I honestly hate political labels.
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Thread Topic: I honestly hate political labels.
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I know some of you have your opinions on what my "label" is and just love calling me the C-word, and maybe you're right. But I don't like it, for a few reasons.
Let X stand for your belief, or at least one that everyone assumes you to advocate even if you do not at all.
How would you feel if every time you said what you believed, everyone would just go "oh you're an X-ist" and either quit listening to you, or proceed to use the All X are Y fallacy all over your argument.
Or if you couldn't finish a sentence because they would interrupt you with "X-IST!!!" every time you said something.
Or if you wanted to only talk to someone, but they won't even look you in the eye because "you're an X-ist."
Or maybe you just want to make a point in a debate, you must be saying this because you're an X-ist, right?
To go to say something completely irrelevant to politics or philosophy or anything of the sort, and hear in return, "OF COURSE YOU LIKE THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE AN X-IST."
This is only a fraction of what I experience.
Now back to my specific example and incidence. Why is it that the moment I say I support holding property in common instead of by a parasitic class, I'm a communist?
Am I a communist for quoting Marx to augment my argument? Am I a communist for advocating a moneyless, classless, stateless society? Am I a communist for admiring the Paris Commune? I believe that communes are one of the best economic models out there (generalization in this sentence, don't take it purely), does that mean I'm a communist? I believe the current system (the economic structure as well as religion) allows for sexism, racism, homophobia, and other prejudices to run rampant and that we need a new system to truly free people from this, am I a communist? I believe the working class should lead the way into this new system, am I a communist? I support the total abolition of private property, and I ask you again, am I a communist because of it?
To identify with a political label is to take that identity and make it a part of yourself. From the moment you do this, any deviation from it opens you for flaying criticism.
When you call yourself an "X-ist," you're an "X-ist" beyond death.
I don't want this.
(I know I have identified as communist before. But the only reason I did so was because I couldn't make a point without "COMMIE COMMIE COMMIE COMMIE YOU KNOW YOU ARE A COMMIE, COMMIE COMMIE COMMUNISM LOVING COMMIE COMMUNISM-COMMIE" and I knew that if I "admitted" I were a communist, you all would shut up and continue the discussion at hand. I don't know what I am, and this "admission" may have led to some more false assumptions. I was just getting real sick of your s--- and this seemed like the best way to end it.) -
Agreed. I tend to be something different from week to week.
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