I’m a socialist. Well at least I think I am.
I honestly believe that socialism is better than capitalism.
The problem is that I’m not sure how to go about being a socialist. To me it seems as if socialists fall into this stereotypical role of spouting off about the ills of capitalism and how Karl Marx was so great. While I may share those views, am I just towing a line? Or is that the basis of being a socialist? Is that all it takes? It’s so fucking confusing at times.
Surely there is some kind of pamphlet out there that can educate me on the key points of being a socialist. But this raises more problems for me, because if I need a pamphlet to tell me how to be a socialist, am I even a socialist? You see, it’s fucking confusing!
Of course, when you admit to being a socialist you open yourself up to a barrage of insults and people look down on you as if you somehow had something to do with aiding Stalin or Mao. So let me just make it clear that I have never met or helped Stalin or Mao in anyway possible. Living in a capitalist society often leads to socialism being under attack from the media. McCarthyism anyone?
The problem is that big business runs the capitalist world we live in, not governments. Those with the most money have the most power. Capitalism caters to a select few and it caters to them well. In fact it caters to them so well that they don’t want it to stop, why would they? That’s why media tycoons portray socialists as nut jobs. That’s why we go to war. That’s why America was so terrified of communism creeping in during the Red Scares, heaven forbid that a political ideology in which profits should be distributed equally instead of the bourgeoisie taking the lump sum enter a country that survives by profiting off of cheap labour elsewhere in the world!
Marx was right! And yet you still sit there without taking much notice. Don’t get me wrong, terrible things have been done by people claiming be working to Marx’s ideologies, but the man himself would have never supported those actions taken. Much like American Christian Fundamentalists murdering doctors that perform abortions, we don’t blame God, we blame the fucking metal pro-lifer* that took it upon himself to kill another human being. Marx is not too blame for what took place, as he had no control over what people did in his name, much like God has no control over what those feeble minded people that choose to live their lives dedicated to an unreal deity do in his name. Religion is the opiate of the masses after all.
But returning to socialism, it’s the underdog of the political ideologies, even fascists are doing better in Britain! Am I the only one that thinks there is no longer a voice for the left? There is supposed to be an anti-corporate movement happening; demonstrations against the G20. But yet the left has no representatives. The BBC is more likely to give air-time to Nick Griffin than a Marxist.
Maybe I’m just confused again. Maybe it is only me thinking this socialism thing is a good thing. Seeing as Britain is now so right-wing, fascists are allowed on television channels (funded by the public) to spout of their fucked up bullshit. In paying for my TV licence, I helped fund the BNP getting its message across. What a fucking disgrace. What next for the BBC? Adolf Hitler hosting the new episode of Have I Got News For You? Abu Hamza as a guest on The Graham Norton Show, promoting his new book and “death to the infidels”!? Is that it? While I’ve been caught up in this socialism ‘thing’ the whole fucking country has become so right-wing, they make Bill O’Reilly look like a communist swine?
There was no real purpose for this Blog, I just wanted to talk about being a socialist, and as it turns out I am one, reading back through what I have written I notice I talk on the ills of capitalism and big up Karl Marx. Maybe that is the basis of being a socialist, maybe that’s all there is to being a socialist.
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