Hello everyone, I've just joined Lemmygrad.
I wanted to say I have been lurking this site for a year and it has been an eye-opener.
In particular, there is something that has long bugged me. It's people who say "capitalism bad, but somehow communism worse [insert Warhammer 40K level of victims]". Yet they pretend to be on the left.
Well, thanks to Lemmygrad, I have learnt to identify those useful idiots from the liberal camp. In Spain, my native country, we call them "progres" (from progressive, but better understood more or less as "succ-dems").
I highly respect the opinions you all post here. Not only are they well-researched but also compellingly presented.
In case you're wondering, my radicalisation pipeline was Jacobin -> Mastodon -> Lemmy. But I also come from a family with leftist traditions. It was my old man who introduced me to Marxism. Sadly, he burnt out during the long neoliberal desert post-1989.
Beyond languages and philosophy, I'm a video game nerd. Not gonna lie, I've used the ideas in the Gaming community to defend games as art in an academic essay.
I don't have much time to post because of real-life responsibilities. Anyway, I wanted to show you all my appreciation.
Thanks. Let's continue the struggle until the fash heil Hitler in hell.
EDIT: Addendum to the "two devils of capitalism = communism": it totally destroys hope in the alternative. It is a form of shitty nihilism.
EDIT 2: Thanks to you all for the heartwarming welcome :)
Congrats on seeing the light, now come enjoy slowly going insane with us
Thanks. I'd say it's actually the opposite. I used to think philosophy is for "mad" nerds, but I realized later that redesigning mental interiors, throwing away the old broken furniture, is the sane way to think and to live.