Manifest
Notes
Starting point
core ruleMy ideology starts from that principle. Society should be organised around human need, collective freedom, and democratic control, not around profit, private accumulation, or the ability of a few people to own the systems everyone else depends on.
My politics are explicitly socialist. I also believe people should have control over the conditions that affect their lives.
Principles
static notesContinuous democracy
Democracy should not be a burden you perform once every four years. Real democracy should be local, continuous, cultural, and embedded in daily life through councils, assemblies, unions, workplaces, and community structures.
Worker power
Work should serve human life, not the other way around. Workers should have power over their labour, their workplaces, and the social product they create.
Decommodify housing
Housing is a social need, not a speculative asset. Landlordism and artificial scarcity turn basic security into a revenue stream.
Collective problems need collective systems
Transport, housing, energy, and digital infrastructure should be planned around access, reliability, and social need. We should not individualise collective problems and then blame people for failing to solve them alone.
Digital sovereignty
Digital sovereignty means owning your digital life. Your files, photos, messages, and personal information should not be bargaining chips for advertising companies, AI firms, or billionaires with platform monopolies.
Against imperialism
Sovereignty matters. Every country and every person deserves autonomy over themselves. Imperialism is the opposite of freedom, whether it arrives as invasion, debt, sanctions, military blocs, or corporate control.
Currently acting against
agendaMy political work is not separate from daily life. It is connected to housing, pensions, transport, digital infrastructure, union organising, and the question of who gets to control the systems people rely on.
I work with ROOD Rotterdam and support the broader RSP project where possible. I also work through FNV Young & United actions around housing and pensions, and I personally advocate for digital sovereignty and open infrastructure.
Public transport
infrastructure politicsPublic transport is one of my clearest political interests. We have the technology, materials, planning tools, and social need to let people move freely without forcing every person-shaped problem into a private metal box.
I love cars. Cars are cool. But transit is a collective problem, and collective problems should not be dumped onto individuals as private burdens. Good public transport should be accessible, frequent, reliable, and competitive with cars.
Right now, trains and buses are often more expensive than driving. That is absurd. A serious society should make the socially efficient option the easy option.
Digital sovereignty
personal / nationalDigital sovereignty means that people and communities should own and control their digital lives. It means your valuable personal information should not be treated as a bargaining chip by some nimwit with twenty billion in their pocket.
At a personal level, this means self-hosting photos, files, documents, media, and backups where possible. At a national level, it means reducing dependence on foreign platform monopolies and building open, accountable, public or cooperative alternatives.
This is one of the more “libertarian” parts of my socialism: people should have real control over what is theirs.
My own server
My self-hosted infrastructure is not just a hobby. It is a proof of concept: photos, cloud storage, documents, media, websites, game servers, and backups can be run outside the platform giants, even on cheap hardware.
Organisations
where to lookROOD
ROOD is the socialist youth organisation I am active in. I work locally in Rotterdam as organisational secretary.
Party projectRSP
The RSP is the revolutionary socialist party project connected to ROOD. Their programme and work are a reference point for much of my current organising.
UnionFNV
Through FNV Young & United actions, I currently focus especially on housing and pensions.
Heavier notes
influences / not a purity testMy influences are Marxist first, with sympathy for council communist ideas, workplace democracy, Titoist experiments in self-management, and socialist projects that tried to put power closer to workers rather than merely changing which bureaucrats sit at the top.
I have strong admiration for Salvador Allende and the attempt to build socialism through democratic mass politics under immense imperial pressure. I am also interested in the complicated history of twentieth-century socialist states without pretending that “USSR good/bad” is a serious analysis.
The United States has been one of the most destructive imperial powers in modern history. NATO, militarisation, sanctions, coups, debt structures, and corporate power are not neutral facts of world politics; they are systems that protect capital and restrict sovereignty.