ABOUT MEEEE

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HELLOOOOOOOO

WHO AM I?

Im Charles/Lobre/Lob (he/they)! Im currently a 17 year old Bisexual Filipino living in Canada who loves and hates technology, loves movies and reading, and other things I think. I love bookbinding, sewing, and carpentry too but im too busy with school to do anything like that :(

Why...

Have a website

Because this is FUN and I HATE SOCIAL MEDIA and I HATE MODERN WEBSITES >:3 Making personal websites is an artform and goddamn im shit at this

Am I a Communist?

I was introduced to Communism and Marxism when I was 9 years old not in a revolutionary sense due to my own privileged standing in Pinoy society. However, I always hated learning and hearing about anything political being a little kid cuz yknow, I was a kid. As I grew up into the height of Duterte's war on drugs, I had been more and more disillusioned against the pinoy institutions and politics such as Duterte's populism, Noynoy's neoliberalism, the bourgeois liberal democracy that never represented and actively worked against the interests of the majority working class as I saw it, etc.

Additionally, I grew to hate the exploitation of the Philippines under China, US, Spain, Japan, etc. From this, I was attracted more and more to politics, firstly, the right in the form of extreme ultra nationalism. But after yknow, gaining a brain (and seeing how ultra nationalism divides the working class to distract from the true exploiters), I had begun learning more and more about communism, specifically, Jose Maria Sisons' National Democracy and the CPP-NPA-NDF revolution. Because of this specific inquiry, I had read more and more into communism, built my understanding of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and my position in class society, built on exploitation and oppression of the working, proletarian class and peasantry.

However, after moving to Canada, I had strayed from Marxism-Leninism-Maoism into more liberal streams of social democracy and left wing liberalism due to thinking that all problems I had seen was not due to the nature of global/imperialist capitalism, but as a result of classic Filipino corruption and class society. But I had again seen the ineffectiveness of the liberal and western left in the inaction on workers rights, condemnation without action, and ideology of reform expecting the capitalist, exploiter class to stop exploiting them (I assume due to undying support of liberal democratic process which not only benefits, but is built on the foundations of capitalism). Due to this, I had been attracted to the revolution once again, first in anarchism with the writings of Mikhail Bakunin, then a return to Marxism-Leninism after leaning more and seeing the similarities between the Filipino proletarian struggle and the Canadian proletarian struggle. Today, I deepen my understanding of marxism-leninism and anti imperialism, while critically engaging with different lines (mainly the Hoxhaists and Gonzalo Thought) and movements such as the black panthers, the naxalites, etc. Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!

Things I enjoy

Movies

  • Spirited Away
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Threads
  • The Wolf House
  • Come and See