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Might as well take this opportunity to explain my political journey:
When I first started in politics I was a neoconservative in terms of foreign policy and basically BNP in terms of domestic policy. I thought the Iraq War was justified etc. (1) https://twitter.com/DavidHenshall7/status/1253444111312588805
When I first started in politics I was a neoconservative in terms of foreign policy and basically BNP in terms of domestic policy. I thought the Iraq War was justified etc. (1) https://twitter.com/DavidHenshall7/status/1253444111312588805
I believed that the West was superior and Russia, China and Iran were all evil etc.
However, I began to criticise the US almost as much. I hated their impact on our culture and foreign policy, and I became even more nationalist (though not really less Imperialist). (2)
However, I began to criticise the US almost as much. I hated their impact on our culture and foreign policy, and I became even more nationalist (though not really less Imperialist). (2)
My political views then became something of a mix between Slobodan Milosevic and Muammar Gaddafi. (Third Positionist). I was proud of the British Empire and wanted to unify the Commonwealth into a single state, yet I supported direct democracy and a mixed economy. (3)
However, I really disliked Trump, and after I realised a lot of his policies were similar to mine, I quickly abandoned them. I took a liking to Corbyn and therefore became a liberal social democrat. (4)
Through research, I began to question the need for private ownership of the means of production. I was a socialist! However, I was still sceptical of Stalin and Mao due to western propaganda, and instead took a liking to Tito and Yugoslav market socialism. (5)
Further research in turn made me oppose market forces entirely, and reading Marx made me realise Communism is not utopian. I also debunked the myths on Marxism-Leninism and realised that the measures taked by ML states were often necessary to prevent counter-revolution. (6)
By now, Labour’s policy of abandoning Brexit, as well as the general anti-worker attitude amongst its cosmopolitan membership made me scrap my plans to become a Labour member, and eventually stop supporting the party entirely. Now I am a proud supporter of @WorkersPartyGB. (7)
