Good evening! Fringe leftist offering some fresh wind.

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

Starvos said:

Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism,

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representation in the media

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Funny you mention those two things so closely together.

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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Alola, amigo. I suspect we're gonna not gonna agree on many things (Like, I didn't agree with your first thread), but debate is what this forum is about.

As long as the "wind" isn't from your colon, it's welcome here.

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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I'm a Libertarian Leftist and an anti-Marxist social democrat/democratic socialist; frankly, I'm more of a capitalism skeptic and critic than I am a socialist as was construed in the 19th and 20th century. Either way, I don't put much stock in labels. I won't say there's perfect overlap, but I'm very heavily in the Noam Chomsky school of political thought.

There's certainly people far left of center on here. We have a few proper left-wingers, although I suspect by what you've said that we'll butt heads sooner or later as Leftists are want to do. Anyway, welcome aboard!

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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Yeah, I can see your point...Right leaning ideology = Savage capitalism vs. Left leaning ideology = Regulated capitalism. Name of the game in the US has been capitalism for some time. Saying anything at all derogatory about capitalism will create a ****storm. So you do represent a border, if not a fringe of political thought here. I think that's great. Carry on...and welcome!

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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It's about time an ML shows up

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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Hoo boy, do you hear our local wannabe fascists sharpening their knives?

As for myself, I'd probably be closest to Australian-style democratic socialism...and it drives me nuts that the conservatives can't seem to grasp that socialism and Soviet-style communism are two wildly different things. I also see Marxism and communism as two different things...and that communism and libertarianism - polar opposites that they are - are two sides of the same coin in that they both sound really good in theory, but are completely incompatible with the depth and range of mindsets of the masses. I see it as a matter of pragmatism that we should use the type of government that works best...and so far, the type of government that is most successful in human history, that has led to the best balance of national prosperity, living standards, and personal freedoms...is the kind of democratic socialism (usually with a parliamentary system) found in most first-world democracies.

So...that's my story. Welcome to DP, and a thick skin is good to have here!

Hi there.

You get a complimentary donut salad.

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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Fresh wind? A cool breeze, hopefully- we have enough hot air already.
Welcome.

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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Welcome to our jungle.:2wave:

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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We likely won't agree on much, but I come to this forum for oppositional views as much as any other reason. Welcome.

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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Greetings and salutations Comrade! Feel some Love!

You might want to take a few minutes to complete the Political Compass Test?

https://www.debatepolitics.com/general-political-discussion/123332-political-compass-thread-33.html

May our Best Times Lie Ahead!

instagramsci said:

It's about time an ML shows up

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Anyone not six steps to the right of Genghis Khan is already considered a Marxist-Leninist by a good many conservatives here, so it would be interesting for them to have to go toe to toe with Starvos, so that they could learn the difference.

I'm a straight up FDR type New Deal Liberal with a few specific conservative views on a handful of issues.
I thought Pete Seeger was a total nut job in the economics vein but I loved his passion and knew he loved his country, even if he was wrong on economic and socio-political issues.
I think Sanders screwed himself by not infiltrating and joining the Democratic Party ten years ago and flushing out the dead wood.
Sticking with some outdated romantic notion that the Democratic Socialists of America were going to do a group hug with him is what really did him in. They yawned and called him a sellout. "Yawn, what a sellout, not a real (democratic) socialist."*
But I liked about 75% of his ideas.

Barry Goldwater irritated me to the point of near madness but I respected the guy because he was willing to compromise and hammer out solutions more often than not.

I think capitalism can work just fine if it's a regulated hybrid with a few small socialist tweaks to make it a tool to serve the middle class. I doubt seriously that socialism could ever work here because we have zero experience with it, so we'd screw it up. We've been capitalist so long that the best thing is to just make it work with a heartbeat and a soul.

I seriously think that's as far as it would ever go. The USA will never be socialist. And that's okay.
We just shouldn't be fascist or anarcho capitalist, it's too extreme to be sustainable in the long term, it's too damaging to the most vulnerable. It destroys societies from within. It destroys democracy.

I've been wealthy once upon a time. Not millionaire territory but well off.
I like being rich as much as the next guy, I admit it.
I wasn't a total jerk when I was, just once in a while.
I'd probably be even less of one if it happens again, which it just might...for real!
I do okay right now, certainly feel like I am blessed.
Besides, I do like my meager materialism, I admit it.

(*remark came from comments on the DSA website's forums)

My biggest concern is the attack on the Fourth Estate.
It is responsible for much of the dumbing down of American society.
See Powell Memo for starters, Powell has pretty much WON, at least for the time being.

Welcome comrade.

Starvos said:

Hello, I'm Starvos. I am a part time political analyst, amateur military strategist and veteran of Marxism and socialism.
I feel as if the political debate in this country is Savage capitalism VS Regulated capitalism, and us true lefties don't get enough representation in the media, and when we do, its Fox News presenting anarchists and looney liberals as "Socialists" which could be no further from the truth!
Politically, I would consider my ideology as Marxist Leninist with Populist elements. I don't like the USSR or Stalinism due to the fact soviet communism became too bureaucratic and centralist and had lost its revolutionary fervor.
I've read everything from Marx to Mao and have a very good understanding of Marxism.

I look forward to debating and listening to other perspectives.

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Howdy Doody, Starvos.

I probably won't have a whole lot to say to you, but I'll look forward to being entertained by you.

I just hope you aren't one of those fake commies and anarchists who fill the ranks of Antifa.