Hey Alan...

[KontanKarite]

Dude, Desp and I got to drinking and well, I'm just curious. What's your actual political stance these days? I know you've said communist and you've mentioned Marx a lot, but what is it that you want?

You know, Jillian's ideal world. I'm not asking for a political system to examine, but I guess I'm really curious as to how you tick and how you personally see the world. I've only really ever seen you show your ideas on a case by case scenario. I mean, I guess I just want to understand how you view the world, how you understand it and what you think needs to be done short term and long term to see the end goal of your ideal world.

Now I'm not baiting you. In fact, for the most part I think we're pretty much on the same pages. I know I may actually be asking for a lot, but consider this an invitation to preach to the choir or just rant your ass off. What makes you tick, man?

[Alan]

A guy asked me this today too. What's my political stance?
Depends on the context. That's not inconsistent or anything, I'm just talking about that "oh dude don't label yourself" bullshit. In a way it's right but has it backwards. Our identity is a multiplicity.
So what am I?
I'm a Deleuzian commie, a poststructuralist schizo-anarchist, a marxo-bolivarian with a penchant for rhizomatic cultural hegemony. I'm a militant hipster with radical feminist overtones...

and blah blah blah, you get the point. It's easier for you to ask a question about doing than being.

What do I want from the world? I can only answer that in quite vague terms because an answer can only be satisfactory with context. Still, this applies to pretty much every possible context as a rule:
I want a government whose purposes is to promote the full creative potential of every individual. The role of government, reduced to a minimum of this, does not mean military security and law, but rather economic security and the maintenance of social spaces.

I'm a sucker for Negri and Hardt. I fight against the private, but I also don't want the triumph of the public. I want the triumph of the common. There difference between those is a possible topic for this later on, but if you have the time check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Ey5ioS4GU

What do I want in the present? To push through the logical conclusion of globalization: The legalization of all industries (particular attention to drugs and prostitution here), further decentralization of information, and hardest of all but one of the final and most important ones, international citizenship, the freedom of movement of individuals that only capital enjoys as of today.

That's not all but it's a good start.

[Versus]

Sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to share that I thought it was funny that I waited for a response, and when one came, I didn't understand any of it without referencing a lot of words and thinking really hard.

[KontanKarite]

God damn. Fuck all that intellectual wank fest bullshit at the beginning, but dude, your actual practical outlook I find to be absolutely congruent with what I've been currently wanting for a while now. I know that immediately, you could call me a liar on that end because of the idea of essentially backing up an "American" brand of socialism, but that's what I figured needs to be done in the short term within this country for now. However, I will say that I see no reason to rail against your end-game for a good start at the end. Fuck, that would be something I'm totally down with; the dissolving of national boarders. I'm not sure how Desp would feel about that. But yeah, dude. Nice fucking aspirations.

[vindicatedxjin]

Alan is fucking amazing.

[Despanan]

Originally Posted by Alan

A guy asked me this today too. What's my political stance?
Depends on the context. That's not inconsistent or anything, I'm just talking about that "oh dude don't label yourself" bullshit. In a way it's right but has it backwards. Our identity is a multiplicity.
So what am I?
I'm a Deleuzian commie, a poststructuralist schizo-anarchist, a marxo-bolivarian with a penchant for rhizomatic cultural hegemony. I'm a militant hipster with radical feminist overtones...

and blah blah blah, you get the point. It's easier for you to ask a question about doing than being.

What do I want from the world? I can only answer that in quite vague terms because an answer can only be satisfactory with context. Still, this applies to pretty much every possible context as a rule:
I want a government whose purposes is to promote the full creative potential of every individual. The role of government, reduced to a minimum of this, does not mean military security and law, but rather economic security and the maintenance of social spaces.

I'm a sucker for Negri and Hardt. I fight against the private, but I also don't want the triumph of the public. I want the triumph of the common. There difference between those is a possible topic for this later on, but if you have the time check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Ey5ioS4GU

What do I want in the present? To push through the logical conclusion of globalization: The legalization of all industries (particular attention to drugs and prostitution here), further decentralization of information, and hardest of all but one of the final and most important ones, international citizenship, the freedom of movement of individuals that only capital enjoys as of today.

That's not all but it's a good start.

That'll do Alan. That'll do.

[Alan]

I know it's an intellectual wankfest in the beginning, hence I refer myself to a hipster. But it's an important wankfest. Every term is actually important, and I put Deleuzian before (but not above) everything else.

[Despanan]

This is my favorite part:

What's my political stance? Depends on the context.