I don't know if I'm being overly paranoid or what, but I can't tell if it's safe for me openly publish some spicy stuff under my legal name. Not to sound like I think I'm the most popular girl at school, but don't most prominent leaders go by pseudonyms the rest of their lives? Not saying I'm Lenin but...
EDIT: Alright comrades you've won me over. New name, new me.
Will make it harder for rightwing freaks to dox you, so I say yes, but tbh if you fear retribution from the state there’s a lot more you need to do
Hopefully I'm packitng to the choir here, but passing with a VPN is also a good idea.
My vote is yes. It will probably make you somewhat risk free
OP definitely should use a pseudonym, but that's unfortunately nowhere near enough to decouple the essays from their real identity on the Internet 😐
Reminds me how Lenin was arrested in Kraków in 1914 for "spying", A-H gendarmes completely missing the fact he was de facto leader of big communist party and tons of illegal party correspondence he had out there in the open in his home, but they confiscated his completely legal notes about economy and statistics because lots of numbers and tables = spying.
@KKSankara@lemmygrad.ml yes you absolutely should.
it's unclear if they really hanged on. I do know Żeromski works are very heavily propagandised after 1989 to be portrayed in the anticommunist manner.
If you are still somewhat young, its better to use a pseudonym. I'm not sure how "spicy" we are talking, but you might not be as much of an "extremist" when you grow up, so it's better to not have these ideas permanently linked to your name. It might even affect job prospects, no matter whether you change your ideology or not.
