I took the Political Affiliation quiz that is wandering about and here is how I ranked:
#1 Marxist
#2 Anarchist
#3 Progressive
#4 Socialist
#5 Leninist
#6 US Libertarian
#7 US Conservative
#8 US Liberal
Rather interesting.
Unfortunately, my knowledge of political (or not so political… depending on how you look at it) philosophy and/or theory is not that advanced. For instance, the differences between Marxism, Socialism and Leninism are not immediately obvious to me.
My small amount of knowledge on these topics will grow in the near future, you can count on that. Until then, based on my understanding of the topics at hand I can offer the following statement: Marxism and/or Socialism is a wonderful idea, in theory. However, I don’t think human beings are perfect enough to exist in that state, and therefore are doomed to destory themselves by, either reverting to barbarism, or living in a pseudo-democratic environment in which those with more money and better blood truly rule the people. And when I say socialism, I am talking about true democratic socialism (democratic socialism… isn’t that redundant?) and not the “socialism” that was/is found in the Communist (notice the capital “C”) nation formerly known as the USSR.