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Topic: Hello, my name is Ted (Read 1118 times)
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Ted0512
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Hello, comrades. My name is Ted Marcum. I've studied Marxism for a while, but just recently started to call myself a Marxist. I live in Hickory, North Carolina also know as the middle of nowhere, but it's okay. I am 18 years old and currently unemployed. My last job, Target, fired me for no apparent reason, as most jobs do. My heroes are Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Connolly, Ted Grant, and Orwell. If anyone wants to know more, just ask me.
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Antonio Balmer
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Welcome aboard Ted. You'll find this forum is a bit slow but there are plenty of well-read people who can help guide your Marxism studies. Let me tell you, the more you study Marxism the more you realize it is very complete and comprehensive. It explains the basis for just about everything in society. The newyouth website is also a great resource. Hopefully you'll have a chance to check out the Marxism FAQ section and some of the material here as well as at www.marxist.com and www.socialistappeal.org. In the united states the organization that is most closely based on the wisdom of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky is of course the Workers International League, part of the International Marxist Tendency. But I suppose you already know this since you are a fan of Ted Grant's. The WIL may be small at this point but the program is solid and the work is the real thing, as far as building a tool for the education and organization of the working class. Have you met any WIL comrades in your area? How did you get interested in Marxism? Nice to meet you. Antonio, Oroville CA |
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Ted0512
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Hey, thanks for the reply. I haven't met anyone from WIL in my area yet, I'm actually not sure how to check and see. I became interested in Marxism a few years ago, when I was a conservative (I was only about 13 or 14 and never researched anything). After that I always considered myself a lefty and keep bouncing between Marxism and social democracy. Probably about a month ago I considered becoming a Marxist for good, and now, since I was better educated, it made more sense than ever to me. What about you? When did you become a Marxist? Nice to meet you as well.
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Antonio Balmer
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Well I will try to find out for you if there are any contacts in your area... if not there are other options for getting involved with the work of the movement. I live in a small town in conservative northern CA where there is not much action, but I got in contact with comrades in the bay area who helped me set up a branch here, and now we try to hold meetings at school sometimes. I guess at this point the most important stuff is getting really educated in Marxism. And there's plenty to learn in that. If you are still online in about an hour, I have a Marxist radio program I do in my community radio which is fed online live at www.radiobirdstreet.org (when you get there just click the live button) It starts at around 10:00pm here which is 1:00am over there... that's pretty late though. Anyway I usually just go over the basics of the capitalist system from a marxist perspective and some basic steps toward revolution. It's pretty basic stuff but I'm trying to raise some awareness of Marxism in the community. |
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Joshua Purcell
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Hey Ted, welcome to the forum.
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CheVolution
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Hi Ted, nice to meet you I am Sarah, I live in Ontario Canada and have just started studying the Marxist Idealogy, And find it very interesting! so I see Connolly listed as one of your heros thats great!!! I have never really been involved in any particular political party before or considered myself a lefty until now about 4 or 5 months ago it all started with reading about Che Guevara then I bought the communist manifesto by Karl Marx and read that, now it just feels right to believe in something that hopefully someday will benefit all human beings once this classless society is here who knows?
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Christopher Hill
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Hi Ted, nice to meet you I am Sarah, I live in Ontario Canada and have just started studying the Marxist Idealogy, And find it very interesting! so I see Connolly listed as one of your heros thats great!!! I have never really been involved in any particular political party before or considered myself a lefty until now about 4 or 5 months ago it all started with reading about Che Guevara then I bought the communist manifesto by Karl Marx and read that, now it just feels right to believe in something that hopefully someday will benefit all human beings once this classless society is here who knows?
That is a great story Sarah, I really think that most Marxists get involved with theory in ways very similar to that, I myself mostly got started reading Marx from purely historical interest, but once I started reading the message was one which I could not ignore. |
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CheVolution
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Does my messages show my signature when I finish writing? the one you made?
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khaetlyn
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Hello Ted! I'm also new to the forums, as of 15 minutes ago.
I live in South Carolina but I used to live in NC, in Kings Mountain, Shelby, and at one point I lived in Dallas. All of them were pretty small towns and now I live in a small town in South Carolina, so not much has changed.
If you ever need to rant about all the right-wingers running rampant in your area, I would be glad to listen :P
Anyways, welcome!
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