Your Political Changes Since on NationStates

[Miasto Lodz]

Yes, I do, and I'm experiencing it on a daily basis . I wish I didn't.

Then, can you please tell what you think "left-wing" means?

What's the purpose of your question?

[Uiiop]

Then, can you please tell what you think "left-wing" means?

What's the purpose of your question?

Probably to see what's bothering you about it.
OT: Not too much i'd guess Only gave it a label.

[Conscentia]

Then, can you please tell what you think "left-wing" means?

What's the purpose of your question?

I want to understand the nature of your objection.
If you understand "left-wing" to mean something different to what I understand it to mean, there will be misunderstanding.

[Las Palmeras]

3, what were the changes?
Up until I joined NS, I was completely conservative. I thought Bush was okay and that Stephen Harper is the best prime minister evar (I'm Canadian)! Looking back on that, I can't believe how stupid I was. After doing a bit of research and actually investing time in politics, I learned that Bush was stupid, Harper sucks and Trotsky was the world's biggest hope for the future. I thought Stalin was great because he won WWII, but now I actually know who he is and what he's done. I've changed from Far-Right to Left over the course of a year. Probably because I knew pretty much nothing about politics back then and never even cared. TRUDEAU 2015, SOCIALISM FOR THE FUTURE!

Kind of the opposite for me. Heavily idealistic I loved the concept of equality for all and this thing called 'socialism' and it's representation in historical context until I came to realize that socialism tends to centralize things creating a bureaucratic mess of ambition and theft. Ultimately I came to grasp that modern humans are too individualistic for socialism. So merit-earned capitalism was the way out in a sustainable system even if not everybody had the same standards of life.

However as an inhabitant of the third world, I also believe that capitalism is much like water. It makes stability and supports fertility and can just as easily destroy it if left to do everything, like a flowing river turning into a cascade that erodes everything around it...point being that I believe that when necessary it is the State's job to slightly hold hands with the economy as legitimate representative of an entity's populace to make adequate profit-based markets with more equilateral social growth and maintenance.

...and here I am, in the Center Left. Skeptical of the farther left and it's results. Ethically repulsed by the other extreme of minarchy and it's lack of civic virtue.

[North Calaveras]

Marxist Communist to Libertarian with nationalism and now im starting to go to benevolent despotism

[Regnum Dominae]

Social liberal -> centrist -> conservative -> authoritarian conservative -> fascist -> Paulite -> minarcho capitalist -> ancap -> minarchist -> finds NS-> lolbertarian -> libertarian -> moderate libertarian -> center-right neoliberal globalist

So I am fairly close to back where I've started.

[Conscentia]

3, what were the changes?
Up until I joined NS, I was completely conservative. I thought Bush was okay and that Stephen Harper is the best prime minister evar (I'm Canadian)! Looking back on that, I can't believe how stupid I was. After doing a bit of research and actually investing time in politics, I learned that Bush was stupid, Harper sucks and Trotsky was the world's biggest hope for the future. I thought Stalin was great because he won WWII, but now I actually know who he is and what he's done. I've changed from Far-Right to Left over the course of a year. Probably because I knew pretty much nothing about politics back then and never even cared. TRUDEAU 2015, SOCIALISM FOR THE FUTURE!

Kind of the opposite for me. Heavily idealistic I loved the concept of equality for all and this thing called 'socialism' and it's representation in historical context until I came to realize that socialism tends to centralize things creating a bureaucratic mess of ambition and theft. Ultimately I came to grasp that modern humans are too individualistic for socialism. So merit-earned capitalism was the way out in a sustainable system even if not everybody had the same standards of life.

However as an inhabitant of the third world, I also believe that capitalism is much like water. It makes stability and supports fertility and can just as easily destroy it if left to do everything, like a flowing river turning into a cascade that erodes everything around it...point being that I believe that when necessary it is the State's job to slightly hold hands with the economy as legitimate representative of an entity's populace to make adequate profit-based markets with more equilateral social growth and maintenance.

...and here I am, in the Center Left. Skeptical of the farther left and it's results. Ethically repulsed by the other extreme of minarchy and it's lack of civic virtue.

I advise you consider the idea that perhaps the market, not capitalism is "much like water".
Have you looked into market socialism, and the cooperative movement?

[Conscentia]

Marxist Communist to Libertarian with nationalism and now im starting to go to benevolent despotism

No such thing. Those who possess a concentration of power are more prone to the Just World fallacy, and corruption. Additionally, power is literally addictive.

[Grand Britannia]

I'm still a radical centrist.

[Kamchastkia]

American Liberal -> Marxist -> Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist

[Vazdania]

Social liberal -> centrist -> conservative -> authoritarian conservative -> fascist -> Paulite -> minarcho capitalist -> ancap -> minarchist -> finds NS-> lolbertarian -> libertarian -> moderate libertarian -> center-right neoliberal globalist

So I am fairly close to back where I've started.

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[Regnum Dominae]

Social liberal -> centrist -> conservative -> authoritarian conservative -> fascist -> Paulite -> minarcho capitalist -> ancap -> minarchist -> finds NS-> lolbertarian -> libertarian -> moderate libertarian -> center-right neoliberal globalist

So I am fairly close to back where I've started.

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What?

[Vazdania]

dddddddddddddaannnngggg

What?

You've been everywhere on the Poli. Comp!

[Conscentia]

American Liberal -> Marxist -> Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist

Stalin was a monster & a traitor who betrayed the principles of Russian revolution.

[North Calaveras]

Marxist Communist to Libertarian with nationalism and now im starting to go to benevolent despotism

No such thing. Those who possess a concentration of power are more prone to the Just World fallacy, and corruption. Additionally, power is literally addictive.

meh, you can think that if you like

I think it's difficult but achieveable.

[Regnum Dominae]

What?

You've been everywhere on the Poli. Comp!

No. I've been everywhere on the right half of it.

And unlike you who changes your opinions 180o from day to day I actually think things through before changing my opinion on something. My ideology continues to be shaped by new information, events, and knowledge.

[Conscentia]

You've been everywhere on the Poli. Comp!

No. I've been everywhere on the right half of it.

And unlike you who changes your opinions 180o from day to day I actually think things through before changing my opinion on something. My ideology continues to be shaped by new information, events, and knowledge.

Have some more information: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html

[Vazdania]

You've been everywhere on the Poli. Comp!

No. I've been everywhere on the right half of it.

And unlike you who changes your opinions 180o from day to day I actually think things through before changing my opinion on something. My ideology continues to be shaped by new information, events, and knowledge.

well sorry for changing my opinion.


I've only made a Sine wave from where I started to, to where I am now

[Conscentia]

No such thing. Those who possess a concentration of power are more prone to the Just World fallacy, and corruption. Additionally, power is literally addictive.

meh, you can think that if you like

I think it's difficult but achieveable.

Why risk it?

[North Calaveras]

meh, you can think that if you like

I think it's difficult but achieveable.

Why risk it?

I don't think you understand what image is in my head

im talking about a government ran more or less by "warlord" esque leader that really only requires you to serve when needed but otherwise leaves you alone in your daily life. Where everyone is usually armed.

I can mix this despotic ruler with a number of government types

[Conscentia]

Why risk it?

I don't think you understand what image is in my head

im talking about a government ran more or less by "warlord" esque leader that really only requires you to serve when needed but otherwise leaves you alone in your daily life. Where everyone is usually armed.

I can mix this despotic ruler with a number of government types

So you want a Roman Dictator?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator

[Las Palmeras]

Have you looked into market socialism, and the cooperative movement?

Hmm...I have briefly read about worker's self management if that's what you mean.

[Kamchastkia]

American Liberal -> Marxist -> Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist

Stalin was a monster & a traitor who betrayed the principles of Russian revolution.

Someone's been watching/reading too much bourgeois media .

[Las Palmeras]

Stalin was a monster & a traitor who betrayed the principles of Russian revolution.

Someone's been watching/reading too much bourgeois media .

Tell that to the millions of corpses scattered around the ex-USSR...

[Conscentia]

Stalin was a monster & a traitor who betrayed the principles of Russian revolution.

Someone's been watching/reading too much bourgeois media .

History books & comrades are not "bourgeois media". (Additionally, my Father actually lived in the Soviet Union for several decades.)

You have been seduced by the Stalinist propaganda.