Hard to say in retrospect, it’s a bit of a blur. I was a ‘radical’ socdem pretty much my entire childhood, with heavy anti-corporate and anti-EU/US sentiment from my parents. Now they are rabid antivax nutcases due to 10 years of self inflicted brainwashing but that’s for another story. I’m very glad I jumped on the ML train when I did or I would probably be a conspiracy nut myself right now. My grandpa was in the Communist party in the cold war and had probably the biggest political influence on me out of my whole family. I already held several marxist positions before even reading theory, then around 2016 I started to browse r/FULLCOMMUNISM, then I read some Marx and Lenin and it clicked, and I haven’t looked back since. Last major change was from anti China to pro China like 3 or 4 years ago, it kinda happened naturally once I started browsing more leftist spaces. Nice to be here with you all, comrades.
Hard to say in retrospect, it’s a bit of a blur. I was a ‘radical’ socdem pretty much my entire childhood, with heavy anti-corporate and anti-EU/US sentiment from my parents. Now they are rabid antivax nutcases due to 10 years of self inflicted brainwashing but that’s for another story. I’m very glad I jumped on the ML train when I did or I would probably be a conspiracy nut myself right now. My grandpa was in the Communist party in the cold war and had probably the biggest political influence on me out of my whole family. I already held several marxist positions before even reading theory, then around 2016 I started to browse r/FULLCOMMUNISM, then I read some Marx and Lenin and it clicked, and I haven’t looked back since. Last major change was from anti China to pro China like 3 or 4 years ago, it kinda happened naturally once I started browsing more leftist spaces. Nice to be here with you all, comrades.