Comrade_Cosmo for short of Comrade Cosmonaut, I'm a very big fan of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. =)

I'm a 16 year old radical high school student who goes to a very rich, burgeoisie and reactionary school. Here, in La Jolla lives the upper 2% of the wealthiest population in the world. So you probably would expect I don't get much support for the Socialist cause in my area. I try, I've conviced a few students that Socialism has a human face other than the disgusting practices of Stalinism.

Here in the neighborhood, there are row after row of rich, big houses worth multi-millions. Russian mafia members and Mexican drug cartel members rub elbows here in their new riches. Almost every person who goes to my school is affected by rampart consumerism and false counsciness. Probably since they have lived a privledged life their whole life.

While for me, I lived in Europe, growing up in a working class neighborhood in Kokta, Finland. Then moving to the United States, I lived in a black working class neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. I have seen real life, which made me shocked when I saw how people live here in La Jolla compared to the meagerness of other places to the lavish lifestyle people enjoy here.

Then, we finally moved to this burgeoisie haven, free from the ugliness of the real world in San Diego, California. (A girl here had a $250,000 birthday party and got a $60,000 sportscar, and a second one when she crashed the first car :rolleyes: )

But, I have found a possiblity of promoting Socialism in such a class polarized area;

The Mexican immigrant workers.

I realized it is useless to try to convert the kids of rich families, because it is simply not in their class interest. Trying to win them over will be only promoting Socialism as a intellectual interest. Like "Long live the workers' struggle!" from your comfy mansion.

So, I am to start organizing my few like minded friends on a way to start reaching out to these Mexican immigrant workers, who trim the bushes of the many mansions and do the real, hard labor. Suggestions are welcome.

I am also in a project to write a essay to be aimed at the high school students It is designed to open the eyes of the American youth at schools to show their reaction in front of their faces and will seperate the students from the spectacular-commodity society. Sort of like what incited May 1968 in France.

Next school year, I will post it here for comrades here can print it out and distribute it.

Ideologically I attmept to be non-sectarian, but I find myself to more aligned roughly around Council Communism and Luxemburgism. But, I have sympathy, maybe even a tendancy to Trostky.

So, yes, that is me!