Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Where is my political identity?

I've decided to take my studying to the nearby Starbucks instead of Cafe Myriade for a little while. As much as I love Myriade it's always packed and I feel bad staying there for 3hrs+. While here at the fast-food of coffee I can keep drinking tea for a lot less and I feel no remorse. So I have been doing my Marx reading for my class tomorrow and I am totally captivating by The Manifesto of Communist Party, especially part II "Proletarians and Communists". By no means am I a Marxist or Communist but I do see the merit in some of these ideas.
I've had a small epiphany of sorts tonight....more like crisis. Where do I stand in the political spectrum of ideas? It's quite a shock to realize that for about ten years now ( 13yrs old is where I became an adult in my religious community, so this is where I feel I began to develop my own personality...) I am one of those politically apathetic people. I don't think it's because I hate my government or politics in general but more that I am not sure what political identity I call my own. I wonder if this is just a Canadian thing....a North American thing. I think it's definitely a Canadian problem.

The 4 parties currently represented in the House of Commons:
Bloc Quebecois
Conservative Party of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada
New Democratic Party

Take a look at all these other parties past and present

Who am I in this political world? What am I? These questions give rise to all sorts of other questions.


I leave you with a little quote from the Manifesto of the Commnist Party:
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being in common to all will likewise fall to the women....The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial." (Marx)

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