Communist? Never!
Marxist, socialist, or collectivist I might consider accepting...

I was, for a while in college, a card-carrying member of the DSA.
http://www.dsausa.org/

M. Sbyvl,

Thank you for your inquiry. My hope is that your work may go far towards exposing the communist threat inside of this board. With any luck we can work to ensure that any communist agents present can be detected, neutralized and sent to reeducation. God speed.

I'm a communo-anarchist!

M. Bohonk,

Thank you for your honesty. In time we can cure you.

I would define myself as communist, but the communist parties/organizations generally present an inadequate position.

The problem with tired communist systems is that they have always been implemented in a top-down manner. The appearance of any true, lasting communist state would need to form in an organic, bottom-up process.

Bohonk,

You wouldn't agree that the problem with communism really is more it's ability to scale to a large size?

Yes, but size itself is really a problem. With a large size population comes the necessity of and industrial agricultural system, requiring vast amounts of energy, supplying high calorie but low nutrition foods, polluting the environment, and increasing the chances of conflict and war due to high density populations.

More than just a communo-anarchist, I am a bit of a primitivo-anarachist.

Putin33 called me a Trotskyist once. Does that count?

No.

Maybe, I guess I miss understood who you were talking to.

Not going to join a political cult that doesn't work no matter how nice it sounds in theory.

A cult? Really? How so? Is a native tribe a cult?

Communism is the root of all evil.

^ especially the evil that existed before Communism!

I am all about the free market, actually. Not really communist at all.

Often people perceive that I am anti-free market, but it is more just that I think the market as it is today is a colossal failure.

I was always taught that the role of government in a free market should be to prevent market failures. And so to that end I think, for instance, the government needs to do something about the egregious environmental externalities that are fucking up everyone's day.

But a free market is definitely the best way yet devised to channel people's selfishness into something useful rather than destructive. The destructive tendencies that arise out of the system need to be mitigate, and many mercifully are, but a lot still isn't being done.

Also there are such things are public goods, so often I argue in favor of those and get called socialist as well.

Anyone who favors something that's not a mixed economy is a fucking loon if you ask me.

Gunfighter is the most intelligent person on this forum

The most ridiculous comment thread is slowly infiltrating the entire forum.

Did I mention the fact that all evil seems to find his roots in Communism, we all know that don't we, every mentally deficient person knows that.
I used to know some old Communists, I don't know any young Communists.
btw. Communists hate Trotskyists, it's a big insult.
I see someone describe themselves as a 'free market capitalist' and I see a naive ignorant slightly delusional individual

I never liked quinte, so I think that's the most communist parry out there.

I don’t think I’d ever consider myself a communist, as I’m both against the authority of the state and against collectivism. I’m an individualist socialist, if that makes any sense to anybody. Basically I think that we should be independently socialist, without the state forcing us to be. Obviously this is not possible under currently philosophies of society.

"I don’t think I’d ever consider myself a communist, as I’m both against the authority of the state and against collectivism. I’m an individualist socialist, if that makes any sense to anybody. Basically I think that we should be independently socialist, without the state forcing us to be. Obviously this is not possible under currently philosophies of society"

This is absolute quality .... too much gold in here to pick and choose so I re-posted everything.
Maybe one-day when the current philosophies change we'll all be individualist socialists and it will make perfect sense to everybody .... I think if you remove the word socialist that probably describes you perfectly.

You probably shouldn't castrate the term "socialist" of all its meaningful parts and then label yourself as such. Find a better term.

Well I'm not an economist, so I don't know much of terminology. I believe that the wealthy and advantaged should contribute to the disadvantaged, but without coercion by a state entity. This isn't really compatible with our current social values, I understand, but that's my ideal. Essentially, we should all be altruistic conservatives.

@SYnapse - that sounds more realistic.
Are you a Brit? The UK is full of people like this ..... altruistic conservatives

Taoist Trotskyite. Careful with that icepick, brother.

I'm impressed. For a political discussion with this particular bunch, this thread is actually going pretty civil. Not bad amigos.