Völn

Völn is a Main Character & former Staff Member on The Leftist Hub. He is also the creator of Federal Socialism and runs the Libertarian Socialist Collective.

## Status

### Known for

running the Libertarian Socialist Collective

## History

Völn was born in 2002 at Heidelberg, Germany in a United States army hospital at the same room Dwight D. Eisenhower was once treated at in World War 2. He later moved to the United States at the age of 4 with his mother during his family's separation and later on a divorce, being raised by a single mother for the rest of his childhood. He became passionate with politics in 2016, when he was repulsed by the positions of Donald Trump, mainly with Trump's stances on immigration, women's rights, and his aversion to condemning white supremacy. He has also noticed the radical shift among the people around him during and after the 2016 elections, seeing firsthand the various actions others engaged with such as hostility towards the LGBTQ+ community and ethnic minorities, authority figures becoming negligent or abusive with their positions, and support of religious fundamentalism and white supremacy.

Völn at this point was politically driven not by what he was for, but by what he is against, and at that point believed in anything antithetical to the Republican Party. He later found out about Antifa after seeing a video of Richard Spencer being punched by a masked man, and after the Charlottesville Riot and later on with Trump's speech commenting that there were "very fine people on both sides" and then questioning about the "Alt-Left", he then affiliated himself with Antifa. Though he did not take part in any rallies or protests. There were however various standoffs between him and a teacher in high school. At that time he also read various books by George Orwell and Ray Bradbury in protest as various books were banned in his school library.

in late 2019, he found an interest in Vaush after seeing the video "Nazi Backpedals while Vaush DESTROYS the Jewish Question", becoming infatuated with his debate streams until he lost interest in him as of late 2023 due to viewing Vaush's content as becoming less about politics and debates and more about drama. Völn at that time labeled himself no longer as a Democratic Socialist, but a Libertarian Socialist.

In 2022, he founded the Libertarian Socialist Collective (LSC, previously called Project Burgundy) to help congregate like-minded people, using other leftist Discord servers and Reddit as his source of advertising. He decided to see other servers as a frame of reference to model his server after, which is where he discovered The Leftist Hub. When TLH reunified, Bonno offered Völn a position as staff if LSC is willing to merge with TLH, which he accepted.

After a series of vetting security breaches and issues going on with his personal life, he and his staff agreed that it's for the better that he would step down from his position.

As of 2024, Völn plans to further form his ideas of Federal Socialism and to change the Libertarian Socialist Collective after the things he has learned from The Leftist Hub, he is still active in TLH

## Religion, Philosophy, Worldview

Völn is agnostic since he believes that we have no legitimate way of determining whether a god does or does not exist apart from one personally finding out when passing away. He does however find a fascination with Norse Paganism and Islam. He is a fan of the works of Thomas Paine, but is also interested in seeing the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Abdullah Ocalan, Karl Marx, and Aristotle. He believes that capitalism is an outdated economic system and is therefore at least partially responsible for the world's current problems, he also believes that egalitarianism followed by socialism would be the two core components that can help humanity advance into what he calls a "Neo-Renaissance". He also believes that although that state and government simply cannot cease to exist, he also believes any form of unjust or excessive authority is not only unethical but also brings more material harm than good, and as of now the best way to resolve this situation is a direct or semi-direct democracy. He does not believe however that there is an end to history or any idea being a be-all/end-all, and therefore someone or something will surpass the worldviews we have today, even socialism can one day be obsolete and require something else to replace it.