After counting all supports/opposes, interviews, questionnaires, and Cheka background checks, it is my pleasure to introduce our new moderators on /r/socialism!

Welcome to our new full mods:

/u/femimarxi - i was converted to socialism during my graduate degree in science when it became abundantly clear to me that academia, and society, is crumbling due to privatization. my interests lie in marxist feminism, ethics in scientific research, as well as affordable education through technology. i hope to play a role in /r/socialism becoming a sub for fierce feminist discussion among our femme comrades, and duderades with a good grounding in feminist theory.

/u/lovelybone93 - As for me, I'm a Nuyorican anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist currently living in the Southwest US. I come from a poor, working-class background and help disabled family at this time. My political influences are Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Hoxha, Gramsci, Althusser, with some stuff borrowed from Negri. I read whatever Marxist theory interests me, and have read some anarchist literature. I believe only through the communist party, the autonomous party of the most advanced of the working-class, their organic intellectuals and sympathetic inorganic intellectuals in connection with the working-class at large and their struggle against capital, can communism be achieved. I'm currently involved with a left org I helped create where I'm at, as none of the left parties are in my area, and I disagree with them in the first place.

/u/CrumblyButterMuffins - I'm a Mexican-American graduate student currently based in New York City and a member of Socialist Alternative (USA). I consider myself an orthodox Trotskyist and am largely politically influenced by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, and various others. I believe the best way to build towards revolution in the face of social struggles is through constant education, empathy, and always building bridges from people's current conciousness towards the need for revolutionary socialism. I am also an electronic musician who seeks to bring in my political influences and ideas into many of the works I create and building those bridges through my art.

/u/CommunistPenguin - I'm a Marxist based in Northeastern United States. I am Genderfluid and Bisexual and have a particular interest in LGBT+ socialist politics. Brocialism is a heck.

/u/vanityobscene - I am a Trotskyist situated in Australia, came from a working class / poor background. Marxism and Socialism to me have been an empowering experience that gives me a great deal of hope, and a certainty in action, that I wasn’t afforded growing up. There is no doubt in my mind that the road to liberation from poverty, oppression, from class and capitalism, is through the mobilisation of the working class. I’m personally invested in issues of disability, abuse, and mental health, and try to bring that unique perspective from the ground to my politics and discussions.

/u/Nudelburk - I'm a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist based in northen Sweden. Aside from the obvious Marx, Lenin and Mao, I also draw inspiration from certain anarchist writers such as Bakunin, Goldman and Kropotkin. Not currently in any organisation but I'm working on it.

/u/AnesthesiaRomanov - I'm an autistic, bisexual Marxist feminist living in the northeastern US. I'm extremely interested in history (particularly Russian and Ukrainian history) and I hope to pursue a career related to that.

/u/zorreX - I'm a Trotskyist living in the Northeastern US. I'm a member of the International Socialist Organization, but I have been rather inactive as of late due to scheduling conflicts with work and personal life. For work, I am an incentive order selector at a warehouse. I am an avid advocate against sectarianism and I am very insistent that we need to operate as comradely as possible, but at the same time be able to very firmly debate with one another to move the socialist cause forward, and to repel outright reactionary politics. I want very much for relevant and stable leftist orgs (SAlt, DSA, ISO, PSL, SPUSA, IWW) to catapult the left forward during the next few years, despite that I myself have serious disagreements with some of them. We must work together!

And our partial mods:

/u/ARedIt

/u/TheSutphin -Hello, my name is /u/theSutphin , and I am very eager and happy to be joining the mod team here. Full disclosure, I was a Bernie Sanders supporter, but it was really Richard Wolff and this actual sub that cemented my ideology in socialism/communism/anarchism. From a very young age, I knew there was something... off about our political and economic system, and it was a fantastic relief to find out WHY I felt that way. Some personal stuff, I LOVE space, it's something I could talk hours about. Hoping to work in the field, but not looking forward to the hierarchy that is capitalism or the pseudo-bureaucracy that is NASA. I also thoroughly enjoy movies and TV. I am currently making my way through "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" and have Prof. Wolff's "Capitalism Crisis Deepens" on the backburner, but often listen to audio books while driving.

We will have a new mod AMA coming up.

In other news from discord; we have introduced a new, more inclusive, discord vetting policy. This will allow people who are new to the sub the ability join the conversation.