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my career path:

1. SocDem 
2. DemSoc
3. Would-be Marxist-Lennist
4. Troskyist 
5. LibSoc
6. Would-be AnCom 
7. Back to LibSoc but who needs labels really

writing stuff about tech + decentralization

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Currently: WhatsABI

Mostly just taking the piss tbh. But I'll give it a go.

1. SocDem is basically just a pro social safety net liberal. I visited Scandinavia in my youth and was obsessed with that model. I wanted Canada to be more like that. In some ways, I still do, as a sort of bare minimum. 

2. DemSoc or democratic socialism, still informs much of my beliefs. I would prefer us to achieve some variation of socialism without the need for revolution as I feel it will provide a firmer base. I am less and less confident this is possible so long as capitalism exists and influences society.

3. ML, on days when I felt that only revolution could foster the early days of socialism, I was willing to believe that a vanguard party (or a party of revolutionaries) was necessary to run such a society. 

4. I actually, believe that a vanguard is the issue that prevents socialism from being possible, especially on a global scale. It creates conflict not just with non-socialist societies, but with non-obstintent socialists within a given society. So I fell in love with Trotsky's arguments that it should be the actual workers running society, even in the beginning. One might say he was a democratic socialist, or a...

5. Libertarian socialist. If you read Chomsky, you basically start calling yourself a LibSoc. It just feels like a better way of self classifying anarcho socialist perspective. So I did, and do prefer this term. Basically the argument is that markets can exist and even money can (though probably doesn't need to), so long as exchange is voluntary, society is deeply democratic, and workers own the means of production. 

6. Anarcho communism is all in on moneyless classless society. When you read Sankara and learn about Rojava, you often decide to call yourself an ancom. This idea is based on democratic confederalism and thus true, federated, communes each with their own complete autonomy. As with most of these I kind of view all of these as worlds I could find my place in, but some feel more realistic than others, especially on shorter time scales. So...

7. I'm back the vaguest of the vague.

Can you expand 1-2 sentences for each of those? Mainly what aspect appealed to you that caused a transition?