we previously had this thread but it was lost in a sitewide crash. kind of fortuitous, given all the new people!
anyways, i’m interested in how you describe yourself politically but also why you do so, and/or how you came to the beliefs that you did. be as brief or lengthy as you want in answering that.
additionally, as a preface: i would like this to be a generally non-judgemental thread and i think this community is more than capable of that, so please respect that idea.[1] in general, you are not obliged to justify to myself or anyone else why you believe what you do.
exceptions, obviously, go for bigotry or intolerant beliefs that would be otherwise incompatible with the community’s ethos. bluntly if you’re a transphobe or something like that this is not the community for you. ↩︎
alas, i got swept up in all the user-facing stuff yesterday! it’s been quite hectic, and my answer is comparatively uninteresting. i mostly just consider myself a leftist and don’t care so much for specific labels. i find principles from all flavors of leftism desirable and i’m not picky on the reformism/revolution distinction as long as it gets us to a socialist world in the end