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Post by Liberaregno on Apr 7, 2005 10:17:22 GMT -5
yeah, i'm sixteen, but i wish i was younger =).
btw on another note, could you all who are willing share a little bit of your life with us. at least tell us if you consider the life has been pleasant or fair or... to you. of course those things come from one's way of seeing the life but i think that pretty many of the communists/anarchists have had a bad or unjust history which has made them what they now are.
at least i can say that the burden of the unjust things in my life made me the Big Brother resistant, the equality-seeking, the understanding, the weaker supporting... guy that i'm today. if not for the unhappiness i have had to experience, i could be as well be a conservative nationalist.
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Post by workerscommunes on Apr 7, 2005 11:56:45 GMT -5
Why'd you want to be younger Liberagno? I seem to have a pretty negative recollection of early adolescence myself.  Do I consider my life to have been pleasant or fair? Wow big question! Well yeah, I suppose in the big scheme of things my life's been a 'pleasant' one in that my family has always been supportive and I've never had to deal with any serious problems with money (now being a possible exception!) or had issues with drugs or violence etc. That's not to say I've always been happy or felt like I've particularly fitted in mind. I suppose having a bit of an outsider status could have attracted me to anarchism but I can't be sure. It's probably more to do with my personality, the literature I've come across and a few very influential people in my life. |
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Post by Liberaregno on Apr 10, 2005 4:56:54 GMT -5
Why'd you want to be younger Liberagno? I seem to have a pretty negative recollection of early adolescence myself. well the time is flying for me and i'm afraid everyday i have a day less to be youth. besides, the older you get the more important decisision you have to make about your life. i have no idea what i'm gonna do so i would be so glad to just be transported back to those times when i didn't have to care about such a things. also i would change so many fucking things in my life i did wrong. |
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Post by yerty on Apr 19, 2005 23:08:12 GMT -5
im new to this board, but i found this thread interesting, so i thought i would add some comments.
the fact of the matter is that ive led a relatively easy life. no real major traumas.
my parents had enough money to send me to university. I grew up in New York City, but went to college in Washington DC. I just graduated in December. I spent my last semester studying in Nicaragua, and also spent some time in El Salvador and Cuba.
Liberagno - your birthday is on Apr. 30th? mine too, ill be 22. you're right, once you get older, decisions seem to get a little more serious, but the flip side is YOU make your own decisions, instead of a parent or whoever else.
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Post by Liberaregno on Apr 25, 2005 8:49:09 GMT -5
oh yeah yerty, only 5 days till your birthday!  so you gratuated from the college, what did you study? what about in nicaragua? oh you spent time in cuba? how was it there? a crazy dictatorship? did it feel like you're being watched there?  |
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Post by yerty on Apr 26, 2005 13:10:55 GMT -5
i studied international studies (aka international relations). it was interesting, in terms of a field of study, but overall i think i would have enjoyed studying sociology more.
Nicaragua was awesome. I studied economic/political issues mostly. alot of stuff about the Sandinista revolution and how Ronald Reagan fucked over the Nicaraguan people.
Cuba was really interesting. I did not feel as if I was constantly watched, but I was asked a lot of questions when I first entered the country. Its hard for me to come to any definite conclusions, since I was only there for a week, but overall I felt totally comfortable. The hardest part was finding vegan food. Havana is a really beautiful city. The architecture is amazing. If you ever have the opportunity to check Cuba out, I would suggest it.
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Post by Liberaregno on Apr 30, 2005 6:12:07 GMT -5
sounds interesting, so what are you gonna do now after that much studying? btw, happy birthday yerty!  ;D  today we gonna have fun |
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Post by Righteousnesous on May 11, 2005 0:54:14 GMT -5
Hello there. Myself, I come from the capital (Brisbane) of the premier red-neck state in Australia (Queensland). Which, interestingly enough, owing to the reversed climate here in the antipodes, is in the north of the country, rather than the south.
I'm at uni, and so you know, anarchism is a non-event here in Oz. All the radical left parties at the uni (and in the country) are Marxist of varying shades. Culturally, Aussies pride themselves on being anti-authoritarian. But we're also hypocrites and are full of shit. We lie to ourselves about most aspects of our culture. Begginning with when the convicts arrived, the English called Australia "terra nulius" meaning "empty land", ie, there were no natives here...
But, as we always say, Australia was destined for greatness, afterall, our ancestors were selected by the very finest judges in Britain.
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Post by yerty on May 11, 2005 17:23:25 GMT -5
you know the old story, liberaregno...after you graduate from university, you sell out and get a job...its a sad fact. fortunately, it seems like there may be some jobs worth doing, if you can get them.
happy belated b-day to you.
...maybe i should move to australia. sounds like an anarchist paradise.
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Post by Righteousnesous on May 11, 2005 22:59:52 GMT -5
ohhh yes. Very much so... you wouldn't believe the potential that anarchism has here...
Umm, take our ex-premier (read Governor) of Queensland (Joh Bjekle-Peterson) who ruled for 19 yrs and got a state funeral last week. He was often elected (over 50% of the seats) on 19% of the vote, he outlawed street marches and opened a police dossier on you if you wrote a letter to the editor. He also helped ensure that brown paper bags were a basis of business dealings, bulldozed trees for relaxation and presided over the most corrupt police force in the nation, which is really saying something...
Ahh yes, and a labor premier gave him a state funeral.
Miccelaccio, we really made Kansas look like a liberal paradise. God bless Queensland, no one else will.
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Post by Righteousnesous on May 11, 2005 23:10:52 GMT -5
By the way, Yerty, you were in Nicaragua? How nice. I had a year in Venezuela during 2002. I was there for the coup on the 11th April. Got a first hand view of the opposition, my exchange-father (I was 18 at the time, just our of school and on a rotary exchange) was the leader of the opposition for my state. A more corrupt and self-serving animal I have not yet met. But ever so affable. Anyway, nice one. On a more banal note, how were the nicuraguensas? Never having met any, I'm interested.
As for difficulties in life, I can't complain. I'm the youngest son of 6 children (Irish Catholic family). We weren't well off (my father's a teacher and my mother a secretary) but we were comfortable, never wanting anything. My parents were always very responsible with money, and we never had what some consider luxuries of life. Although my sister had a (seemingly) incurable sickness for many years, shes better now, so health wise, no complaints either.
But interestingly, my great grandfather on my mum's side was a shearer and one of 12 founding members of the Aussie Labor Party, whilst my Irish immigrant grand father on my dad's side was a Communist millitant during the depression, after the bank's took the family's farm, leaving them in dire poverty. This is interesting becuase, despite this, both my parents are conservatives, and my father was even a member of our very own far-right party, "one-nation". Which is even more interesting, because, in reality, there's probably little political difference between my father and my grandfather. Isn't it funny how the tide of history changes the polical spectrum?
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Post by Free land of allers on May 12, 2005 12:22:58 GMT -5
what are you up to?
mussolini was socialist,then liberal then fascist...what is you point?
i was raised catholic my mother was communist my father was right winger(moderate)and my grand father was a resistant(terrorist). i leave home when i was 14......so what is your point?
...from allers with love
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Post by Hydrarchia on Jun 8, 2005 15:35:24 GMT -5
"mussolini was socialist,then liberal then fascist...what is you point?" more to the point you're proably trying to make, his parents were anarchists. ------ I'm in Chicago U$A, 31 yrs old, I have ammased a small fortune in student debt, and am chronically underemployed in low-paying precarious jobs which my apparently worthless liberal arts diploma seems to do nothing to abate. I've considered myself an anarchist for over half my life now and have engaged in most of the stereotypical activities one associates with anarchism these days: zines, infoshops, squatting, globalization protest, the single issue abbreviation spectrum (ABC, ARA, FNB, HNJ, etc.) Given that, I have learned the error of my ways and am now intent on building my very own NationState *joke* Currently I've been involved in producing the irregularly published anarchist journal 'Arsenal' and am involved in another small anarchist collective/ affinity group which has most recently targeted proposed service cuts and fare hikes to public transportation as our means of involvement in broader community struggle. group website: www.midwestunrest.netcampaign website: www.midwestunrest.net/fightorwalk probably should be updating the calendar page rather than blabbing on here all day.. but hey... whatever... cheers |
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Post by righteousnesous on Jun 17, 2005 0:20:51 GMT -5
public transport???
Sounds like the opression of the majority by the minority to me. Who chooses the routes taken by this so called "public transport". Surely, if people want to go different routes they should be allowed to. Why, it amounts to freedom.
PS IF my sarcasm is non-sensical, its probably because I've had 10 hours sleep in 74, and I can't wait to destroy the few neurons I have left with rum, beautiful rum, tonight...
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