How come socialists are always dumpy losers who act like the most morally superior dipshits? I've met so many socialists who are the sort of people you wish you could punch square in the nose, they're so fucking braindead and stupid but think they're smart because they read Karl Marx.
I hate capitalism and I'd consider myself post-capitalist, I really liked Bertrand Russell's Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, Syndicalism. I'd consider myself a social democrat who believes in democracy in the workplace, like Richard Wolff advocates.
But socialists hate me. I never gave a fuck about reading "the real and true" orthodox socialist theory because nothing orthodox socialists ever demonstrated to me is anything other than; hatred towards opposing classes; actual devaluing of human life going all the way to killing the people they deem shitty people, as if each person is not their own culminations of experience and tendencies which dictates who they are, and to be against that would basically be against nature, which is silly.
Not only that, but fucking Lenin is a horrible writer, and every Leninist is a horrible person. Period.